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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  something new? While I can’t yet say whether or not this shotgun method of expanding my horizons is effective, I can say that it's best to keep an open ... difference. Points can be redeemed for a choice of: absolutely nothing or a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  Bridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! You can ... your application is complete by then and you did not match. We can ... transcript? A: You can fax it to us at 617-687-9184 or mail it to MIT Office of

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help ... , and your values. Plus, early acceptance can sometimes be the difference

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  all the nifty things they can do, and hackers – MITs clandestine ... circus ring!   Here, you can see a tightrope walker balancing the ... many upperclassmen can relate to.... And of course, what would a circus

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Way We Live Saunas make me think

  

  Do you ever feel like you can't do just one thing at a time? These days, I can't watch TV (a real TV) without internet on my lap. I can ... while on the toilet. Blame it on all those apps for everything you can

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  plant. Can I just point out that a sense of humor is “essential” for ... Schindall reflected, “Leaders who can joke around or take a joke when ... else can you "buy" people's cooperation for only a quarter?’” Schindall

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  's acoustics. From one lateral end to the other, all you can see are rows of ... screen, you can tell that it'll be memorable. Now if you were to take a ... screaming or shaky cinematography can quite do justice to it. (Nor can any

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  . Because I truly, truly do. No, I can’t tell you my favorite flavor of ice ... not something that can be decided on a whim. So when I tell you ... fine. You can’t be awesome at everything, all the time; it’s much more

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A with Prof. Nancy Kanwisher ‘80 (CPW Preview!) One of the CPW Keynote Speakers, Brain and Cognitive Sciences Professor Nancy Kanwisher '80 PhD…

  

  and to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2009. Q. Can you ... one of the most fundamental questions any scientist can ask: What is the ... -purpose parts of the brain and mind. Q. Can you tell us about an undergraduate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING ... somewhere that MIT students can theoretically get by without owning a laptop ... university in the US - perhaps even the world. i usually can get MIT signal in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben 2.0 In a world... spiraling on the brink of an admissions cycle... one man had the…

  

  "the new Ben." For those who don't remember Ben Jones I can instead say ... decide if you can't imagine spending your college life anywhere else. In ... revel in the idea that every day I come to work I can discover what

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 13, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  the bag than the erasers/trash cans/beard trimmers were worth combined ... less beard trimmers). You can take actual classes - some even extend from the fall term through January - or you can take crash courses in pottery

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Warning: Contains Biology This entry may be unsuitable for children, liberal arts majors, and mathematicians.

  

  -. For the mitochondrial genome notation a strain can be ρ+ or ρ- where the strain that is ρ+ can grow on glycerol and the strain that is ρ- can not ... isolate a haploid strain that can not grow on glycerol and want to know what

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  page. http://www.mitadmissions.org/mt/mt.cgi As you can see, we use the ... you can see the number of posts and how many comments there are, though ... 't want to give away any surprises, but as you can see there's a lot of neat

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  sorts of neat money-making things you can do that don't necessarily take ... well. They can range from $10 or $13 for a half hour session to $100 for ... is where mail comes, oftentimes you can get movies here, and they also

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... the word "and" in Italian is "e" (pronounced like a long A). You can ... on, and you can see how this might get annoying. But, the class was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred Students Update Some Q&A for deferred students.

  

  action applications. We will admit the best applications we can during ... application into your other applications. [But MIT is my dream school, I can ... occasionally some students become so focused on MIT they can't see all the other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  table-- this can't have been our final set-up :P - yeah actually if you ... 't know how you guys do it, I can barely get all this stuff graded on time ... harder) 8.13 - lab 8.286 - early universe (w/ alan guth) - this can serve

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things To Do While Waiting for Decisions, Part II Relax! Take it eee-aaa-sy!

  

  life decisions, but I can suggest a couple things to ease the pain. It ... place. Especially because there's no way you can know how a school will ... time.) 10. Relax. Relax. Relax. Relllaaaxxxxx. ("I can't relax! Who IS

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  case I did something stupid and you can't see the picture, basically, it ... be attempting to run in the Boston Marathon. If you can brave the rain ... remember for my entire life. Plus, if I can run a marathon in sleet and get a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007