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  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  this from students with something to report. If you're in a school ... 250 words. I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise ... a letter system. If you need to explain your school’s grading

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  actual trend; the round numbers tended to have a lower selection frequency ... three rounds, the rankings are combined to get a final score, calculated ... 80 points to one category) or strongly generalized, allocating a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  this leads and how to apply it to broader situations than a colloid ... full runs of the show. I’ve wanted to audition for a musical since I got ... ’ve also had to act a bit (in a minor background role) and that has been

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  supposed to give you a ten-minute buffer if you have consecutive classes. Do ... [/annotation] to the end of the [annotation note="long (~1/6th of a mile) hallway ... to its extreme, reference frames lead to a phenomenon called time

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One Day in the Life of Dora as told by the one and only Dora

  

  related to what we learned about. There were a bunch of him eating spherical ... then Kelly who went to the 1pm lecture said that it was a guest lecturer ... taking a picture so I did it sneakily. Then we left and walked to Café

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  right now, but I thought I'd take a quick break to tell you a little about ... application, I just glance at the test scores to get a sense of them before ... with "the magic 1600" is not implicitly better to us than a student with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  getting a glimpse into the humanities here. So here we are, about to embark ... significance and has a darkness about it that seems unfitting to the original ... to watch, and I’m sure a suspicious number of teenagers had a newfound

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  ’s the perfect size for my A5 notebook, and that one’s big enough to hold my winter jacket… Each one just a little different, just enough to ... of a place or event I've been to. I think it's nice how they come with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new room with a new roommate who I didn't know all that well, to a new floor ... managed to move into a suite with excellent culinary prowess - and they

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  students with something to report -- so if you're in a school that doesn ... will be a simple text box, similar to one of the essays from the Part 2. The Midyear Update has a maximum of 250 words. We are happy to accept a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  enough to know what he's doing, a rare combination. I think I'll be able to ... gather, it has a lot to do with internal forces of materials (twisting ... like the plague, so being willing to practice it is a huge first step

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not ... a formality on the way to making something common knowledge. I choose ... such a valid way to present information, especially demographics and any

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Grads Design the Jolt Sensor to help high school athletes detect concussions better

  

  a mechanical engineer, decided to address this issue by designing a ... is a small clip that attaches to any piece of head-word athletic equipment and vibrates to alert the athlete if their head accelerates in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 2, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  . That's a difficult question for me to answer, because there's so much I ... excited to join the blogs. I want to pay it forward - to be a window into MIT for others, to provide some insight that a high school student

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Admissions Released Next Wednesday, 12/21

  

  I wanted to post a quick update for our transfer applicants. We will ... emailing all applicants with their decisions, so you should expect to hear ... admitting a small number of highly qualified applicants at a rate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  contact, ignored our suggestions, and refused to participate. A couple ... - Thanks to this class, I'm finally learning MATLAB. This class is ... easy. It's a new class, offered as a substitute for 9.07: the notoriously

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admitted Student Spring Meetings… ...the event when I decided MIT was for me.

  

  Councilors and a great group of alums were there ready and willing to answer ... learned a lot at the spring meeting I attended and had a great chance to get to know a few of my future classmates. Talking with the alums and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 17, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  I write has to be reviewed by security, and needless to say, it's a ... seemed like a good idea at the time, but the results were sparse. The two ... --though if Schrodinger is to be believed, before posting the entry, I was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  College Fair! v2.0

  

  . I will, however, be at the computer tonight from 8:00PM EST to 10:00PM EST to answer all of your questions about MIT in gory detail. What's going on? At CollegeWeek Live! you all can participate in a real-time, 2

  • by Snively '11
  • March 25, 2009