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• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  list as many as I can. The most popular jobs for the graduating economics ... , different types of companies come to MIT to recruit for corporate positions in ... , health care, etc. And for people who want to take UROPing to the next level

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Cristen Chinea Cristen Chinea '10, for whom MIT might mean "meteorologist in training."

  

  back tight, lives with her mother in the same apartment where she grew up ... through a book of Sudoku puzzles. For as long as Cristen can remember, she ... student was poor enough to qualify for free lunch. She was the only student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Cake Concert, Wing Dinner, and Senior Ball An action packed 2 weekends: Cake, a wing dinner, and Senior Ball!

  

  , Long Jacket, but neither made it =( ) They ended up playing for about an ... around the world - a Habitat for Humanity event, this year they built walls ... event and all proceeds went to the Cambridge YWCA, a shelter for abused

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  what I would have done without you. This situation sucked for all of us ... they will be asked for very specific information about you to make sure ... avoiding this question for months, but you deserve an answer, so I will give

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Wear Matching Hats Very nearly one year ago, I wore the hat you're all wearing this week.

  

  hat acquisitions for others in my party. Very nearly one year ago, I ... . Then I mailed everything and sat back for a month, biting my nails and sweating up a storm and refreshing Ben's and Matt's blogs a few times a day

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  ). Favorite TV: The OC, Alias, and Lost are the only 3 hours I give up for TV ... . And if we're really getting into my secrets, I have a thing for the ... , Counting Crows, Coldplay, U2, Incubus, Mars Volta, Death Cab For Cutie, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Comments on A Boring Friday lItErArY aNaLySiS

  

  Spoilers for A Boring Friday, you should check that first ... → Go back to sleep → and dream → Get up and get breakfast → "Oh yeah ... invisible—up to the point where this option draws attention to it again. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... situations. If I was working on trying to come up with some new cancer idea, my ... ideas. In fact for Christmas, some of the faculty used their own money to

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  after researching for weeks and giving up my entire Saturday to get ... -part post. That being said, I’ll assume for now that academics at MIT won ... think about them changes--for the sake of argument. Though I left my last

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Summer Decisions

  

  your project. ANYONE can show up at an internship for one summer, and ... competitive applicant, about what medical schools are looking for, the ... for the GRE. STUDY FOR THE GRE! It's a dumb test but your score really

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article, Kahneman describes his time working as a psychologist for the Israeli Army

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

  Application Advice v2.0 How to survive the application process without losing your mind.

  

  Kevin: Kevin said: what does the admissions office look for in ... application than to sit in a classroom for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone ... think about that for a minute. (When you're done laughing at how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  love for math kind of changed. Not into hatred exactly, but maybe ... ...another story for another day) learned the math as we went along. I got straight A ... computation as I go. Ask me to do math for math's sake, or to do an MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , resilient foundation for the educational, personal, and professional ... nursery room for other newborns. He saw twenty or thirty other boys and ... caught up with them at various events during the course of the week. One

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 2 and the power of the many

  

  , accuracy) and understanding the compromises settled for in attaining this ... memory and then add them up. But if available memory was limited, so that you could see the stream of numbers you needed to sum up one at a time

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Affirmations not unnecessary

  

  sentence up with a number of caveats all to the effect of: Yes, I do know ... “betterness” exist? Would such a ranking even be useful for any real purpose? I ... would be like. I didn’t know if I was prepared for how hard MIT would be

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 29, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You should get this bundle right now definitely clickbait

  

  engineer in the 1960s working for a Silicon Valley startup, gradually building a CPU out of simple components. It's not for everyone, but if you ... playing this game around a decade ago, and picked it up again because of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  so many eye rolls. For real though, "the people" is the only true ... Energy’s math pick up lines, or DJ T.A.G.O.E.'s mixes, or Malik and Miles creating a home on STEM TikTok. It all matters for the simple fact that this

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  over and we hugged each other for a solid five minutes and that was ... now reading the messages that my high school classmates wrote for me ... and i said i'd catch up on my work and i just played hollow knight and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure ... , raptor attacks, children on leashes, or chainsaws for hands? A hilarious ... $20 for food. Come learn how to fend off the hunger once the free food

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015