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  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... the #7 and #10 seeds in the tournament missed the first five integrals ... something, and he started solving the integrals in like 30 seconds, and after

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waiting (is the hardest part)

  

  defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window ... pressures to apply early are too high, and don't want to further contribute to ... % constraint, and our increased yield, there you have it -- 377 admitted students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out ... (18 minutes early) and headed up to the third floor to check out the ... you would walk down the corridor on the first floor and then go up the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  More free stuff Free sneak previews of films and how to beat the casino.

  

  of the film I Heart Huckabees, and also listed some other sneaks that ... , School of Rock and Harold and Kumar go to White Castle. LSC frequently (i.e., several times each term) gets sneak previews of upcoming movies, and usually

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Afternoon Props Props to ten people/committees/inanimate objects that deserve props.

  

  Here are ten people, groups, and inanimate objects that really deserve some props, and dare I say mad props at that, for genuinely ... "Sunshowers" by M.I.A. "I bongo with my lingo and I beat it like a wing, yo" 3

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  (WBCN) and national brands like Gatorade. The runners (including the MIT ... Asian Culture Show, always a great and huge event, a great place to check out traditional Indian dance like Kathak, Kuchipudi, and Bharatanatyam

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist Questions The waitlist seems to be a hot topic so I'll try to answer the most…

  

  the middle of May, after we've received and processed the responses from ... overenrollment of previous years) and thus it is more likely that this year will ... ethical? You do need to let other colleges know by May 1, and you should

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  suggest that they, um, need lessons on how to dress and flirt. Matt not only ... great and the sets funky, the little kids who played younger Tommies ... though, since 1) I had a backrest and 2) 10-250 ended up getting so full

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Events

  How about an eπ Reunion?

  

  commemorate the 7.4-year mark of our graduation, and we're doing it in grand ... front row ("splash") seats, so I left the theater a little bit wet and ... , clubbing at some of Vegas' most fashionable nightspots, and just hanging out

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 27, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We, the people

  

  As you know, I'm a big fan of Indian Bollywood movies, and last night ... was born and raised in India but for the past decade or so had worked as ... science and technology. One of the biggest reasons I turned down a job on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  are), but rather I'll base everything on my own personal opinions and ... bell curve), and 3.091 got the lectures recorded on video (for the ... are better if you do them with the big crowd, and for me, given a chance

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  6.7800 (Inference and Information, the subject of the exam and by far ... ’s often brutal and unforgiving academic gauntlet, yet also sad that I was ... found most of my classes fun (yes, really), rewarding, and memorable (in a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  All 42 cheeses I tasted in college i am a cheese enjoyer

  

  charcuteries, Random Hall Sharkcuteries, movie watch parties and events with cheese, and just gotten cheese just because it’s a new cheese. Here are all ... - Tastes really soft and salty, kinda like butter almost but way better

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / IAP

  (another) postcard from GTL spain and an unexpected crossover with the Edgerton Center

  

  turns and the gloom sets in and everything feels cold and bleak, the one ... and instead look at the faces that are right there with you. Sometimes ... waitlist and did not make it beyond the first class, so I do not remember his

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 1, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I ... important life decisions based on this questionable data. And to think that ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  ,  and organizing any noteworthy finds into one of my 150+ carefully ... and fell 100 albums behind by June? would I really be able to devote ... school, I devoured Ready Player One a few days into the new year and had an

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  were both sick, had a super long and challenging 6.00 pset (literally ... Ring Comm Study Break to help plan, and we were assigned 8 – we repeat E ... FAR better than the week (just by the fact that it was a weekend, and we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I’ll give you a glitter fairy sticker and a sheet of bubble wrap. I ... Gregor, which had a beautiful view of the rain pummeling the Charles River and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  avid daycationer. When you live within an hour and a half of Lake Tahoe, the bay area, wine country, and Monterey, you tend to be a daycationer ... June… was followed by a walk around Sonoma, and through an amusing

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.

  

  -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... feature X-Treme Web Browsing among shots of sweat-spurting sprinters and ... daily existence, turns to Google and utters through his eternally

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 14, 2009