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Blog / About Decisions
Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.
tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1. You have three -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent
Score E (posted 6/23) - A more traditional piano piece. Fall (posted 11 -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Looking Backwards Sherman, set the WABAC machine to....
Like Bellamy’s young hero, I too am back in Boston. Except its been about a week, and as far as I can tell the city hasn’t been transformed into a… -
Blog / Events
Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts
… had a BLAST! 2:00 am – walked back to MIT. Stopped at 7/11 for a snack -
Blog / Academics & Research
Vote for Ksplice! MIT's spirit of entrepreneurship and collaboration in action.
(One sentence executive summary: If you’re willing to support an amazing example of what MIT alumni can do after MIT, please click here to cast your vote for Ksplice in… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
*Oink Oink* Nobody panic!
Several weeks ago a kid, a sophomore on my floor, contracted a strand of influenza that was tested to be neither A or B. Flu season hasn’t actually started, so… -
Blog / Community Projects
A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!
It’s Thursday. On Monday I’m heading back to campus, along with bazillions of froshies, eager and excited to start the MIT experience. Going back as an upperclassman (a junior!? WHAT!?)… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine
At approximately 11:20 pm on Tuesday night, Charles stepped on the pedal and accelerated the motorized shopping cart from 0 to (approx.) 25 mph in the gaspingly brief time required to scream barely the first two -
Blog / Hacks
Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.
Late on Sunday evening, just before the first day of MIT’s finals, hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in the middle of Killian Court.… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...
I’ve got a pocket, got a pocketful of orgo I’ve got a pain and I know that it’s all mine, oh, oh oh oh Do all I can but I… -
Blog / Academics & Research
Wolfram Alpha Tonight!
I don’t know how familiar you are with “Wolfram,” but I’ll assume you aren’t familiar with it at all and enlighten you. Wolfram makes a software called “Mathematica” that is… -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!
Several years ago (I believe it was 3 but it may have been 2) there was an MIT student who didn’t have quite enough credits to graduate. This happens (especially… -
Blog / Hacks
Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs
Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This code of ethics is:… -
Blog / Admissions
We Want You! Write for us!
As per usual, CPW has again come and again, all of the prefrosh will be going insane trying to eat 500 lbs of food, watch people juggle with fire, run… -
Blog / MIT Life
Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.
debugged my internal clock. The obvious antidote is to go to bed around 11 ... distracting things always seem to happen sometime around 11:15 PM. Par example: 11:16 PM, April 11: Just as the clock strikes Bedtime, Edward '12 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nano @ MIT Puppets! Research! Nanotechnology!
Have you seen this adorable video? Patrick Bennett, a Berkeley grad student, submitted this video for the Nanonation Video Contest. Relatedly, I’ve been getting quite a few questions about nanotechnology… -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Early Action Admissions Decisions Available Online Visit decisions.mit.edu to find out your decision.
admitted 540 students for an admit rate of 11%, or fewer than one of every -
Blog / Academics & Research
THIS. IS. 18.02. "We will wield our triple integrals as one!"
Café 4 yesterday: Me: Hey, how are you doing? May '11 (grinning): Hiii -
Blog / MIT Life
Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.
, plus MIT being about 11 on my buddy Mohs' scale plus Sailing practice