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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... "? How do we know if one applicant is "better" than the other? What does ... smarter students, and that we are doing a good job of recruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  them in time for our review. If you do not send them directly and plan to ... time for EA review. You do not need to use rush reporting. Please note that you do not need to express mail or overnight any part of your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.

  

  go to MIT and one of the girls asks: "Do you participate in the annual ... . Every time you do, Richard Stallman thinks about doing away with the GPL

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Updates from Admissions The latest from the home office in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

  

  ). We'll be doing more travel together as a group to meet with prospective students. In July, we'll do three more trips with this group in the Northwest ... or otherwise, if there is anything we can do to help you make your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Finality Just one more week.

  

  day, all the things I want to do next summer, and of course, all that I have to do between now and the end of the semester. Lately, this last ... acceptable to do that... In any case ~ I wish all of you the best with your

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Application Materials? What to do if your MyMIT tracking shows missing documents.

  

  are worried about missing materials. Do not worry. We have not yet ... action. We do not expect to have finished processing these materials until ... more you need to do. I assure you we will have your scores in plenty of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  or whatever it is that you do. If you're busy doing things that you love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blast From The Past: Garage Hero! Turn your Guitar Hero controller into a MIDI Garageband device.

  

  evangelism position for Apple, which was easy to do, because I was already a ... projects. Thing that we could do on campus to get students excited about ... 't get it, and they didn't do anything with it, even though I'd already

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Misery Loves Company: Part 1 You might fit in at MIT if...

  

  will probably turn me into bacon. (Speaking of which, do you know what ... painfulness. Even when I don't have much work, I procrastinate; if I have to do ... will take more than one day to do it. However, that's not to say I don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW rawr.

  

  't gotten back to him/her yet, do so ASAP so you can work out living ... (they're doing the musical "Urinetown" this year), Thurs/Fri/Sat 8-10pm ... ...so many cool and awesome things to do this weekend!! Anyways, come to the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  tiring place. There are lots of P-sets and lots of work to do. Which is why ... for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and ... Association, and I do my research in Camera Culture, a group at the Media Lab

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  Senator Edward Kennedy. At Oxford, she plans to do a doctorate in public ... . Ugwechi plans to do the M.Sc. in psychological research at Oxford. Steven ... plans to do a doctorate in bioengineering at Oxford. Congrats to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  would allow you to do awesome research as an undergrad. Has this been your ... ? How do students make time for research during the academic year, or do most students do UROPs during the summer? UROP, MIT's undergrad research

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  on campus were doing the same thing with the same purpose: to take part ... interesting to see not just what people do over the course of a typical day, but ... Amherst (also known as WHERE I LIVE. RAWR.), because my parents do not

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? Prelude.

  

  is startled. I'm sure. But I'm going to do it anyways. I've lost the ... incredibly good) Short Story, the context of which has absolutely nothing to do ... a particularly sinister view of what I'm trying to do here), I borrow

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wolfram Alpha Tonight!

  

  smartest software I've ever seen. What does it do? It does math. Easy math ... , and blah blah blah blah blah. "But Google can do this too!" No. Google can not do this. Wolfram Alpha is so much beyond Google in terms of

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

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

  

  and do things you don't have time to do during the normal semester. What do I mean by that exactly? Well since you asked, here is a list of

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

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  closer to the all important yet elusive conviction that I'm doing right by ... themselves doing the things only men were supposed to do. Here's hoping

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  pretty-like (in color!). Before you look at that though, let's do a quick ... a lot like we can use energy. There's nothing but gravity doing work ... inertia for each of the 6 spokes. How do we find the spokes' moments of

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Advices, advices Notes from Associate Advising...

  

  time do you have of making new friends and getting to know new acquaintances when HUNDREDS of froshies are running around, trying to do precisely that? What better time do you have of joining new clubs, exploring new

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 28, 2008