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• 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 / 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
• 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

  GUYS IT SNOWED!! yayayayyaayy

  

  for the last month or so, and every once and a while a [four days from now: 30% chance of <0.05 in. of snow for 20 minutes] has popped up. A ... % chance of <0.05 in. of snow” popped up a couple times for yesterday

  • by Allison E. '27
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  waiting for a million things all the time, whether it's for undergraduate ... decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... to take an exam tonight at 7:30 pm, but I'm also waiting to go home for

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  't really know what to do with myself; i only woke up for 10 am because i was ... : bedtime at last! i need to wake up at 9.30 for a meeting, and it takes me ... ever leaving a ~0.04 km^2 area. dis boi long, so buckle up (and feel free

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  somehow messed up the process for making something that only involved three ... working for the whole time. You think you're messing up something simple and ... , Host of Porcelain Cow (7pm Sundays), and Membership Director for WMBR 88

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the ... around for a few minutes. We talk about CPW, and when our prefrosh are ... Talbot, the lounge next to EC's front desk, and set up the projector. I was

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you ... ghost haunting the corridors, and you make your way up to barker, the 24

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Testimony from an ’11 By: Debbie, '11

  

  about $40 for the weekend, but whatever). Afterwards, I met up with ... clears up for us prefrosh. Well, the rain did clear up on Friday and ... prefrosh, Fangfei, has willingly given up her ‘opportunity to blog

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  don't know what the healthy balance is. my process for meeting up with ... to meet up with all of them since I'm hosed all the time. given current ... because I saw so few students, or because I've been away from campus for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  to another HackMIT event for the free food before heading off to get ... ’t light up but they’re still pretty cool. I'm planning on using it to ... went to HackMIT, got lunch for free, looted the treasure trove of free

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  work for my brother I guess. So this morning I decided it was about time I make a plan and here's what I've come up with. Discover New Music ... week I've never heard before. Catch Up on Movies/TV shows Growing up I

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  Growing up, the thing that my parents were the most strict about wasn ... things that made the transition to college the hardest for me (I know. I am a GIANT BABY.). Lucky for me, I have a different sort of family with

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... five miles (for a total of 18 miles). We didn't have to go up the Hill of ... next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008