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  composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone ... Well, as Laura said in her latest entry, tonight was the "telethon" event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Ends 522 EA admits, Snively, molecular jewelry, and Evan Broder's holiday card - more random than…

  

  changes in the early application policies of some of our peer institutions have increased the number of outstanding applications to MIT and to many other highly selective schools. Each university's yield (the percentage of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  As of yesterday, all 522 admitted students can log into MyMIT for the Class of 2012 guestbook directory (post your picture!). Also, all of the decision letters -- including the famed "tubes" -- were mailed yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly unique to open MIT's research to the world. I'm sure most of you have ... start on -- his advisor, Prof. John Essigmann, the first author of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... head-on shot of my desk. It's the place that I store my most important

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  If you haven’t been following the results of the most recent LEGO ... of my favorite excerpts from the interview: About her initial LEGO projects before the Women in NASA set “I kind of wanted it to be this fun

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... . Has life been perfect in the Alpha Phi House? Of course not and to say ... lots of wonderful things that have come from my time in the house. I did

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  varsity sport. The range of gym classes is really outstanding, some of them ... lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute, and so I randomly rank classes that happen to fit in with the rest of my

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Couchamarans and Carboats MIT alums create awesome floating vehicles from which to watch the fireworks.

  

  students and alums often will create special boats for the occasion of the July 4th fireworks. Some of my friends have gone the extra mile. In 1876 ... a boat. "Before" image of the '67 Bel Air courtesy Amrys Williams

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  figuring out the optimal scoop-ability of your favorite [annotation note="or sherbert, if you’re me"]ice cream[/annotation]? What about the power of nerf gun bullets? Or maybe the power of a single footstep? Want to know the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We’re #1! What's the emoticon for oversize foam hand?

  

  few theories as to why we elbowed our way to the top of the list ... of the Institute, so you might want to check out the MIT Blogroll ... . Get the inside scoop before it hits the pages of "Wired." TechTV: Did

  • by Dave McOwen
  • January 29, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D

  

  From today's edition of the Tech: Caltech Students Pull Part of a Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the ... to be finishing up right now but due to the extreme bloggability of the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications ... application will be reviewed within the context of the resources available to ... admission and select a major at the end of the first year with help from their
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Ode to the Institute Better late than never.

  

  In the spirit of Valentine’s Day, I decided to write MIT a poem. It ... ceilings, and old marbled floor, You house the echoes of students’ footsteps ... . You provide us with a home-- an often-decorated dome (by the work of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 16, 2012
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  . Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as ... MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to ... prepares you for your next step, equipping you with the tools you need to
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... greeted the family of the school of smaller fish, and left the smaller fish ... of the ocean, as stray bait floated down from the sky. The fish

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a ... take; I highly recommend it. MIT, btw, is the "birthplace of ... 'm disappointed to miss, the great Hawaii Club Luau, the beginning of the Buddhist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  mailing list of the Sloan Undergraduate Management Association, or (SUMA). I ... state-of-the-art Trading Room. ~ Learn about market efficiency! ~ Compete ... in 1996: Sloan has just completed the first fully equipped state-of-the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the ... sense There was a hack today! Like any hack, the code of ethics was strictly followed (as per usual) with the possible exception of the last one

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009