A lot of students applied to MIT this year, and unfortunately, we just couldn’t accept them all. We have placed a small number of students ... —if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of
ago now (goodness, I'm old).
And it's the age of many of our excellent applicants - meaning, all y'all!
It's also an excellent number of years for MIT. Howso?
Well, 18 is the number of years in a row that the Nobel
When I woke up this morning, I made myself my typical bowl of Kashi ... the last bit of my milk,
which may have been a problem tomorrow ... city of angeles. Man, I love it when vacations line up with food
DID YOU KNOW? The 17-year life cycle of the cicada is a natural ... itself after about four uses, I have only a tenuous grasp of personal economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting
A couple of you asked for the recipe for my plantain crusted salmon ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper.
In a blender or food processor ... desired "crush factor."
Lightly coat both sides of your salmon filet with
Another busy week of classes has come to end! To celebrate, I went ... lot of free food (ice cream, hummus, coffee, cannolis, etc.), free stuff (water bottles, tons of t-shirts, posters, CDs, etc.), free manicures, free
year. It's another strong applicant class.
The reading of domestic (US ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for about a week, and the process of selecting the Class of 2009 (including
Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor ... admission council very well. They have a criteria of 5 things, and if you achieve 2 of the 5 you are in.
1. USAMO
2. ISEF
3. 1600
4. 4.0 (unweighted
Contrary to popular belief, I actually do stuff outside of farting ... important stuff.
Filing that one away in my list of Things To Refer To When ... 'm actually learning a lot of things in this class called 20.330 Forces, Fields
Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday. Here's (most of) what happened
As I was assembling this blog post, my ... built as a half sphere with an inner radius of 7 feet and an outer radius
use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... twitter.
Facebook, I do use, as many of you have discovered. I get about 2 ... absolutely zero of them. Shock, I know, one of the faces of the MIT Admissions
line up to surf in it.
Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the ... a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I
As of last fall, I officially moved out of Maseeh and into 3W ... of renovations, the current population is a mix of seniors who lived in ... overwrite history, though, we caught wind of an ancient Floorpi tradition
A couple of weeks ago, it was too warm and humid to sleep, so I wandered down to one of MIT's many perpetually air-conditioned Athena clusters for my daily dose of midnight Haskell practice.
Instead, I bumped
the mountains with their shadows. I'm sitting on the porch of a coffeehouse in the railyard with a spoonful of melted ice cream, accidentally eavesdropping on the telephone conversation of the pretty lady behind me, watching
running and seeing one of your professors in the locker room wearing only ... sheer force of will.
I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the component of force that my will would experience tangent to the wall during
submitted by 11:59pm Eastern Time on November 1. There is some amount of grace ... of the deadline.
Your school/teachers may submit their materials ... processing of all submitted materials. If something was submitted for
much just going nuts.
For our final (9th) lab of the semester, we were ... chamber with some microphones and a tweeter with some tanks of various gases ... impulse with various levels of damping, etc. The lab setup my partner Pall
-checked all my saved strains of yeast, handed my notebook to my post-doc, had a ... sense of finality, of completion - of fulfillment.
Today, I head back to South Bend - home, or one of them. I'll spend some time with my family