It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet?
The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a dance that happens between students and colleges where the power dynamic shifts back and forth several times; one courts the other,...
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What’s Making Me Happy This Week: Week 1
As exams become more and more of a reality that I can't ignore, I find my weekly/fortnightly blogs slowly phasing themselves out. As such I thought I'd steal a simple format from the wonderful NPR...
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Gettin’ Fancy
After rocking the jeans + sweater/t-shirt look for almost an entire school year, two events occurred last Thursday and Friday that required a slightly more spiffy outfit choice: Ring Delivery (also...
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A Faculty Dinner
This past Friday was the nth annual Tetazoo faculty dinner - a great event filled with our favorite foods, faculty, staff, random graduate students, and friends! This year we had over 16 different...
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Happenings
The first speech I ever gave in my life was to the 1000 of you who attended the CPW Welcome event Thursday night. It was a 5 minute, 5 step guide on "How to Do CPW", and I head it was "amusing" though...
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Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2
Part 1 here. * * * Rush Holt is in the room, but most people haven’t noticed. To be fair, he’s a name rather than a face for most of us: the PhD physicist-turned-politician, one of two...
View ArticleFall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today
Today we're releasing our decisions regarding transfer applicants who applied for admission for Fall 2014. Transfer applicants, unlike freshman applicants, receive decisions via email from our office...
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Study Break on the Roof!
Earlier this week, Morgan O. (G) invited MIT EMS and our campus police officers (who unfortunately could not attend) to see the place where she works - the roof of the Green Building! The Green...
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Batman Picks a Username
Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.
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What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2
Week 1: Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and More! Historical What If - Subreddit The concept is simple, users ask the question "What if x piece of history was different" and the more historically inclined...
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Do You Want To Build a Robot?
Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular introductory design and manufacturing class: For reference, here's the first "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007:...
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MIT: The Sunsical
a musical by askerick (askerick@mit.edu) sung to the tune of "Summertime" by Bon Jovi press play, then scroll down and sing the new lyrics ♫Feels something like summertime Classe are over in a...
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Advice for the Incoming Froshies
Congratulations to the incoming Class of 2018! Each and every one of you is incredible, and I am so excited to see your happy faces light up the institute once again in the fall! So now you've...
View ArticleFall 2014 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today
It's been nearly two weeks since the May 1 reply deadline, and we know many of you have been awaiting news about our wait list. tldr: every year we hope to take students from our waitlist, and we are...
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The First Ending
So here we are. I'm sitting in the AeroAstro Gelb Lab, procrastinating on pre-summer Design/Build/Fly lab cleanup by writing this blog post. In about a week, I'll be home in California again--in...
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We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952
At 9:50 last night, Lucas ‘14 and I were walking through Building 14 to go bouldering on MIT's climbing wall. As we rounded the corner, a woman called out: “Please, will you help us? We need somebody...
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Thinking Positive
This school year was pretty terrible. I don't think there is an easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called Sophomore Slump. My second semester was a little better. I...
View ArticleWhat’s Making Me Happy: Week 3
Week 1 Spider-Man, Nina Yuen, and Sarah Kay Week 2: TableTop, Net Neutrality, and Complexity Theory Humble Bundle/Boston Festival of Indie Games The Humble Bundle, an independent video game "pay...
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Finals Week at MIT
It's finals week! That dreaded time of year when people hide away in their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness. The cats are taking the hit from it the most - we've spent...
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