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  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  people showed up for this political statistician than for a movie star a ... , for fear of skewing election results) a statistician who moved from ... for Nate Silver; it was a public victory for scientific rationalism in a

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  sipping Trader Joe's 100% maple syrup from the bottle to make up for lost ... 'd be set for the rest of my life. The day before I left, we picked blackberries with my grandpa and built a tipi of sticks just the size for a four

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural ... roasted with splurges of oil, salt and pepper; bad movies; walk-up ... pathos for the metaphoric childhood of a scientific field. Yet, as soon as

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  birds called zebra finches, which are known for their ability to sing ... , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the summer in order to stay on campus. However, the opportunity arose for me to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Hey VMars fans Wallace is Course 2!

  

  Maina asked:: I sat for SAT 1 and I messed up in one section in Critical ... freshman year, the freshman class council will email the class, asking for ... that in a country like Pakistan there isn't much opportunities for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Joint Post] DesignPlus A super cool and awesome first-year learning community ft. Gloria and Teresa (we're not biased)

  

  advisor several times a semester; advising seminars (for credit), which ... are currently four options for learning communities: Terrascope ... about DesignPlus, or D+ for short! As the name suggests, it’s oriented

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  I did… kind of poorly on an exam recently. This exam (which was for 6.s966, Symmetry for ML) means nothing, in the end. I’ve finished my major requirements; I’m taking classes for my MEng early, so, in theory, I

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  fraternity in Boston where I'm living for the summer - so I apologize if this ... than an hour), for a variety of reasons (maybe someday when you're older ... final which you have to make up a day before everyone else because they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  arrangements for vegetarians??" mudfud again comes to my rescue: "There are ... can get quite a wide variety of vegetarian food (and nonveg for that ... Campus) have really nice kitchens, so you can cook for yourself as well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Pink Hair Problem What do you do for your college interview if you have dyed hair and a…

  

  character – for example, if this applicant were to show up wearing a jacket ... just wondering. for the interview...is that too unprofessional? the nose ... nose ring. (Or, for my friend Alvar '98 PhD '05, a lot more than just a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  ... ------------------------------------- ola wrote, "I was wondering whether the 'creation' for the optional ... design for a spring musical along with a designer's statement? Or should I ... our faculty have specificallly asked for hard copy submissions, and not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 2

  

  , "Is it possible for a junior to be admitted to both MIT & RSI ... to know how many will be accepted for each of the three, and when notifications will be sent." Well, I did say, "Because I do not work for the CEE

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  cool post he put up on Medium and asked if I could reformat it and post ... many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their introductory courses. Robert lives in Maseeh Hall, was born in Goma and grew up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  path to nor desire for avoidance. [annotation note="At apparently one of ... some point, and January is just too dark and depressing for me not to ... a UROP for [annotation note="Independent Activities Period - the month

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

  for a week. Putz and Tetazoo have quite the relationship, one that ... for clarity. I promise that the frequent snide remarks are all in good ... irradiate my food for >2 minutes (only to get lukecold results) in our more

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  anyway and asked customers to come up to the kitchen and work for their ... -mart, central. there are many choices for ramen here. unfortunately, going with a ... 's not terrible, and it's ten dollars, which is cheap for ramen here. but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  long overdue for an update. So, I really believe it is up to the younger ... biology and if it weren’t for 7.01x being a GIR (a required class at MIT ... how can I make a therapy, how can I use this protein as a marker for

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  waited for the bus from NYC to Boston in a cramped doorway whose grimy ... , in the midst of dispossessing my own kidney and grapethirsting for ripe ... character-building stories are for bloggers who secretly want to be Charles

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who ... physics capstone, which pairs you with one lab partner for the entire class ... always felt near-impossible for me to put forth. This goes beyond

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... quirks before. For example, many know that MIT’s buildings aren’t named ... circle for only a moment before diverging). 9/10 [caption id

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024