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  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography (whoops!), so here's something you should know: at MIT, I am a proud member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  scores at the time of EA selection, we'll simply defer an applicant to Regular Action (with no penalty, of course) and consider him/her at that ... This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the ... .) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  visually striking. I made this one out of sticky notes at work! Excavated ... specific model from a book owned by one of my previous professors at MIT ... About a year ago, I wrote about the origami I’d made at my internship

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  The first quarter comes to a close at MIT. I am crocheting winter attire. My radiator churns and hisses through the night. Hundreds of ... "]released.[/annotation] The fall quarter [annotation note="The first half of MIT's Intro to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Itinerary: IAP 2017 4 weeks in a suitcase and carry on

  

  at the Skating Club of Boston, I left for Oxford, Ohio, for the 2017 ... 2016 -> 2017 On Tuesday the 3rd, I packed up what was left of ... my first trip of 2017, bringing along one suitcase and carry on. It was

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  that recruits teams of writers at thousands of different universities. I ... I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  you'd probably be happy at any of them. Your experiences at each ... next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  moving her outside the stream of time! 2) Saw Machete on Friday night at ... Happy Labor Day Weekend y'all! I'm up north in my ancestral woods of New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Finally! Pictures from the Conner 2 holiday party! Yes that was a month ago. Leave me…

  

  , which eats up most of my time. But there are plenty of things going on at ... . I've already done 32 hours of training. The MIT firehose analogy at ... spelling of the word. That's a rather dubious and embarassing distinction! So

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  For the past three days, I was at the conference of the National Association of College Admission Counseling (NACAC). NACAC is the primary ... of the University of Miami. At right, Donna Shalala addresses a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  There are a lot of awesome things named ‘Kaiser’ This post mainly consists of drawings of my professor, sentence fragments, and my over-use of…

  

  of the Course 7 (biology) department at MIT (he’s also an alum! Ph ... . Actually, I was never a huge fan of this band, but they produced some catchy tunes a couple years ago. (For fans of alt-rockers like Franz Ferdinand

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Summer

  The 9-to-5 grind (or the 9-to-6:30 because that's when the free dinner is, and a girl's gotta eat)

  

  large enough to take over a whole row of tables at meals. -- Like at ... really just sit in front of a computer for 8 hours a day? Do you work on ... years of my career. Well, this reporter’s got the inside scoop, having

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... certain elements of the process. At the time, I thought it was a ... DID YOU KNOW? Frank Zappa played The Pope on an episode of Ren and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another New Semester and A Lot of Cats Call me the crazy cat lady

  

  by quiet, I mean crazy, of course.  I live on Tetazoo, after all. I ... .  We just have to show the world! Other than all the stress of passing ... Microstructural Evolution of Materials.  It is all about materials on the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  . i've come to peace with a lot of the things that kept me up late at ... stretch at mit and being welcomed with opened arms the council of yuri ... little statement of hope at the very end. looking back at the endings of my

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  "peasant" of a student, not a "poet" if that makes any sense at all), but now ... you think that my sort of person can still do well at MIT, that's great ... ...). But when people get here, everyone pretty much leaves a lot of that at

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  websites. I spent a great deal of the summer before my freshman year at MIT ... think that's true of most chain supermarkets. If you go at night ... I'm taking a break from my weekend of watching Lost episodes

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006