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  MITES, RSI and WTP applications due next week The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT have their application deadlines next week.

  

  open exclusively to high school juniors. MITES and RSI are free; WTP is ... Introduction to Engineering and Science (MITES) is a rigorous six ... Computer Science (EECS) to introduce high school girls to EECS in the summer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2006 Already?!? Back to work tomorrow... wow do vacations go fast!

  

  Hi everyone, Just wanted to say hello. Having been out for a week I ... will respond to everything but it will likely take the better part of the week. (So please don't write to me 10 times asking if I've received your

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good ... process. I've made some effort to keep up with current events in Admissions ... applicants have reacted to their decisions, and what they've been saying in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Examination Nation 9 hours to prove that I learned something this semester.

  

  Materials II Before I begin to arduously study for my 1:30 final, I thought I ... morning. To: Bryan From: Matt Sung to the tune of Gloria Gaynor's "I Will ... energy; If I had, then I'd have known How much work you'd give to me! I

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laurie Burns: Studying Triple-GEM foils Senior Laurie Burns is conducting a comparative study of foils used in triple-GEMs.

  

  from the three separate GEM foils that are stacked to make the final ... sheet can be used to detect particles by amplifying ionization patterns by up to ten times. Researchers at the Plasma Science and Fusion Center in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ah, those inspirational Germans! The Magdeburg Bridge in Germany is an engineering marvel and an inspiration to all Beavers!

  

  Sometimes, when things just don't go your way, it's easy to get ... 0.57 miles long, cost 500 million euros, and took six years to build and over eighty to plan. It functions as a giant bathtub, connecting two

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MyMIT Problems – EA Deadline Now 11/4 EA deadline extended to 11/4 - details inside.

  

  decided to make life interesting for us. Fortunately the primary tech folks are still in Cambridge, but needless to say, trying to coordinate all of ... MyMIT backend is so close to artificial intelligence that it decides to

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Amsterdesk Time is on my side, it's on my side now.

  

  to do except homework. This is especially useful since almost all of my homework requires me to be online--so, while I'm supposed to be looking up ... taken a class that would help me to solve this quandary. Here are some

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  answer, so I resorted to sending her an email. I decided that I would ... would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From: [email protected] Dear Mommy, Today the circus came to school. They

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  September Questions Omnibus 1 The answers to your recent questions.

  

  takes me to the school and Yahoo maps. Interested in attending the Sept ... ://mit-admissions.org/rsvp/session_link.asp. At the Sacramento meeting, say hi to Stu for me! Vivek asked, "is a freshman assigned a particular discipline he is to major in or it is decided

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  was so busy trying to make MyMIT live up to its promises that I had ... to be more of a magazine/newspaper type of thing, with "official" News ... , allowing the admissions office to connect with users and address their

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Help Wanted Calling all artists! Design Mitra's new banner and get profiled in the blog

  

  As part of my desire to make this blog more interactive, and since ... exposure. The experience.") Well, I'll write a whole blog entry dedicated to ... ([email protected]) a link to it, though if you aren't able to host it

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 2, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The Admissions Staff It's my pleasure to introduce you to our current team.

  

  I've been trying to think of a good way to kick off the new admissions cycle (class of 2010 - woot!) and it's finally come to me. We had ... , and set new goals for this cycle. I'm very excited to embark on my

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Day Before Selection Begins "Tell us about something you do for the pleasure of it."

  

  Sorry for the blog vacation guys. We're scrambling to get ahead in our work before we retreat to selection committee tomorrow. (Don't get ... on schedule to mail decisions in mid-march.) MyMIT has been pretty

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or dislike about it? How does it compare to (or stand out from) other viewbooks

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  't keep friends, I keep acquainted I'm not a prophet, but I'm here to profit ... to. “supposed to”, i guess, i don’t know what that even means. when i ... , because i know they’ll be around. many are going to college in plv or upd or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application ... to tell about sth you created!) Can I send it online?" I do think this ... about things. Alvin wrote, "Hi Matt, I would like to enquire if an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  .[/annotation] The party is open to the entire MIT campus and features a hack and a ... since 2019 due to the pandemic. DTYD is traditionally held in Burton ... ) wanted to celebrate their 21st birthdays and decided to indulge in a party

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  too early for a flight has its benefits: you get to sit in an airport ... days (mainly for christmas), and due to a mixture of factors both within ... biased personal take, subject to change blah blah blah [annotation note

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024