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• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  difficult the curriculum at MIT really is (not to mention how much I need to ... was not recorded and is not relevant. The experiment was conducted in a ... compare it to that physics demo. The institute is the speaker, sending waves

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter anymore because I'm not at my laptop enough. Isn't that astonishing? Here is ... the words is irrelevant. Don't let the cyrillic stop you. Have a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  reasons which i won't go into in this post but the overarching reason is ... is just like that. i miss my friends and it hurts. and it's not only ... this for multiple semesters now). i miss the outfinite, which is forever

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  'm told is currently a super hot topic in astronomy! The goal of the observations is to test if the Wallace Observatory has all the necessary ... eclipse is observed by a big drop in intensity in the light curve readings

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  at CERN in Geneva, Switzerland. The LHC is a massive particle ... come from some exotic particle. The trick is to find a LOT of those ... disappointment whether or not the LHC actually found the Higgs. A student

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hogwarts Institute of Technology Except we have 11 houses instead of 4.

  

  !). For those of you who are not as Potter-oriented, this hack is the scene ... officially my favorite hack ever of my time at MIT thus far. It may not be the ... has ended, November is here (cue winter!) and soon the cold weather will

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  Information Form) before having an interview. The Part 1 is not very time ... you know. A few leftover questions from the EA deadline: we will not be ... now. January is the last month for Regular Action applicants to take

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  digital maker. Well, that’s not true. The most frustrating part is that I ... last two weeks.  The most frustrating part of this experience is that ... at writing something, and the deadline is so close I can feel its

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Astronomy in Paradise Lost I can't resist.

  

  . Presumably because of that, the blind narrator of PL (who I'm not convinced is ... smallest magnitude close by the moon." (II.1051-3) I'm not sure what Milton ... ! Anyway, the study of extrasolar planets is now one of the hottest sub

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  application. Using the Midyear Report for such updates is preferred over mailed ... your questions. The Midyear Report is an online form that is to be ... ). The Midyear Report is to be completed by you, the applicant. The MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is ... recommendation for them -- do not do this (these requests rarely happen in the ... , and have teachers who are not English fluent, this is okay -- you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  .687.9184 Fax is the most reliable way to get us a document. It is automagically ... difficulty sending faxes. While we're not exactly sure why this is happening, or where the breakdown is occurring, but if this glitch is affecting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  game. It's not a good way to spend your time. Go have some fun. Enjoy the ... 's really not the end of the world. You probably don't want to believe me as I ... . --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  seen. The biography is comprehensive, but of course the most interesting ... collaborated with Rosalind legitimately... The Double Helix is famous for ... every single person who is mentioned complained so loudly about the way

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

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  changed, but not always; however, it is always the case that i have changed ... hadestown is a tragedy. the narrator, hermes, tells you this in the very first song. See, someone's got to tell the tale Whether or not it

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  not its own genre at this point. Synopsis: This is the Sirius Black one ... everyone is not morally shady-- the good guys mostly believe that killing ... I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  's not terrible. The leg room is abysmal for tall people but at least you ... the person to your right will decide that your shoulder is the optimal resting place as they sleep. Not only that, but getting out of your seat is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  it is being called for now, would be greater in scale than the Human ... available today would not be up to the task of doing this entire project ... he added, "The cost of sequencing is dropping enough that this is no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Morning With Sir Tim Berners-Lee This morning I attended a lecture in Stata, given by Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the guy…

  

  -Lee, the guy who invented the world wide web. (That sentence alone is pretty ... site to learn more about him. My favortite page is the one on which he ... - in person he's just a guy. Not the guy who revolutionized everything

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  framing problem, which was developed quite early, is the 'lives saved, lives ... 't have a citation for this, which is sketchy, so feel free not to believe me. But although I can't remember where I found the numbers, this is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005