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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Science Times

  

  . Demaine, an assistant professor of computer science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, is the leading theoretician in the emerging field of origami mathematics, the formal study of what can be done with a folded

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

  Busy times

  

  For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes: we're reading applications. Lots and lots of applications. It's been ... busy for students, too, as today was the third day of classes at MIT. Two

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Odds & ends

  

  Hockey Aero/Astro 6 MIT Alumni Club of Boston 1 Alumni goal: David ... nice photos in his latest post of the final class of 3.091: Introduction ... .091 lecture and always concludes with a discussion of the chemistry of Champagne

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 10, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  P(Happy Chanukah)

  

  asked of late. I'll address a couple quickly now, and get to some others ... the mailing of decision letters in December. Well, as of right now, we ... decision letters by the end of Chanukah (wouldn't a big envelope be a nice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What career services are available?

  that can help. Approximately 44% of graduates go directly to employment, and 49% of the Class of 2024 went directly to grad school. The average starting salary for an MIT undergraduate—regardless of major—is $126
• FAQ / First-year application

  Will there be a wait list this year?

  Each year we aim for a class of approximately 1,100 students. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend ... with the uncertainties, we also keep a wait list of students. We won
• FAQ / Academics and research

  When was MIT founded?

  Ok, this is probably more info than anyone wants regarding the founding of MIT, but you asked!
• 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

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• 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

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• 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

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 14, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course ... off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... excellent date idea, for those of you who need suggestions), romantic movie

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most opportune gifts I've gotten was a small plastic aquarium, from one of my best

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• 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

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• 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

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 10, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just Desserts No metaphors here...

  

  Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though ... search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • March 13, 2014
• 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

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.

  

  semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of ... ; let me know what you think! 11.002J Fundamentals of Public Policy

  • by Bryan
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy

  

  I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • December 23, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing ... part of me that I wouldn't actively think about writing about it, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020