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  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  EA Decisions Some facts and figures to put it into perspective

  

  admitted to the MIT Class of 2014. There were 5,684 Early Action applicants ... deep applicant pool, combined with a commitment to maintaining equity ... applicants were admitted. An additional 3,893 applicants were deferred to

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  setup, another has a beam that is wired up to record its response to an ... , each team of two people was given a setup and allowed to come up with ... this. We decided to measure the impulse of a head when it was snapped up

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of ... .004. Left is 7.012 studying, the second halves to all of those other things ... ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  not even close to done packing. But, that's what tonight and tomorrow are for. I have to say, it's going fast. When I applied to MIT and got in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  yours, in fact! But I did want to write briefly about something really ... -up to help make learning foreign languages easier in foreign-language classrooms. Go to http://www.inc.com/college to check them out and vote! You

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Winter Storm Warning Brr, it's cold out there. And snowing.

  

  EVENING TO 5 PM EST MONDAY... TODAYS SNOW AND FLURRIES IN SOUTHERN NEW ENGLAND IS JUST A TEASE FOR WHATS COMING TONIGHT. SIX TO 12 INCHES IS FORECAST FOR SOUTH CENTRAL NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH 5 TO 10 INCHES IN THE

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  "Look at at all this free time I have! I'm going to fill it to the brim ... . A flashback to a previous entry is probably a good way to begin this ... it comes to money. If I have it, I spend it. Ask anybody who lives with

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Events

  My Halloween Costume is Better Than Yours It didn't give me an inflated ego or anything.

  

  confident I could pull off. But thanks to the wonders of google and my credit card, I ordered some of the necessary components and had them shipped to ... rest, and set off to 2.009 lecture (where I would be one of only 2 people

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 9, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have some very mixed feelings about this. On the one hand, I am excited to get ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mastering Physics Has No Soul I love online assignments. har. har.

  

  I don't usually like to post these kind of "on-the-whim" entries (I ... 's Day loong weekend to NYC* yayay so excited) -What the heck was going on ... to). -My Spring 2008 Classes (did you know we only have 18 school days

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  to help clarify things a bit. Scores: We don't need to have your full ... expect to see first quarter grades. If we need them, we'll call your school ... can call our office at 617-253-3400 to see if we have them. What if we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.

  

  app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... procrastinating! A few answers to common questions: Please remember that if ... 'd like it to. We're reading for content, and we're used to seeing the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... fraction, to prove this point to me. All he really proved, though, was that ... going to leave this as a comment to Mitra's question, "Does anyone know if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back. --- All I can really add to that blog entry is that this year, I'm reliving ... be the end of my formal education, but here I am applying to graduate

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  A quick entry, before returning to reading applications... I am ... Euclid. They are also related to Mersenne primes: every Mersenne prime corresponds to exactly one perfect number. If you're even a little bit of a math

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please ... time to follow up on that and make sure we have it as soon as possible ... early action deferred), and you are in an American school, please try to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry, no dorms yet but… ya wanna see some classes?

  

  was a good time to take a quick survey of what you want to see of ... ...). I probably won't take my SLR to snap away clickclickclick during lecture because that is pretty obnoxious when a professor is trying to speak

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 16, 2006