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  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP classes. It was a good entry, and this was going to be a comment on it, but

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So many problem sets

  

  Now that term has geared up a bit, most classes have given some sort of homework, usually in the form of a problem set. I thought the prospectives on here might be curious to see what problems on problem sets are

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  A reminder: Fall 2005 UROP Direct Funding (Funds from UROP) Deadline: Thursday, Thursday September 15, 2005. Keep in mind that there are three options when doing a UROP: - UROP for Pay: Up to $1,250 per semester, which

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  came here, I ended up on 5th East, a place with a decades-old culture

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  scientific journal. Sweeping conclusions backed up by questionable data like

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  you set up a crockpot to cook for a few hours, can you usually trust

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  personally, and they confided in him, and he checked up on them. He was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Temp assignments and cautionary tales

  

  up spending a year in a place that he hated, and where many of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  /astro. We broke up. He didn't get in. He was devastated. You may see where

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  up front about all of these things, good and bad. I'm telling you and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Have A Core Curriculum?

  

  up for the June administration of the exams (and, yes, pay the College

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  ? First, I'm in the process of setting up an admissions blog server that

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I chose my classes A graduating senior's perspective; results may vary

  

  classes that add up to around [annotation note="A typical 12-unit class at ... ."]reported by past students[/annotation] and then adjust up or down by a few hours ... subarea, typically counting up from 0 and with intro-level classes numbered

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choose My Senior Spring Classes for Me pre-registration is open and i will let you decide

  

  Pre-registration has opened up, my dear children, and that means it ... and computer science) Cons: Conflicts with 6.UAT so I'd show up late ... more so, 9am at Harvard which means I'd have to wake up extra early to do

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 2 our experience trying to prepare for the animation industry at MIT

  

  was a super fun class! We also signed up for 21W.744, The Art of Comic Book Writing, last semester and really loved it, but ended up having to ... watching youtube tutorials. Also, Allan ended up creating an independent

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 22, 2020
• Blog / Hacks

  MacG 50ish years ago an email from an alumnus

  

  ="the eternal recurrence of MIT pushing out relocating living groups to fix up our ... remove the stone or cover it up. [caption id="attachment_47206" align ... the F men in an old webpage that is accessible if you look up macgregor

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  assassins – a liveblog day 7: five remain

  

  up an important invariant in the game, which is that there is a single ... readers, so you can keep up with what's going on: i'll use names, but they ... (all the way up north in burlington!) that doesn't mean i should lower my

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2018
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  cool post he put up on Medium and asked if I could reformat it and post ... introductory courses. Robert lives in Maseeh Hall, was born in Goma and grew up ... challenge, and this is what I came up with: That looks quite complicated

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  when I woke up yesterday morning--finally, as I'd been avoiding a lot of ... started typing up a draft for this post on my phone (which was originally ... , at 8pm you return to the Media Lab to finish up some notes and plan for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  Marilee Jones was featured in an online chat on TIME.com, following up on ... schools) now enroll classes made up of more than 50% females. That is a huge ... thing that ever happened to you. Soon she'll be caught up in teenage

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006