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  The State of the Mail: Opened & Processed It's time to check MyMIT to make sure we have all the pieces of your…

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you time to send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  in Bedford, New Hampshire, home to inventor and FIRST founder Dean Kamen. Today is the kickoff to the FIRST Robotics season. And, as is the ... ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Dig me, but don’t bury me This entry is brought to you by McDonalds and Google. I mean, literally.

  

  I just got done with uploading way, way too much blog to the other blog that MIT pays me to write. So you should go over and read that now ... reason I came to McDonald's in the first place. I mean, I'm glad I found

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... about her career as an astronomer. Other contributors to the book include ... Beauty and the Geek. The concept of the show is to take eight geeky guys

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Could Write a Song a Hundred Miles Long I only sing Coldplay because it will help me get girls.

  

  Chamberlain claimed to have slept with almost 20,000 women. Since he was 56 at the time of that statement, this would correspond to Wilt having slept ... the greatest Michigan accent of all time, chose to teach the class such

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to ... strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design ... high-level vision. Upon completion, students should be able to understand

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  “The Flying Luxury Hotel of Tomorrow” The luxury cruise of tomorrow is sweet!

  

  additional lift to keep the behemoth and its 400-ton payload aloft while ... prototype and expects to have one completed by 2010. Pasternak says several ... as luxury staterooms, restaurants, even a casino. To minimize noise

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  groups, it's a lot more interesting to cook for myself. By the way, I hate ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to ... see how well that works. I used to hear that cooking is just applied

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  (Course 15) and Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18C), showed up to ... at her and possibly send her to MIT Medical. Anna has every music lover ... Department and Comparative Media Studies, she is helping to lay the foundation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  in the math community. A couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity to ... run the San Diego Math Circle, which I had a chance to visit. A Math ... plurality of whom where students in grades 6-10. I spoke briefly to the group

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we ... think that at other schools, maybe athletes don't have to do silly things ... sore and threw my neck out of whack trying to do this (as the one on the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to testing requirements. For the most up-to-date information, please view the MIT Admissions home page] All []s represents edits to this entry made on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  Okay, I'll admit that it's been a slow week for me, so I'm going to ... Economics Department to receive the Clark Medal." According to Soundings ... Jane (Angelina Jolie) are revealing to each other the lies they have told

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Nerd movie update

  

  special effects blockbuster, you may want to check out this department. I also caught The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy recently. Though I was a ... unofficial MIT Hack Hotline spread the news to selected members of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to ... backed by data, I went to my hotel room, counted the words in those essays

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I hate the way I don’t hate you

  

  Garden State. Still having jet-lag, I woke up quite early so I wanted to ... came highly recommended, and overall I'd have to say I liked it. After it ... to have some sense of as much of America's cities and towns as I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!

  

  you're done here, you should be able to make out most of the above text and move on to the next section about phonology. Consonants There are three major categories to describe consonants: their place of articulation

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources

  

  universities in the world. Are you worried that you have no qualifications to ... being “open to people, places, methods, and ideas.” In order to fulfill this, the staff strives to promote educational opportunity

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Having Survived Rejection (guest post) About receiving a rejection letter from the 'Tvte.

  

  , but then he was not admitted to the class of 2019. Here's his story ... cousin, and my best friend all made it in, so it was my turn to follow suit ... learned how to write about myself, how to create the froyo flavor that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Integration Bee (guest post by Mike W. ‘19) I had a tagline planned out, but I axed it for being too derivative.

  

  , listening to songs about Alexander Hamilton on YouTube, and flipping through ... , confident as you please. I tend to solve problems quickly, so the extreme time ... did too. I did some more integrals leading up to the contest. My

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 2, 2016