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• Blog / Admissions

  Southern California Fires Our thoughts go out to those affected by the wildfires.

  

  you and accommodate your situation as much as we can. Please do not ... size of the fire and frequency of water dumps), I can't help but think ... thousand of miles and an entire country away (in Toronto), I can only send my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  'm looking at you, Seoul, Korea). Check out the schedule so you can find out when the meeting in your area is. CPW Registration. You can now register ... block of rooms with special rates expires. Register as soon as you can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  backend stuff with the web site that was long overdue. Lots of it you can't really see, but I can see it, and it makes me happy. You'll just have to ... . Fifth, after two years Nance still can't publish his own entries (or even

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt Day 1 Liveblogging the beginning of this year's campus-wide puzzling competition.

  

  some puzzles for yourself, you can check out the archives, or you can try ... can get up for an early morning (4am!) puzzle. This Hunt rocks, so far

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

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your ... Requirement of the GIRs. Students also can join the International Honors ... site and some of my previous blog entries, you can get an idea of some of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  For great justice…

  

  contributed to it. Your Orientation experience can really shape your MIT experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the ... you don't have time for that, you can read the summary report, which is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  brief periods, and this can happen unexpectedly. If you have been trying ... we don't have alumni (or enough alumni so that we can accommodate ... fall or winter, you can interview with an alum in the Boston

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  can become engaged in international development through student groups ... and realize that my time is running out) and keeping up can be hard at ... you can correctly guess what that quotation references

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.

  

  can do one step better?) Perhaps this is why? Or maybe had MIT heard ... I hope over the next course of the year, we can get to know each other, and I can introduce you to my world at MIT. I hope my blog becomes an

  • by Bryan
  • September 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get ... movement of trains across the railroad. You can find some pretty ... the track level. The computer system can generate correct signals

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So ... you can still appreciate this: David Hasselhoff : Tom Cruise :: Robin ... conducting work equally in both languages. So, now I can say high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  once with some people from our floor. You can see the result here. And my ... 've forgotten everything but the very basics of integration and derivation. Can I ... that it's too fast for you, you can go back into single-variable (18

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  if you can handle more than one. That's harder than it sounds, because ... probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially ... area; it can be in any of these fields. You don't have to concentrate in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Parafilm Effect The center cannot hold... unless you stick it together with Parafilm.

  

  to take either the 2" (50.8 mm) or 4" (101.6 mm) wide rolls, one can ... . Another novel characteristic of Parafilm is the ease with which one can make a "dead fold". And as if this is not enough, Parafilm can be stretched

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  tomorrow and you can fail to solve them for yourself (just like I did on all ... I can solve like, dT/dt - 2 * T = 0. The timer/integral display. You can't appreciate it here, but the little CLIFTON guys next to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  papers: If you look at picture 2, you can clearly see my filing system ... staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can ... office. I can't say the same about my room as a kid. Have a great weekend

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  cricket? 5. How can we best improve our nation's economy? 6. Why bother to ... Fluid Dynamics for this paper, which I can understand embarrassingly well after 10.301. It's good to know that you can model parts of the process

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  revealing to me that you can get as much organic brown rice as you can fit on ... +/- .5 C at 1000 psi today after three solid days of calibration. Now I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Solution: Are we going to win? Guess where I am!

  

  Can you guess where I am right now? Points to the most creative ... going to win? "Here is my schedule. I just can't seem to get the times ... . First, the fact that "I can't get the times right" means that the "times

  • by Bryan
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can ... while performing the head turns. She found that people can learn to adapt

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005