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  Selection-time Questions Omnibus

  

  out of every 6 applicants. In one of the Oscar-nominated short films I ... competition I participated in late last year (in May of 2004). Now that I ... write entire entries on many of these topics, and I'll answer more

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 22, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Where is the banana… ...and why is that man chartreuse?

  

  as I have no other use for this absolutely ridiculous piece of ... chin in direction of the aardvark) Case 815. PIERCE: Case 815 ... turns to the camera in the corner comically) Did I just walk into a kid

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... graphing calculator or Petri dish* and you can hear the distant sounds of ... campus, I can’t wait for summer to end. I missed you guys!

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Driving On The Infinite One of my biggest pet peeves is people who do not understand how to drive…

  

  I don't have many pet peeves when it comes to MIT, but one of the ... park at the rest stop itself or just stop in the middle of the highway ... 'm forgetting, but these should get you started. Anyone know where I can get a

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In fact, today was the first time I've been back in my dorm for more than ... 've really been home that I'm on the verge of emailing housing and telling them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you could track minute-by-minute data on yourself, would you? 4 Weeks of sleep, activity, heartrate, and computer usage data reveals something

  

  view of what I do when I'm not sleeping, or walking, or in class, or ... nutrition handbooks for the discussion portion of the course. I lowered ... . We were in the Du-Pont Multipurpose Room, which, like the Room Of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  splinters in 10-250 next year, you know the reason. Back when I was in high ... cavorting days as a young'n, and not like how I half think I'll be back in high school this fall), I was one of the AP kids, as I'm sure a lot of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Sean ‘13 The third in a series of articles about the incoming MIT class. Plus, a related…

  

  article for all of our readers, but for our LDS readers in particular, I ... Terence '13 Christy '13 At the end of the article about Sean, I've attached ... Institute of Technology next year. In addition, he will play baseball

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  and quickly sort a very large list of numbers? It turns out that we can--in ... % accuracy (i.e. in 99 runs out of 100, ALG will produce a correctly sorted ... comparator that works 80% of the time, which we can use in ALG. Before diving

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... -- so you can gather opinions from many sources.) I should note that there ... you have to live at East Campus in order to find it :-). Each of the ten

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  gratitude happy thanksgiving

  

  I don’t spend a lot of time thinking about gratitude. That’s not to ... ’t expend much energy on pondering the concept of gratitude. In that sense ... immeasurable amounts of gratitude but didn’t know how to express it adequately. I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  year, but didn't get in - which makes this doubly sweet. I'll be there ... studying pulsars. PULSARS!!! I can't wait. </NEWSFLASH> Twisted as this sounds, the reason I haven't posted in forever is because I have TOO

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  just can’t do it… As I'm sure you know by now, “you miss 100% of the ... end” (John Lennon). I hope this a guest post of sorts can help you ... many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 46 ‚ô•

  

  presented. I applied to MIT with an interest in Course 9, and nothing I ... strange to declare my major. When I walked out of the Course 9 Undergrad ... was going somewhere in this world. I still have a few GIRs left to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of '10 as I possibly could. And it was seriously a lot of fun. First of all, I finally got to meet Alia and Mike

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Here Comes the Sun @ MIT A Photographic Journey

  

  On sunny days, I like to wander through MIT's gorgeous campus. Below are some images I've collected over the course of the month. Enjoy! :) Messages in the Sky over Kresge Auditorium: The Light between Building 18

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 27, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  of explaining what he does than I can. Anyways, enjoy. Hope y'all are ... 's of Engineering in EECS. (Actually, it looks like since then, Colin ... So I just happened to come across two articles this week related to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Get excited for CPW! CPW= Campus Prefrosh? WHOA!

  

  primary concerns I get from students: 0) How can I do all of this? There ... science fiction! They have over 90% of ALL SCI-FI PUBLISHED IN ENGLISH ... academic reason. It's one of the few shops where you can be a little more

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  of me cooking the ribs, but I can't track it down. If you took a ... At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my ... . Earlier that day I'd seen Snively while on a tour of Burton Connor. We were

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  I got my first taste of MIT even before orientation, when I showed up ... . Wait, I think I need an acronym for that acronym!). That’s a lot of ... neat historical sites in Boston. I signed up for this FPOP because I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015