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Early Action: Not Admitted A forum.
There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year ... incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for you to talk. We understand that this may be a difficult -
Blog / Academics & Research
18 and Counting Congratulations, Professor Diamond!
excellent age for wine, or so I'm told by the sommelier app on my phone. It's an excellent age for video games - Mortal Kombat was released 18 years ... applicants - meaning, all y'all! It's also an excellent number of years for -
Blog / Admissions
Inside the Webcast Studio sneak preview...
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Blog / Miscellaneous
Something is coming.. Snively and I are working on something awesome.
Snively and I are working on something awesome. Look out for the release around the end of April: -
Blog / MIT Life
Holy Cow No birthday card can beat this.
The front cover: The inside: Thank you for the best card ever. -
Blog / MIT Life
miT-REX Residence Exploration (REX) begins.
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FAQ / Life and culture
What career services are available?
students—current and alumni—as they explore and prepare for careers. Whether you are planning for a career, searching for an internship or job, or ... average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate—regardless of major—is $126 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT
Lightning Talks" for our admitted students and parents. Nine faculty members ... for answers. Designing Interactions by Federico Casalegno, Associate ... . Kelvy set up a few whiteboards in the corner of the room and drew while -
Blog / Academics & Research
ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…
timing, too. My flight is about to leave for Sacramento where family and turkey await; I gave myself a strict no-homework policy for the next few days, so this will probably be my chance to catch up on sleep and -
Blog / Academics & Research
A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.
I showed up to Diaz's reading, regrettably bookless, and was magically ... signature. He won a Pulitzer for literature, not for autographing.) It almost -
Blog / Events
Of Dancing and T-Shirts (Guest Entry) Who had fun at CPW? I did!
(well I certainly was), but then we loosened up and it was hilarious. The ... managed to find my way back to Sidney-Pacific for the night. My host Tina ... for me everything I thought MIT would be, and more. The academics were -
Blog / Admissions
A slightly snarkier guide to visitors How to not be the kind of MIT visitor who drives me up the wall.
and things to discover, so kindly refrain from clogging up our path ... buildings. It's a great thing for lost visitors in the summer and frozen ... (only about a third to a half of whom are here for the summer, mostly -
Blog / Academics & Research
UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…
Technology Officer (CTO) of Goldman Sachs and MIT Class of 1977. For those of ... back-up his position. Mr. Dweck entered MIT with the goal of finishing ... of a PhD student for two years, working with clathrate hydrates -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…
's another story for another day. There were also a lot of pieces by the ... crashed in World War I, so he gave up that dream in favor of becoming an ... begun to transform into a machine. Food for thought? What else -- there -
Blog / Admissions
What’s the big deal about 40^2?
highlighter for, circle in big red pen, make it the focus of your case. In fact ... afterwards a student -- we'll call her Artemis -- comes up to me and tells me -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!
] sheet - unvoiced [ʒ] azure - voiced Palatal: This one is hard for me to ... sound. (Put your hand up to your mouth and try saying [t] and [s] a few ... three are nasal: for these sounds, there is an obstruction that we make -
Blog / Academics & Research
Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe
process for us and dramatically speeds up experiments. Instead of placing ... that quantum phenomena, as absurd as they seem, are real. And for once, I ... light that, for simplicity, we can measure as an angle between 0° and 90 -
Blog / MIT Life
Movie Marathon, Pt. I Watch ALL the things!
insane special effects) for me, but I was curled up in the fetal position ... have no excuses! (I've also realized that there is a Spongebob gif for ... folks hyped this movie up, so perhaps that contributed to my slight -
Blog / How to Human
Sensations On Having Feelings
behind and I cook the vegetables for a few minutes only, the fewer the ... incomprehensible. But, perhaps the best reason I can give for my love of Ladies and ... most of my commute to class looking up, absorbed by the scintillating