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  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  our best judgment, into every decision, and most decisions are extremely ... . There were more awesome applications than ever before. It made reading the applications a joy, but it made turning away students that much harder. Thank you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Counting On One Hand And this is where Porky Pig says, "That's all folks"

  

  going by so fast. Now I must say that I've made the following observations ... hardest final exam of my life. The concepts in the class are very ... don't really remember why I made this deal, but I'm sticking to it, or

  • by Bryan
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How To Make (almost) Anything

  

  have never made before. (Gershenfeld is also credited in Minority Report ... Makes (almost) Anything", where you make the machines that you use in ... made a parametric pentagon and a parametric hexagon separately and set

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  , climbed up to the top floor (we figured out where the source was) and found ... our own laser art. One of our dinosaur-fanatic freshmen made this (view on the building, view on the computer screen): My sister made

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... important reasons. 1. MIT classes are harder than high school classes, and ... classes second semester, no big deal. As an upperclassman, there are other

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  word PRICELESS. Know what the hell you are talking about! Free radicals are atoms or groups of atoms with an odd (unpaired) number of electrons ... Life, I Learned From Wolverine" essay has been tried. (Feel free the ask

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  , when i'm on edge and i'm worrying and things are on my mind, i can keep ... freeing, especially when i can just do things without worrying about grades ... yet, like news. so to the applicants who are waiting for decision day

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What MIT Is Like for Non-Technology Majors a quirk of the institvte

  

  here are interested all kinds of different fields, from anime to manga ... Massachusetts Institute of Tautology: Currently, there are either no students ... -around good time. The Massachusetts Institute of Trichology: Free lint

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  my Tuesdays and Thursdays are pretty much packed with lab time. But my Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are free - which means EVERY weekend is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  are not just the free coffee machine at work (requires daily self ... ” are BELGIAN by origin. Don’t let anyone one tell you otherwise

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  think that I am, all y'all prefrosh are starting your summer internships ... you know.  The more eyes the better. There are a variety of award levels and most involve free tickets to the show. It'll definitely be

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  . Hey, they are having this talk tomorrow night thought you might be interested - free food.  I commute three hours a day to my job at MIT and I ... 's groaning again. The arts are alive and well at MIT. Come visit.  I'll see

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  which I highly recommend you all to attend) to the free showing of Lars ... outside forces threatening all of mankind, we are shown how the two central ... -date type of movie to go see, but if you are feeling contemplative and upbeat

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Premiere I bring you the 2010 Ring Premiere, in full living color!

  

  graduate in June 2010. (AAAWWW.) Also, another thing: there are 20 hidden 10s on the ring, 13 of which are on the bezel. Regardless of the lack ... own free will. (Also, because Ring Comm was giving away a Wii.) For

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 20, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  , a number I like much better. Feel free to add any Chuck Norris facts ... of a deadly asteroid. - It is believed dinosaurs are extinct due to a ... . - When chuck Norris does division, there are no remainders. - The First

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  's Kisses. However, this was compensated by the fact that they are in the ... for our feedback on the ride (with the promise of free candy!) and I noted that the cows are, well, just a little creepy. 4. While visiting

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  brainstorm about current roadblocks some of us are facing and eat free BERTUCCI ... of the things that people are also often interested in is how they got

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"

  

  So with all this free time on my hands (not as much as I originally ... subject. Considered here are 1.) the mechanics of body movement; 2.) the ... references are especially useful and should help to stimulate thought and

  • by Bryan
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So done Midterm week = loss of Mollie's mind

  

  So depending on a) what major you are, b) what classes you choose to ... Institute for Learning and Memory. Note: If you're free on Friday, you might ... the new building. The speakers are 2 Nobel laureates (Eric Kandel from

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 3, 2005
• Blog / Financial Aid

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  those who are and aren't on meal plans--and non-essentials ("unnecessary ... highly variable, skewed, and has outliers (which are noted). I'm assuming ... [/annotation] are as follows: [carousel image1="114193" image2="114194" image3

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025