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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  . Read on, grasshopper. Here's a simple derivation of the private demand ... vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... modeled this sort of behavior. Basically, vaccines have positive

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  Who’s psyched? I’m psyched! It's gonna be stitchin'!

  

  in a new house that my wife and I just finished building. Well, we didn't actually build it, we paid a company lots of money to build it, but it's brand new and we love it! We've been in it for about three weeks. There

  • by Snively '11
  • April 6, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Faculty Luncheon for Local* Admitted Students *local: from New England or New York, or anyone who just happens to be in…

  Hello, everyone. This is probably the first time anyone has heard of ... news! Our faculty, an amazing group of folks, asked how they could help ... drawing some Venn diagrams, finally came up with the brand-spanking-new

  • by mitblogs
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  is still going on in lots of places about how to make the computers ... "Mankind has always had a yen to travel. Millions of years ago ... , exploring new territory, seeing new sights, and eventually having their skulls

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes—Fall 05

  

  on Central Park in New York City. eventual material: Some of the future ... will write a term paper on a topic of our choice, due in December. 14 ... : We have sections on family labor and standard of living in the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  advertised total of 3.14 days"] CPW [/annotation] was something completely new ... took a flight by myself to somewhere completely new in the middle of exam ... people here on campus as well as the millions of students on other college

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Although of course you end up becoming yourself Perspective and focus, brought to you by M. C. Escher

  

  catch up on months of missed Reddit, I turned it towards the long queue ... actually a painting of Escher's that's on the door to the room in Zeta Psi ... working for a company necessarily comes with a set of constraints on your

  • by Joel G. '18
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  MIT Mystery Hunt is happening! watch the kickoff at 12 PM EDT today, 1/15

  

  of a hidden coin. I'm [annotation note="I am on the same team as Shuli ... part of the winning team last year. Here's an excerpt: A puzzlehunt is a series of puzzles, but what exactly a puzzle is is kind of hard to define

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to college, Kid. My first week at MIT.

  

  new freshman at a ...certain liberal arts school on the other end of ... On the hallowed grounds of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology ... a space on East Campus' strip of paper spanning the entire length of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  new lesson learned, the new insight gained comes on the heels of overt ... A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... in New York for a couple of days. We’ll spend some time participating

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  to come to MIT, so I'm a total authority on all of this. Plus, I ... depressing read, although Foer does find several new (to me) ways of expressing ... of Foer's old tricks, and his new ones weren't so impressive--it often

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  Having spent the majority of orientation meeting new people, staying up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2012! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Decisions
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Admitted A forum for students who were admitted.

  

  Welcome to the Class of 2011! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates, and Early Action admits, welcome your new classmates...

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  ,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art ... Wednesday, we elected our new floor chairs and spent a lot of time together as ... knowing that I’d be leaving earlier than most of the people on the floor

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Jargon

  

  Activities Period. The month of January at MIT, and the most fun time to be on ... Putting the definition of punt at the end of my last entry got me skimming through the glossary of my current edition of How to Get Around MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  administration earlier this year on behalf of our international students, defended ... millions of Americans have already voted by mail or in-person; more will cast ... knowledge, the only college in Cambridge with a polling location on its campus

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  for a part of a second.  There are lights on the left and right sides of the gameboard that go on when Alex finishes.  We also practised ... new MIT Solar Car, so I'm not actually sure being on Jeopardy! even

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  named new dean of admissions March 24, 2008 Stuart Schmill SB '86 has been named MIT's next dean of admissions, Dean for Undergraduate ... 's interim director of admissions since last April, and Hastings said he has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  readers may have picked up on, this is one of those times, as my summer has ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... I have a problem (well, likely more than one, but let's not focus on

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010