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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... not by much. ... I thought that what was happening to us was ... those are terrible metrics by which to measure an applicant or an

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

  Potpourri Blog Post food... etc.

  

  trying to get p-set in, and overall, starting off the day really late, and ... is my best friend. Have it on hold, you’re ready to go! Swipe, swipe ... 's getting hard to hold on. But I will let you know. // P.S. Here's a video

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  , so you can watch them prepare your dessert --> clogged arteries Longfellow Bridge Newbury St. The new way to spell Greek food at ... - J.P. Licks Does your milkshake bring all the boys to the yard

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a ... Maine to get to know each other, where I also first learned to use a ... It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  form by May 1 (postmark date) if you intend to enroll at MIT. How much ... I'm back! Here are the answers to some common questions that have ... -9 was CPW, followed by my first real vacation in over a year. A whole week

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Clarification On Last Post I was really just trying to say that when I look at your names in…

  

  's application, no matter how strong, isn't enough to get one accepted. We deferred ... numbers to us, you are human beings. So when I see your names, I think of ... you need to do to get into MIT." Sorry if I confused anyone! -B

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 18, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational ... simultaneously took pains to avoid (that skim milk) and ate a lot of (that pizza

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  things that went well reflections on my first semester

  

  identity, and I needed to experience it like this – mundane, first-hand, by ... than not, though, judging by my lack of energy to do anything right now, and that’s good. I’m pleased to have been able to fill 2020 with new

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  everything "right" to get into MIT or any top school. It's really important ... talents and interests. Let us get to know you as a three-dimensional person ... Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  be nice to get a break from the institute for a little while. I Wrote ... marked our excitement by creating a new dorm for bexiles (people who were ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  was definitely worth blogging. Before I get back to packing, I have two ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before ... MIT feels like home, I'm definitely looking forward to going back

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  powder. It felt more like getting punched in the face by a pineapple, but ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... -themed menu complemented by a spasm of last-minute surprises: stir, simmer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon Valley start-ups in the ... quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... pictures of my new room at east campus yet so here are some pictures, because

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  requirement can be met by completing a beginner swim course or electing to test ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to ... education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement
• Blog / Events

  Revolution Some really cool things are happening in Boston

  

  , there were a zillion other events that I'm still sad I didn't get to go to ... to the Freshman Pre-Orientation Program called Discover History and ... letters for saying that a group of us pre-frosh got to go tour some really

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  fragments instead of blogging (for a whole damn month), I...

  

  listening to Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari, but ... . this means nothing. i did, however, get to both play in the snow with my ... , i was promptly swept away by a whirlwind of final projects and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  unable to finish the project in time. It'll definitely be done by our party ... " posters, which were made to publicize a documentary about MIT made by two ... a time before the call time to get their drinks. We tracked drinks

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  This week in blog entries posted by people who no longer go to MIT, and sometimes go to trivia together, and eat each other's nachos: my ... any dance background, as evidenced by this video of us learning to dance

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  honestly so very cool when I get to use it in contexts that are actually ... before 6.009 (Fundamentals of Programming). They're trying to get rid of ... .009 rewarded past experience and punished new students by moving the class at

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023