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  Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers

  

  annotations, inspired by Feynman's margin notes, to many of the "static pages ... this process. We did a lot of work across admissions and SFS in very ... had you come here an hour ago, or indeed at any point since July of 2011

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  , followed by a break, followed by two more days of work, followed by a two day ... Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I ... ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  , there's an overview of machine shops on campus- they're run by academic ... , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive efforts to document all of them, I split the entry into 2 parts

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  boundary of your shape, at the end of this process, is called a zonotope. In ... point and you’ll get the same shape. During the process of drawing the ... , green: Then we repeat the same process of drawing all the lines, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Terrascope Save the world. Go. (:

  

  , and a rhetorical question. If I asked you what the meaning of life was, you could answer in a multitude of ways and I wouldn’t be able to say ... subjectively . Or you could reply by declaring that it’s unclear what I am trying

  • by Ana V. '15
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Programs For MIT Students Planning early -- MIT-sponsored ways to make an impact next summer

  

  One of my sophomore advisees asked me about MIT summer opportunities ... the educational and life experiences of students through leadership and ... Fellowship -- concentrate on issues and communities that are of particular

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  , essentially, first-year students at Next go through a process of exploring the ... better by now. These are the basics of being at MIT; these are the first ... events for first-year students, followed by acapella auditions and the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB ... list (in condensed paragraph form) of some failures, by MIT’s standards ... again. I threw 90 percent of my energy into other classes, because a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  – multiply that by 8, and you’ve got all 125 minutes of Spirited Away ... not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  held by the Library of Congress, (b) explore issues of copyright ... testing of children and adults. Our work is driven by the complementary ... processes. Related aspects of the project include learning to label the 'music

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Sleep is Overrated (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ann '14!

  

  channeled our inner ninja. By this point, some of us had been awake for 45 ... ,” it sounded pretty vague to me. Despite the massive listings of events ... , although I was tempted to plan out exactly how I would spend every moment of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  greeted by a wall of sound. The sheer enormity of Premiere kind of hit me ... Premiere by Shuli J. ‘22, MEng ‘23  ★ 7 Rings by Afeefah K. ‘21  ★ Class of 2020 Ring Delivery by Danny and Allan G. ‘20 ★ Class of 2020 Ring

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , cross-stitch and combinatorics — they are united by a shared standard of ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2024 are now ... , one of our decision servers has decided to self-isolate from the rest of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now (Actually) Available Online

  

  Update: the once-in-a-century alignment of Super Pi Day appears to have fired a cosmic EMP directly into the heart of our server farm. Working to restore flux capacitors...please stand by.  Update 2

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  CHICON 2008 by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel Darlington '11

  

  [by C/4C Adam Fuhrmann '11, C/4C Patrick Ernst '11, and C/4C Daniel ... Darlington, Ernst and Fuhrmann traversed the nation to a gathering of ... behalf of the society. During these sessions we had discussions with

  • by ROTC
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  example of a batch process problem--given this set of cooking parameters and ... Monday schedule... even though it's Tuesday. Just think of how fascinating ... fabric of reality, that if it changes its schedule for even one day without

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... remember" is lead author of an upcoming paper announcing the discovery of three stars that have the largest diameters of any normal stars known

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  , struck by the mental pileup of inconsequential observations that comes with ... when working, I feel like I am wasting time. I miss the manic energy of ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to ... culture of 'It doesn't exist? Why not? Let's do it!' And that - I found

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011