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  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  's day, and as a member of the Logs ran into our lecture hall in the middle ... former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... .111 (Thermodynamics of Biomolecular Systems), so we weren't exactly best buddies. In

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…

  

  " new level of federal funding for clean energy research. The event came ... - MIT News Office Energy has been a central, vibrant part of MIT ... obligation, is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  majority of you who applied did not do so on a whim, but rather because there ... I am proud of all of you applicants for simply applying. Whether or ... To all of this year’s applicants: Pi day is long gone, and after 6

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  , which featured winds and pressures (975 mb) characteristic of a Category 2 ... areas of Western Massachusetts. This kind of snow, which is unusually dense, can exceed 10 pounds per square foot in weight. And because of a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sorting of the Frosh (MacGregor Style) We don't have a Sorting Hat, but this is how MacGregor does In-House Rush

  

  there are tens of other resources out there for the general process ... , you receive another wave of information including the i3 videos made by ... , when the last of the freshmen are moving onto campus for orientation into

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • August 24, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  next fall. Regardless of whether you applied early, most of you should be ... Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012. Congratulations to all of you that pressed the submit button yesterday and others

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their ... "hey do you want to pick this up?" and neither of you put a date it won ... people tend to be universally okay with using spreadsheets. how to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  ] The University of New Hampshire ROTC program recently organized a MOUT ... rescue them. Of course, they were not going to use live ammo - simply ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  watched Kipo and the Age of the Wonderbeasts and streamed random things until we got tired and slept. That night, people shared some of their favorite incremental games, and I think I'll share some of mine too. After

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Answer these 13 questions and we’ll reveal the perfect dorm for you! What does your favorite dorm animal say about where you should live?

  

  -turned-blog-idea on the MIT class of 2029 Discord Server, where I was helping out ... each of our dorms has its own traditions, in-jokes, and lifestyles. I ... . Despite multiple months of sitting on this idea, I didn't start creating

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  from the University of Minnesota, that humans swim equally fast in syrup ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel awards ceremony in H****** Square. The "Igs," sponsored by a bunch of Mensa

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

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  where I was applying, and then I didn't get in, everyone would make fun of ... (although you should have heard them brag about applying to MIT). And of ... This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  advantage of running around the Charles River (and all the public water fountains alongside) There are lots of smol nerds running around the various MIT summer camps and programs It's time for those of you who might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and ... should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  here instead of studying for the TWO exams I have on Tuesday. This way ... to have the best year of your life and then just say "But I waited too long too tell you, and now it's too late to apply." So, for your

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed (though Stu's observations on the demands of our interviewers remains accurate). A description of the current interview process is

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

  MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.

  

  LONG / Northwest Herald CRYSTAL LAKE - Molly Pounds' love of horses ... admission to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology - as a high school ... , adding that the big company would pay the expensive costs of horse care. "I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to ... bridges, the Ponte Celestia and the Portanuova, for a military area of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  of its signs, like this one: Most room signs have numerals set in ... :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner of the fire extinguisher box, we see an all-caps "FIRE EXTINGUISHER

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy

  

  : the sequel", as [annotation note="At the time of writing it was named ... None of the readings for 24.900 Intro Linguistics, were especially ... 't even read that many things, which will explain the short length of this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 23, 2020