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  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  only a median and a mode; because no number would be mean to Nate Silver ... political news media that clung to its storyline of the race being a "tossup."  And by beating them in such an emphatic way, it wasn't just a triumph

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  Retrato en Sepia (by Isabel Allende) since FOREVER but to be perfectly ... pretty neat demonstration of the phase diagram of a mixture, but to be perfectly honest, there's no way I could explain it to you. Sorry. =) There

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  references to “players,” should probably not be attempted by non-gamers. Argh ... competition on a grand scale. Teams of up to 200 people attempt to be first to ... , Codex, won the Hunt, which means that by tradition, it was our turn to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  officially a double major, by the way!!). Classes with limited enrollment like ... in edtech, so I think that this will be a cool thing to work on. This ... .013 lecture, I'm honestly kind of excited to be back in a biology class. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  : Responses to Comments: (Lots of people helped me out by responding to ... related. CPW just happens to be a good time to get a head start on getting a ... Enabled Active Learning). Basically it's supposed to be super

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s Not Always Rainbows and Butterflies Inspired by Paul and Snively.

  

  study break, and... This entry is going to be really spontaneous, since ... to hold on. You can jog on the side of the train and still be quite ... clock hands* "AH I'm going to be late!" (my first class was a language

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Now and Then and Maybe Later Tying up loose ends and weathering the calm before the storm we call "Fall Semester"

  

  - Jack's Mannequin, Ways to Go - Grouplove, Really Don't Care - Demi Lovato ... be able to get a UROP?” Thankfully, there is already an excellent guide ... isn’t a right, but rather something that must be earned. You’ll have to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  started the day by running (1) and (2). (2) brought us to the Museum of ... 's DDR equipment and set it up in what used to be the "game room." He and ... Daniel would start by taking a class, because he didn't want the game to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  gave me space to get started; there was no worry that I was being judged ... challenging to navigate. Carpal tunnel syndrome is theoretically aggravated by ... latter, I’d better stop. I don’t mean this to be a blog about ‘how to lift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I send in my transcript?

  All transcripts must be submitted by a school counselor or another school representative to be considered official. This applies for high ... counselor, your transcript may be submitted by your registrar’s office
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  upon a time a few weeks ago, campus was a tame soon-to-be snowman's nest ... "icicles" stemming from the gutters. My guess is going to be May 1. 2. Is ... to be the Mexican version of Chuck Norris. This was admittedly a long

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  experiencing pressure to be a desirable, inexplicable creature whose every ... lilt of my voice and the curl of my hair. I’ve chosen to be the man ... ’t have to worry about being perceived as capable; it was practically

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  top universities in the world is being right next to another one of the ... inside out, and made my way up to conference. AT MIT, they say you have to ... to be able to attend and meet amazing people who shared such a strong

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  something. People generally use it to mean ‘unrelated,’ the way ‘tangential ... into lalaland’ (the way that a line tangent to a circle moves with the ... : ‘There exists’ is just a fancy way to say ‘there is,’ while simultaneously

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a ... malusog, "healthy", particularly in contrast to being buto't balat, "skin ... early 2000s, bringing it closer to conventional Western views on being fat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring cleaning and miscellany The Brass Rat club, sending 4-inch heels to Goodwill, and picking a new food-providing graduate…

  

  physically capable of walking in, and c) would cause me to be approximately 3 ... way. Be smart! Go live with Jessie and Anthony at EC! b) I don't like it that the fact that I go to MIT leads to almost immediate stereotyping by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  Scholar will be the first show ever to celebrate higher education as the ... , a prize that could be worth as much as $240,000. They will have to ... bringing "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" to the U.S. With the success of this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  complicated. It seems to hard to be "the right way" to prove something. But alas ... , look at it, and think "this must not be the simple way to prove this ... an equality, and here is that example: Take your set $A$ to be the set

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  to all the places I wanted to see, wasn't taking advantage of being ... . Everything seems to be falling into place. My birthday fell in early January ... bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On APs Trying to clarify the role of AP courses in the MIT admissions process.

  

  to be somewhat controversial: Jones believes that creativity and ... lot of kids to be able to do that and not force everybody to have all of ... sometime the only) option for students looking to be challenged and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 14, 2006