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• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Thursday, 12/15/16, at 6:28PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this sneezing puppy long enough to ... decisions online next Thursday, 12/15/16, at Tau Time (i.e. 6:28PM ET). To ... your MyMIT username and password.   In order to verify that you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’d Like Your Help With My Letter to President Obama… What I'm up to in 21W.747 (Rhetoric) class these days.

  

  coach, Dave Hunter, attempts to motivate us for the next period using a strong appeal to emotion (pathos). Sometimes he focuses much more heavily on an appeal to our logic (logos) by quoting statistics on shot blocks

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • December 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  ago, I decided I wanted to be a doctor when I grew up. (A brief introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a student, I did not want to be a doctor when I grew up.) As a result, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  problem. Mealplans are expensive, coming out to be $12-15 per meal. And in between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy ... Support and Equality) Food Insecurity Group creating ways to tackle it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... updating the CityLab article accordingly. I was forced not to look away. At four thirty in the afternoon, I needed to. News was not breaking so

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite ... ! Beyond these valuable life lessons, I've also been lucky enough to take a ... is born. And despite the business buzzwords (integrated marketing to

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

  night I wrote this post and forgot to click publish so I'm going to add a bunch of CROMBUS content and some other stuff to the end and put it up ... Halloween so I guess I had to make cookies. My favorite halloween cookies are

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Before MIT goes APE, I learn how to eat dumplings FAST. ...or at least learn how to morph into a dumpling eating machine.

  

  footage...but it needs to be edited. So get ready for an entry filled month ... show... * Please excuse my lack of acting skills :P Credits to Travis

  • by Celena C. '12
  • March 4, 2010
• 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,…

  

  Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... 's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  How do I submit my official transcript to MIT as a QuestBridge applicant?

  If the transcript on your QuestBridge application was sent by your counselor/school official, it fulfills our requirements for an official transcript and no further action is needed on your part.…
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  thought the whole world should cater to the dominance of their own language ... legitimate obstruction to getting anything across at all. Having lacked the foresight to grind a Duolingo course on the flight there, my half

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  _grid images="99620,99621" /] Nine days of spring break: what to do with them? I ... 35-year run. So, we booked tickets and set on going to New York to catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... your stomach clenches tighter and tighter, and you just want to scream ... continuing to bother that welt would increase your chances of infection, you

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few ... research. the third one is fulfilling obligations. they all contribute to my ... lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All? how do i live without regret?

  

  think it's going to be the same, but it's not. And you're going to sit ... in your suffocating little cubicle, and you're going to think: Is this ... computer science major just to end up as some strange cop-out major instead

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  wrote about all the clubs and classes I was doing. I've decided to revisit ... perspectives to analyze texts emanating from these debates, and present their ... four debate topics this semester as we are required to. My topics are

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  is less caught under the firehose, so there tends to be more socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bday burnout no more spiders please

  

  instant mood booster. My podmate asked if I wanted to attend our 18 ... to Killian Court. We set up next to some trees on the right and figured out how to create shade so that we could actually see our screens. I got

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 18, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  my teeth, and stumbled across Memorial Drive to the boathouse. At 6:30 sharp, clad in sunglasses and head-to-toe rain gear, I yelled at my teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  having to explain how MIT works to curious 24s has made me realize that ... . So, I decided to make a blogpost of things-I've-had-to-explain-to-non-MIT-people-a-lot so that when YOU are asked all these things, you can just link them to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020