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  Application season

  

  factoring polynomials and calculating the area of circles? I'm trying to get ... ), that I feel your pain on the application deal. I'm applying to graduate ... deal of my downtime at the lab today studying for the GRE, and it sucks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  required to hold the neuron at a membrane potential of -60 mV? v) If this ... long will the neuron take to reach a membrane potential of -65 mV if the ... gets updated from its old value to the value on the right of the arrow, i

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Nadal, Federer, Helfant ‘85 Adam Helfant '85 is the new boss of professional men's tennis.

  

  ) before he got appointed, to sort of get the definite okay," said Federer ... like tennis, both playing and watching it. Thus, I'd guess a lot of the ... Class of 1985, has been named the Executive Chairman & President of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Kresge Info Session Come integrate MIT, at least for an afternoon.

  

  the office about a slideshow of MIT images or clips of MIT music to help ... about the Institute. It's a challenge to convey MIT's vibrancy in a ... students and their families to campus for the day, and Admissions people

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On a Week of IHTFP An Exam Week story. Starring none other than 18.022.

  

  'm just going to add up the powers of ten and multiply all the other numbers ... are a whole two months of MIT to blog about, where to start? So you're thinking about MIT... You may have read about the opportunities available to

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way ... Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday ... roommate Mike '13 and I did a quick calculation. Approximating the igloo we

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  tripods to invade Earth. Ebert concludes, at the end of his two-star review: All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... divisible by two, due to the principle of bilateral symmetry to which nature

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  interval (z = 1.9) the existence of some linkage between consumption of ... . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow-roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TERMinal Velocity My last term is flying by!

  

  instructors to students in the program, including some of the coolest names in ... genetically modified crops to health science to the internet, the impact of ... Hard to believe but my time at the institute is starting to wrap up

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Shot in the Life I now realize that this is probably a misleading title.

  

  randomness of the email sent out to my sorority's spam list is just absurd ... here I started taking them all the time, just to remember that day the ... at the end of year two here, I have a whole portfolio of hilarious

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 16, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I ... everything done, and we got a great group of freshmen in the entry, as well as ... you, I assume) am spending the day working on applications. Most of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... unceremoniously late. I would like to posit that half the notoriety of Unified stems ... of the time, and proceeding to sit down for a whole two hours and

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  new data and apply novel ways of thinking to improving the driving ... Media Lab to finish my Masters at the Smart Cities group. Fast forward a ... , product development, even the head engineer of GT cars, who happens to be an

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  . It's also allowing me to keep the options of both fancy sustainable ... —Resources of Urban Africa. The goal of the project is to understand the growth of ... -gritty details to the macro-scale of what progress has done, and more importantly

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT writing faculty comment on GPT and other AI assisted writing in education

  

  massive corpora of texts. This allows the model to complete many sorts of ... instructors read about the capabilities and limitations of AI and LLMs. To ... . Understanding the Relationship of AI and LLMs to Learning Goals The advisability

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 24, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  week - the day I had planned to grind out the near-entirety of my 18.100B ... visit them and talk to one of the S^3 deans if you need advice, need to ... the second! I feel like I’m finally starting to get math." But then, the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Avoid spelling errors! The most commonly misspelled words I see on MIT applications.

  

  [independant, 6% of the time] calculus [calculous, 2%] honor roll [honor role ... 's something to avoid if you can. It's unlikely to be the difference between ... look at it yourself. Here is a non-scientific list of the most commonly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  of MIT lingo - hacks refers to the "anonymous technological pranks" set ... DETERMINED to be hardk0re that he sings a song about it, to the chagrin of a ... message of the musical can be summed up by the phrase "There's More to Life

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hi, Applicant to the Class of 2021! here, i try to convince you that it's ok to be dazed and confused right…

  

  now, on display at the front of the Harvard COOP. Gross! I urge you to ... started and ended with the Net Price Calculator (a nice tool to remind you ... state college the next. And I got lots of work here now, but at least I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2016