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• 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

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2009
• 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

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT ... Cormick. This is my room just after I moved in. It doesn’t really look like

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about ... -programming. Behold in Awesome Wonderment the pace from which I execute MIT Admissions ... staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection

  

  for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I've even worn a tie (*gasp*) for the occasion! I'm excited but also nervous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never ... see it. That said, there's one in New York in September, and I think ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  .   To no surprise, I'm not the only person who's experienced this. In ... then talking about something I’ve never heard about in high school Not ... -Schwarz Inequality” is back in high school. I’m not a math wizard like Terence Tao, but

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022
• 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

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  week. Tonight I'll be at a welcome dinner for students in FLIPOP, the new ... their college transition. In order to prepare, I reached out to Crissy on ... random weekend adventures on a whim). While I was hoping for more leos in

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  , and Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski. In any case, I decided to ... over a button-up Oxford shirt tucked in neatly, so I did admittedly feel ... ? Maybe I'll get in touch with my cosplayer friends from high school and see

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3

  

  ones, where my iPhone really can't quite hack it. The nature up in the ... , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... set up our tents in the dark (read: with difficulty) on Friday night

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... beaver is sitting on eight ivy leaves. I'll let you fill in the blanks on ... letters "ILTFP" hidden in it. I like the inclusion of "ILTFP" as well as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• 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

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • December 1, 2009
• 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

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 6, 2009
• 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

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Puzzle: Are we going to win? another puzzle to stimulate your mind

  

  My friend Brian, Course VI '07, came up with this puzzle. I'll give you one hint for now, use this website for help. I'll be travelling this weekend, so I probably won't get a chance to post the solution until

  • by Bryan
  • August 5, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Where can I find info on Graduate Admissions/Masters/PhD?

  The Office of Undergraduate Admissions handles first-year and transfer admissions. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our departmental programs(opens in new window). Each department
• Blog / About Decisions

  Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh

  

  're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... the admissions decision. That's a fact also. In the publishing industry

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  on realizations and learning in which i say a bunch of things that might seem obvious

  

  , to take up space in my life. I want it and love it for itself, not just ... off in their head. I never thought I was done growing, but I think I ... it used to. Freshman fall, in a blog about realizing that I didn't know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 10, 2020