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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  From across the Web… Recent happenings across the Web.

  

  Some random links I've been accumulating: The New York Times asks ... microloans and microfinance. Relatedly, you really should check out the work being done at both the Poverty Action Lab and the Program in Developmental

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The kindest cut Blog and night and red all over.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the top 20 Scrabble players in the country, and the #1 ranked scrabble player in all of Massachusetts, is a sophomore at ... the dishes, I cut the dickens out of my finger. Mad props to Mitra for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  cw: harassment (noted before the section where it’s mentioned, skip to the next pictures from there if needed!) https ... . The screaming kind’s pretty cool.” Last week brought me to Copenhell

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  , training, and competing. Before committing to MIT, I accepted the fact that, as a full-time student as a full-time MIT student, there was the all-to-plausible possibility that I wouldn't have the time, energy, or resources to continue to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  The secret is... there's not really a secret. Just some tips. 0:18 A ... yourself" means 3:47 The "what do you do for fun?" essay 4:37 The "what do you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] The entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Adventures in Time Travel (in the Library)

  

  Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke in the Hayden library stacks this afternoon. This is the weekly magazine The Nation. This is the first half of ... favorite section is the science notes, which include Charles Darwin

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully this post will be quite helpful! How does the waitlist work? We are ... estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House: Where The Sidewalk Ends A tour of Next House!

  

  two years in Next House. I like the description on the Next website, so I'll put it here: " We are one of the largest and friendliest dorms ... out, have fun, and enjoy their time at MIT. Situated on the banks of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  'd say hi. We began RA selection on Friday morning, with the official kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate from MIT": Visit the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA). The drawing class that I've been taking through the Student Art Association has rekindled

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  at the homepage Spotlight as of Friday and continuing through the weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... post on the early history of international students at MIT, particularly

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Waitlist, 2009 Within the next few days, we plan to make waitlist offers to complete the Class…

  

  For the fourth consecutive year, we will admit students from our waitlist. Within the next few days, we plan to admit approximately 60 students from the waitlist. When our waitlist decisions are finalized, we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 13, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? MIT developed the first college undergraduate programs ... Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was inducted or inaugurated or initiated or something into the MIT chapter of Tau

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  If you've walked down the Infinite before, you've probably seen doors ... :   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the ... 've redistributed personnel throughout the rooms that make up the admissions office

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  dream could have been realized. But alas, the show is only airing its ... team has just two days to complete the project. Challenges range from ... before putting their work to the test. Keeping their eyes on the grand

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  my part :(. The Great North American Eclipse happened on April 8th ...   Amber  Ali Audrey Kano '25 I felt profoundly small. The world was ... first, it felt like nothing was happening but, then, the entire landscape

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  On the Flip Side I'm a host instead of a prefrosh this year - but CPW has still been…

  

  year instead a prefrosh's: there's less of the aimless wandering, the obsessive map-scanning, and the free stuff-hoarding, but there's still plenty of the sleep loss, the mingling with prefrosh, and the unreserved

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  people in Göd öf Wär III*, I, like everyone else in the office, have spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend, including how to make it more accessible for the students who attend. One

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010