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• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  bed each morning to face the world even though you know that it's going ... struggled or failed? It's not a trick question, it's to show what you're made ... 's house in Kentucky as I write this. Thanks to the people who wished me good

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  the same time, seeing that I'm in withdrawal of learning how to do ... So summertime brings me to a crossroads in life, my fraternity's chef gets a summer vacation, I'm morally opposed to eating Top Ramen or hot

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Ethicist

  

  abroad have figured out that they can call our shipping company to figure out if an Admit Pack is coming their way. Sure, it takes the fun out of ... some students abused his time by never actually submitting the letters to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 13, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  only contracted to move the cannon here for CPW, and we respect the speed ... : Apparently CalTech flew out a crew of 20 to retrieve the cannon, and took it ... invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  house. Dark days. Literally. I did it though - I stuck to the training ... big goals that I set out to conquer and failed at. I made it 50 miles ... to it and how best to react. My first layoff helped me put the employer

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Katharine Hepburn’s Brownies How Kate saved my kitchen cred.

  

  to use the word hate, but I’m going to be a rebel and use it anyway ... the mood to experiment? It’s kind of a big deal, picking a favorite, and ... thing MIT has taught me, it’s that failing doesn’t have to be forever. In

  • by Alina G. '11
  • July 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  . So if that sounds distasteful to you, then maybe it would be better to ... 's presented! Plus, it’s probably more fun to figure out your own position on the ... . It is a good introduction to the topic. :’) Mister Nozick

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  with ten or so others the minute they get wet, and think it's okay to ... that I was certain I would fail, I stepped into the shower to be greeted ... 'd be able to return it under a lemon law. Can we return Next House? No

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  loveallurfriends <3

  

  clicking through the 6.031 Reading (I’ll have to actually read it in the ... Now Playing: Talk to Me - Cavetown   I stared at the river for ... large rock. Bodies of water have an unwritten contract: if you look at

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 6, 2024
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the Singapore-MIT Alliance?

  SMART is MIT's first, and to-date only, research center outside the United States. MIT faculty members have laboratories at SMART, mentor postdoctoral associates and graduate students, and collaborate with researchers
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  no new information that would cause the CBO to revise its own cost ... access at the office but not in my apartment. It's been rough, as you can ... city. I'll try to find out what else I can tell you about my job; if I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  admitted to. And if I hadn't chosen MIT, I probably would have chosen the ... don't feel any need to defend myself. If I think back to the decision I ... always knew I was going to choose MIT. Bluntly put, it was the most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  final show, where the viewers have to call in their votes. It would be ... . The advantage to the device is that it activates by just pushing the ... not to sign a contract to appear on MTV's The Real World: Boston (season

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  it was made from Legos and is referred to as the Space Waffle, and the ... ever (if not the best). it was a hunt clearly written for the enjoyment ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Getting Help @ MIT by Warren K. ’27

  

  the break. When I return to MIT next semester, I'll be doing it knowing ... folks here aren’t used to failing. The biggest highlight of my first month ... once. It started with an email to my academic advisor, then a phone call

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 17, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  So if I take them now, I would really struggle to wake for the sunrise ... Not the best coping mechanism but it is unquestionably effective to ... “ Not the best coping mechanism but it is unquestionably effective to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  The college admissions process is often compared to dating. It's a ... . Now it's our turn to wait, excited and eager, hoping the applicants we ... courts the first, and so on. We spend time and money trying to identify

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  My brother is cooler than me The plight of the less-cool older sibling.

  

  visits me and he can ham it up even more: a) Without fail, the first ... Cod, mainly just to say that we made it all the way to Provincetown ... ... ....so you can say that you made it all the way to the tip of Cape Cod. h

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  Institution, but the rest is open to the general public. So, if you knew what ... wait until the end of this month for it to be observed. But it will be ... the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Who WIll Win the Nobel Prize? Vote for your favorite MIT professor!

  

  pick to win a Nobel Prize this year? Vote Now on Facebook The "nominees ... order, listed with the Nobel they might win and why they might win it ... ; Bengt Holmstrom (Economics) Theory of the firm | Contracting and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2012