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  Being First is Important There can be many firsts

  

  Sometimes you should stop to identify all of the different pictures ... lot if you would write the names of what's in these pictures down and casually glance at the first letters. You know, just in the spirit of things. : )

  • by Snively '11
  • May 14, 2009
• 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 / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  Hey, so as Shannon just mentioned, all of the EA admits got V ... ominous pile of ~500 cards, and started signing. Signing your name that ... , and perhaps some of the other bloggers, took some time to make some

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Class of 2012 guestbook and an update on The Tubes.

  

  As of yesterday, all 522 admitted students can log into MyMIT for the Class of 2012 guestbook directory (post your picture!). Also, all of the decision letters -- including the famed "tubes" -- were mailed yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Fireworks over MIT’s Great Dome Fireworks and music and Dome, oh my.

  

  As I noted two entries ago, MIT has a front row seat for Boston's 4th of July celebration -- one of the biggest and best fireworks shows around. And now, you can watch a excerpt of the fireworks over the Dome

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite ... 't attend? For those of you who couldn't make it: What would you like to know? It was great to meet so many of you! See you again in the fall =)

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties MIT alumni-hosted parties in your area.

  

  host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to the Class of ... list of all of the events. Tomorrow (Saturday) Bay Area, California. Meeting location: the beautiful home of an MIT alum. Tuesday Miami. With

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m just curious as to why you keep invoking William Faulkner. "MIT is so charmingly nerdy" entries #12 and 35.

  

  destroy the organic unity of this entry. Anyway, in the midst of this not the greatest week, I was thinking about limericks, which of course led ... . Beethoven wrote only one opera, and it was called "Fidelio." 2. Nearly all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  Read this book. Or you can just solve one of these math problems. The distribution of such prime numbers among all natural numbers does ... .F.B. Riemann (1826 - 1866) observed that the frequency of prime numbers is very

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8 ... problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the speed of light, people falling into black holes, and people stretching out

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  year. I'm not making any of this up. It probably stems from a talk I had ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of hard despite having little in the way of required classes. A classmate

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Is the Sloan School of Management for undergrads, too?

  MIT Sloan School of Management will challenge undergraduates to expand their analytical and quantitative skills and apply a business ... . Fueled by the groundbreaking work of our faculty in such critical areas as
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  …[B]ut string dozens of great events together, and none of them would ... what was previously new is now normal; that the wonder and mystery of MIT has been taken out and replaced with routine. Of all the feelings I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  hello applicants, i don’t know what to say but i can try

  

  i guess this would usually be the time of year that there’d be blog posts about waiting for decisions and that kind of stuff. personally, i wouldn’t know. as soon as i got deferred the thought of reading the blogs

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning calculus and seventeenth century history in equal measure all in a span of a ... development of calculus to emphasize that there were brilliant people who

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for ... with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2018
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  , and unfortunately we could not accept all of them. If your decision was ... . Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel sad. Some of you may have complicated feelings that you don't know what to call

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for ... with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2017
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  unfortunately means that we had to turn down a large number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum for ... with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2017