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  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  definitely help in the cases when it is available. Aarthi wrote, "I think I ... essays today, I realized an egregious error in one. I really do think it ... 'll see an update on this blog. Sloanapplicant wrote, "Would you say that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  corners of the house: Sathwik on the desk in the living room, me on the ... graduates live together after graduation. And the cruft houses I've seen have ... scoped a few of us on LinkedIn and sent us a Discord invite, and then one

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  be more or less dangerous than it sounds, depending on your imagination ... for countless hours solving really hard puzzles on little to no sleep ... Building? No, we didn't throw anything (or anyone) off, though on Halloween

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist, Etc.

  

  't let today end without a brief comment about the waitlist. As you've likely seen on Matt's blog, we went to the waitlist today and offered ... of the people of whom I spoke in this entry were admitted today. I can

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  've ever seen, and it still lives in East Campus today in all its smooth ... the MIT Museum way up on the tippy-top of campus (where top = North), I ... lasercutter! The newest one on campus is across the hall, and it is one of three

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  sense There was a hack today! Like any hack, the code of ethics was ... on Kresge Oval on 4/24/09 adorned with the letters 'DTYD', presumably to advertise the party of the same name put on by the Burton Third

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Just a Little Patience The latest word.

  

  the contestants on the reality TV show Beauty and the Geek 2 (guess ... us at this time to check on the status of your application or to see if ... application pieces not showing up on your tracking. There's a lot of mail to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  needle out of a Powerpoint haystack. This was not on the agenda for today ... some extra time at the end of class. Farhi sat on the desk with his hands ... , which themselves decay, and so on. Detecting the "signature" of one of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  there are a lot of good things going on in our lives and I'm very grateful ... I’m procrastinating on doing psets, so I trained GPT-2, a neural network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  year and thus couldn't get on-campus housing anymore. I used to live in ... Since Fall 2018, I've lived at WILG, an independent living group at ... was important to me, but I didn't want to stay on the mandatory meal

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  . FSILG - Fraternity, Sorority, or Independent Living Group. GIR - General ... outside its design or published documentation; see kludge. (4) v. To explore ... Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  day soon I will be ready to go on an epic quest to explore the world ... just cover it up with the confidence of facts. Fact: I am on track to ... about in CJ's amazing post on Celeste), but the plot point I want to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline Tomorrow Questions? I've got answers.

  

  probably feeling like Gary here:   As admissions counselor on duty today, I've been helping answer your calls and want you to know that ... Eastern Time on November 1. Your school/teachers may submit their

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 31, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happiness ...can now be found on a website

  

  , Christina '10 - an MIT alum and a fellow Camp Kesem (more on Camp Kesem in an ... time on the positive side of the emotional spectrum. She recently created ... Christina told me today that there are thousands of views - which I fully

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  It hit me just a little while ago, that today is November 1st. It's been exactly two years since I pressed the submit button on my MIT ... ago.  I have other things on my mind. The thermodynamics midterm next

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  flew in on Wednesday so that we could have a day for travel and use it to ... and retired to our room.That night I tooled away on Calculus homework ... the most) at 10:30. Thinking there is no way on Earth that I'll wake up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Minecraft: Discuss Open thread.

  

  released in two day's time, at 9 PM on Thursday. But because neither of us ... Classic, where Classic is focused entirely on construction while Alpha ... fun silly things. Minecraft chat below; if you post something cool in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  -standing policy of not speaking with a single institutional voice on matters of ... activist voice. He told me, “After reading the news reports coming out ... . “People asked me, ‘What’s going on at MIT to address this

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Rocky Mountain Round-Up The latest from my travels in Utah, Colorado, and New Mexico.

  

  online math community and learning site on the web, bringing together ... problem solving. The Math Jam was an online chat, with myself and MIT math ... can read the transcript of the chat here. The Salt Lake City Central

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  . They'd been on TV, in the news, might as well have been the world's leading expert on whatever it was they were doing. A little insecurity ... . Sophomore spring, a friend told me that his philosophy on life is that one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013