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  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... meeting the entire 1,000+ person freshman class. Here are a few of the FPOP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Google Maps is NOT the best. But everything else seems to be right.

  

  , supplying 45% of the nation's mushrooms. California, in second place, provides ... of my recent entries, but I am unable to find it. Well, I'm not in Rome, but I'll leave you with a few thoughts of my migration southward. 1

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,000 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday is the new black. The world moves on MIT's hips. The world moves and it swivels and bops.

  

  Monday schedule... even though it's Tuesday. Just think of how fascinating ... fabric of reality, that if it changes its schedule for even one day without ... . "Intrinsic Aptitude" Summers '75, President of Harvard, resigned! This was so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  better portion of my eighteen years. I'm back at MIT now -- got here the other night after a long day of travel and lugging. Good to be back, but I'm glad I had a time to see my parents, friends, and get a taste of home

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I know my calculus… and U2. Bono takes on global poverty, fashion, and Course 18.

  

  opportunity and artistic statement. Think of it like that classic episode of ... same story is told, in turn, from the perspective of Rob, Laura, and ... , economic analysis of Bono's visit, my entry is about rock concerts and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 26, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “It’s just so effortless!” Apples and ziti and pies, oh my!

  

  some pictures too. As Sam mentioned, our floor, Conner 2, goes kind of ... ...I probably slept instead. I'm not much of a baker, anyway. There was plenty of ... whole lot of food: Teamwork at its finest! April browns the meat, Rick

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  . Anna's research is in the area of Japanese popular culture and is focused ... ,"On the one hand, Japanese hip-hop admittedly takes a lot of its roots from ... the other hand, a lot of artists intentionally take a lot of their

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  average Research & Development cost of one drug is around $850 million ... the process of drug development. He is incorporating his Mechanical ... create a device with the capability of culturing very small pieces of 3D

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Thursday night was my first Central Meeting of the year. Not only did it conflict with the season premiere of Ben's favorite show, The O ... : Number of hurricanes dodged: 1 Meals eaten at Columbia restaurant: 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  USA Wins 2nd in International Math Olympiad Three MIT '09s won Gold Medals.

  

  On July 6, the world eagerly watched as London was named the host of ... 're evaluating Class of 2010 applications), Torino, Italy, will host the 2006 ... world send teams of 4-6 high school students to represent their nation in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 7

  

  finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... remember" is lead author of an upcoming paper announcing the discovery of three stars that have the largest diameters of any normal stars known

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More on deferrals

  

  regular action, regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years, we have admitted hundreds of deferred students ... report. You can download one off of the website if you need one. Your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 15, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... stuff. If you haven't read a biography of mathematician Paul Erdos, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  assembled a mailing list of faculty, grad students, undergraduates, and more. My aim was simple: to organize a dinner consisting solely of MIT undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the Chinese

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My name is Li, and I am an enthusiastic member of the incoming class. I ... from?", and approximately ¼ of the time it was followed up by: "You mean

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC preview of the upcoming Pixar film Coco, hosted by storyboard artist Dean ... a bit of his guest lecture and the Q&A that followed. Enjoy

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Reflecting on the great memories of my freshman year ☀️ When life gives you lemons, share them with others >:) ☀️

  

  fellow [annotation note="gonna represent that 10% of the student body ... the world regardless of their financial situation. MIT is need ... at your application and make a decision regardless of your household

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a ... summer. But more on all of that to come, I promise! This past semester, I took 6.S978 to try my hand at the intersection of law and technology

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  recently, i have been having a lot of thoughts about the ways in ... love and commitment. here are some of them. sometimes for me, this spring and summer were full of striking moments when i made big

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017