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

  

  is currently a Ph.D. student at Harvard Medical School. She will be ... CPW is over. The May 3 reply date is quickly approaching. What to do? How can you make the best decision? If you've made up your mind for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  (the tagline is my favorite line from Wicked, hahaha - how "philosophical" it is LOL) So hello from the other side of a terrible week of ... - Boston is getting a lot warmer recently! hehe). Well, this post is more of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Holiday Stories Here's mine. What are some of yours?

  

  's class decided this would be a fun event for the dads, and that's how this whole thing got started. Laird, Tim, and I found ourselves in a room full ... and thus I had to avoid Miss April that night. But that's a different

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  project is already a lot of stuff, so I wasn’t sure if I made the right ... ’s home by myself. A subway is a subway, the hardest part (for me) is simply ... country that you belong to, a particular home. Modern-day Shanghai is very

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  rumors- at MIT, everything is given a number. Classes, buildings, trees ... campus in under 6 digits (usually 5) is pretty distinctive. Here’s how the ... at a non-right angle to all the rest, that 66 is the 30-60-90 triangle

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is ... Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this ... least Chris M did. Yesterday a video, made by a bunch of people from

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Tried to Ford the River Are you even old enough to remember this?

  

  of the Oregon Trail computer game is coming to MIT and giving a talk ... Pika (69 Chestnut Street) I don't know how many of you had the luxury of ... I will be at a formal on the 33rd floor of a building in downtown

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Trick or Treat! Smashing pumpkins, and no I don't mean the band.

  

  I begin this entry with a photo of the aftermath of one Saturday evening. Here, try this physics problem on for size. If I have a pumpkin and I drop it off the Green Building which is 295 ft, how far will the

  • by Bryan
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

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

  

  about Mystery Hunt is how, in some senses, it is a microcosm of MIT ... also had to complete a series of unfortunate events that would show how ... Poker is a rarely practiced poker variant; it is not popular among humans

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

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  difficult committee this year, which is always a mixed bag: it makes our ... A few hours ago we finished processing the final segment of tens of ... should show up in MyMIT. A few moments ago, we emailed everyone who applied

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  drivers only leave a stop if their bus is full, so it is an interesting ... Yesterday was my team's first full day in Zambia, and what a day it was! We took a minibus from where we're staying to downtown Lusaka

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  is a qualified lightly"]lightly[/annotation] annotated version of his ... -rise now; this is the vertically stacked grouping of entries A, B, C, D, E as ... thing I bought was a big fan. The heat is the result of a combination of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Beacon St. and Marlborough St. Rooftops and flowers on two streets in Boston.

  

  the Boston side, across the Charles from MIT. This is where we spent our past Saturday, our first warm weekend that I’ve been in town, on a path ... , also from the bridge.   Below, somewhere on the left is Beacon Hill

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  data analysis in Matlab, learned how to use Latex, written a 4-page ... ://web.mit.edu/physics/undergrad/majors/degreereqs.html You can get a more complete idea of what is required of each flavor of ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  , unfortunately. it was much more of a showcase of all of our hard work this ... injection molding machine before, here’s a crash course.  This is what some of ... owls is known as a "parliament”! There have been definitely been some

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gustavo Dudamel Conducts MITSO! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] Because we are THAT good.

  

  emotion are necessary. There is indeed a huge difference between simply ... the audience members would understand why. The conductor is not a ... day, he participated in a panel discussion with MIT professors John

  • by ARTalk
  • April 26, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... residence for the next three weeks, is a small suburban city about 30 minutes ... UNESCO). It was also a quiet town that after around seven in the evening is

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  classes, and as a whole MIT is very good, but individual students sometimes ... A C ON YOUR FIRST SEMESTER TRANSCRIPT What you can get is a bunch of ... . One is if you "fail" a class. You're taking advantage since you'll have

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of ... Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... problem as its posed to us: A wheel of diameter R, consisting of a thin

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  actually learn how to cook a few filling, [annotation note="eat your veggies ... are wonderful, but Mohammed (not sure if that's how his named is spelled ... note="Disclaimer: i'm not sponsored, I just think that TGTG is a great

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022