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Blog / MIT Life
5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad
Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October fun because you're drowning in problem sets? Is midterm season killing ... how Chiron, the wisest of the centaurs, would have wanted his legacy to -
Blog / Admissions
All Applicants Can Now Apply For Either Early or Regular Action MIT Admissions announces a policy change allowing international students access to either Early or Regular…
I wanted to let you know of a change in the admissions process for the forthcoming admissions cycle. As you may know, in the past ... . There is no preference in our process for early applicants. We use the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!
in Stockholm, Sweden will begin to award this year's Nobel Prizes ... this year, just for fun, I'm doing a poll. Which MIT professor is your ... a reasonable predictor of winners). Here they are, in alphabetical -
Blog / About Decisions
The Waitlist, 2010
students from the waitlist in a 3-round process, and previous years were very similar. We'll know more about how this year looks in a few weeks. The ... students, if any, could be admitted from the waitlist, while in parallel -
Blog / Admissions
Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.
meeting looked like: (note fellow blogger Bryan in the front row, freshly ... hear from your host well in advance of arriving at CPW [and even if you don't, I assure you that you have a host]. We also have some backup -
Blog / Academics & Research
Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics
If you haven't yet, I recommend that you first read my previous entry ... ' topics. Can anyone guess mine? November 29: Education in Kerala, India ... growth Demand for Coke vs. Pepsi Determinants of house prices in Newton -
Blog / Extracurriculars
The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?
One of the biggest things that bugged me about MIT before I got here is not knowing what things looked like. I kept hearing about "Athena" but had never seen it. I knew MIT students had e-mail accounts but who -
Blog / Challenges
Report on the Status of Undergraduate Women at MIT in honor of International Women's Day
designed and administered in 2014. The takeaway: young women at MIT are every ... 's controlled for major, equal leadership and participation in extracurricular ... , difficulties and differences in experience arising from sexism. Despite her -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
MIT salutes Harry Potter ...the best way we know how, with hacks!
in Boston, the two biggest movie theaters, the Boston Common 19 and ... first book back in the late 1990s. During the Harry Potter era, MIT has celebrated the series a number of times in the way we celebrate: with hacks -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…
Ever find yourself sitting in lab, thinking "What in God's name am I ... ) ensure that nobody in a group photo will have their eyes closed. «Fragmentation of Rods by Cascading Cracks: Why Spaghetti Does Not Break in Half -
Blog / Academics & Research
More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.
honored in the strip." The strip has not yet run, but as of 12:58am this ... folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit.edu domain (and, I might guess, those on rpi.edu and cornell.edu). Relatedly -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Talks Energy at the White House "It is is our institutional responsibility to address the challenges of energy and the environment."…
Hockfield joined U.S. President Barack Obama in calling for a "truly historic ... investment in science and technology" by the U.S. government since the Apollo moon-landing program in the 1960s, Hockfield said. Read more (and see the -
Blog / Academics & Research
David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…
project on visual image processing in the Schiller Lab. More recently, he ... in the special sauce that makes MIT such a mecca of talent, but it ... MIT’s campus in 1996 as an undergrad and has not ventured far from -
Blog / Events
Stuff that happened on Pi Day (besides decisions) pastries and pie-ings from around the institute
. Since the blogs were mostly focused on decisions, I figured I'd follow up ... Street in Cambridge (right across the way from the new Welcome Center), a ... mailing list culture I really appreciate that I work at a place where -
Blog / Admissions
Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this
It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the ... this is how I hire bloggers Be a blogger! As usual, we -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Doonesbury and MIT Meet Alex Doonesbury, MIT '10.
I skipped 4 days of school to go to Seattle and Vancouver to learn ... people ever tell you how pretty your cities are?!?!) I have about 200 pages of reading to catch up on. The last thing I should be doing is blogging -
Blog / Admissions
Decision letters mailed
envelope sizes, since I've received a number of questions about this, I can ... letters each come in a standard #10 window envelope (4.125" x 9.5"). The other FAQ I've been getting is, why so few EA admits? 200220032004 EA -
Blog / Academics & Research
And term starts again…
couple of weeks. In the meantime, I'll entertain you with a list of my ... topics in discrete applied mathematics including sorting algorithms ... programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever
acquaintance with the equations as they arise in scientific applications. [I ... Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles, discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry