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Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…
free copy of Matlab on the formula sheet. No kidding. I opened the test book, glanced at the first page, and felt my face melt into a puddle of inconsolable horror at the sight of more Arabic numerals than I've seen since the -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.
By this time I'm sure most of you are finally enjoying summer. (Let ... final day of school in the comments, graduation day doesn't count unless it was also the last day of school) My summer last year was laid -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.
Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I got a friendly email reminding me of this rare mathematical oddity ... ." This is part of why I love MIT - people here actually appreciate this -
Blog / Miscellaneous
‘Twas the night before Christmas Happy holidays to everyone!
Eve, Santa visits our annual family gathering, with dozens of McGanns in ... traditional decorating of the tree. Just a few miles from my house is the ... of you are taking advantage of your holiday time with family, too -
Blog / Admissions
The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.
so yet. The MyMIT hardware failure did not affect the data of the vast majority of applicants. We have personally contacted the small set of students who were affected by the problem. For those of you who are applying -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
+1 for MIT MIT scores again!
I just found this article in the Chronicle of Higher Education. Score! -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.
Class of 2010 Excels: from Rifle Champion to Water Quality Researcher ... Class of 2010 steps on campus next fall, they will find a cohort of ... accomplishment are already evident in the class: Sarah Dupuis of New Preston, Conn -
Blog / MIT Life
Howdy Where are you guys going to live? Etc.
myself. All of the applications have been fantastic! (There's still a week left before the EA deadline, for those of you who are procrastinating ... all end up. I have a lot of blog-comment-questions to respond to - look -
Blog / Academics & Research
Thanks What is your fantasy class? Vote yet again.
Thanks for all of the advice on my previous entry. I have decided to take 11.025J D-Lab: Development, since I have studied "issues of ... would take CMS.410 Popular Culture in the Age of Media Convergence -
Blog / Admissions
Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.
number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Art in the Infinite, Vol. 2 MIT meets King Koopa.
the good ol' days of Nintendo. The small dome with it's very own Mario ... is the last day of my 5th semester at MIT. Time flies when you're having fun. More photos of the rest of the day coming soon. -
Blog / About Decisions
Required Reading An article by Dean Marilee Jones.
"Post-Early-Action Thoughts," by Marilee Jones, Dean Of Admissions at MIT -
Blog / Events
Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium
became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Snow On working in a winter wonderland.
Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?
Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such -
Blog / MIT Life
Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.
editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also -
Blog / How to Food
what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost
masqueraded as a [annotation note="university of toronto, as the natives call it ... honest review of MIT dining hall food, sponsored by my lovely [annotation note="i live in Burton-Conner and thus am free from the shackles of a -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it -
Blog / Admissions
Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.
change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality! Check out an incredible piece of graphic art from Ms. Star Simpson of the