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Blog / About Decisions
Happy Cinco De Mayo!!! Admissions counselors make the sexiest models. Oh, and a probability question.
correctly gets a prize. Then again, how would I even know what the correct -
Blog / Admissions
Selecting from 10,439 applications and a dozen ties.
. Today, I'm wearing a tie, which is my custom for days on which the -
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Blog / Admissions
Selection Day 3
Selection can be pretty mentally taxing, so luckily the days tend to be shorter (ending ~4pm) and we get breaks when we need them. During one of the breaks today, Stu, Amy, Mari and I headed over to the Student -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend
for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... !) i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the ... i think this does a pretty good job of appealing to a wide audience -
Blog / Blog Projects
Welcome Back! a fresh coat of paint, and a fresh batch of bloggers
I hope you like what we've done with the place. Seven years ago, I ... .edu. As I blogged here, the data showed we had a large overlapping audience ... decide to redesign? As I explained here, we were proud of our old website -
Blog / About Decisions
Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.
Action deadline of November 1! I'd like to use this entry to answer ... requirements or statistics. And below, I've provided answers to some ... : Yes, the word count is enforced. There is, as I understand it, a little -
Blog / Admissions
Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...
answering phone calls (and I am on vacation!). The office will reopen on Tuesday, January 3rd. However, with the RA deadline fast approaching, I ... , about standardized test requirements or statistics. And below, I've -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub
stumble across. in my time, I've heard it being used for parties, scavenger hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... . there are countless elements to the installation that I couldn't detect -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion
Two weeks ago, after a long day of committee was complete, I headed ... annual event run by the MIT UA Committee on Sustainability. I ... . One of the most fun and surprisingly useful materials I used were bread -
Blog / Events
Let’s do a puzzle. Ready to flex some cranial muscle?
feats (such anecdotes are, I think, the only way to do some shred of justice to Mystery Hunt.) One puzzle I worked on was called "Pirates of the ... converting the numbers to Roman numerals. I'll be frank: never in a bajillion -
Blog / MIT Life
What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt
Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our campus is deceivingly large. Freshman year, I made the unfortunate decision ... admittedly a bit optimistic on my part. The mornings I had physics, I would -
Blog / Athletics
‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn
Hi, everyone! The soccer season has just wrapped up, and I wanted to ... never crosses my mind that we won’t pull through and come back — and I am ... half, John Carroll scores. It’s a bit disheartening, but I know that we -
Blog / Academics & Research
joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool
[annotation note="to be defined soon!"]causal inference,[/annotation] I feel ... economists do work that relates to [annotation note='not casual, which is how i ... intervention? If I wanted to understand the impact of my vaccine, my ideal -
Blog / Admissions
Applying Regular Action – Q&A
office will reopen on Tuesday, January 2nd. That said, I thought it was ... , about standardized test requirements or statistics. Below I added some ... 1 or before. However, I strongly discourage waiting until the last -
Blog / MIT Life
Dorm Companion #2: Cat The Boston Globe discusses MIT's four cat-friendly dorms.
seeking advice on implementing pet programs. "I never thought I'd be able ... working in a veterinarian office and has two older cats at home. "I've grown ... pets everywhere," Nilsson said. "I don't think there's a school in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive
Year! I spoke with one of his UROPs, Shan Tie ‘10, who said she found the lab through the UROP website: “I looked under the project openings and ... . I had several interviews with different labs and I finally decided -
Blog / Academics & Research
Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…
Design and Manufacturing I (2.007 in nerd-speak) involves two ... favorite guest lectures. I thought I'd share his background and some of his inventions, since I came to MIT to learn from creative engineering gurus like -
Blog / Class Projects
neutrality isn’t about objectivity—it’s about who has the power some words on facebook trending topics, and also net neutrality
are lots of excellent points here (I really recommend you take the time ... neutrality are rooted, I want to extend the principle of net neutrality so that ... networks, platforms, and infrastructures both online and offline. To do so, I
