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  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  ; white is the sum of all the colors, and all colors can be described by ... magnitude corresponds to a change in brightness by a factor of ten. The reason for this weird system is that magnitudes were initially assigned by eye

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  by each department - and was admitted a week or two before CPW ... -funded, meaning their tuition, stipend, and health insurance are all covered by MIT ... -expanding program with a cool thesis topic. I'll be fully supported by my favorite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  that! Our room is best described by the little signs that we leave that ... collective sigh Monday morning, and by the time our psets are finished by

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  think that by the way I was feeling, I had been determined to go here ... follow your dreams just by having clicked the submit button oh so many days ... , Supermassive Black Hole by Muse starts to play in my head.    

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?

  

  [by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... talked about a play called World of Wires by MIT Associate Professor in ... blocked off by a wall of boxes, which were later knocked down. These boxes

  • by ARTalk
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Curiosity Instinct Every MIT applicant should ask a question - but not necessarily just "How can I…

  

  brilliance. As flattered as I was by that, I'm not sure if that's completely ... common question that emerges on the blogs, to be answered by both ... ?" By aiming to answer that - and having it show in everything you do

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Deep Breath what's next for all our applicants

  

  . So I'd like to begin by giving a shoutout to my grandfather, who, in ... final shape. By the time an applicant is admitted, easily more than a ... - or keep - time for yourself and your friends. Senior year goes by

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  grilled about algorithms by a software company I interviewed with recently ... , but having one's precious weekend time eaten by travel still sucks ... by maybe three to five for all the companies you're interviewing for at

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Bridge College Admissions Conferences that are hosted annually by QuestBridge - a ... lunch (all paid for by Questbridge), we set off to unload some stuff into ... than a state school, and of course a talk by Questbridge Co-founder Dr

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Blogging Is The Salt Shaker Of My Life thinly veiled platitude included free in box of metaphors

  

  felt truly honored to be an MIT admissions blogger, and by 'always' I ... are, in fact, fake people made up by MIT? A lot of bloggers are fresh ... doomed by a lack of substance. I can't be boring. It's started to carry

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet The (New) Bloggers! I promised myself I wouldn't cry...

  

  Roulette by leaving custom business cards in local stores, and she'd like to ... his interest in technology and the arts by creeping through the Media ... our blogs before when he was interviewed by his friend and fellow

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  adjusting the debt limit was brought up by various legislators. Sen. Schumer ... treatises written by the early proponents and opponents of the Constitution to ... narrating a play-by-play analysis of a nail-biting game. Prof. Maier doesn

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Steam Ahead Leaving Boston for the final time

  

  by guilt and exhaustion brought upon by work. Neither of my two friends ... degree program, and head into the “real world”, by March 2013. Prior to

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • June 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt. 1 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Audition for everything.

  

  [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] In high school, I sang in the ... anything by audition, they told me to audition anyway. Despite not having ... Chorallaries audition. Sure enough, by the time I got to the Chorallaries, I was

  • by ARTalk
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  This is what happens when we don’t do work Here is the infinite rollercoaster of fun I promised not to take you on.

  

  , clad in a bathrobe, surrounded by takeout dinners and bills, with coding ... MIT's 150th anniversary on their spring concert posters by costuming ... herded by?

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 24, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  which three sides... This year’s debate was moderated by Hillel Executive ... the latke was backed by Sanjay Sarma (MechE), Allan Adams (Physics), and ... Iraq. Nevertheless, he aimed to resolve the age-old dispute by looking at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  .) So last week, I decided to make up for it by...doing a 9.00 essay? How ... that night. Coincidence? Or was our room blessed by the patron saints of ... monopolization of RPS skills by robot overlords, but for right now, I still have a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  discounts, which in turn could be acquired through coupons provided by that ... tears of frustration, they crystallized on my cheeks and shattered one by ... 'S STARTING TO LOOK LIKE A TRIPLE RAINBOW Prof. Durand: By the way, human color

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  houses occupied by teachers…and that’s it. It looks like this in every ... in a recent post by Hamsika - as part of MIT's Four Weeks For America ... has this sign by the front door, which I thought I would share… "She

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Restoring Sanity… and Fear And love of cats.

  

  Restore Sanity and/or Fear, hosted by none other than Jon Stewart and ... sister, only to happen about the – well – insanity caused by the rally ... time my SmarTrip stopped working (never happens in Boston, by the way

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 1, 2010