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  5 days to May 2

  

  to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is ... you considering? Leave your thoughts in the comments... For those of you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Know when to hold ‘em Know when to fold 'em

  

  prompt me to work really hard in it) but it was hard enough to keep me ... didn't take it as one. My other scores in the class would be enough to ... 2.006 test (which was likely to be VERY hard). All of a sudden, in

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exploring the newest innovations in dessert technology A trip filled with enough desserts to satisfy anyone's sweet tooth!

  

  pastries just waiting to be injected with ice cream! They opened the store in ... How many desserts can one consume in 2 ½ hours? Five MIT students decided to find out, while celebrating a 21st birthday. We had three stops

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Stress

  

  parents reading this blog, is there anything you'd like me to talk about, or ... Two pieces that stressed out parents and students may want to check out... Boston Globe article: College applications add to holiday stress

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 16, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  , or which order you chose to draw them in! So without even drawing the ... ” from top to bottom: it’s red, orange, green, blue. They’re in reverse ... there a way to do something similar in three dimensions? These are the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures From a Year of Classes The End of a Saga

  

  ://mitadmissions.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/IMG_7173.mp4"][/video] Story time: So in order to get back to the ... more of my stories here in the years to come! [caption id ... So, about a month ago, I submitted my last exam for the year in

  • by Richard O. '28
  • June 20, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How did MIT’s GIRs come to be? the Tech has some answers. Plus, the SATs from 1918, and a mascot on a…

  

  First, just to allay the inevitable questions in the comments: we ... to post something I've had in the backlog for awhile.  Last year, I ... important in education and how it has tried to build that into a lasting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 1, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Introducing the New 2017 Bloggers Let's get ready to ruuummmmble!

  

  shop in Seattle), and I gathered to select the bloggers who will join our ... Reckoning. It wasn’t really like that. We spent FOUR HOURS in our committee ... and permutations of our cohort, duking it out (I mean, as close to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  or coordinating one of the most ambitious projects in recent history ... sequence as much of the genome as possible before Celera could get to it. In ... contribution to the Human Genome Project (you know... the one that sequenced the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread for Waitlisted Students

  

  This year well over 17,000 students applied for admission to MIT in the most competitive admissions cycle in the history of the Institute ... unable to offer admission to many, many incredible students whom we would

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... out (if they haven't already), I implore you to read them. Take them in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ides of March No longer MIA.

  

  to participate in the selection committee for the Minority Introduction ... This entry brings to a close one of the longest periods of blog ... , but we are finally beginning to see the Class of 2010 truly take shape

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  final exam distributions "mit does not curve"

  

  MIT [annotation note="but many classes will define cutoffs relative to class performance, which is more or less a curve; hence, increased ... ", [/annotation] so I've added some here to make up for it!

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  crowd going to watch and join in. We are really cool like that. MIT OOH ... 't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor to the family... but eating dinner all together as a family. I wasn

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Dropout Design and the Disco Dance Floor ridiculous ideas can sometimes develop into pretty solid business plans. STORYTIME.

  

  as the club. I can see 50 cent or Alisha Keys using that floor in a new ... consulting (?). These are pictures for a how-to on board assembly. In ... Date: April 12, 2005 7:21:07 AM EDT To: [email protected] Subject: your MIT

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  I'm taking a glass sculpting class this semester! And not to brag or ... ?[/caption] Ponies are difficult to sculpt because they have distinctive features that ... into nobility, she spends her days prancing around regally, refusing to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  SMRT Only at MIT could a wholesome, traditional integration bee end up like this.

  

  're Course 9, and you like Dr. Phil?" As promised, I headed over to the MIT ... 'm not smrt enough to do them, but these were even too difficult for some ... the #7 and #10 seeds in the tournament missed the first five integrals

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  ’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in the moonlight). We’ll have some additional ... YOU GOT IN!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSWcy-bx_lg Come celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks

  

  actually in Building 26, which is now home to MIT's most well-known lecture ... professor Fernando J. Corbato at the MIT Computation Center in 1963. Today, in ... from a similar concept called computer timesharing back in the 60's

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 6, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  In The City That Never Sleeps NEEEEEEEEW YORK CIIIIIIIIITY

  

   not in Spain and I was left with effectively nothing to do this IAP ... semester in CMS.300 Intro to Videogame Theory. In addition to this, I am ... This IAP, I was originally supposed to take an MIT class called

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 17, 2022