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  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International ... , hundreds of freshmen are all around campus. Today, I saw Snively '11 from ... the Class of 2012 (!), so don't be offended if we're not around when you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  the mortifying ordeal of being known embrace the care that lies within you (my attempt to soothe pre-decisions anxiety)

  

  throw together a sort of last minute grad app to one of MIT’s [annotation ... (masters of science) students first, and you only officially become a Ph ... ’s kind of crazy how four years ago on this exact day, I was deferred from

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this ... of the semester all the way until the end, recording the exact time ... phone and then manually typed all of the data points into excel while I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions. There are lots of other things going on, but as far as structured

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  named new dean of admissions March 24, 2008 Stuart Schmill SB '86 has been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... 's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  International Men & Women of Mystery

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... definition. For purposes of MIT Admissions, an international student is a ... every student's full financial need. MIT is one of only a handful of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  On the other side of CPW Being an MIT undergrad during CPW is definitely an interesting experience

  

  even sometimes sad being on the other side of CPW. I knew that it would ... me miss my own CPW so much, but so grateful of the opportunities and ... Peterson's picture of the green building lit up in remembrance of those who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 1 Two MIT students were chosen as Glamour's Top 10 College Women

  

  the night before, or knowing that you will be spending the rest of the ... Whitney-Johnson (’08) and I are among the Top 10 College Women of 2007 ... years of female college juniors with leadership, community involvement

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here ... , since it ended up being completely false - but I'm getting ahead of myself

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever-present presence of our preexisting expectations of admissions blogs, unburdened of the literary coherency associated with the formal duties of a prefrosh

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is navigating around a variety of limitations (algorithm runtime, computer memory ... workaround. As a simple example, if I gave you a very long list of numbers (2

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  On the Scattering of Senior House or: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Acknowledge the Bomb

  

  There’s been a decent amount of turbulence in the past couple of ... . These are resident-produced videos that showcase the culture of each dorm. They are released at the end of May for the incoming freshmen to decide

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston’s 4th of July Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country, and MIT has…

  

  Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country ... middle of the Charles River, across from MIT. See the graphic I made below ... in front of MIT, approximately in front of the Sailing Pavilion and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

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

  

  ! And so, after three beautiful years of Ring Premiere blog entries, I'm proud to be blogging the debut of this year's Brass Rat to the rest of the world. (I kind of do feel like this is sort of a blogging rite of passage

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

  Remember, Remember the Fifth of November Celebrating Guy Fawkes Day as only MIT can.

  

  Just over 400 years ago, a group of Englishmen attempted to blow up the Houses of Parliament on November 5, 1605. Though their plot was ... the history of England, largely thanks to the catchy verses that were

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  two-month period in fifth grade and the culmination of every wistful ... dexterity. There’s a ton of people in MIT who play the piano (and everything ... of Alpha Delta Phi brothers will often slide behind the grand piano in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Sign of Things to Come If Paul Revere went to MIT, he'd say, "The psets are coming. The psets are…

  

  techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force, strain, temperature, flowrate, and acceleration. Emphasizes principles of ... continua: equations of motion useful for porous, hydrated biological tissues

  • by Bryan
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e e cummings collection, to W. S. Merwin’s Shadows of Sirius found in a ... there, and I read a few of Masha’s from 21W.762: Poetry Workshop. Then

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  against the cold. Two of the group had work or meetings so it was just three of us this misty Monday. We started across the bridge, seeking a ... for a Green Line train, and were spat out in the middle of Allston. A

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023