The MIT Welcome Center is closed until January 5. The Admissions Office is available to answer questions by phone or email, but will be closed on Thursday, December 18 from 1–4 PM.
With today's next post, I'll begin a summer-long occasional series introducing you to the Admissions Officers for the 2005-2006 school year. Some of us you already know through the blogs and other means. Some of the
The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge that combines battle strategy, software engineering, and artificial intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the
everywhere, without ever having to focus.
Marshall McLuhan
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for more ... intriguing: data sonification of wikipedia edits - by the world according to
Lots of fun stuff to check out!
Peter Houk, director of the MIT Glass Lab, has been making the rounds on the video blog (or vlog, if you ... (though the subsequent traffic seems to have taken down Dheera's site
) Because sometimes it’s Christmas in April:
A photo posted by Michael ... ’re neck deep in a 2.006 thermal-fluids pset, there’s light at the end of the ... machine finally kicks in, there’s nothing like it:
A photo posted by
Here's a look at this year's incoming freshman class. Over the next week, we'll take a look at some of the individuals in the class...
The MIT Class of 2010, by:
Gender:
Male 55%
Female 45%
Ethnicity:
African
For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday.
MIT noticed.
The Great Dome is one of the most iconic pieces of architecture on campus, and
Coming soon: An entry on The Tech Nomads
But first: 26.2 miles of awesomeness
Interseting story: My mom was seated on the plane next to a couple with a newborn baby. They all (well, except the newborn) chatted about