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• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I hear, this class was just created this year, and this is the first

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  “Hala’s Escape from Groundhog Day” season 18 episode 98

  

  in common - the Groundhog Day [annotation note="and maybe a painfully bad singing one"]episode.[/annotation] If you’re unfamiliar with the concept, it’s the episode where a character suddenly finds themselves stuck

  • by Hala K. '29
  • October 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  today it is warmer than it has been in a while, and i'm back in the ... the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more easily to the strangers i pass on my way home. it's finally warm enough

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  hihi i’m back featuring all my favorite excuses

  

  :p Reasons why I was gone from the internet last semester: drowning ... of the way by taking two CI-Ms (communication intensive class in the ... resulted in way too many essays for my liking. On the bright side, I didn

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  memorial for a dorm goodbye east campus (for now)

  

  https://soundcloud.com/user-192959956/memorial-for-a-dorm i felt the need to have some sort of memorial service to commemorate the death of east campus and the death of this room in particular 62h306 today i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 6, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  [annotation note="To be explicitly clear, the point of this line is not that it ... .[/annotation] The day after I turned in that application, Saturday, December 14, 2019 ... the heck[/caption] I could tell the story of that morning-- the story

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Becoming a better programmer and why i'm excited about software engineering

  

  'm doing an internship as a frontend developer. So far I've blogged about the ... into the internship. But one thing I didn't expect to learn much about was programming. I guess that sounds odd; after all, isn't the point of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  It's Sunday. I've had a particularly draining week. For the sake of journaling, here are some of the lowlights. I dropped 6.0002. Actually, dropped isn't the correct word. I neglected to [annotation note="I am so, so

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  two different sororities, ended up joining the more "popular" one even though I liked the other sorority a bit more/knew it was a better fit, did not like the one I joined, and dropped. I have been constantly wondering

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a ... this photo, I was halfway through the second 2.678 project, which ... ="printed circuit board"]PCB[/annotation] that the professors designed. Somehow, the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Alone some thoughts on spending winter break in mit

  

  IAP began. The week before finals week, I started asking people for ... were going home for the holidays, and that I only knew six people who would be staying for the whole winter break. So I braced myself for winter

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  One of the great things about MIT is PNR, a feature implemented that makes the difficult transition from high school to college easier ... the most academically challenging places in the world. Many frosh make

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  , and more responsibilities. Although the amount of time I spend on school ... semester in differential equations. I walked out of the exam room confident ... job at TSR^2 (Talented Scholars Resource Room.) I mentioned this at the

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  about, that we easily forget, that comprise the in-between points of time ... , Google photos and Snapchat) the random moments of daily life can be more ... from throughout the duration of last year that I would not have any

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Before You Arrive on Campus: Orientation Edition On REX, safety, free stuff, and making the most out of it all!

  

  friendly company? The math gangster you dreamed to become? Now’s your chance. But wait, don’t rush. Don’t plunge into the ocean of choice immediately. Start here. First, from fellow bloggers: -- On getting to MIT from the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  -to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result, but I’ll be too busy celebrating and reveling in the streets, regardless of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard. This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Toons and Tasty Burgers adventures in chalk and tasty-burger-tasting

  

  11/9/2013: At the time of this writing: > I'm sitting in a cozy ... the burgers are tasty. > "The Fox" is playing on the speakers. Loudly ... is an amazing mural on the wall of Samuel L. Jackson from Pulp Fiction

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]

  

  You see, the thing about Halloween is that it gives you a reason to ... going to class as a princess. Let me explain. I'm a fan of the TV show ... given to the male viewers/fans (whether they are straight, gay, bisexual

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  , to ponder. It's quite incredible really. Coming from the US, I had it easy overall. Growing up I spoke English from birth, and the few ... how they interact, particularly in the lab. Unsurprisingly, Germans

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012