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  Did the quadratic formula explode?

  

  In one of the 28 (and counting!) responses to my last post, Kelly ... of applications I still have to read. The other work (yes, other work ... "Not the same few colleges," which also consumes a reasonable amount of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  college. I think all of the colleges has a matriculation ceremony on the first day of the term where all the first year students to the university ... to a really nice dinner with the fellows (mostly professors) of the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago ... ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... chemical engineering professor in hopes of resurrecting the audio

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... (earlier than me!). She stares outside of the window, amazed by the scene in ... as I think about all of the prefrosh that will be checking

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  The arrival of September 1st signifies exactly 4 weeks until I board a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college journey. And over the last 3 weeks most of the conversations I've had

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity What were you doing?

  

  history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in ... that my line of sight was no longer perpendicular to the laptop screen; I ... of the colors changed: blue was now yellow, red was now cyan. This wasn

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  entirely relatable. Due to the overwhelming popularity of the webcomic here ... -minded people, Randall made a guest appearance, carrying whiteboards of the comic ... . Crowning almost two decades of political dissatisfaction and unrest under the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Season Some advice for the EA deadline. (Relax. Be patient. Don't stress. Don't procrastinate!)

  

  the office about the deadline, so let me take a moment to answer some of ... buckets and buckets of mail to open and process already -- and the deadline ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Lounges: An Interactive Experience It's almost like you were here!

  

  . Most of the time, there is music in the background. Something legitimate ... . Dancing on tables permitted. At the start of the semester, lounge ... population and mood of the lounge begin to change rapidly. Noise levels rise

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 22, 2015
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  zombies game. But that doesn't really answer the question of what Minecraft ... stuff like a scale model of the Starship Enterprise. There really isn ... released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the geek category: alums of Caltech and the University of Chicago.Regular action applicants across the country are concerned about the processing of ... beyond the call of duty to process the 40,000+ application pieces as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  How I Write My Data Analysis Blogs just in case you were wondering

  

  asking myself the following: What story do I want to tell? How does ... does it mean for the data to not be ready to analyze? Maybe there's a lot of data that doesn't relate to my question. Maybe the data is

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... chromatograms at the drop of a hat. There will come a time when there are just no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  a time capsule of east campus multi-media, community-built

  

  seemed like a good idea. so the fall of 2004 i contacted rocket science ... , and eventually moved out of East Campus (ec). it was not only the dorm i ... brings them peace, objects that capture a memory. one of the greater fears

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • November 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Asking for Directions Two weeks of pondering, photography, and prose.

  

  's a good thing we don't have to choose a major until the end of the year ... When I applied to MIT, I had a good idea of what I wanted to do when ... wrote down "computer science" on the line of my application indicating my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  month ago, in the middle of one of our blogger check-ins, Kano asked the ... and then over the rest of the weekend to catch the latest updates! The Journey Begins Why the commuter rail? Well as it turns out, many of us going

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A bear encounter and a wild cow-milking contest Summer adventures

  

  control of the bike and threw myself off before it fell into a rock pit) and ... control of the bike and slammed head-first into a bush), With a lot of ... a few days later I found myself in the passenger seat of Raphael's '88

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 24, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  Rowing at MIT The heavyweight men near the Museum of Science. PC ... Engineering, and one of the most awesome experiences of my life has been rowing ... with you because I think a lot of you might be like me and would feel the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  Happy New Year, beautiful people! Hope you all enjoyed the holidays ... forms… the February Updates and Notes (FUN) form. tl;dr: the FUN form is ... obligated to fill up the form—it’s okay if all you’re sending us is semester

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  I’ve gotten into the habit of keeping graveyards for my writing ... through the form of already begun works. There’s something to be said here ... in what has become a hunkering zombie of virgin words. The other

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021