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  Saying Yes (or No) Decision time is upon the Class of 2014. How to choose?

  

  ? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for ... 're enrolling this fall (Yay! Welcome officially to the MIT Class of 2014!), that ... 're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Sorry you didn’t meet me :( I missed Meet-The-Bloggers, and some things on this semester

  

  into space. The launch is *hopeful* for 2009 2010 but one never knows. It will look for extrasolar planets (transiting planets- that cross in front of their host stars). The project is very ambitious for a 2 million

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly ... see, for the first time since 2006, there is FINALLY a hack on the Great ... for, you silly goose. Affixed near the Great Dome is a near

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  exhaustion), and the line looks nice except for the second semester of my ... sleep statistics for other variables. Definitely. I tried to look at hours ... you want to do will expand to fill all the available space you have for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  ) Ring Premiere happened! For almost a year now, I’ve had the privilege of ... Rat for their class.  If you don’t already know, the Brass Rat is a ... started off rather unassuming. For the first few hours, my tasks consisted

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Seventh Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 4PM on 01/09/06.

  

  . Please don't worry, and there's no need to call the office for at least ... )? Or is that for applicants who took the old SATI?" See answer to Irina ... collegeboard website says 3-5 weeks, I'm guessing this is just for the letter

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  scientific community convened for the first time at the University of Chicago ... recounted the history of the millennia-old controversy and officially opened ... Iraq. Nevertheless, he aimed to resolve the age-old dispute by looking at

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  final qualifying segment for the 2016 U.S. National Championships in mid ... comfortable ride to Hartford. I start looking through the 18.02 pset that is due ... ’m under 21. Welp. Everyone else I know is staying at the official hotel a 20

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  school. Yes, that MIT. The one that has swept the Putnam competition for ... women’s lacrosse destroy Babson (ranked 14th in the country) by 10 goals ... , because it’s the epitome of brains and brawn. Contending for a national

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries this summer. There was some great food courtesy of the MIT Faculty Club ... by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  have the official form that you'll need to sign and send back by May 1. The reason that we don't have a separate form for EA is that the form ... explanations... The Beard. As you've probably noticed in the picture above, I

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  't arrived yet for whatever reason. Regardless of the TOEFL, if you submitted ... wrote: "For the Jan SAT test - do you recommend taking the SATIIs again ... 't score so hot on - 710) *OR* take the SATI for a higher Math score (didn

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  chocolate cake.) Burning questions: 1. I floated the idea that there might be a pirate certificate for the completion of a certain set of PE classes ... (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  schools). The course that I took at Harvard was in the spring term, for ... 't checked because generally we're looking for it to come separately. I'd be ... considered; these are missing, for example, the transcript or Part II. I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  interview somebody for a news story, we have to look at the entire situation ... official news source with the information out there! Subsequent articles and ... implementation up into a final product. Let’s look at the events of the past 4

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science is apparently not for the easily-frustrated Stories of woe from the lab

  

  get it over with. The gel ran for about two hours, then I set it up to ... questions! 1. s, who is now the official Queen of the Nerds (woot), asked why ... . (For the record, I do not think these two numbers got me into graduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  . What has the waitlist looked like, historically? Last year we admitted 20 ... students from the waitlist. So, it's hard to know how this year will look. What are the realities here? I know that while we plan for the worst

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music Groups at MIT, Pt.2 [by Jessica Noss '14, Guest Blogger] Decision time...

  

  stay in MITWE, MITSO, and Techiya, at least for the first couple weeks. I ... a couple weeks later. Chamber Chorus was looking for more altos, so I ... the end of the semester. All three groups had their end

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pie No, not pi.

  

  almost died for the three weeks leading up to decisions. March 15th was ... now it's time to start getting ready for the class of 2013. I've created ... is what I think the blogs looked like before decisions came out. and

  • by Snively '11
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.

  

  this happened. Well, it was a little cold, for the first time in a few ... for a while. Thanks, Yunjie '08! We were down in the water for about 3 ... forlornly upon the rocky shore for a very long while. Then we perked up and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 31, 2005