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Blog / Admissions
Selection begins Picking the Class of 2010.
discussion without needing to resort to a formal "vote." In the very rare ... and the difficult decisions we make in selection. This year, we received ... we take those summaries and work from them. We do selection in -
Blog / Admissions
Schools of dreams
come to a section about a student coming in for a mock college interview ... have given me a good opportunity to catch up on some work-related reading ... School of Dreams (a case study of Whitney High School in Los Angeles -
Blog / Hacks
A quick plug
Dome) Hacks and meta-hacks (an MIT map gets modified to include the ... . But now, I look, and I notice that while they aren't completely up to date, they've made a lot of updates to the timeline, and to the writeups -
Blog / MIT Life
TGIF! After a long week comes...a FEAST!
out to dinner on Friday night as a reward for working hard all week. This week, we went to Buk Kyung II, a Korean restaurant in Allston. So yummy. ! P.S-- Sorry for the video quality, I've been trying to fiddle -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.
.033/www/dp1/. Feel free to submit solutions in the comments. My one ... giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked -
Blog / Academics & Research
I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!
just got a UROP doing chemistry and molecular biology-related stuff in the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Wanna be on the Radio? Your name in lights.
Did you ever try to call in for radio shows? Ever want your five minutes of fame? Well here's your chance to be a blogger. Seeing that my ... you to write a blog entry about your CPW experience. If you -
Blog / Admissions
More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…
you to another EC who is available. Some of you may live in areas where ... coming to campus - we'll assign you to an EC in the vicinity of MIT. Note ... posted here. The deadline to contact your EC has passed for early action -
Blog / About Decisions
Welcome MIT Class of 2010! By now many of the Early Action admitted students have received "Da' Tube".
choice? Do you have reservations? Are you still in shock? Drop the Nance Effect a line and we'll chat! Tell us your story. I especially want to hear from those not given to post regularly to this (or any MIT blog). -
FAQ / Academics and research
Can I study Global Change Science/Climate?
The MIT Center for Global Change Science (CGCS) at MIT was founded to ... multidisciplinary approach. The Center's goal is to improve the ability to accurately predict changes in the global environment. Additionally, a variety of -
FAQ / First-year application
May high school juniors apply?
information on our site about what to do in high school that you'll find helpful ... to our email list without any commitment to apply for admission. -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.
kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get -
Blog / Academics & Research
Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte
made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... companies from tiny startups to Microsoft had brought in, to the Tesla coil ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having -
Blog / Events
LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.
Massachusetts, allowing students the opportunity to fully engage in the leadership ... What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common ... takes place over IAP. Participants will be asked to wrestle with such -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…
were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to ... and my buddy. We were then searched and told to wait in a nice warm bus ... outnumbered 4 to 1. However, in the end, they couldn't hold the position. We -
Blog / Events
Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.
Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…
, Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...
. Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even -
Blog / Uncategorized
[guest post] The Random Hall Milk: Gone But Not Forgotten an obitu-dairy for Pecker's oldest resident
return to Random Hall began slowly. First came those who lived in MIT ... to be back home. But all is not well. We hadn’t been in the ... resident eager to make mac and cheese. In a tale familiar to us all, the
