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  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  + Valentine's Day card. End memo. First, and most importantly: BEN FOLDS IS ... link is to last year's site), which this year falls around Drop Date, the ... , which is this week long celebration of Greek life on campus, which is kind

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Tracking update All EA application mail has been processed; check your MyMIT Tracking.

  

  for EA applicants. This is a good time for you to check your application ... system is missing something? First, do not worry. We do not assign blame on ... will not look at your application unfavorably because it is missing an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading ... , the online collection is only viewable within the MIT community, but the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  humanities? My response is if they want to spend four years studying 18th century English literature exclusively, then the Institvte is probably not a ... duty of universities is to expose their students to world events and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Look Ahead The fight's begun but not yet won.

  

  ) - but there is a big difference between knowing something in theory and ... thing I can think of right now is what comes immediately after final exams ... to head back home for a week ago and see my family (Boston is amazing

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?

  

  school. Yeah, it's sad.) I'm not sure if my situation is representative of ... without any actual assignments is 5.12). For the past few days, though, I ... certainly is my hometown. I was born here, I spent eighteen amazing years here

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Time For Art [by Ashley Nash '11] If you don't have much or any experience with art, MIT…

  

  . This concept of thinking is mind-boggling academically, but it is the ... my pictures. One of them is a dry-sub printer; it sublimates red and ... , here are some of my photos. This one is of a cat on a Senior House

  • by ARTalk
  • March 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... puzzles solved yet this morning. Can we get a hint? And everyone is still asleep. :( Update #4 (11:41 AM) The dry spell is over! We just solved a

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  depressing if you always think of it as the sun is setting. Last week was Week ... tests. Week 5 at Cambridge, however, means the term is more than halfway ... day last week. This is non-trivial because I like to, and usually do

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Order of Operations In what order should your application be submitted?

  

  parallel. That is to say, order doesn't matter. (All of this assumes you have ... teacher is on the ball and sends in your recommendation in September, we ... pieces with formatted text, etc.), what you should do is submit the online

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  Recently Evan's mother, who is, for the record, so cool, sent the ... feedback about my writing is an incredible thing. So I'm asking for just a ... : Applying to college is a terrifying process. The applications are all filled

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Ali Khademhosseini: Building tissues, cell-by-cell Khademhosseini, an Assistant Professor of Medicine at the joint MIT-Harvard Health Sciences and Technology Program,…

  

  living tissue, but Khademhosseini’s work is unique in its “ ... found in your body. Khademhosseini is applying his micro-scaffold to grow ... that while MIT is not necessarily fun in the conventional sense of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Moving Forward I, and the outstanding staff in the admissions office, re-affirm our pledge to uphold the…

  

  , came at an important time for our culture, and is one that resonated ... , members of the class of 2011) - that our admissions process is, and always has been, extremely rigorous and fair. Before any applicant is accepted

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  times. "Is MIT really like CPW?" The answer is, yes and no. Yes, in the sense that, I believe, for the most part, the MIT culture is well conveyed. You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.

  

  former MIT students on the tube. This month, PBS is having competition ... up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is conductance. Conductance is measured in Mhos and is represented by an upside

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christina Royce: Analyzing Re-entry Systems Christina Royce, a senior double majoring in Mechanical Engineering, with a concentration in Manufacturing through…

  

  type of manufacturing system is called a re-entry system, where a silicon wafer re-enters the system with a higher priority each time it is ... Economics, is doing her senior thesis project on re-entry systems through the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  , and that this is going to make me either a good scientist or a raving ... realized 1) it is entirely inappropriate for innocent eyes, and 2) I said ... Roland: ""I firmly believe this value [for the mass of a quark] is correct

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  . This figure doesn't include recitations -- a recitation is a discussion ... recitation is not the person lecturing. For instance, I have 5.60 lecture three ... .60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on ... ? How effective are these systems? How is success measured? Can ... minority students, as compared to majority students? What is done to assist

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005