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  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  yesterday for the 20th annual AIDS Walk San Francisco. Thanks to your many generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a ... special. I owe a huge thanks to Tiffany '06 (white hat) and Accenture

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe ... enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  room, still know where I want my life to go, inching away from ... independence, bringing me closer to both myself and my parents. I was recently ... springtime, it's entirely possible to be fulfilled and happy, even when nothing

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Odds & Evens & Ends Notes on CPW, Veronica Mars, and more.

  

  It's been another late night at work, but I wanted to at least post a ... , we are in the process of matching you to an MIT student host. If you ... -Veronica Mars fans are quite confused by now, I'm sure). Trying to figure out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  About Some Activities (ASA) More tangents than a trig test (~11 pictures)

  

  ) organize some of the flyers we need to distribute to representatives of each ... freshman advisee, Sha-har '09, selling baked goods to support the MIT Mock ... actually did know her, and rescinded his statement. In addition to Mock

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are ... according to b) C-C connectivity and c) C-H connectivity (Y = methyl, E ... you would for –Me.) c) Use these values to make a graph of potential

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

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Stu Schmill ‘86 Name: Stu Schmill; Job title: Associate Director of Admissions and Director of the Educational Council;…

  

  Carnival, The Inner Game of Tennis, the Spencer booksAdvice about applying to ... yourself is going to lead to the right outcome for you. This is true in whatever you do, not just in applying to college.Fun fact about yourself: In

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  Seattle, and many places in between (not to mention Puerto Rico and Hawaii). If you have registered for MyMIT, have replied to a letter/email we ... invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 4

  

  Barbecue. At lunch, we had a visitor: Akash, a student admitted to the MIT ... way back to the selection room, we ran into Rob (another MIT '09), who ... , Anthony, Rob, and all the other MIT '09s we saw. We were energized to pick

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  grades may take longer to process in some school systems this may take ... . It is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the selection committee. However, an admissions officer will continue to review

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  more students to MIT than others, even when a student from a nameless ... schools happen to have the personality that clicks with MIT? I'm speaking as a parent of a child who goes to a high school where no one has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  , and has heated the surrounding sidewalks up to a temperature of 138 deg ... . Let me try to catch up on a few questions (while I'm still backed up ... 't compare two applicants to each other. We evaluate each applicant on their

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  , so I might be on to something?  HIGH SCHOOL I started running ... basketball confusing (it is still, to this day). How are you supposed to know where to be on the court? How do you set up plays? Volleyball was better

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Liveblog] MARC 2025 A sciencey science conference, feature Anika '26 and me

  

  their research to MTL's industry sponsors like Lam Research and Global ... about serious science; it's also an opportunity for the MTL community to ... output (I guess being an undergrad made it okay), I have a poster to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  It's time to answer your questions ... 'm really excited for CPW!! I really cant wait to come up and meet all of the ... are pretty much set on going to CPW with me, how is that going to work

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  or perceived quality, because: 1) I don’t trust myself to make a ... want to avoid arbitrarily ranking critically acclaimed books higher based ... Intermezzo by Sally Rooney A: really great, would recommend to ~anyone

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  Dear Internet, I’m pleased to announce that I’m publishing a paper ... on a daily basis. If I actually did want to publish a paper on the ... asleep in the stairwell next to it. If you count the people about to head

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  risen from their beds when the indoor humidity had dropped to forty ... the center to the edges of the bed, taking wrinkles and dirt with them ... -filled protein balloons to drop into a chute in the wall. They scurried over the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013