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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  harder to measure. Does this mean that our process is no better than ... most stock pickers and fund managers basically do no better than random ... than random chance would predict? Result: mostly, no. Hypothesis false

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

  About MIT Recommendation Letters Some helpful tips and guidelines for your teacher letters.

  

  . Teacher recommendations should only be written by the teacher and by no one ... (i.e. no middle school, and no basket weaving class). Ideally, this ... be categorized reasonably either way -- no worries), but most seem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 16, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  . Webb went first, did a fantastic job, and then, there was no avoiding it ... , “here goes. Tack turn. No big deal.” I pushed the rudder away and pulled ... , which meant I was no longer turning! This continued for 3 or 4 tries

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  ] said, 'No it's not, it's the best idea ever!' So the name stuck.” The ... . (No kidding.) 3.Launch rafts onto the Charles River around 6 pm on July ... - check Paddles attached- hang on, what paddles? I had no paddles. Luckily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  (really!), but I really have no better way to begin this so here goes: I ... forever. If you were doing original research in cancer which no one has done before and in which there are no "established answers," then what do you do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Value of Creativity Sí, se puede.

  

  has taught us that there is no problem that money cannot solve ... - and become cookie-cutter people. The essays you write are no longer ... activities that you do are no longer good enough if they aren't part of a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Historic Boston This entry may be a little long . . .

  

  your command. *goes to cross bridge* Um, crap, no sidewalk or bike lane ... : Psh, that's not so many stairs! I'm in good shape, I can do that no ... !!!!!!!" "Oh no! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to pour scalding hot oil all over

  • by Snively '11
  • July 21, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action versus Regular Action Use this link when you get to the end of the post, you'll understand.

  

  application and the RA application? No, the application for early action is ... early? No, not really. Other than the fact that if you are deferred you ... people, to decide whether you want to come or not. Again, there is no

  • by Snively '11
  • June 15, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  at MIT. As a prefrosh I had no idea how political MIT was. As a ... your message out to hundreds of people. There's no specific audience with ... and you're the root of it, well, no hard feelings because everybody

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  I'm so grateful they never gave up on me. And with no further ado ... note: no matter how good you feel about your high school career, don ... and sweet. Remember, no matter how awesome you are, you're just one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  , however, was this: Schedule: doable? Um, no. Regardless of how set I am ... including both 5.07 and 5.13, but there's no avoiding that.) Some of you have ... , making it through freshman year with no previous experience in physics, and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  , but no way to develop it; the other with no background in that idea, but ... as to how all of this should be presented, but he was no programmer, and had no idea where to start. Furthermore, his budget was limited

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are you going with this? The ponderings of an ex-frosh.

  

  2nd semester, assuming there wasn't pass/no record)? and what was your ... (everyone's got to do them but at the same time, you're all thinking "pass/no record, God bless pass/no record..."), and there's nothing quite like it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  any good if you have no information outside the course listing ... clean the bathrooms? No, the rooms in MacGregor aren't that big -- they ... freshman? No, you don't have to find suitemates in MacGregor. All of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  duct tape the drive in place. I figured this would be no problem since ... ) looked uncool. Bleh. I tried to clean it off to absolutely no avail. I ... perfectly honest, there's no way I could explain it to you. Sorry. =) There

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here ... . Okay, here are a bunch of responses to my blog comments... No ... students happy is no consolation to seeing the deferred students so unhappy

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  , totally up to you. There is no admissions advantage to applying in one ... tests?" This won't hurt you, no worries ... recommendation from a sophomore year teacher?" There is no requirement that the rec

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fifth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to blog comments from the last month.

  

  before the May 1st deadline." No worries - we will mail in mid-march, a ... of cuts or is it a one time yes or no decision?" After your application ... admitted student's folder. There are no simple one-time "yes or no" decisions

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  naturally will enforce this delusion that December has no important pop ... Wicked Soundtrack: 1. No One Mourns the Wicked 2. The Wizard and I 3 ... time, and met no one I really clicked with. Boston was still peak though

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  solace in the self it's me! cami!

  

  Hi! Hello! Long time no see. It's weird to be typing again. I feel ... earbuds with nothing playing so no one bothers me but so I can be alert at ... be met with literally no one. Like absolutely no one. I think I'm too

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 30, 2022