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  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  of these answers - we are not considering the Writing score at this ... because of one two-hour midterm exam." When reading a folder, I look at GPA ... out at the end of the process. (Additional materials question is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  ... a new version of you? (Did anyone watch Felicity? These lyrics are from the theme song , which JJ Abrams, the creator of the show ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  An Interview about the Interview Remember: questions of science, science and progress, do not speak as loud as [your] heart.

  

  Please note that, as of August 2018, our process for assigning interviews has changed. A description of the current interview process is ... 's start at the very beginning. (A very good place to start.) 0. Is an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime and the living is slightly less difficult than usual MIT = Masochists in Training

  

  , because I'm sort of taking 60 units and working at my UROP 16 hours a week ... relaxing break of some sort. Apparently my schedule hasn't gotten the memo. Although I have been watching a great deal of Law and Order this summer (it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent at least 2-3 times a week (by now, of course, I have a group of people ... two weeks. You know, until I arrived at MIT, I didn't think I had a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard Square. That's me with Rocky Horror. Uh, read at your own risk. Okay, first of all, the T only runs until about 12:30, so without any way of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  extension of home"; that rises to ~1/2 at East Campus. -- Almost 60% of ... “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... , East Campus is not a dorm for everyone, but neither is any dorm at MIT

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  (Not) Home for the Holidays a very late Thanksgiving post…

  

  ="108229" /] In honor of holiday meals at home, I want to share a holiday meal away ... flurry of many things, but second most importantly, it’s been a flurry of ... 12-person feasts on random weekends in the middle of the semester (very

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  hole of tea.' I think the density doesn't matter, at least topologically ... I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18.701: Algebra I 18.404: Theory of Computation 18.905: Algebraic Topology I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  relates back to chemistry. I promise you that I understood all of this at ... hello quite calmly, and I just stood there and stared at him in shock. Of ... sticky. Of course, this left behind all of that gross duct tape residue

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  the Fabcreator laser cutter at [annotation note="one of my favorite makerspaces! Consider this blog a tour of labs at MIT"]IDC[/annotation]. This ... learned about all types of making, from woodworking to 3-D printing. I was

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  't have to consider any blockers in the way. At the start of our program ... . For instance, at the last depth of a search the engine can find a move ... a lot of extra work, but in reality the amount of time to search at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  morning there. Course 16 at heart. I almost cried in front of the original ... tomorrow at my first day of work at Goddard Space Flight Center. I don't know ... after being patted down by a very kind TSA agent while one of his

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  deprived of a college experience that I want to at least maintain my ... here's the thing: most of my MIT friends are currently in the ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  I. Spent. AT LEAST 15 HOURS ON THIS GODDAMN CODE. Endless stretches ... . Spot. It made no sense, none at all. Virtual office hours? I’ve literally never heard of anything worse. Just the idea of a virtual office hour

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Happenings What's been going on? Recent events at le MIT.

  

  The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who ... it:     At the time, I actually didn’t know that there was a major difference since my CPW: THE EVENTS DIDN’T GO PAST 2 AM. At

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  look at the new app (yes, I know, many of you already have) we really ... If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  Christopher Salon is definitely at the east end of Newbury Street. (I'm so ritzy ... sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and ... development at MIT: D-Lab. D-Lab is actually a trio of one-semester classes; the ... When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008