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  The one-armed violin player and the Dalai Lama Emad's not the only blogger who got a press pass.

  

  of the Institute on the Environment at the University of Minnesota. He ... On September 24, MIT admissions blogging and His Holiness the Dalai ... . The first, sent at 9:29am, was from Chris, saying that Emad and I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Meetings… I hope you'll attend the event near you.

  

  admitted students. The events are designed to provide you and your families ... know about the Institute. It's also a great way to meet other admitted students from your area as well as MIT alums, current students and parents

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 24, 2009
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  Institute are elaborate—but benign—practical jokes perpetrated anonymously on ... creativity, cleverness, and difficulty of execution. A 1958 prank in which the ... American Heritage Dictionary and is included as a unit of measure in Google
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  prairies and folded under a blanket of metropolitan sprawl, Saint Louis is ... than other cities, Yan Z., frequent superiority in jazz, Yan Z., and ... association sponsored a luncheon today for the acceptees and their genetic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  face facts, and we turn passionately toward the future. Today, however ... leading authority on how the emergence and growth of American colleges and universities is entwined with the history of slavery. Last spring, I sought Craig

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  various forums about ambition and achievement. Simultaneously you hear "you can do anything" or the world is open to you, and then be told that there are dues to be paid, you must accumulate a certain number and type

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers, Perfect and Imperfect Math geeking, and a guessing game.

  

  is my birthday, and my age is now a perfect number. Perfect numbers are pretty cool, and have been discussed at least since the time of ... geek (like me), it's hard not to be fascinated by perfect numbers and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you ... do one at the time, since I was dangling off a cliff in Utah and had ... .  And while that's nice for the ego, it's not so helpful in terms of

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  , unearthed a lost (literally: it had been misnamed and misfiled) MIT Admissions ... ; I'd seen (and we've posted) MIT: The Movie (1992), which was ... what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  MIT ever since they were little, and the letter also stated what each ... Boston's area code?" And Shopaholic wrote, "I am from out of state and is ... President Shirley Jackson '68 (left) and Cambridge University Vice Chancellor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  ." - William Barton Rogers, Objects and Plan of an Institute of Technology (1860 ... 're still heads-down reading applications and meeting in committee. No final ... introductory coursework but advising, major exploration, and so on. However

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Steve and Me remembering steve jobs

  

  I remember the first time I ever saw a computer. I was four, and my ... soldering iron for a slim-cut suit and gotten into semiconductor sales, was ... ." And it did work. And even today, more than 20 years later, it still does

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one

  

  , and University of Pennsylvania. Obviously, awards are subjective, and ... and Social Entrepreneurship categories have included well-known names, like Mark Zuckerberg, Evan Spiegel, and Malala Yousafzai. The

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 19, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  signaling that I am bisexual. When I state that I am a computer science and ... and time if I hadn't wanted to attend a great university. For example ... him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  cobblestoned plazas and taking in the sights. However, guess what some of the ... proposals and applications. Aye, it's that time of the year again. If ... programs (and since then, the deadlines for the three summer programs that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Year vs. Senior Year The same, but different...

  

  .01: Physics Mechanics, 3.091: Solid-State Chemistry, 21F.076: Globalization, and ... -explanatory, and to be completely honest as they’re mostly General Institute ... special and different type of hectic every year that I’ve begun classes here

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  sleep. So to a degree, the reaction my friends had was well deserved. When I came to MIT, I had no clue who I was going to meet and who my ... other person from my high school, and he was going off to live in New

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  dress your wounds and stay in bed self care!

  

  uncooked steak and realized I in fact had a third degree burn. That is one ... cw: I discuss some injuries with varying amounts of needles and blood ... rest when I was sick, let myself heal when I was injured, and to sleep

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  , Rose Hulman, Oregon State, Georgia Tech, Indiana University, and so on ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got ... remarkably well after 20 years), and That time the Navier-Stokes equation was

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  still be in high school and interested in robotics. Now that I have ... knew I liked robotics and what that meant academically, but even at that ... tax and accounting, and she served a bunch of other small businesses in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020