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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Cants, head of the History department at MIT, was at Random for a special ... the Charles river as the Red Line subway torpedoed into Boston at 9 AM ... for 3 hours, demolishing half a biology problem set, watching classic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  topic for a lot of students at MIT, and that's because everyone has ... healthier!) to cook for yourself. Nearly all dorms have at least a community ... fledged frosh and other alliterations! Want to eat ice cream on toast for

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  pieces, so how do we score those? At the moment, the score for each custom ... . For instance, at the last depth of a search the engine can find a move ... inactive lifestyle puts you at greater risk for health problems? No

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  regret coming to MIT, or if you feel Y, you will definitely love being at ... ’s start with high school. For us, MIT was our dream school. We obsessively ... other schools, and for the first time in high school, we did. When we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... by R.F. Kuang about a young Chinese scholar studying at Oxford in the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out ... another group photo and that other group is waiting for another person who ... managed to figure it out, for the most part. [caption id="attachment_91429

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  ‘productivity youtube.’ For those of you unfamiliar, this largely consists of ... the books for me and just tell me the most important/interesting bits. Of course, I usually open youtube at times of great procrastination

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for ... expectations. For now, I’m kinda just existing wherever the world plops me. At ... .A.V.O.R.I.T.E. In a busy week, I’m there at least once a day: The prices are

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  awesome. I woke up early this morning, 8am, for EMS drills, and although I ... . In other news, like I mentioned in my last post, the theme for East ... students burgers, as well as dye their hair! Every Friday at 5pm, East

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  week for at least a few hours. There are intermittent milestones to help ... presentations were over at 2100. Long day. But the reward for such a long arduous ... that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  units mean that this is not a huge time commitment at all. My hope for ... ’s schedule. Luckily for me, my classes are unique enough that I don’t spend ... , and two classes for the GEL Program. Mine just might be the most random

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  : in my 5 semesters here at MIT so far, I have only used Matlab for ... . I have a Macbook Pro for goodness' sakes!!" ANGER: "What do you mean you can't fix it? Do you really work for the Apple Store?" BARGAINING

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Guilty Pleasure or why it's all about "the Hockey."

  

  JT would get back to them with the changes to the schedule for that ... . And then occasionally, for a real thrill, we'd go watch the B ... watch, but I decided playing wasn't for me since I seemed to have two left

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  know of at MIT, at least for undergrads (I'm not sure if there's any on ... , the sort of classes that are offered at MIT beyond the basic level ... speech and writing related. Context for these and similar questions

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  places at the same time, I had to wake up very early to go fly for Draper ... of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... " scale. Pset number two was for 16.05 "Thermal Energy" or more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  Marjorie, will be leaving for South Asia at the end of this school year ... At East Campus HouseComm last week, we learned something unexpected ... than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell Someone Something They'd Rather Not Hear," "Hello, World: Manners for the ... first arrived at Charm School, I was greeted by an incredible jazz quintet

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Presenting…My Prefrosh! ‚ô•

  

  , and I arrived five minutes late for checking in my bag and thus missed ... Sims 3 until the next flight at 8:45 a.m. Sims 3 or no Sims 3, sitting around at the airport can be a drag.. and having no one to talk to makes it

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  much it. We can talk—or argue—about music for hours upon hours. We have ... . Anyways, he's now a freshman at St. Edward's University, a small liberal ... building to see three guys hammering away at their instruments in the back

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008