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February updates Midyear grades and more.
page, this represents an increase of more than 2,000 applications; this ... processing of midyear grades, calling to check on the status of your midyear ... release of admissions decisions. When we know, I promise you we will -
Blog / Academics & Research
My Schedule Is Awesome & it's better than Snively's / Sometimes completely unrelated entries are posted in pairs.
regardless of your major..) 4.292: Special Problems in Architecture Studies ... blocks of class, and many 1.5-hour long blocks of class. And no, my ... , and of course I have APO meetings on Wednesday nights... but that's just -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Regular Action Deadline With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for the holidays, I'll try…
With the deadline approaching and the Office of Admissions closed for ... the final "submit" button of your online application on or before ... over the holidays and is busily processing all of the application pieces -
Blog / Academics & Research
Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab
so he brings back some amazing memories of the trip I got to take last ... were all sorts of adventures, some of which involved crocodiles!). For now I'll just allow myself one more picture (of our rope pump!) and get -
Blog / Admissions
So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).
first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my ... at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and ... the Echo Hotel. There was a decent-sized crowd of about 120 students -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.
, MIT is like "I WANT WEIRD STUFF, GIMME GIMME GIMME GIMME!" Of course, MIT has its fair share of boring buildings as well. Take, for example, building 56. It sits right at the end of the infinite, next to the NEWLY -
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…
A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some ... Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao: You can also listen to a more serious -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…
This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... behavior. As a maintainer of linux.mit.edu, the SIPB Linux dialup server -
Blog / MIT Life
Oh Wow KABOOM!
I should NOT be writing this right now because I have a ton of other ... as to what your next year of school may look like). I have two psets ... middle of my Thursday doing random stuff for CPW and then I UROP from 2 -
Blog / Events
AND THERE WAS A PILLOW FIGHT!!! Didja catch the reference?
Boston pillow fight! Apparently there's some sort of pillow fight craziness ... crazy thing you'd have fun at :) This paragraph was followed by all of the ... some more people to arrive. Arrive they did, and soon we had a group of -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...
first big snowfall of the year has coincided with the first of four final ... throughout the afternoon. (It reminded me of something a family friend told me ... are about five inches of the snow on the ground right now, and traffic -
Blog / Life after MIT
Ritual & Ceremony I'll be out of contact the next two weeks as I celebrate a big event.
Just as you all have been preparing for one of life's biggest rituals ... another of life's big rituals: getting married. Tomorrow, I will marry an ... 's exciting, but at the same time, there's a bit of anxiety. For me, the anxiety -
Blog / Extracurriculars
A grab bag filled with a magical camp and the Big Apple One month of activities in one entry.
couple of weeks, filled with editing medical school applications (first ... summer projects at the National Institutes of Health (I’m close, but it ... savings of about $15 and a tree or two that I achieved by using a refillable -
Blog / Academics & Research
Video: Friendly Robots! Professor Cynthia Breazeal shows off her interactive robots.
The PBS show NOVA scienceNOW had a wonderful story last week on MIT Professor Cynthia Breazeal, Director of the Robotic Life Group. It featured not only her robotic "children" like Leonardo and Kismet but also her -
Blog / Athletics
Video: New Zigzag MIT's podcast takes on athletics on campus, and more.
A new episode of MIT's video podcast, Zigzag, is now available. It includes a nice piece on MIT athletics as well as a Thanksgiving story. Zigzag is produced by Academic Media Production Services (AMPS) and is -
Blog / MIT Life
What do you want to know? Tell me something.
I could say a million things about MIT and what it's like to be here, but I think it's probably best if I share information that is of interest to you. So if you don't mind, post some topics you'd like to hear -
Blog / MIT Life
Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!
prepared by a gourmet chef. The retreat was a mix of bonding and business ... of exams have started, yet about 70 girls attended. Some activities included scavenger hunts, improv skits (apparently I’m hard to make fun of -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.
Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end
of sense to me. Why does Apple need to partner with a particular shoe company? A runner's choice of running shoes is a very careful and ... on a Likert scale of 1 to 5, where 1 is least awesome and 5 is most