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Blog / About Decisions
CPW, making a decision, and saying yes/no The clock to May 1 is ticking.
approaching, one week from Friday. For those of you who were there, I hope you enjoyed CPW as much as I did. It was great to meet many of you at the "Meet ... bloggers via hidden messages in the comments was a joke). For those of you -
Blog / MIT Life
A Written Post Oh man my handwriting is atrocious
Typed out notes in review: I wrote this two weeks ago I apologize for my handwriting Ceri's post is here I am also very inspired by Lydia K. '14's posts like her Dragons post. I really -
Blog / Academics & Research
UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…
: Thursday, Thursday September 15, 2005. Keep in mind that there are three ... http://web.mit.edu/urop/students/mit/awards.html, for example last year I ... UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Punt Puzzle A collaborative affair
dispatched aggregate of users worldwide, I can easily declare that the entire ... an MIT student performs, one that usually leads to statements like, “I ... Saw Franchise to baking cookies to video games—and in my case, to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nobody’s Got No Class! I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking.
cognitive framework within which we can reason about events and states in the ... (It's from "Chicago," people) I was browsing through the MIT Course Catalog, and thought these classes looked pretty thought-provoking. (I stuck -
Blog / Academics & Research
Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!
As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the ... picnic a few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of seeing him and his band of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?
. . . " Me: ". . . what!?!" Jon: "Wait, you can't even solve this! I hate math ... -night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just finished most of a Diff Eq. PSET (I started at 10:45 PM, it's been a long day -
Blog / Admissions
Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...
your Part 1 now, if you haven't already. There are no essays in there ... in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... , transcripts, and test scores if they are not yet showing up in MyMIT tracking -
Blog / IAP
a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that
the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... . Not 30 minutes later, I found myself stuck (yes, stuck.) in the bathroom ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
INT to the INT to the IN(s)T i3 Videos! woo!
Interactive Introduction to the Institute (i3) (n.) - a DVD you will ... House as 6 different dorms - New House, iHouse, and 4 cultural houses). The DVD comes in a nifty little graphic-intensive booklet with all the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…
with the field"]. I finished Oscar Wao on vacation in Germany a few ... modeled after commentators like Bill O'Reilly. And, to help with context in ... ,Political Humor & Satire Blog,Video Archive If you're interested in -
Blog / Admissions
Deadline Day Happy November 1, Early Action applicants.
app (or take it to the post office for postmarking). I am pleased to see ... anything important happens after the deadline, you can always mail, email or call in any updates. Don't worry if your essay doesn't format as you -
Blog / Miscellaneous
World Cup Final in Boston An MIT- and Boston-centric look at the Italian victory.
was huge here in Boston, home to a large Italian-American population ... Street, the North End's main drag, had to be closed to traffic. You can see ... an Italian victory in World Cup soccer. It would be hard to imagine -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt 2006 announced
Earlier this evening, I received the official email announcing ... exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).
reactor startup targeting goals 7 years in the future, what can you deliver ... subsystem that you can deliver in 3 months? Small wins build on each other ... . Here's the main lessons I took away from his talk: How to know when to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."
pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Something is coming, part 3… And the anticipation builds!
To begin, add to Next, mix in a little of this (slightly nsfw for about 3 seconds) Now, put Jess and I in charge, give us a couple of months to stir, and what do you get? Wait and see! (no spoilers in the -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015
something. As we move onto 2016, I like to think about what in my own life the past year went well, what didn't go well, and what I could've done better. But, as much as we can learn from ourselves, I believe we can also learn -
Blog / Admissions
Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!
besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America. During that interview Hersh - who I think it is fair to say is somewhat