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  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  mechanisms, but the punchline is as follows: What do economists and prostitutes ... to Professor Levitt -- the "Economists do it with models" t-shirt.

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Because one story just isn’t enough My tale of being admitted. Laugh. Cry. Both. Neither. All of the above?

  

  In true "everybody else is doing it, so why can't we?"* fashion, I'm posting my own tale of being admitted last year. Since this is the second ... what to do about the situation, and I saw only one way out: the crowbar

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  're probably trying to jam it in. Slide it in." "I AM sliding it!" "Do you see ... longer drive in college), and you parked your car, and all you had to do

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  . His "to do" list includes discovering the mechanisms of cancer, decoding ... technology and techniques needed to do that work. But Lander is not one of

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

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  testing center by noon, and I was a little lost. Arrive late. Do not pass ... completing 2 essays, the math section, and a verbal section, I am offered to do

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  , so please invite folks in your labs. Finally: If you have time, do ... to do in life, surround yourself with intelligent people and nice

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  ) leaves off, offering students the opportunity to do some real, high ... science. What can I do to show my stuff?" Well, there are a number of things

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

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  give out. Basically, all you have to do is go up while the ... . But I really have to do a pset now, so check back later tonight. Or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  he could do whatever he wanted to do. But since his acceptance, he

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  recapping to do. This is the most awesome picture I took this summer (the bag ... a mud puddle. I don't know, it seemed like the thing to do at the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  'm doing with my life), so I took AP Chemistry and two years of AP Computer ... 't even sweat it. It never hurts to know how to do a chi-square test (or to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  're paying for food in the first three weeks, you're doing something wrong ... doing with my life. Over a hundred student groups were present at the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  know you could do research in high school. 2005: Three years of ... professor (famous for doing great research), and my NIH supervisor (famous

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  We Started the Fire It wasn't always burning since the world's been turning.

  

  that says "We're doing this to really learn!" to me. Everything was ... background was enough to clear my head. I do know nothing can really prepare

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  you know / Listen, find out as you go / I knew much more then, than I do ... to get advice on UA stuff (I still do this - Ben teases me and says

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  you do, we'll never meet so it's no big loss. Anywho... Actually I'm not ... their site. Do you have any idea what I'm supposed to look at, exactly? It

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meta

  

  more entries that provided a snapshot of what I was actually doing, but ... you think. "I like what you're doing, keep it up" is a valid answer, as

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Sulinya Ramanan Sulinya Ramanan '10, "hometown hero"

  

  , but she has accomplished more in her 17 years than many people do in a ... nice things that I do," she said. Ramanan wasted no time in submitting a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  're going to do great things, and I'm happy I get to be there for the first ... consisted of my brother, my best friend, and me doing independent work for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To stay at MIT over the summer, or to not stay at MIT over the summer…that is the question With so many summer employment options, what's the best choice?

  

  Phil asked, "oh btw Melis, would u equally prefer working at MIT doing a urop over the summer as working at NIH? I was thinking about ... far less to do in terms of taking care of myself when I'm at home! There

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 17, 2006