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  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  extent politics has become too efficient for its own good, and long term ... .).  Even Obama got in on the fun. But it's not just that FiveThirtyEight was ... well, within 2-3 points of Silver's.  It's that throughout his whole

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  c/o 2017

  

  recognizing this, everywhere, in my friends' goodness, how much of it there is ... -- "my" class -- carries a lot of people who taught me how to care, how to think, and how to be a good friend, mostly by being good friends to me

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 12, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... "]North End.[/annotation] it was fucking incredible!! i got the chocolate bomb and lobster tail (it doesn't have [annotation note="if you want this, go

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Gravity Rides Everything We are gathered here today to allude to rapidly accelerating bouncy balls and The Moon…

  

  important: music, and how I listen to far too much of it. ...what?! I'm not ... idea how it happened. It's about time for an external hard drive. Once I ... the Meet the Bloggers party, we write stuff, put it on the Internet, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to ... ’re there, you can take countless loops around and along it. Just want to work ... ’s the northern view. It’s game time! Can you identify all of the numbered

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  out exactly how it was intended. In the spirit of most hacks, though, it ... must borrow something, always return it-- perhaps even leave a note saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  even realize how strikingly different it is from what you consider normal ... So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  school, both through learning it in classes and practicing for quiz bowl ... reminder of how much I had forgotten since coming to MIT. Around this time ... went something like this: It feels like I've forgotten a lot of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Graduation, Livestreamed cant talk gotta walk

  

  : working on embedding the official stream, which does not have an official

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  requirements. It’s not always a matter of how qualified you are either. You ... UROP stands for "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program" and it's exactly what it sounds like. Undergrads get to work with professors, Ph

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  about it and it's always advertised via the blogs).

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  One thing about me is I love science fiction. Whether it be movies ... empire and tries to gather people to fix things himself. It's based off of ... really makes you contemplate a lot of different societal topics. It's been

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  . i don’t have many words to describe how it feels to live surrounded by ... , you have to at least look into it, right?” the first place i looked was ... cool. it was also fun to go to a meet farther away and travel with the

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  3-D Blog!! ...I decided to wear a pair of real life 3-D GLASSES!!!

  

  what I’m called as long as it’s in some way related to me. This is ... Blog” because not only is this my first admissions blog, its my first ... weather in Boston keeps you in shape because it can flip from warm and

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick updates Just a few notes -- that's all we have time for right now!

  

  didn't get the email or lost it, let me know in the comments (leave your email address) and I'll get the information to you. It should be fun and useful, and I know Paul '12 and Hamsika '13 are excited for it. RA

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  . I visited MIT last month, and since then (even more than before), it ... wanting to acknowledge it as a possibility) I know that a percentage of this ... the outside (though hopefully not for long!) :D This is an excellent

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  you've had since forever, or you get home after a long trip and just put down your bags and sigh because it feels so good to be home? Yeah. That ... want to get technical about it, CPW served no other purpose for me other

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW, via Video Experience (or relive) Campus Preview Weekend through online videos.

  

  Susan Hockfield, and an awesome keynote address by Amy Smith. It's long ... For those of you who couldn't make it to campus for CPW, here is a ... of you who attended CPW -- it was great to meet you! Here are the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  comrades had not been similarly fortunate. At long last, a joint attack ... , the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it out in sports like soccer ... comrades on the battlefield, just as we did that morning in dodgeball. It is

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Message From Ben And Matt ...regarding the recent news of Marilee's resignation.

  

  wanted to write to you as soon as possible. It's a very sad day for MIT, and especially for our office. We'll write more about it in a few days when we've had the chance to digest it further, but right now we

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2007