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  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  Physics Students. (The picture is of a snow crystal, taken in a low ... years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Early Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now ... deferred students on Saturday. Because of the competitiveness of our pool ... deep breath, shake it off, and go crush the rest of your college

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  what...October 2? o_____O One of my favorite stanzas to the Engineer's Drinking Song goes like this: An MIT surveyor once found the gates of Hell ... - this was following approximately 3 hours of sleep the night before

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  $3 Our group is the Association of Student Activities (ASA), and we ... room 26-100 This is the same room in which I attended 8.01: Classical ... ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  's memorial in D.C. This is one of the most respectful pictures we took during ... with those of the people around me. I'd be lying if I said that none of ... could choose my friends instead of spending the whole day around the same

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  think "out of the box"? If ever you get a chance, you should ... the murals, graffiti, and what some would call "vandalism" of ... a neon Guernica. The cornucopia of artistic overflow splatters onto

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Eletha Flores The awesome Eletha Flores '10.

  

  ] Eletha Flores, 17, of Springdale who is graduating this year from Charles Herbert Flowers High School and the Class of 2006 valedictorian, is the recipient of the Hispanic Heritage Foundation's Gold Medallion 2006 award for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  Answers to some more of the common questions ... , hopefully allowing you plenty of time to make a decision before May 1. The ... , even if it is after the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT hacks Caltech

  

  fire it at important events. Guess where the cannon is as I type this ... website. :) In honor of the cannon's transport, it was given a class of 2006 Brass Rat: Another view of the Brass Rat: I heard someone ask

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more physics It was Day 2 of classes when I got kicked out of one! (Only it…

  

  exciting is getting an email from the head of the physics department about ... remember that there is often a lot of disuccion about the appearance of the ... tested out of physics but not calc, I wasn't eligible to take the class in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  deferred, you are one of the applicants who are going to be reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present ... As you know, our Early Action application pool is very competitive

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  institutional memory cruft are cool!

  

  in one of the organizations i'm in, esp, we toss the phrase ... members in the group. because our membership is almost entirely undergrads ... mailing list. the other strategy i've seen is having alumni stick around

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  applications, the cruel difficulty of the decisions is no excuse for not making ... - comprised of the communications team and our Class of 2012 senior bloggers - reviewed all of these applications, and tried to sort them out among us. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way ... moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... intensive music study, others to read the great books. What you do is up to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  myself. Take More Pictures MIT is beautiful (15% of the time), Boston ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... the goal. If taking 66 units of classes and sleeping every night was

  • by Ella T. '25
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well

  

  unavailability of testing due to the pandemic, we think it is important to maintain ... note='As I wrote last year, despite the limitations of these exams, our ... their personal health, as well as the health of their family and community

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2028 are now ... Regular Action — 28,232 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2028. As ... ,275 students who will have the chance to collectively climb the mountain that is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  About That Email an error, and an apology

  

  , this time we tried the recommended MailChimp technique of combining lists. The expected outcome of this approach is that all student accounts in ... ) undocumented side-effect, which is that combining also imports the footer notice

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 5, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Vending Machines at MIT Because it needed to be done.

  

  naturally, I set out for the nearest and most convenient source of soda ... any of the vending machines at MIT were, so we wound up walking up the ... of this story, however, is that it took us twenty minutes to find a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  November 1 Updates The latest from the Admissions Office.

  

  the Midyear Report box is sitting there, unchecked. Don't worry ... : The admissions officers will be reading these applications all of ... determined when the announcement will be made; it usually is about a week

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2011