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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  teammates scouring the libraries for a copy of this new book. We were all in ... 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

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

  Pi Day, Tau Time As the admissions decisions approach...

  

  As you know, MIT regular action admissions decisions will be released on Pi Day, at Tau Time (that is tomorrow, March 14, at 6:28pm EDT). Some of you, though, may be wondering -- what's the deal with Tau? Well

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  beach to watch the sunset on. 20 minutes of driving later, we arrived at ... to spend the day at the beach. it was a goddamn ride start to finish. our journey started at a Starbucks drive-through, where someone

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... , "Each year, bleary-eyed students wake up early to be at the head of the ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  A Comprehensive Guide to Course Lounges press F to pay respects to the entirety of course 21 and CMS

  

  tl;dr: the google map of course lounges is here Here at MIT ... 's majors are called 'courses'. We have a whole bunch of courses, a comprehensive list of which you can find here. Almost every course at MIT has

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 27, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our Essay Questions i am havink qvestion

  

  locally at MyMIT. One of the differences between the Common App and the ... Update: this list is no longer accurate as of 8/18/2015. But the ... , as readers of this blog likely know, MIT does not use the Common App

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 1, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  I Finally Finished Intro Programming ...it took 2.5 years

  

  plan, at the start of my junior year, I  scheduled 6.0002 for senior fall ... At MIT, the one-semester intro programming class, 6.00, can be broken into two six-week halves, 6.0001 and 6.0002. My first attempt at getting

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 22, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Spending the F.A.T. with Arthur Ganson A missed opportunity to build kinetic sculptures with artist Arthur Ganson.

  

  ://www.arthurganson.com/) Arthur Ganson is an “artist-in-residence” at MIT and some of his pieces are on display at the MIT Museum. His machines are incredible feats of ... News flash: Thanksgiving vacation is over. I spent my three days at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  'll miss my friends in Association of Taiwanese Students and brothers at Zeta ... trader at Lehman Brothers. Favorite class at MIT: 18.440: Probability and ... where we calculated the probability of holding poker hands and other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D-Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  , but at least like in real war, there will be a period of peace ... instead of studying for my [annotation note="I'm posting this as I leave for ... lack of any holiday spirit inside of me, I have done a very minor amount

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT ... know to join the team, too, at least for the summer. The company is ... of use. Click here or on their logo below to see the demo... I thought

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  halfway across the world moving to russia for the semester

  

  book at least four hours to transfer on my way back, for peace of mind ... . Maybe I wanted to assert my burgeoning sense of adulthood at a time when ... I’m writing this sitting at my aunt’s kitchen table, at midnight

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  . The midterms happen at the end of a month. The final is only called a final because it's at the end of the semester, it's not "cumulative" in ... . Exams thus happen at around the end of every "month". These tend to line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a ... math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  email a scanned PDF of the missing document to admissions [at] mit [dot ... Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the iHouse International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend ... from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from

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

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me most about MIT were MIT Finals. I've already been through one round of ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... everything else guys. I wondered why everyone was so proud of their study

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005