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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.
boys do suck at dancing. In this case, however, I don't see the ... . I mean, what good does it do you to be competitive? Nobody would help ... One thing I've been hearing from prefrosh at an alarming frequency -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Our students, their stories. Andy Partridge in a zamboni purple monkey dishwasher.
twelve rows back in the stands, I was still deathly afraid of being ... , because that's spring break. I'd say middle of March to early April would ... . Thus, MIT effectively has 1 / 256 of all the IP addresses in the world -
Blog / Challenges
A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.
cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... feel it with physics, too. There must be some reason I made room in my ... study!) So I guess the wine in the wine glass represents our brains -
Blog / Events
look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time
would get this out by fall break AHHHH and then i spent way too much time ... "]Z*OM’S CONSTANT NEED TO UPDATE.[/annotation] I learned how to dial-in while ... refreshing, even if the heat meant that I would’ve preferred a [annotation note -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT in the news MIT research and hacks in Time Magazine & The Economist. (P.S. Bono visits!)
-- I blogged it here. Also in this picture is Rachel Glennerster, the ... semester, a class I profiled here. Last week, Time Magazine announced ... . In the photo essay that accompanied the article, they showed a picture -
Blog / Admissions
The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!
weekend has in store for that set of guests. But before I do that here are ... check in occasionally so I'd suggest you pick an event where you can meet ... ago. A great place to find a parent to talk to would be in the Parent -
Blog / Events
The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog
the other teams. I put in hundreds of hours writing and test ... together in front of the curtain. I had the best seat in the house to ... -case gains”). Raw Bar was a late-in-the-day idea. I was looking over a sushi -
Blog / Announcements
Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship
out. Earlier in my career, I remember once asking a senior colleague ... I am heartbroken to tell you that this morning we learned Gisel, a ... stationed at the front desk in room 3-108 for the last 20 years. If you called -
Blog / Admissions
Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.
December 20 would be the likely dates, but it could be any day in December ... specific dates for decisions would be just that -- speculation. I promise you ... countries). I have a few updated notes for applicants in these countries. For -
Blog / Academics & Research
Biochemistry at its finest!
Center for Cancer Research, where I did my first UROP (well, not in his lab in particular, just in the same building.) I'm sure he would draw your ... Yesterday, I attended my last 7.05 (Biochemistry) lecture taught by -
Blog / MIT Life
8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.
coconut curry flatbread. Although in retrospect, I think it would have ... the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... transcript follows] Me: I think I'm taking intro class on programming in C -
Blog / Admissions
And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.
, I sincerely hope that you will keep in touch. It's been a true ... what I'm going to do without her next year. It's sortof like in the ... . ;-) * * * I was expecting a lull in my workload after CPW, but it hasn't exactly -
Blog / Extracurriculars
The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…
Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350 ... awesome people like Smyly, and I figured you might want to hear about him too :-) It's three in the morning and MIT's campus is, for once -
Blog / Academics & Research
Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train
figures legible. [annotation note="I wanted to embed the poster in this post ... in a poster that I still have hanging in my room today ... could just barely explain using what I learned in the class. It seemed too -
Blog / Admissions
EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.
Hello party people! I know. November 1 is looming and you are ... today, I've been helping answer your calls and want you to know that ... , so I'm listing the most common questions we're getting below. I -
Blog / Admissions
Waiting (is the hardest part)
in their applications to other great schools. Unfortunately, I suspect ... defer letter and the deny letter each come in a standard #10 window ... mistaken for anything else. Jane asked, "I always wondered....why is MIT -
Blog / Admissions
On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…
guest-speakers at the event, when I myself had been a prefrosh sitting in ... place yesterday was Meet the Bloggers! I'd been told that it would be ... excitement for being here, at MIT, with some of the most incredible people in -
Blog / Residential Life
back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)
picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a ... doubles. (i was in my room last year because covid policy meant no one was in a double, but this year we do have people in doubles, so i am now in -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)
has been sitting largely in its tote bag on my shelf because I wanted to ... building route sequence would be 7, 5, 1, 3, 4, 2, 14. If you're not an MIT ... enough time here, you'd know exactly what that route looks like. In