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• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not ... do is not ask at all and just have a vague worry hanging over your head ... I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  because they're interested in doing community service. And indeed, this is a ... to much around me, when suddenly someone said, "Hey, Kim! Want a roll?" And there was Xavier '11, with a bag of Bertucci's rolls. (Bertucci's is

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dorm Companion #1: Art MIT loans out 400 pieces of famous art each year from its collections to its…

  

  program." Why would MIT do this? And isn't there a big risk? The curator of ... Want a Warhol in your dorm room? This is exhibition week of the ... Each piece in the collection is framed and signed by a leading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  …More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.

  

  . You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the opportunities that await you. I need you to think a little more about the "no ... Before we get into it, I need to address a question I've heard a few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Back From Vacation Tales of swing sets and answers to the various questions in my inbox.

  

  a blog ASAP. :-) So what did you do on your vacation, anyway? I ... -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week ... is the deposit to secure my place in the class of 2010? Where do I send

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... challenge. Neither of us had a tape measure, so we did what any good MIT student would: we improvied. By which I mean we measured a shelf, rounded it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  You Can’t Make MIT Love You If You Don’t… my advice on application essays (updated 7/29)

  

  application has been posted. You can request a paper copy, download a PDF, or ... for fun.) "You can't make MIT love you if you don't [write a good essay] You can't put on your resume things that you don't [do] Here in 3

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  Hey Internet! After not posting a video for a couple weeks I totally feel like: So I just made a vlog to get back in the rhythm of filming ... the video and there has been a crazy amount of MIT-related things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  sense, I do have a task-management strategy, but to me it feels more like ... slightly over a normal load"]less classes[/annotation] and doing more ... a to-do list [annotation note="ideally, this would be the previous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... do you care so much? You’re not American anyway. But I am black. Racism

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  haven't completely decided. I shouldn't give you more things to read as a ... basic decision as Sam: whether to enroll at MIT or to go somewhere / do something else instead. Typically, these students ascribe this ambiguity to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  that’s kind of what everybody else wanted to do in a VR space too. The ... In a public high school with about 700 people per class, there was ... learned to shove facts into my head, regurgitate it on a test a week later

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  than I do building a community. I need to work on being present more ... do everything all the time. I'm not convinced that it's a strictly bad ... then I finished reading The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri. It's a novel about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The View from 1000 Feet Life after MIT ... kind of

  

  first of the following month. This would normally total to a tuition ... 50 cents a day. Today, an email from MIT asking me for money reads ... consider giving us a piece of your salary? OK, so it's not really like that

  • by Bryan
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  do for a living in order to free yourself and make more fulfilling ... completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a ... : I got this book as a birthday gift, and my instinctive reaction to it

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn-by-doing ... to do) we would win. Realizing all of this was a very happy day for us ... 'd been awake for almost 24 hours. What's one to do? I curled up into a ball

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  On Monday, the first thing on my to-do list, after an exceptionally unproductive weekend, was to make a to-do list. I was then faced, however, with a moral dilemma, a person vs. self conflict which I would both win and lose

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an ... to do in my busy schedule of having a fever and sleeping it off. S^3 ... about sending a sick note to my TA, which they normally don't do over the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  . Do a UROP -- Undergraduate research is kind of the thing to do around ... found funny without knowing why. Learn how to print from a non ... takes advantage of. For example, you can borrow a laptop, read MIT Alumni

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Indiscipline Taking a break from finals studying to explain what I've done instead of finals studying.

  

  'm doing right now is writing a blog entry. I'm doing that because I went to ... Yo, I've been getting a lot of questions lately in the comments and I really want to do them all justice, so I'm gonna answer them next week

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 16, 2005