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• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not ... finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They' ... 't make it any easier. Many MIT freshmen, myself included, come to

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

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , but I do have a couple of things to say about starting college ... is how to design a robot, or how to calculate the thermodynamic properties of a chemical reaction, or how to succinctly prove that If an

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  , ever try to launch a very sketchy-looking homebuilt watercraft on a ... My friend Amrys (MIT '02) and a bunch of her fellow MIT-grad friends spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  wanted to take a breath and collect some words of encouragement from ... , cozy blanket to curl around you while you wait. here comes a thought by ... kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and ... If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special
• Blog / Athletics

  Sexy MIT Engineers My

  

  year I also had to make a decision: theatre or ultimate? It had become ... Freshman fall I decided to join a sport. I had never played sports in ... did fine more or less…We even flew to Texas for a spring break

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: And That’s A Wrap! tracing back three months

  

  ,726,400 Seconds of Summer guest series adieu (not going to lie, it’s a bittersweet ... . Since then, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to figure out what the key to ... naturally lined up with that. Summer is a time for MIT students to spend three

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 7, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask A VC Boston 2016 networking with over 20 venture capitalists all over the startup scene

  

  startups to make returns. As an entrepreneur, being in their good graces and ... would react to being woken up at 8. I had a class that grades attendance ... , but there's no developed market for it. You have to create a need before

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 1, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.

  

  we arrived to the competition site, a brisk wind decided to settle in ... was our turn to fly again, we flew the untimed cargo mission, carrying a ... into the lawn to the sound of a collective grimace from the crowd. At

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  take place, we never make it a priority to sit down and really understand ... a “how’s it going?” But more so than ever, I’m trying to make the ... to hear about the cool thing you did this week. Physics doesn’t make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of ... have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a ... Dominos has brought the concept to a whole new level. I just think this is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  keeping interest a list of things i think are cool

  

  't. So now I feel this weird pressure to...make sure I don't end up in a ... For the past week, I've been thinking a lot about what I want to do with my life and my time. I'm currently on a track at MIT to pursue EECS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  More for Admitted Students What to do now if you've been admitted to MIT.

  

  're making the best choice for yourself), or to request a deferral/gap year ... MIT Portal: Over at MyMIT, you'll find a bunch of stuff only available to ... enter themselves on the guestbook, it's a good way to share your contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  , you pedal to make a hot air balloon float over mountains while you ... innovative educational technology tools that can make a significant ... achieve iCampus's goals, and if all goes well, they get funding to make

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  of a country evangelist) to make me a mix CD of her favorite stuff. I ... . When reading, I'm most likely to be listening to a specific album -- the ... is a band I'm going to have to explain to my kids so they can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  was going to be invited with a press pass, but if I couldn't make it, he ... room was electric. (MIT confession: I was going to make a comparison to ... able to make it to whatever he had in mind, sorry! He replied "okay!" but

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  ridiculous amounts of food for a few hours (I woke up to my friends making a ... ?" "On a picnic. Do you want to come?" "...Where?" "Killian Court. We have ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.

  

  talking about in the morning, and I managed to catch a glimpse of it on my way to a 7.03 (genetics) exam in the morning. After the exam, I headed ... location for trying to shoot a better photo, so I took the elevator to the 18

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 2, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  It’s all right. It’s just a small pebble in your path. Just a tiny pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it ... Kentaro Miura) There were many wonderful applicants to MIT this year, which

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Vacation A week of total relaxation didn't stop me from thinking about MIT constantly.

  

  : I even made my wife do some recruiting: To make it seem as though ... near future - it'll take me a few days to remember what it is that I ... , but not as awesome as MIT. Consider the evidence: Sigh. But a week

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 10, 2006