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• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  i set up alarms too early than too late. an alarm that's too early ... wake up. the analogy is that when there's something i'm alarmed about ... too much. or, when a deadline for a decision is coming, i don't have to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Joan - ALL THE MUGS! IT IS SO EXCITING! We signed up for the class right ... for IAP: Mighty Mugs Cocktails 101 FormLabs Bad Ideas Getting ... - Claire L. '17 - when she brought up that there were ceramics classes

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Hidden Treasures @ MIT: Pistol Think Pistols Are Cool? Wait Till You Meet Mike Conti

  

  First thing I want to do is apologize for not blogging in a while ... everything I learned from it in a bit. For now I want to start a series a blogs ... strong on my quest to get the Pirate's License. While I came for the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 4, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  . Keeping up with the standard I had set by eating for the Internet, they ... was a sophomore in college I once ate for the Internet. I had missed a ... posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Camp Kesem! It's magical.

  

  day, when I shelve my textbooks and notes and give it up for three wonderful summer-y months. I have a few things lined up for the summer, and ... for a long, long while; Melis '08 wrote about it a few years ago, when

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2006 announced

  

  where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in ... last two years, we are handling the job of assigning rooms for team

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy November 1st! Halloween was yesterday. My costume was/is an embarassment. You should read about it!

  

  , just in case anyone gave me a hard time about not dressing up. Ready for ... Lots of people thanked me for my application advice, for which you ... graduate students? Have you or any of your friends started researching for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  helped write an email to my dorm on March 25th, pleading for folks to take ... way this feeling has. This sense of exhaustion slowly seeped its way up ... Undergraduate Association rallied hard for faculty to change their semester plans

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life as a Physics Major- Research and Junior Lab(Part 2) Long and verbose. But I hope you find time to read it.

  

  and preparing your oral and sometimes even finishing up analysis for the ... my slides from Alpha Decay, which I ended up choosing for my public ... drafting 2 weeks ago. At which time I wrote the following before I gave up

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Beat the heat in the Z Center Pictures of the MIT gym

  

  This morning I went for a miserably hot run along a busy road by my ... 'd post some pictures. Plus, you can use the Z Center for free during the ... filled up, to avoid being spotted and identified as the creepy girl who is

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 11, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  get up, say good morning to my roommate, and head for the bathrooms ... immediately thank the gods for finals week. My GRT, bless his soul, cooked up an ... end up waiting for twenty minutes to see the doctor- I don’t mind. I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their ... any additional students for the Class of 2020. We have seen all the ... 't end up getting in), I'm actually glad that I ended up where I

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  classic what-classes-am-I-taking-this-term post. I'm signed up for 66 units ... , for the last two terms I've signed up for 51 units. This should be an ... I woke up this morning at 8:15, 45 minutes after my alarm was going

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Human Factor And String Theory Two links to start your weekend.

  

  Stu, Matt, Nance, Daniel and I are all down in NYC for the College ... developed for its new Campaign For Students, a big fundraising campaign that will take us through the years leading up to our 150th anniversary. The

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  applications. It's been hard to find time for much else (like blogging and email), though I've been sure to take some downtime for Heroes, Veronica Mars, James Bond and Borat. It looks like our early application numbers for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  One of the economics electives I have signed up for is 14.11: Putting ... , persuasion, corruption and voting. (See the syllabus on this site for a ... milestones leading to the planning, execution, write-up and presentation of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  Hey folks. I've been busy, which still isn't a good excuse for not ... , coming up with some ideas but telling myself there would more time during ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  altogether. but as i came up with ideas for my thesis and thought about ... calling involves holding up a mirror and searching deep in yourself for the ... love and commitment. here are some of them. sometimes for me, this

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  final day of freshman orientation, you can sign yourself up for as many ... price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  a makerspace that ended up being closed for the night), then around ... my dresser, waiting to be picked up. It had been there for over a week ... back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021