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• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  't make it any easier. Many MIT freshmen, myself included, come to ... you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not ... . Get curious. Collect information. Then make your decision. Good luck! 

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Edmund’s New Toy Guitarring starring eJones

  

  photo (notice the tupperware! what a friend to the environment...), and ran away to a meeting. Here's what he emailed me today: Mitra, Where ... do enter it please be sure to be clear about the bass so as not to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 28, 2006
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you to your home, hold onto it. Let it get you through the homesickness ... to your hometown to ground you. After all, college may take you far ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  but her emails how to assert?

  

  knows Stress can attest, not responding to emails makes Stress get heavier ... a Man friend who related to a lot of these points, which makes me ... the forcefulness of your statements a bit. It seems to me that people

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  how to CPW. What makes CPW special (a partial list): It’s nerd ... . We all get to see MIT through your eyes as the wonderful, bizzarre, and ... ! Remember that, and try not to travel on your own. There are no cliques during

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  the most. Talking to people, being in the center of things, making ... journey from the first uncertain scrawl of words to the final product was a ... ’m writing it? Because…because… I want to? No, not quite. I mean, yes, of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got ... unusual vining plants that I began to train around the ceiling of my bedroom

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  tense and hurried, and you have to watch your step to avoid stepping in ... the number of lives it took to make these extravagant jewellery pieces ... itinerary — forces you to think about your own desires rather than what your

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  definite bias. Make sure that when you come to CPW, you explore your feelings ... from laser shooting and liquid nitrogen ice cream making to academic lectures and Disney movie viewing. They didn't just decide to make burgers

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Application Tracking now available You can check the status of your application components now on MyMIT.

  

  days for your MyMIT tracking system to reflect new documents faxed to us ... scores, make sure the name on your application is exactly the same as it is ... . MyMIT Application Tracking This is a good time for you to check up on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  HS Juniors/Sophomores: Upcoming MIT Events MIT will have events with Yale and Brown Universities in Southern California and the Mid-Atlantic…

  

  guidance counselors. We're excited to have these conversations with your ... sophomores and juniors to hear from three great universities all in one place. Each school will talk a little about what makes it unique, and will also

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  Life, the Universe, and Everything I’m significant! …screamed the dust speck.

  

  December that revolves around making and commenting on YouTube videos to ... . Even if your level of Wikipedia-involvement is limited to searching for ... that make me happy. (Props to you if you get all the references. A couple

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 13, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  up a lot of your time. Here are my top ten ways to earn money at MIT ... year you're smarter, have money, and have a new addition to your resume ... back to your dorm, grade them, and then give them to the TAs. It

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions-consuming -- when multiple test strips fail to produce what I want, I cry, if only ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  that is starting to change. Shhhh, listen! Put your ear to your favorite ... the great summer blog posts. MIT encourages students to do research ... ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Dilemma Free (food) for all.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/hillel/www/latke-hamentashen-debate.html Option 2: Tired of Ramen for dinner? Wish you could do something to make your nightly pasta taste better? Well, tomorrow is your lucky day! Julie ... graciously offered the use of her kitchen to allow Julie to make some dishes

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  a player, your first instincts are probably to a) run, b) find a safe place to hide and c) get out of New York altogether. But your character ... during this whole process, in order to show your constituents how calm you

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred ... maybe I have come to understand, to believe, how we witness makes our ... matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: The Sunsical The sunshine of May 12th

  

  was making plans To take our PSets, just us two and go do them on our ...   a musical by Erick '17 sung to the tune of "Summertime" by ... Spotify's on and you're by my side Feels something like summertime

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  conversational protocol you quickly learn when you're headed to MIT. I asked him ... clothes, my bedding, my shoes, the books I'd yet to read, my crochet hooks ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022