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Blog / Hacks
Removing a hack This is too cool
great dome, and a peek at what the dome looks like up close. I'm not aware ... . Thanks Schmiedl, let me know how to get invitations like this! -
Blog / About Decisions
As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.
up with decisions; apologies in advance!] Okay, it's 11pm and I haven ... I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.
Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I ... ." This is part of why I love MIT - people here actually appreciate this kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get -
Blog / Admissions
New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.
(and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but a forthcoming software patch should (hopefully) fix that. I think the -
Blog / MIT Life
Nightswimming
clearest water I've ever been in (I could read my watch with my arm under ... obvious reasons, such not wanting to get in trouble for indecency, I didn ... One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th -
Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden
contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions -
Blog / Study Abroad
The Cambridge-MIT Exchange
experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... -long schedule, is like. I know other exchange students who were placed in housing ... matriculate as a full student for a year at Cambridge University in Cambridge -
Blog / Admissions
New ZigZag video podcast & behind the scenes An inside look at the new video.
... check it out! Let us know what you think, either in the comments section ... came up last semester over a lunch meeting at the Forbes Family Cafe in the Stata Center. I was chatting with the folks at Academic Media -
Blog / Hacks
Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D
yes, that's my math pset in the background - the math pset that I ought ... essentially live at Hayden Library, one of the few places on campus in which I ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Disappearing (or life goes on) .
I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I ... finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go -
Blog / Miscellaneous
The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.
Last week, I used DC's subway/underground train system, called the Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this -
Blog / Athletics
SF AIDS Walk – Part II
I, along with 25,000 other people, found myself in Golden Gate Park ... "thank you" statemets I have written in this entry, but I mean each and ... generous donations, I qualified as a Star Walker, and was eligible to wear a -
Blog / About Decisions
Telethon Live Blog Where we call you --
roll your eyes at us. In all actuality, I am really excited to call you ... number two! We'll dig for more names. 11:14 pm Alright, I'm back in my ... YOU'RE A PREFROSH AND WE'RE SUPER EXCITED TO TALK TO YOU AND I WANT TO -
Blog / Extracurriculars
2009: Let There Be Bloggers!
Hello everyone! So should I introduce myself or talk about the 2009 Blogger application? That's a silly question, isn't it. In the annals of ... apply. That being said, I have to bear the bad news that we're primarily -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: Molly Pounds Chicagoland's Molly Pounds '10.
influential in society," she said. "I want to do something for the world. I want ... prompted her to study hard and earn good grades. That hard work paid off in ... junior. Pounds will graduate from Crystal Lake South High School in June -
Blog / MIT Life
Spring Break Good times all around.
intense craving for home/family/my mom's food - none of which I'd had in ... into queen-size beds at night. I'm back in Boston now and missing Texas ... career. It didn't seem that way at first. I was scheduled to fly out last -
Blog / MIT Life
The Rudolph Family Weekend Better late than never, right?
One week ago, everyone's parents were here on campus, and I mean everyone's... but mine. In mathspeak, for all MIT students not equal to Kate ... that! Brothers, sisters, grandparents! Okay, I exaggerate. I wasn't the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.
in my physics classroom for a late-night review session. Somehow, I ... the second I saw this picture. In chem class on Wednesday, this reborn ... Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our -
FAQ / First-year application
Will there be a wait list this year?
't possible to exactly predict how many students will attend each year. To help ... admitted students return their enrollment decisions in early May.