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• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  choice I get the feeling that a lot of people find MIT's dorm choice ... usually due around the third week of June. Late July -- Housing lottery ... % of students got their first choice in the summer lottery and 26% got

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Makes Taiwanese Talk Show! All the way across the world

  

  a row, you get kicked out of the school." (me: lol) 5:13 to 5:15: "MIT is the Harvard of science." 5:32 to 5:41: "Taiwanese at MIT are ... in Taiwan and the ballistics leader of Taiwan." Host: "Taiwanese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... the first unpardonable activity of gathering the assembled puzzlers into ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  knowledge Have earned me this useless degree I can't pay the bills yet 'Cause ... think tank, like the Brookings Institute. There are more varieties of ... Fund, or Fed (generally at one of the Federal Reserve's regional banks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Karma What goes around comes around.

  

  homework while ill are varied, one of the big ones being the degree of ... die is when you add that to the normal stresses of MIT life. Not a lot ... : On each daily webpage there is a summary of the day's material. These

  • by Snively '11
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  I painted my door! and it only took 2.5 years

  

  that added another degree of freedom. I tested out some options on the ... knows how many times, and each one has a story, whether it's that of the ... at the start of my sophomore year, the door was not only blank, it was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 19, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP ... . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... greeted the family of the school of smaller fish, and left the smaller fish

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates ... -scale flying for the MIT community. Open to pilots and non-pilots, the club offers regular general body meetings for members, hosts helicopter fly
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... with the computing power of 100 Tiny Dells, maybe even 1000, all black ... uncertainty and despair when the the little blue bar marking the progress of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  . Students have the option of either staying at home/traveling/doing whatever ... opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP ... for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  wind up staying overnight in a terminal, or sleeping in the trunk of my car trapped on the road in 8 degree weather because there's 4 inches of ... , whose only concept of the outdoors is an item that is outside the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... . If the program beats the humans, the field of artificial intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual ... system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have worked their way into the lexicon of MIT slang. So, when someone asks me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  , I’m excited again, since both of my parents are in the biology field ... ’s under Stata. But!!! I'm crazy excited that the classical theory of ... what I get. It’s going to be hard, but at least I know I got most of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... " and the second, "The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans" (ranked by INC Magazine as one of the 10 Best Entrepreneurship Classes in America.) I'd say

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  point is, of course, that the longer you’re away from something the more ... degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about MIT. The bipolar weather. The strange architecture. The random middle-of-the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the ... schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The ... talk about until the end of time, and my answer was Julia Child. Julia

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012