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  Fall Festival 2014 Some actors came to MIT and told me about their units of measurement

  

  in the past (clearly, he was unintentionally prepared for such a ... -like delivery, which pretty much falls right in line with my sense of humor. Then ... extremely clear when they write their own bits. I think at one point I was

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  Magazine In Style--featuring tips on buying your own helicopter and $5000 ... The Dick Van Dyke Show called "The Night The Roof Fell In" where the same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  ” (in the eternal words of Donald Guy '12, who, unlike basically everyone ... awake. The rest of this post will be about things I did yesterday in ... remember the desk in room 26-100 as well as the enormous intellect that sat

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students ... 're interested in math research (or are interested in becoming interested in math

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And ... show today’s MIT, in all its living, breathing color. We’ve already heard from many in early focus group testing who told us they loved the

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  us. A couple of days later a kid in my suite had similar symptoms, went to MIT Medical, and returned with a blue mask. Soon a girl in my suite was blue-masked, then another guy in my suite appeared one day with a

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  engine called "Wolfram Alpha." It's not like Google in that it doesn't search for websites, in fact it's all a closed system, but what it does ... about it a while back on my personal blog so if you're interested in more

  • by Snively '11
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  too! Check out the website above ... secondary options? I have some in mind, but none of them seem to match up to ... help, and the great insight you provide to those of us looking in from

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They have won the "Best of Boston" award (given by Boston Magazine) in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Olympians How many MIT graduates have been in the Olympics? No, not the Science Olympiad...

  

  thought I'd take a look back at MIT athletes who have participated in the ... likely to be in the Science Olympiad or the International Math Olympiad ... representing 8 different countries have competed in 27 Olympic Games in 9

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 19, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed ... different high-tech and economic development projects in Buenos Aires, including the MIT $50K Global Startup Workshop actor in a one-woman all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  This is entry #2 in my series "entries that need to be written because some of the new categories don't have enough stuff in them". Today ... are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  began working in MIT Admissions. It will also mark my last. At least, for ... classes in the Comparative Media Studies program. They were really hard. I was put in a room with a small number of very smart grad students and a

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

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  , which was a bad thing for kids, since lead ions in aqueous solution taste sweet, but also promote brain damage. In fact, the word "plumbing" comes ... , well, do much better than you at dancing. It's great! I know in high

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  IAP: A Quick Roundup Snively and his homepage dominance must be stopped!

  

  So you're interested in MIT. (Why else would you be reading these ... , admit it, that's more money than you've ever seen in person) While there ... to you.). There is one reason that wasn't clearly explained beforehand

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role Of A Teacher A discussion regarding recent events in a Colorado classroom.

  

  smartest and most thoughtful high school students in the world, I'm really interested in what you have to say about this. I'm referring to the story about the teacher in Colorado who was suspended for his remarks in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 8, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2020!

  

  't clear, let me know in the comments or via email! ... summer in Cambridge, it is still true that: my neighbor's adorable and ... can’t write about what it’s like to live in Conner 2, or plan stuff for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology (fatima's version)

  

  pretty bad..."]any tabs[/annotation] in the last 3 years, since I got my ... , gradescope, canvas, "<enter any city I have lived in the last 3 years ... "How to not be afraid of everything" by Jane Wong. I read this book in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  thing to note might be the trend in female applicants over the years ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool directly corresponds to a nearly 1:1 ratio in the admitted pool. I'll admit

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006