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  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  So... tomorrow is that fateful day. May 1. Otherwise known as the ... whether or not to attend MIT, please let us know your decision through the ... ). Whatever your decision is, please do reply through the online form as soon as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Am Excited a day in life of a student

  

  away from proving that the set of all real numbers (R) is uncountably ... practices, over 50% of my academic work is actually dominated by the Queen of All Sciences. This is the schedule I’ve always desired. What better

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  astrophysicists of our time (whether or not most of them read it is another question ... , is as close to the asymptote of world famousness as any theoretical ... . Going back to what I wrote earlier, one of the perks of SPS membership is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  thought patterns is Hard Work, and by the looks of it you’re not giving it ... ’s not an adventure. It’s just work. And the bottom line is that some ... ? Me: But getting an internship the summer after your freshmen year is

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  boundaries, you end up not enforcing them. the problem is that you let people ... .   the question— what is it about you that’s so impermanent ... international travel is complicated with the pandemic, and so you feel like a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a hell week do not try at home

  

  , i went to not one but two P.E. classes because it was the last day of ... is hell, i have descended to the 9th circle and am hangin' out in the ... the world is the point of all of this. anyway-- i am so looking

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 27, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  .i. To be in the process of not doing something.   Smoot - A unit of ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  , which is probably the worst fake generic name ever), but if you actually ... paper, and return them. The thing to remember about the SATs, though, is ... exams here. But at the same time, it is really great to be able to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  see the truth, which is that this event was not an “accident,” was not a ... , recording—all is spoiled by the fact that I am a girl, a female always in ... details because I don’t feel like it. In essence, the situation did not play

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  this blog entry, so here's a not-so-subtle hint of the life-changing life ... declared to the entire lecture hall that calculus was overrated. Strang is ... .03) concurrently, the downside of which is that 18.06 makes 18.03 look like the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  drag is 0.21. The lightning bolts make it faster while the paint job ... were NOT indeed the whims of a giggling school girl and the only two ... The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Feel Old Senior year? Already? #indenial.

  

  - wow, this is the last MIT orientation I'll ever see, this is the last ... CPW), this is the last set of FPOPs I'll watch take place, the last year ... class, as my professor (Srini Devadas) said during the first lecture, is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  should I be doing right now? Schedule the interview now (today is the ... isn't life, and senior year is supposed to be the most enjoyable year of high school. Take some time to smell the roses. Not the same few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Decisions Coming soon to a web site near you!

  

  of the following criteria: You have applied for freshman admission (not ... . ----------------------------------- What is the process for receiving my admissions decision online? In order ... .mit.edu. We will not be in the office on the weekend that decisions are released

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or... ? The TV is ... hack: This poster is a spoof on The Evolving MIT Campus, the name given ... . This is what I saw as I was leaving Lobby 7: Speaking of EMS, I took the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  worry (not that you were). Since I've gone and missed most of the period ... MIT is that you far too often have the "Hey! I know !" syndrome. I read ... !" syndrome. For example, at the Winter Logs concert (which, by the way, is a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  , that is simply not true. Sure, we analyze the data to figure out whether the recruitment we're doing is working, and how we can potentially ... a visit to campus from the President is pretty darn special. Of course

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Diffusion Summer time!

  

  street but nobody I'm close with is actually living on the floor with me ... keep myself occupied. So that's it, the year is over, I have a 4.3 GPA ... . Many of MIT's dorms lie along the same stretch of road known as "Amherst

  • by Snively '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m a physics major (for now) feeling scholarly, part 2/2

  

  major, but I really can't help myself. The thing is, I'm not actually ... ; though the earth science comes in through my research, and not through ... 's not exactly a field of physics in the traditional sense

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 26, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  ="here is a graph of the flights i'm going on this summer, where the vertices ... ."][/annotation] [annotation note="if i'm at work on my macbook, this is the top bar / desktop ... summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019