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  a quick and dirty guide to MIT jargon what is a 6-3 anyway?

  

  of words we made up and toss at each other — here are a few you may hear around campus here at CPW! contents: glossary: a random assortment of words you may hear majors, minors, and class names further

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 7, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline MIT's regular action deadline is January 1.

  

  backlog into January. Do not send a second copy of any document at this time ... The Office of Admissions is currently closed for the holidays, and is ... deadline fast approaching, I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  (well, at least I think that's what they're for...my knowledge of British ... winter break for a few days of ice climbing.  Temperatures dropped to around -5 F at night, and yet I stayed (mostly) warm.   The secret to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  at unusual latitudes to the rest of admissions office. I've also made ... girlfriend and I got a pineapple to eat at Whole Foods and instead of tossing ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident

  

  -enjoyer, please take a moment to think of our beloved Milk as you drink your own Milk in the bottom of your cereal bowl, mug, or biohazard bin. The annual ... desk workers, the government, and the like. Last but not least of the

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Announcing new blogger avatars! all-new, all quality

  

  a photo. this was not my daily attire at the ripe old age of 15, but ... recognizable and well-liked style. But some of us thought, what if we could do a ... 're harnessing the incredible power of our students to draw doodles when they

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT-vangelion (Pi Day 2023) 3/14/23 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  , March 14, at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply ... could also check out some of the highlights from Isabella ‘24’s You ... most cartoonish way. The creators of this video also enjoy [annotation

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2021 i3 videos megapost your annual Interactive Introduction to the Institute

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these ... with the advent of YouTube/Vimeo/etc they are now posted online

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  officers are preparing for the admissions cycle (sort of like preparing for hibernation, but for being buried in applications instead of snow). So here is ... production process for these weird videos we make that aren't at all standard

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  . However, the definition of "blogging" has expanded over the last decade, both within and without our office, from an heritage monoculture of long form essays to a heterogenous blooming of writing, cartoons, GIFs

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Past Enrollment On A Map [updated as to not freeze your browsers ^_^] My final project for 4.502 (Design Scripting).

  

  of making weird shapes in Rhino, I decided to use Processing to turn ... Java installed) shows domestic undergraduate enrollment at MIT for each of the past ten years (go back and forth with the bracket keys

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  February updates Midyear grades and more.

  

  page, this represents an increase of more than 2,000 applications; this ... is an aberration in the midyears. At this time, due to the continued processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.

  

  requirement, and my second writing class at MIT. 4.440: Basic Structural Design ... regardless of your major..) 4.292: Special Problems in Architecture Studies ... blocks of class, and many 1.5-hour long blocks of class. And no, my

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…

  

  With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before ... over the holidays and is busily processing all of the application pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last ... -Lab is. This one's a nice overview. I'm too sleepy to add much to them at ... were all sorts of adventures, some of which involved crocodiles!). For

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some ... show is a satirical program, poking fun at conservative political pundit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.

  

  's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety ... Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals ... another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe company? A runner's choice of running shoes is a very careful and ... up purchasing this product, I hope my friends interning at Apple this

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

  Going for the Au An MIT alum will compete in Olympic skeleton.

  

  compete in the luge-like, super-crazy event of skeleton, where he will race down a pure ice track head first at 80 miles per hour. Since Antaki lives in the Dallas suburb of Plano, the Dallas Morning News has the full

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How phonology explains wordplay in Tagalog songs armchair linguistics

  

  YouTube, at the beginning of the excerpted part."]Munimuni's "Tahanan ... distinction is used for wordplay, though. In Tagalog, I can think of at least ... it's a bit of a big deal for me. My first post, Colorful, is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 9, 2022