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  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  with some frequently asked questions and answers. What new stuff should ... grades and anything new that has happened or will happen. As always, you ... January, you may also designate MIT as a score recipient, and we'll add them

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of ... , planes to fly, trips to take. MIT isn't my turf anymore, and I ... the excited Californian who ran outside in her pajamas and flipflops at

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... to pledge. Rushing isn't an easy job, and popular culture doesn ... fraternity men are both diverse and intellectual, respect women (at least in my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  (literally and figuratively) change and moved to a full time Sloan (course 15 ... years. I absolutely LOVE this program and the flexible career path it ... and purchasing a fancy new planner), I invested in a new laptop! Now

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.

  

  11 landed on the Moon. And because of MIT's significant role in the ... who built the Apollo Guidance Computer and Buzz Aldrin ScD '63 himself ... featuring Gustav Holst's The Planets, and more. One article about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 20, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining As it stands now

  

  a variety of reasons, none of which I'm going to touch. The long and ... exactly what's going on right now and it's simply not responsible of me to ... explained well in any of the material and it also seemed like a really

  • by Snively '11
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  . Yes boys and girls, the doomsday device built under the guise of solving ... rationalize gravity on the quantum level, and thus finish the standard model a ... thing is that this thing is so powerful and so totally unprecedented in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Updates for the Admitted There's good stuff on your MyMIT portal.

  

  , the mitBEEF Club Beef-Off competition, and more. Local Admitted ... Providence, Rhode Island, and as far away as Singapore. There will be meetings ... , San Francisco, Washington DC, Miami, Chicago, and many more. RSVP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don ... sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... the puzzle from &#%% and for your reading enjoyment, I'll post it here

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in ... 're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Verde's (the convenience store in the student center) and bought brownie mix and ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... crams the information into their brains just before the quiz and then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  found a few nuggets of wisdom in my last post that will help you and your ... philosophical issues and solutions for surviving the college decision process. In this piece I want to address specifics - in particular, down and dirty

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  , and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an ... because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Fair Season

  

  They say, "You snooze, you lose" -- Kevin and Daniel beat me to two ... President Susan Hockfield, and Daniel posted the National Public Radio piece ... , and I didn't lose my voice =) The most popular question of the night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  'll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I've grown ... primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... friendly animal mascots; for example, my Perl book's mascot was a camel, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those ... ,742 minutes of music on Spotify, Apple Music, and *checks notes* YouTube Music ... Angie and Janet for being our most avid listeners this year, with 89

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  hundreds of AI-generated videos and rating how realistic each looked. His lab was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... oscilloscopes"]retro CRT-looking[/annotation] display. It was so cute, and I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... MIT until the coordinator suggested it. I thought she was joking, and ... year. By that point I had filled out the core part of my Common App and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I had a terrible week Also, I think that making puns about the President is Obaminable.

  

  , an Ethiopian feast, vegan carrot cake, and the coolest farm ... dinner for 30, 105 miles of running, and a lot of Barack Obama have ... week and didn't even have to wait in line. If you asked me about how I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class size A response to a comment brought up on Ben's blog.

  

  down the page at this point) about increasing class size at MIT, and how ... turned into an entry of its own. I am dismayed that this year and next ... number of rooms and allow the individuals to decide for themselves. I also

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 14, 2005