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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play it again, Sam You wouldn't be saying that if you were in lab with me.

  

  your finger to a problem set and then fall asleep, sitting down, half an ... tired of hearing distorted whatever, I decided to pack up and call it a ... get at MIT, with all the work they have to do? Well, yesterday I broke

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week in the Life Hello, Google Calendar.

  

  interested in exploring. Drop by Media Lab Needed to pick up a rec letter ... trying to go to Iceland over spring break, which has taken quite a lot of ... Climbing that I failed to wake up for. I ended up going to see a talk by the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  to classes for a while. maybe some of you are far away from any ... people have to say instead: Into the Unknown here comes a thought As ... have things settled for at least the next week, and i know i’ll spend a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  students than last year: an increase of 1 student, to 1554. Thus, our admit rate fell nearly a percentage point, from 12.5% to 11.6%. This year ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? America's fastest competitive eater is Sonya Thomas, a ... . Although the process has never been specifically used to destroy prions, Jefferson Tester, a professor of chemical engineering at MIT, says he

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trading Room

  

  -of-the-art trading room ever built on a university campus. Identical in every detail to ... this one with you: Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 04:25:08 -0500 To: suma ... ) ******************************   REGISTER NOW! TO REGISTER, please send an email to taskforce

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  have to complete Mastering Physics assignments twice a week. You are ... :00 AM the next day. THURSDAY A pset completed @ 5:00 AM leads to waking ... really grumpy. But I had a movie screening to take care of. I write for

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  House of Representatives, and they went through the readings like it was a farce. It basically allows a government-appointed council to detain a ... . At the same time, I care about what’s happening back at home. Just a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  fully evaluate and summarize a folder. We're expected to read applications ... already, right?" We evaluate the applications on a rolling basis: that is to ... returned to the office with a full stomach and proceeded to work on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... could not find my way from East Campus to Building 7. This was a path that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for ... long as I have a piano to practice on, and people willing to listen to me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  the opportunity to collaborate on a large research project with top ... Solving are working together to create a place for students to experience ... A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... ! We planned out an itinerary, booked a hotel, found places to eat, and ... supposed to touch the moss because it takes a really long time to regrow

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago ... eighty semi-hours Ten thousand thirty-two hundred emails to read Ten ... a MIT frosh? You can always spam However you want But just remember

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  to extinction. The story revolves around a bizarre group of neighbours ... : If you had to pick your top five sci-fi movies for a marathon, what ... to do all the classic MIT things before graduating. Accordingly, LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A ... I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really ... DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then ... annoying song, and also the teachers had already done a video to it so we ... to update for a whileeee)[/caption] "I need to look so hot for Carly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... a detailed overview of these projects). To give you some of the ... particular, she wants poverty to occupy a more prominent space in MIT’s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize ... concerns of citizens in Flint, Michigan to unravel a mystery that many in ... seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical disobedience across

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017