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  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were so many wonderful applicants to MIT this year ... students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an open forum

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  honestly really cool and inspiring. (i mean, everyone in mit is cool, but my ... → macgregor august 2021: macgregor → ec (this post) as is tradition, here's a picture of my old room, with my key: and here is my room now. i am in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  I do. Until I came to MIT, that is. Since September, we've been ... a parser and was like, "Aww crap. This is harder then I thought," so a ... hang out. Here is a full outline of all of my plans for IAP. Physics

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am no longer new here ...well, it's true.

  

  Garel, class of 2010, and my life at MIT is not what you would expect. I ... My name is Keri Garel, and nothing else in my bio is true anymore ... love for pie is still only surpassed by my love for bacon and Arrested

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  Measurement and Instrumentation. Basically, this is a lab class where we learn ... part of MIT's DARPA Urban Challenge Team. So today's lecture focused ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Accidents Happen My mom was right.

  

  other from PBS. It's somewhat strange to think that something that is so widely used like penicillin was discovered accidentally. Discuss: What is ... explore? Being a scientist-in-training myself, this is encouraging because

  • by Bryan
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Birth Of Baby Nance Regular updates from labor through delivery (guest-hosted by Ben).

  

  apart, mmmmmkay?) :-) So Lance "Nance Nance Revolution" Nance is on his ... my birthday, which is tomorrow. So my (wishful thinking) guess: January ... . Bryan says that anyone who guessed over 8 pounds is going to be in big

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.

  

  ) applications is complete. This morning, we begin regular action selection ... action) for the MIT Class of 2009! Selection committee will continue for ... . Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  First read

  

  applications. One exercise is that we will discuss the same three folders that we ... , including wrapping up our fall travels, developing more content for the my.mit ... of Chicago. This is a school serious about its academics. Check out the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another take on pass/no-record and some other stuff. Hey look, I haven't pontificated about anything in a while.

  

  are very real. Truth is, we're at MIT, and we'd all do better if we ... . This is what got me going: Taking "advantage" of pass/no-record. "No ... that that kind of talk, that kind of pressure, is OK especially for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  little saying "Getting an education at MIT is like drinking from a fire ... 's part of MIT's natural order of things. What really ****'s things up is ... entries is because I'm no longer a freshman, meaning all of my admissions

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  . There is a real and very understandable temptation at MIT to take on more ... five classes or four classes plus a UROP is a reasonable workload for me ... have semester-long group projects. My French class is also an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  A cornerstone of 6.046, MIT’s infamous algorithms class, is ... -sided die, the probability of getting a number smaller than 3 is 2/6. Now ... , 19, 2, 17, 14, 4), I want you to sort them, that is, arrange them in

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  Avenue (MIT’s mailing address, and it main entrance). This is dangerous. Oh ... , I’m UROPing in the Doyle lab in the basement of building 66 (which is ... least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In many ways on average-posting

  

  In many ways, the work of a critic is easy.  In the summer of 2022, I ... .  There is something strange about writing for the public. You are giving up ... there is no direct way of getting criticism on the blogs, I am usually my

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  start of summer tidbits i'm alive

  

  ? So you may have heard of x-terms, which is a new thing that is starting ... because the living room is literally just couches EVERYWHERE and there ... and another person is raising LIVE CHICKENS in a REAL CHICKEN COOP in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 12, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  . The CEO/Co-Founder was also an MIT grad. Anchor Nutrition Bar is ... Trivedi, is an MIT Sloan graduate. GeoOrbital made a wheel that can replace ... Mass Innovation Nights is a monthly product launch party for local

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Next Steps for EA Deferred what to do next

  

  best thing you can do is to focus on things that are not MIT (or other ... [at] mit [dot] edu). The Office of Undergraduate Admissions is closed ... . What new stuff should I send? The only "new" thing you need to send in is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  The Brass Rat, the MIT class ring. MIT students get theirs sophomore ... Commencement, the ring is flipped over so that the beaver is sitting on the world. Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  first things I noticed in the hotel was that there is a view of the MIT ... verrry busy. Here's a recap: Last Saturday: Spring Weekend is an annual MIT tradition, complete with: - a performance by a top-notch band (it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006