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• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  I was just reading Wired Magazine online and came across this. Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion ... that The Walt Disney Company had purchased MIT for $6.9 billion. More

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  research MIT is so well known for is still advancing at full throttle, across ... level there was never any need for me to see Professor Langer anyway ... Institute Professors go), I decided to wait for the right time to strike

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Math = Broken Whatchu know about math?

  

  This OFFICIAL MIT blog is probably not designed for late-night delirious whims of posting. Oh well. So, it's late (3:00 AM) and I just ... Part II, 4) d?" Me: "No, solving for k was impossible, not even

  • by Snively '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Harvard-MIT Student Debate on Pakistan this Friday

  

  , and Saad Zaheer and myself from MIT. We'll each speak for ten minutes, with the remaining 50 minutes reserved for questions, answers, and debate

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of ... ! For hundreds of wide-eyed freshmen who have never seen significant amounts of snow, snow means fun! For all of the upper-classmen who see snow

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  for this lab: "You just graduated from MIT and are traveling around Europe for the summer before going to grad school. You start talking to a ... building a robot for a robot-wars type of competition, and have been having

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  flags for Freshmen, Add date deadline, and the end of the first wave of ... April/May and none of what I’m doing right now counts? Well, for ... Cambridge, you get a supervisor for every class. You usually share this person

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Law & Order: MIT Alum Unit Going to law school after MIT, and a profile of the first sitting federal judge…

  

  I'm often asked about MIT students going off to law school. For some ... , one is a Fellow at the Center for Internet and Society, another handles ... an attorney for McGuireWoods, LLP. And I have two more friends entering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  There are always many questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... do not have a preference. You should take the tests for which you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  ;*#!$ with your head. Anyway, I don't really have time for a whole entry, but ... so strongly of this that I had to buy it for him. (Seriously, Five ... image below speaks for itself. So, what do you think? Could I get money

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  years ago and historians still do not know whether it was built for ... occurs semiannually at MIT. For the past four special days, the sunset was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Match Our thoughts, and a request for current MIT students to weigh in.

  

  Those of you who are savvy surfers of this site will note that our page on "The Match" has displayed the dreaded "coming soon" message for the better part of the fall. I apologize for this, and thanks to all of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  My grades for the semester so far: This should keep me motivated for my final tomorrow. Final Exam 1 of 1 Wednesday December 20, 2006 9 AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  AM to start sweating the onions for my award-winning apple cream of butternut squash soup. It was time for the nth annual Burton-Conner Apple Bake, a culinary "competition" for which my floor routinely cranks out about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Nobel Connection 2 MIT alums have won Nobel prizes this week!

  

  received his PhD from MIT in 1983, won the Nobel Prize in medicine for co ... my freshman year UROP at MIT's Center for Cancer Research. The Center for Cancer Research also just so happens to be home to Phillip Sharp

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  From Cambridge to You On the road again...

  

  the Great Plains. Here's my entire meeting schedule for the fall ... you! And for the rest of you, say hello to my colleague who comes to ... know whether or not MIT is a good match for you? We will of course talk

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  mnemonics for learning the order of the planets was "MVEMJSUNP" pronounced 'me ... actually be time for a new mnemonic, sorry Screech. So here's a contest

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  held one question out for further inspection. Melissa had asked, "Do you ... , women account for about 27% of undergraduate students in computer science; at MIT for Fall 2006, MIT's Department of Electrical Engineering

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m not swollen anymore!

  

  Okay, so I agree that it's been far too long since my last update. I've been dealing with work issues, and have been in California for the last ... occupied for the balance of the summer. I have to say -- the weather in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?

  

  , including one where you get to build furniture for your room (a picture of a ... to a very nice Afgan restaurant for a fancy meal (pictures at the end ... housing situation for your entire MIT career. This may be thinking far too

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 7, 2006