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  Solar Car Pulled Over The MIT Solar Car Team got in a little trouble.

  

  Yesterday's Boston Herald had a story about the MIT Solar Electric Vehicle Team (SEVT) getting into a little trouble:   A group of MIT ... friend and SEVT member Ben Glass '07 had somewhat of an explanation:  

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of ... Tuesday is the night I do pub trivia with my friends. One of last night

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fall Semester Recap my classes so far

  

  quick recap of how the semester's gone for me so far since I've wanted to ... .021 As many of you know, I failed/dropped out of 8.02, Physics E&M, last spring so I was eligible to take 8.021, a lecture-based format of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... ) deadline, November 1. I'd like to use this entry to answer some of the ... . These short-answer essays are only one small part of the application, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation forms for every one of the schools you're applying to at once. This is also a good time

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  support. people here are so painfully kind. within two months of staying ... of something to say instead. but what do i say? what do i say to my ... they don’t want to? it takes a certain amount of trust in someone to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  little things like how my room smells. My definition of good ... sources of bad smells by regularly maintaining the general hygiene of your ... way of getting that subtle fragrance. The next time you visit the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  of them. send my friends memes that remind me of them. make things ... together. guest-passing people into dining halls. taking boxes of food from ... ask if they want to take a walk or go to beantown. take pictures of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  friends, and other things memories that come rushing back to me

  

  Here is a picture of Allan's room, snipped from here: He left this ... . i have a stack of summer reading on my desk that i will start clearing soon: much of it is technical, like strang, or sections of clrs - some

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  there were only a couple of hallways and none of them had any forks; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... a mailing list to know where to get the free food), and of course

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  ate a lot of these       (notice a pattern?), I also took an ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza ... sped up snippets of the reversed erasing clips to match them up with my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair technology, stickers and internships

  

  semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases some of the ... you leave the paper resumes at home in favor of "dropping them" online ... Barbot was Dropbox, one of MIT's favorite startups. Just ask Tim! I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick EA Update A few words about the storm, application tracking, MyMIT, and more.

  

  ***UPDATE*** If you're taking the SAT on the makeup date of 11 ... are currently processing thousands upon thousands of documents ... morning of October 31. We apologize for the inconvenience. Application

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  -aided design program. After Banks, one of my teammates, spent an incredible amount of hours spent on the computer, our blasters, if I may say so ... of you probably know what it's like to work on large projects like

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Application: August 19 In a few short weeks, the MIT 2012 Freshman Application will be posted.

  

  Doc of the various deadlines and requirements for all of the ... recommenders. We will require two letters of recommendation: one from a math ... possible jump on the nerve-racking process of applying to college, as if they

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles ... isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... of the types of things that happen at MIT. There was an incident over

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... are still missing parts of your application, fax your materials to 617

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  Now that our fabulous Records Office team has processed all of the ... the status of your application components. The Application Tracking will ... along another copy. There are still many more weeks of reading to be done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Deprotonated I see the way you're split into your ions and you're fully dissociated.

  

  . (I will say that I like the subject matter more than that of 5.112 - Principles of Chemical Science, which I took last semester.) But my professor ... lyrics to "Deprotonated", the chemical rendition of Avril Lavigne

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  of the year and then miss it? So, Mollie did that entry about life in ... Random Hall. One thing she doesn't mention is that one of the floors in ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006