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  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  people ushering you inside; the person nearest you hands you a pair of ... 's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of chairs, broken only by two sets of stairs. As you go down toward the front

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  sunny day in the fall of our sophomore year. She approached me in the atrium of [annotation note="the Brain and Cognitive Sciences building ... was told by a now-graduated member of the class of 2020 that a lot of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  students who are considering MISTI to think of the program both in terms of ... research involving polymer chemistry. I enjoyed the best of a friendly ... difficulty in integrating into a German community; the vast majority of people

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  currently I'm working at the Charles Stark Draper Laboratory. As many of you ... /c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial ... picture of me taken on the day my parents brought me home from the hospital

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  cambridge, and we quickly discovered we had the same memey sense of humor ... picture i ever took on killian court was of me and the rest of the camp t-posing. a little silly looking back, but you must kill the part of you that

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story ... MIT was one of the few who (on their acceptance website) congratulated

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually ... seminars to attend. It all takes time. That's part of the reason I dropped 6

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... semester in differential equations. I walked out of the exam room confident ... end of my last post that I had gotten the job, but I am now through the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  One of the most common misconceptions about MIT is that the Institute ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to about MIT's supposed lack of fun, but also because I used to think the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  XC is Sexy

  

  I first saw the slogan "XC is Sexy" on the shirt of a 12 year old ... okay. Anyway, he is a former winner of the New England Division III ... Forest Hills. (For you subway people, we took the Red line to Downtown

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Note To Prefrosh With Time Machines and/or Good Ideas Don't forget to show up for the Time Traveler Convention this saturday at 10PM EST.

  

  interviewed on NPR's All Things Considered. Pretty cool. And the winners of the ... reducing the radiation exposure of both patients and doctors the "Vac ... bunch of other cool "ideas"!   Photos from the judging session are

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 3, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Latke vs. Hamentashen Debate: LiveBlog FOOD FIGHT!

  

  of the important bits and some of the funnier jokes. Pictures could be ... insert pictures while typing. I did manage to catch some candids of the ... ??? Anyway, the debate is now beginning, more word soon. 8:11 pm Master of

  • by Snively '11
  • March 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Final Countdown

  

  where, with all of the admissions officers finally together after a long ... 'll start reviewing applications sometime near the first weekend of November ... . Track the status of your application at my.mit.edu. Students like to call

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2004
• Blog / Challenges

  Don’t Waste Daylight; Don’t Lose Sleep I've almost survived a whole semester.

  

  not I, were in that spot on the sidewalk of dorm row. I shuffled into my suite on the fourth floor of Burton Conner shedding a trail of water from ... to my roommate, "It's so... gray!" She's from the northwest corner of

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  Kao, STAFF REPORTER November 16, 2010   The number of ... applications comes even as the number of graduating high school seniors held ... want to be a part of our community. They are attracted to the innovative

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  ’s second law, the other hand stirring a vat of soon-to-be chocolate ... the entire day, locked myself out of my room, and measured muon velocity to be 0.98 times the speed of light - exactly what we hoped to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Mathisms and other linguistic quirks of the nerd incubator

  

  There exists a nontrivial subset of the MIT population for whom the ... ultra ultra math nerds, and suddenly you can smell the scent of math ... "]reckless abandon[/annotation]. But that’s only scratching the tip of the surface here

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 15, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If the roots are imaginary, then the dots will be blue… Diff EQ what now?

  

  I've compiled the best of them here. Enjoy! "If the roots are ... board, waves chalk in the air.) "See? Blue." "And now I'm reminded of an ... Hampshire suspects Vermont of sneaking across the border and attempting to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  manila envelopes lay on the floor, most of them only partially filled with ... End of the World, respectively. Each group was given a zampolit ... and the writing teams. After an hour or so of discussion, each group

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT goes on the road Over the next month, MIT Admissions Officers will visit dozens of cities across North America.

  

  Beginning Wednesday until the end of October, my Admissions ... will of course talk about admissions, including the different application ... about in a future entry, my first meeting isn't until the very end of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2007