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  joshua angrist shares the nobel prize! and the research is *so* cool

  

  process described above: and the “random” part of this is important. When ... Some of you may have heard the news already, but if you haven’t: on Monday, Joshua Angrist, the Ford International Professor of Economics at

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  when I don't post. Whoops. [I'm also too tired to do all of the footnotes ... Manufacturing II]. It's pretty neat! The goal of the class is to make FIFTY YOYOS ... back a lot and sort of isolated myself from new people. This semester, I

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  low points, but it takes a certain amount of humility and retrospect to ... didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... ignore terrible advice. I've gotten a lot of what makes MIT hard

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  June Questions Omnibus 1 Bigfoot asked a few weeks back, "Will you be posting an omnibus soon, Matt?" Yes,…

  

  ? I was accepted into MIT '09 but cannot attend because of finances ... .P classes because of the budget cuts in my school. So only the students with the highest averages got into the A.P classes. On the other hand, I will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 13, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  You construct intricate rituals function loses form and form loses function

  

  into math, but we have a hard rule of "no math during tea time".) I ... , what about the handful of events that do work? More importantly, isn ... fire alarms in the middle of the night. Our discussion strayed into video

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  was plugged into the old outlet at the foot of my bed, grabbing what I ... This is a story of how two MIT students -- one with a fabulous idea ... considerable grant money, and over the course of a year, create something truly

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  of summer vacation, we're still riding on a high, fueled with ... to see our friends, go back-to-school shopping, move into our new rooms ... year, a blank slate, a fresh start. A momentary burst of confidence and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  years of experience into 500 words, so all that came across was "I didn ... different essays and pieced together a hybrid with the most important parts of ... photo of a Burton-Conner room also with an amazing beach theme (jaw

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions; I’ve got (some) answers Answers to your questions.

  

  ?" Bianca, From my MIT experience, I think some of the most important things ... done this at some point, so if you know of a blogger who already has ... to go directly into industry? Research? Education? Is there any

  • by Bryan
  • October 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  Ahhh, yes. I know this time of year. Left and right you have tiny ... petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... other, and Adelaide is more important than Mystery Hunt. The puzzles aren ... just ran into her room. Then she ran back out, pausing just long enough

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Live from Reg Day Somewhere between meetings 5 and 6

  

  THAT, I booked it out of the room and into the nearest empty classroom ... of classes. The day of the APO Book Exchange. The day when some stressfully large percentage of student organizations decides to have The First

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 3, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  important note for today: All of MIT's financial aid is based on financial ... -income students get into top-tier colleges. Paul credits some of his success to O ... .I.T, where he will begin early his journey into the high-tech world of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... what to do with myself, and fell asleep on the couch. There are a lot of Friday nights like this, and a lot of Fridays spent studying or coding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ushering in a New Era An open letter to Pass/No Record (with footnotes!)

  

  apparently not important enough to put into the main text. Sometimes though ... there for me**. Like a rock. Or that piece of paper I accidentally ... freshman anymore, so while most of my fellow freshmen will be on the ABC

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  HT@MIT: Academic Resources How I Learned To Stop Slacking and Love the Office Hours

  

  recitation and office hours. This is a compiled list of the resources that I ... . Recitation This is usually your first line of defense when you leave lecture ... will swear that recitations are the worst possible waste of your time

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  , which was already late on day two of school. “Hey, instead of doing ... now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film theory classes because I was forced to consider what I was going to make of

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh the People You See *does a barrel ro-- I mean a double take*

  

  Today was moving day. My role in life on May 25th, was to move all of my crap (believe me, a lot of it is crap) up a floor (onto Conner 3 ... 't care enough to pack everything into 4 boxes and partially due to the fact

  • by Snively '11
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  the exam and the season premiere of Lost. There's no guarantee that I'll be able to concentrate that night. Instead of concentrating this ... Hampshire! Not all of us can go on fantasy pirate cruise ships, so we all

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  to the history, growth, and, most importantly, the culture of MIT. The ... artistic medium of comic making.  

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012