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  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  't always been at the top of Jones' agenda. A scientist by training, she was ... just 17 percent of the student body. By the time she was appointed dean ... . "You see a lot of group and team projects overseen by professionals, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  rest of this post is by someone who, in addition to being an in general ... Origami by Joe B. ‘18, forming curved organic forms out of orthogonal ... dodecahedron out of cubes. Mushrooms with Roots by Ian C. ‘16, featuring

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  towards, we forget to consider how we will change throughout the process of ... : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  , so some of the processes have been streamlined for time efficiency ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our loving, our friends, and our labor This entry is based on Aaron Copland's opera "The Tender Land."

  

  's tempered by the fact that I look so outstandingly bad in all of them. Still ... .302: Transport Processes -- After the Excel-stravaganza of our second lab report ... DID YOU KNOW? "The Canticle of Freedom," written for the dedication

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  We Were Deferred

  

  committing. But because of how much we began looking at other schools by the ... MIT was our dream school. The blogs were one of the main reasons for ... the tails of the bloggers, laughed at their jokes (or in the case of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  converse in the comments below civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... unfortunately means that we had to turn down some great students. For those of you

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now ... ;   You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of ... 'll go is not who you'll be. Most of all, try to enjoy your senior year; it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Vol. III Everyone gather 'round the laptop 'cause it's movie time!

  

  've been going on to Facebook, enjoying plenty of potty humor and having impromptu dance parties of my own... ...I'M HOME AND IT'S AWESOME. More ... 's a video. Boom. Sorry in advance for the singing. If any of the other

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • July 2, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute. Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were ... coming weeks and months - about how our process works, what you need to do

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Guessing game results MIT's student newspaper publishes the number of freshman applications.

  

  current number of applications: 12,440. This represents a 9% increase over last year's 11,373 applications. So, the results of the guessing game ... ,000 applications. The mean of all guesses was 12,323 (not bad!) and the median was 12

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pi Day = Mail Day? Too Early To Know No official mail date yet.

  

  Hi everyone, There have been a lot of comments in the blogs that we ... - it will indeed be in mid-March, but Mail Day depends on a variety of factors, one of which is how long selection takes. And as you know, we

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Television MIT on TV.

  

  Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show ... MIT's 2.009: Product Engineering Processes. Definitely worth checking ... ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the

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

  In Real Life Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party.…

  

  For those of you who will be attending CPW, Matt and I are in the process of putting together a "Meet The Bloggers" party. Here's the ... , Daniel, Mitra, Allison, and Kevin in real life! There will be food (of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Letters Are In The Mail You are an incredible group of people, both academically and personally.

  

  record, I can't believe what an incredible group of people you are, both academically and personally. You are the best of the best. I wish we had enough room in the Institute for all of you, I really do. I'm off to enjoy a

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... ). So basically I averaged about six and a half hours of sleep. And for someone like me, who sometimes finds ten hours of sleep to not be suffice

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so between our two entries you'll get either ALL of what he says or half of ... now beginning his pitch. 2:00 He began by asking who was from where

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  photon flux by one-tenth or one-hundredth of a percent. Determining the ... check at the end of September I got a 60/100. But I learned. By the next I ... interested in the kind of written product we churn out, but by no means feel

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008