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  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... crowds, especially for big releases. The last crowd I was in that was this ... lately. Another essay I read recently talked about the conflict in Northern

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Hacks

  Final-ly! now that finals are over, a few academic highlights ... and perhaps a few surprise…

  

  found myself immersed in today definitely wasn't in my schedule, but I ... passionate about the research topic. However, I had tons Hubble-barns of fun in ... symptoms include: Feeling quite hot, but in a 100°F kind of way Fatigue

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • January 12, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  either constantly or frighteningly never. I've been up in long enough ... 's when I graduate!I've been, in a word, miserable. This sort of misery is ... produce in a given time. In fact, I've summarized the quality of being hosed

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Go White Sox! I'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had…

  I grew up in Elgin, IL and I'm a huge White Sox fan (sorry Astro fans ... 'm absolutely giddy that the White Sox are in the World Series and I had the ... this chance while I could. It may never happen again in my lifetime. I

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  This is my last week in the office before I hit the road to come see ... any of you, I'll be so relieved to have made it there in one piece that I'll be in a great mood! This fall will bring me to Connecticut

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  (IIc)) and one in science (physics, chemistry, or biology e/m). Q. I am ... submit one of the following: SAT I, ACT, or TOEFL, in addition to the ... in the comments and I'll answer them in the next Omnibus.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Love that dirty water

  

  I've returned from France to the States just in time for lots of ... 're in one of those areas, I hope you'll come see me at one of my meetings ... , which I had enjoyed previously with my friends Beth & Brian in Seattle

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 1, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  anything you send in as a supplement. I think it is important to remember ... I got this question over email, which echoes questions I've been hearing all over:   I've just read your post saying that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  in Central Square and lost it on the plane back home. In between, I ... I went. I sat across the breakfast table from a friend in a downtown ... Idyll," the first essay in the collection. I liked it so much I took notes

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A New MIT “Alum” Many fictional characters are MIT alumni; the newest is Jessica Alba's Sue Storm in "Fantastic…

  

  Storm, an M.I.T.-trained scientist who specializes in genetic research ... On Friday morning, I was reading the New York Times review of the ... ("non-linear optics," "top of the class"), Colin Farrell's secret agent in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... breathe. Being in nature has been sooo good for me this past summer, so I’ve been trying to frolic in the Great Outdoors whenever I can.  I spent a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  251 talks – avery a new podcast that comes out every week

  

  about MIT in general. most of the people i talk to will be people on my hall, but today i'm talking with my friend Avery N. '19, who lives in ... hello! i'm creating a podcast. the tentative name for the podcast is

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 21, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Juggling Act When you're used to life in Hell...

  

  in the Building 12 Athena cluster, where I've been working to finish up ... falling into place, and I box my last answer explaining why the reaction in ... realize that I have ten pages of thermodynamics ready to turn in to my TA in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  little bit. In the past semester or so, I've realized that being an MIT ... course numbers: “18.02, 5.112, 7.012, and 8.012.” So I know I'm not in ... this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection = Finished Wow.

  

  the 17th (but until I confirm that, it's not set in stone - after the EA mailing I want to be 100% certain before I say "in the mail!"). I promise to ... people. This seems to be the case every year. You'd think I'd get used to

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Faster than a speeding locomotive. E=MC^2 serving up the most delicious physics problems since 1905.

  

  No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here. I'm talking about the speed of light! I'm talking about what happened 100 years ago today. Don't tell ... , I only discovered this little snippet of information yesterday while

  • by Bryan
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX continued The rain killed my hawaiian outfit.

  

  , so I decided to go home early. Tonight across most dorms, in ... manpower to move them in. Now I've yet to comment on CityDays or the Student ... kickoff that started in Kresge. The real fun started at about 5 pm on

  • by Bryan
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Snapshot Statshot A quick look at some numbers from this year's admissions process.

  

  's rate, approximately 1 in 9, is a lot lower than when I applied in 1996 (1 ... Tomorrow, I expect MIT's student newspaper, The Tech, will publish ... of the year to date in MIT Admissions. This year, we had 13

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  From One Cambridge To The Other A year away from the Institute

  

  the world can be enticing. So, in the true fashion of MIT students, I ... got a list of what colleges we'll be living in and I'm going to be ... British. In between correcting our pronunciations of Sixth and Herb he

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Measurements How do you measure a year in the life?

  

  itself clocking in at  3-4 Zelda OST, 2-3 Queen Songs The more I thought ... references and important concepts in my life, I found the units that defined my ...         I was making the trek from East

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 21, 2011