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  Campus Preview Weekend ...begins a week from today!

  

  CPW begins a week from today, and I'm really psyched. The weather is beautiful around here (let's hope it lasts through next week!) and everyone is ... have to come here to check in and get your meal card, etc., so be sure to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  . First there's traditional advising, where you are assigned an advisor and ... weird and I don't know anything about it, except that it's residence based ... . Anyway, I made a stop at Barnes and Noble yesterday and picked up a new

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  on slides and doing all the things we would never let guests do ... . My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I ... started screaming and running around the kitchen. My parents are kind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  the end of my summer commitments and the start of the school year, so I ... : silence and song. Moments of laying down on my bed, looking at the ceiling, breathing in and out. Moments of sitting reclined in my rolling

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... , and less concerned about the market, but one part stuck out to me: the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  problems (my laptop's motherboard has a burn mark??) and vegetating, so ... answered, and I'll try to get to them quicker. Examples of questions you can ... friends and "good" conversations Musicals I like How my day is going

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Cool Data Stuff, ft. Immersion I just really like data visualizations, plz don't judge

  

  pretty dated at this point, even though my friends and I just discovered it ... ’s a node graph that shows you who sends you emails and who sends emails ... green blob is Petey, naturally), the conglomerate of blue, red, and brown

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 5, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... ,3,9,15,...) and told you to find their sum, you might store all the numbers in memory and then add them up. But if available memory was limited, so that

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Tips for the EA deferred send us your FUN form by February 15th

  

  with some frequently asked questions and answers. What new stuff should ... grades and anything new that has happened or will happen. As always, you ... January, you may also designate MIT as a score recipient, and we'll add them

  • by Kris Guay
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... to pledge. Rushing isn't an easy job, and popular culture doesn ... fraternity men are both diverse and intellectual, respect women (at least in my

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For the Admitted Students Welcome, Class of 2013!

  

  admissions this year, and it's always an interesting read. (there's already an ... your peers if you haven't already, and keep watching for things since the ... acceptance, Overnight Visit form, and of course, your MIT Reply Form. 653

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don ... sticks, and Gatorade, nothing seems to be working. Funny part of it is that ... the puzzle from &#%% and for your reading enjoyment, I'll post it here

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ Some Q & A regarding testing for MIT admission.

  

  those of you applying this year and for whom English is your primary ... Subject Tests ("SAT 2s"): one in math (Level 1 or Level 2) and one in ... 're best prepared and best suited. If you have taken more than one test in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Verde's (the convenience store in the student center) and bought brownie mix and ... for 6.081. But I'm tired and confused (why is d+=1 legal normally but ... crams the information into their brains just before the quiz and then

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  , and then comes Rush and classes. Now, I will say this, I had an ... because we feed off of one another's energy and just make sometimes the most ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  'll just come right out and tell you: Ben made me choose it. But I've grown ... primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... friendly animal mascots; for example, my Perl book's mascot was a camel, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Blogger Wrapped 2024 Episode 7: The Apple Music Awakens

  

  internet to judge (and help you take a break from thinking about those ... ,742 minutes of music on Spotify, Apple Music, and *checks notes* YouTube Music ... Angie and Janet for being our most avid listeners this year, with 89

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  'd see a B next to 8.02 (Electricity and Magnetism), and a B next to 5.13 (Organic Chemistry II). And you might conclude a few things about my ... year old - a concern for my future prospects of going to med school, and

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  and final part to my previous blog. I spent last semester trying to ... , I completed two puzzles, and I'm finally feeling ready to start the ... -ish blogs and living. I know in theory that this feeling is okay, it just is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  : Where did the river go? And now, well...I've been in the house for a ... because sunlight shines on snow, it melts, and drips down, but by the time that happens it's less so in the sun and re-freezes.) See the building

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015