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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  And I am telling you I’m going And you, and you, and you, you're gonna love me.

  

  .391: Sustainable Energy for the next two weeks. I'm too lazy to link to it right now ... 't wait! Stay tuned for tales of my audition for The Amazing Race, the ... DID YOU KNOW? The highest ever cricket batting average of all time

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  all the notes i took in (another) week but it was midterm week so it's just crib sheets

  

  , because the first time I made this blog I created a note sheet for 2.001, the first version of this class. Our professor encourages us to think of this class as a tree, so this first midterm covered the 'trunk' of stress

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • March 30, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  .2060 "Blackbird" lab kit. It's got most of the electronics we need for prototyping ... decked-out version of the kit. A lab notebook I'll be maintaining for 6 ... .2060 for answering a question in lecture. I've taped it to the inside of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  the Kresge Oval with some friends. As we ran around, we could hear music ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and roll across Massachusetts Avenue from Bexley, but these notes were the

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  World Cup Challenge Results The answers and winners of the World CUp Challenge of MIT international admissions.

  

  all tied for the most correct, with 6. The mode was, I believe, 5, with ... The World Cup Challenge was a lot of fun! No one got a perfect score, but on the whole, people did pretty well. Below are the results, with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2011 arrives… Orientation programs are beginning, and the campus is really starting to come alive.

  

  Profile for the MIT Class of 2011 Gender Male 54% Female 46% Ethnicity ... Today, the Class of 2011 started to arrive! With International Orientation as well as the Freshman Pre-Orientation Programs (FPOPs) beginning

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Travel

  clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late

  

  In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have ... travel and trying to free ourselves from the predicament.

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 1, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Admitted

  

  celebrate with us in the comments and—more importantly—share this ... ’re walking on sunshine (or dancing in the moonlight). We’ll have some additional, cylindrical information for you soon.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  ,[/annotation] you’ll receive an email with details on what’s next, so be on the look out for that. In meantime, enjoy the moment and celebrate, because it

  • by Decisions
  • December 19, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Central Meetings Today, we'll mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the MIT meetings…

  

  invitation to our meeting in your neck of the woods (haven't yet signed up for ... Tomorrow, we will mail out the first of four batches of letters announcing the 70 meetings we'll be doing across the country this fall. We call

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 19, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I apply to MIT if I am not selected as a QuestBridge Finalist?

  If you applied for the QuestBridge Match but were not selected as a Finalist, you are still welcome to apply to MIT through our Regular Action ... fill out the entire MIT first-year application.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  week (I believe it was while planning for CPW last year, and around the ... me well. So Douglas Adams? So long, and thanks for all the wit. ... .01 exam. So on the back of my index card, after writing in all the last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In ... when the leaders of Chi Alpha genuinely thanked me for coming and putting ... end of the program, there was a drawing for three gift cards. The other

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  , you will be asked to submit a formal request for deferment to the Dean ... If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two ... encouraged!). Common reasons for deferment include employment, travel, and
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for the Max Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany. My project focused on studying and tuning the optical properties of polymer

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  anything is better than year after year with the Pepto-Bismol Pink E-3 cards ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action deadline has passed, the admissions officers are spending the bulk of our

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

  St. George’s Day England's National Day

  

  you can't tell, the flag is white with a red cross on it. Okay, I ... this at the local supermarket: The signs say Happy St. George's Day ... another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was

  • by Cambridge
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... able to get ready for the screening. During this screening, we had free ... refreshments worker, we made 5-6 batches of popcorn in advance to prepare for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Everybody LOVES a math joke Math jokes for a Monday chuckle!

  

  Judging by the facebook group "I Wish I Were Your Derivative So I ... math joke. My roommate, a math major, is especially into them...here's one she loves to tell (copied from an article in the American

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  ?" (Hah! The answer is definitely 'no' - elaboration to come.) But I can't let today end without a brief comment about the waitlist. As you ... answer a question I frequently receive: "So now that the class has been

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006