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  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... power of two!" you would be offered automatic admission. I hear that we're going to adopt it for the incoming class of 2012. No no, not really. Well

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Leavetaking and homecoming

  

  liked the house we already lived in, an old adobe building at the edge of ... ’ll have to edit out the bulk of them for brevity. In the summer monsoons, the toads would dig their way out of the ground and gather outside our

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  scenarios in which some life must be lost, (a more specific case of the ... strongly depend on the moral measure of intuition to arrive at a solution ... able to account for differing intuitions in variants of the life

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being a lab rat I flail around trying to explain what I do at work every day.

  

  the results of that project is currently being reviewed for publication ... is a Really Good Journal.) But anyway. Since the completion of the ... transcription of another protein that allows the synthesis of a certain amino acid

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  . Shorts! The weather reminded me of scenes from around this time, two years ... in the grass near MIT Medical, doing some sort of stretching. What ... for me. I receded into the basements of Stata to shield myself. I then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  student's essay or some other aspect of the application. The short answer ... differs from many of the schools who employ them. At MIT, we read and summarize the applications over the course of a number of weeks, and we don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  can be. Check out this interactive visualization of the course here ... .5-hour meetings each week; there's a Food of the Month, Film of the Month, Virtual Museum of the Month, Painting of the Month,  Puzzle of the Month

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  hello again ヽ( ´¬`)ノ

  

  those of you who don't know me, I'm the new Chris, replacing the old Chris ... . The last year was one of the most intense, incredible, challenging and rewarding of my life. I spent almost every day at the Center for Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Holiday Gifts, MIT Style Some unique products from MIT people.

  

  For many, holiday time is the season of giving. While on this blog I more often talk about aspects of MIT that are freely offered to the world ... freedom to get around. They offer convenience and flexibility to fit the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello? Pick up your phones!!

  

  :) Based on yesterday alone, I feel safe in saying that the MIT Class of 2014 ... are some of the more common ones: Are MIT classes ridiculously hard ... explore any part of MIT you want to: the dorms, the classes, the clubs, the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 16, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  summer. Professor Markus Zahn talked about the logistics of the program ... 6 students go through an interview process in the fall of their junior ... think the last part of the presentation was the most inspiring. (Although

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2022 are now ... Regular Action, 21,706 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2022. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2021 are now ... Regular Action, 20,247 students applied to join the MIT Class of 2021. As of today (inclusive of Early Action), we have offered admission to 1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  How Albatross Fly Without Flapping Their Wings, And other Lore™️ I learned this semester.

  

  [HEY! NOTE: If you are looking for the real, scientific reason of how ... be solved," which immediately peaked my interest. This was the kind of ... hemisphere that spends 90% of its life in the air. An Albatross can go up to 6

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 10, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  gyms and free practice hours for members of the teams). We have an ... MIT vary quite a bit in the level of people who play them. In some ... stringent about tryouts and cut quite a few of the people who try out. If you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  #NoBanNoWall

  

  the members of the MIT community: The Executive Order President Trump ... the United States is already having an impact on members of our ... contact David Elwell, associate dean and director of the International

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 29, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  that had been left after the rest of the rejects of the art lottery that ... very strongly in the 1960s culture of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Other Side of Fraternities What if. . .

  

  for the most lucrative of offerings. E-mail concerns directly to ... bring the wrath of higher-ups raining down on the admissions office again ... ) Scared about repercussions c) A member of the MIT faculty d) Tempted to e

  • by Snively '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some reflections Post decisions, a few thoughts.

  

  realization that MIT offers the type of education that the leaders of our world ... many of you — students and parents — are concerned about the future ... about the economic, social, and environmental stability of the world. For

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 29, 2009