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  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  The only course that comes remotely close to being as badass as aero/astro is nuclear engineering and even they don't have jet engines. If you ... snapshot of it in orbit: It didn't do so hot on the re-entry... we lost 2

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Student, A Professor, An Alum Hacking a door, the human genome, and robots.

  

  's administration doesn't like it if you hack the door locks or the strike plates ... shell out millions for a kid's science-fiction fantasy wasn't easy. After

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Dean Marilee Jones in the news Articles in the press about MIT's Dean of Admissions.

  

  disorders. It's kids who just feel like they can't handle everything they ... don't get into their imagination enough," Jones says. Her remedy: "Let

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  Problem Solving. For those of you who don't know about AoPS, it is the best ... International Olympiad in Informatics. This year's first contest doesn't begin

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  resident who attends Lawrence Academy in Groton, Mass. He won't really get to ... specialty is quality assurance. "They won't let interns touch any of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Corey Kubber MIT will help Corey Kubber '10 "develop and grow, with some eccentric, genius-type people."

  

  to have won the Morikami scholarship." "I didn't realize how much it ... pneumonia. "I couldn't understand why," Kubber said. "I thought they had

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: The Plano Four Colin Taylor '10, Timur Sahin '10, Joanne Shih '10 and Albert Chang '10.

  

  , many of us couldn't wait until our graduation day," he said. "Now that ... at MIT. "I found that the admissions results didn't depend on how many

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  college. Other amenities weren't really important to me, but some things did ... that that's it; I actually don't think I've recycled the brochures I got

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Doonesbury Conclusion Official Doonesbury news.

  

  trail and probably didn't expect the hack to be as successful as it was ... program running at a time so we don't kill the server again." Meanwhile

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 26, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Mid-May Update Q&A: Athena tips and hints

  

  . This isn't something you want to look into right now, but it's useful to ... ://wserv.mit.edu:444/fcgi-bin/lc for this, and don't sign up for a Mailman list -- that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  said it wasn't a good school for premeds. In some cases, this is ... doesn't have grade inflation like many other universities (I've heard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being ... it's not been true that you don't get in trouble unless your hack is

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in Internet in the bathtub! And a bunch of stuff on choosing a major.

  

  . (Strictly speaking, they don't even have to declare then; it's possible to be ... Center and continued on my merry way. It wasn't until IAP of my sophomore

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  . Another popular option is working on a UROP. If you don't have a UROP yet ... , and tiramisu. Unfortunately, I don't think the class is being offered

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A: Round One Q&A, Round One. Keep the questions coming!

  

  recreational activities that MIT offers students, there are so many that I don't ... philosophy that you should always try something so you don't regret not doing

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  just take the whole bag. I replied democratically that I'd prefer he didn't ... are you?" and she checked out "How To Lose A Guy in 10 Days" but I don't

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Women’s Week 2005 Learn about both the mission and events associated with this year's week-long promotion.

  

  ! 8-10pm, T-Club Lounge Have fun kicking butt with the legendary Ho ... -5pm, 4-237 Confused about taxes? Don't know the difference between

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  MIT's BCS program is for med school?" Not being premed, I won't try to ... undergrad, as medical schools don't require a specific major. So if you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  further. You should also know, though, that Schrock isn't some inaccessible ... . That Schrock is a good teacher wasn't a huge surprise to me. As I often

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 8,9,10,11,12: PA, NJ, and Home! Part 5 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  to one another, so sticking the Masterman visit in the middle wasn't ... treated myself. Philly people: definitely check out Tangerine if you haven't

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2005