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• Blog / About Decisions

  Just To Be Clear: We Don’t Do Legacy anatomy of a WTF in the WSJ

  

  cited (at 39) to "An Analytic Survey of Legacy Preference,", which appears ... any data, but instead itself cites (at 84) “No Distinctions except Those ... legacy-granting MIT.” (emphasis mine) Here they cite (at 371) the “MIT

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 25, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  of the Sport Death shirt that at this point it's probably cheaper to ... , Egypt, before starting at MIT. This summer, I’m interning at RIA Novosti ... : the oldest dormitory at MIT (1918) and one of the smallest (~150

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  -- but also shows off and helps fund student projects. a day at the fair I ... delicious chili-cinnamon hot chocolate. At one booth down the first row, a ... leave it at that. Its most heavily marketed capability is the ability to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  Both my father (MCP, '87) and I spent some time here at the Institute ... was willing to shell out for it. After all, when you look at that Brass ... of my time at MIT. Some of the cooler features that I really enjoy

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  arrived in Bath bright and early around 10am. That means waking up at 5 am ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train ... charming chocolatier from France. Thanks to my three French classes at MIT, I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  . But skiing at Whistler with my family and eating endless 12 course ... compares to the comfort of being at home. It was nice to be around my family ... definitely feel like you belong at home, but it doesn't feel the same way it

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doing What You Love it's both priceless and utilitarian

  

  forward a little bit at a time in one tiny, specific system. But she loves ... probably are if you want to apply to MIT), you're good at things, and that ... like not working at all. Guys. This is awesome. But wait. Is it selfish

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 24, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  that will just run you absolutely ragged, and at around noon, I snapped ... Capstone courses, and it has to be the best class at MIT by a long shot. You ... ) , more often than not I am in it deep. The class runs at a breakneck pace

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  Today, I will p-set. Really. I wake up at 7 am. I shower. I try on ... of dirty laundry. I print out my p-sets for the week. While I’m at it I ... at MIT that some variables are set: in order to be happy I must sleep

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... cover.” Blank stares at the table. The 18-yr-old started snorting over ... have teenagers at home, I realize this makes me an “authority/ parent

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I would like to find an astronomer to talk to No admissions. Just good writing.

  

  editor at The Atlantic and one of my favorite bloggers - in which he quotes ... filling ... something. If it is expanding it has perimeters, at present far beyond any ability of ours to measure. What do things look like just at the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  ’s what summer internships are for, or at least that’s what I told myself ... of MIT would make me enjoy writing so much, but it has. At the MIT ... brand new environment for me—I’m sitting at a desk, not a lab bench, but

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... much in the past three weeks as I have at MIT, though the knowledge is ... your time, to interact with people at different levels within a company

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  people at MIT: Yes, we have a number of Nobel laureates, but every now and ... celebrity whom I photographed at really close range.   The ... ceremony took place last week. In a nutshell, Amanda D., a sophomore at MIT

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York ... of power. And so now to the afternoon of April 2, and the arrival at ... a new stage at the Met just so it wouldn't collapse. Why the set was

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... at the bus stop were demonstrating this tactic, and had chosen the ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  with hiking or museum visits or at least some shopping. But this vacation ... IAP-you operate at your own level. Want to go abroad or do an externship ... semester. After three and a half jam-packed years at MIT (including IAPs), I

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to “Teach” Leadership Please find the probability that Shakespeare diffuses into my GEL classes given that my schedule…

  

  standard 12-unit MIT class. At the beginning of the semester, I heard there ... ’s structure, and case studies on real companies that look at the cultural ... , in October the class looked at BP and the summer’s oil disaster. Some

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  at least), there was a magical dorm where hundreds of grad students lived. The grad students had inhabited this dorm at the corner of ... operate. The Phoenix Group began doing research to investigate programs at

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  3D Ping Pong Quantum Mechanics (Or why the sciences here are even better than you may think)

  

  calculations that Ernest Rutherford used when he shot alpha particles at a gold ... balls in a lecture hall. "It's considered bad form to aim at your ... , that's pretty much the concept behind much of the learning at MIT: Mens

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 20, 2010