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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster
in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... can shake several sticks at. And my favorite software in the world -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.
early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be honest: I was bummed yesterday when Prof. Alan Guth '68 was again shut out for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is -
Blog / Academics & Research
Brains and treason and bouncy balls, oh my! A brain dump largely about - what else? - brains.
(when did that happen?!), so we frosh can finally declare a major. I ... pretty set on what my major for a while now (in fact, I specifically ... tours of some labs. As I'm a nerd for everything neuroscience, can you -
Blog / Events
A Study Break. Or two or three. Or four. I think you get the idea.
school. I know I’ve spent my fair share of time in the basement study room ... sometimes in lecture, new concepts can perform astounding backflips right over ... and I decided to throw an unsanctioned study break in our floor lounge -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT, Part VII in which I realize that I am less wise in person, and also a senior
laughter] But how can it be deep, we're only in two dimensions. [pause again ... ++? I'm scared. Then again, there's no way this can be as hard as junior ... A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I -
Blog / Events
Underneath your curves (Free) sample problems from MIT's integration bee this year.
make for you in Paint. Yes, dear, I do know how to use Mathematica, but I'm in lab right now and I don't have it on this computer, so I figured ... back to MIT for IAP was not the best idea that I have ever had in my -
Blog / Miscellaneous
A question for you… No seriously I have a question
to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about ... to quantum I'll have to rope in my Course 8 suitemate) "Engineery -
Blog / MIT Life
MITiplication This entry contains one multiplication problem.
-over study guides, that I asked aloud, “What is 7 times 47?” In the space of ... , procrastinatory research project that I adopted in the dwindling time before my ... three methods: *i.e., everyone likewise procrastinating in one of Random -
Blog / Admissions
Everyday Is Like Sunday
While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the ... , I can tell you that this year, we denied les than half that number ... of the early pool, I must say just how difficult it was to narrow it -
Blog / Admissions
Your Questions What questions can I help answer about the application process?
I can't believe I've been blogging as an admissions officer at MIT for 9 years. Over that time, I've periodically opened ... ." As for your questions, ask them below in the comments. I'll -
FAQ / First-year application
Can my school use Naviance?
We prefer that students use our MIT application portal detailed in our Letters of recommendation page; however, we also accept electronic ... -specific recommendation form. On the form, recommenders can indicate if they would like to -
Blog / Events
Engineering leadership: the one-hour edition President Hockfield makes a surprise appearance!
. As I hinted at in my last entry, the GEL program had a hands-on hour ... to the requirements specified." Now I mentioned before how GEL ... pressure. The better the bridge design, the more "vehicles" (or in this case -
Blog / About Decisions
CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.
help you make your decision? How can we be of assistance? ... approaching, one week from Friday. For those of you who were there, I hope you enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet -
Blog / Admissions
Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video
figured I'd blog about how and why we did it. The Idea According to my inbox ... an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I ... interested in Comparative Media Studies, which is where I earned my graduate -
Blog / Community Projects
Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.
as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... . Considering your work course load and everything else you do at MIT. In short I ... : Floor in Popular Science? Hi – I’m an editor at Popular Science and I -
Blog / How to Human
Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~
can’t be happening… you try sprinting in the other direction, with blood ... , I CAN’T FINISH IMPLEMENTING THIS EXPERIMENT IF I CAN’T TYPE. Your nth ... ."]temped[/annotation] in MacGregor?” “Yea to both!” “I’m SO hoping that I get to stay in -
Blog / Academics & Research
Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…
Under 35 for his pioneering research in comparative genomics. When I sat ... what in the genome is important and how organisms might have evolved. For ... points out, where else can you teach at the #1 program in Computer Science -
Blog / Admissions
Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.
last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... 't missed an episode ever and this is season 4. 6) I can't believe I'm going to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
c/o 2017
-of-knowing. but this class of people is, i suppose, special in that we entered mit ... people i wanted to. but i saw a lot of them in those last few days of the ... prouder than anything else, that in some small and minute way i have maybe