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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 ... fraternity men are both diverse and intellectual, respect women (at least in my

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

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  peanut butter, bread, and Nutella (in case France declares war, I guess ... probably clutching your intestines in fright and wondering if Draino can be ... hallucinations of a McDonald's worker on NyQuil, so I departed to my floor in

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waitlist This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. No…

  

  This is not an easy entry to write so I'll just keep it short. In a ... to meet our target class size. With that figure in mind, I was ... that you will do wonderful things in the world, wherever you end up. I

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 10, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  continuing work in research and achieving a doctorate in my field. I hope to ... keep in touch with the friends and contacts that I made abroad. MISTI ... internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Applicants should submit this form ASAP, by February 15th.

  

  will not be available for a while. You can note in the Midyear Updates ... can ignore the text boxes and simply choose the option, "I attend a ... The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Start shaping up in January! I like.

  

  Despite the constant intrusion of multivariable calculus, I think I’m in love with IAP. The recurring theme seems to be: Things get thrown ... “go with the flow, ride the wave of life” mentality is so fulfilling – I

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  it's that time of year folks, the time of year that I don't even have the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... , projects, psets galore!) that I kinda wish I was anywhere but here. Summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  !! Play 25MB Flash movie. Solutions later this week. I can tell you that ... Food: Ancient and Medieval Cooking, Experiencing Health Policy: A Week in ... activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  federal government to support education in low-income families. I'm proud of ... international applicants. We'll release numbers when we can. In the mean time, we ... As you've no doubt heard on email or from Ben's blog, we will, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  It all started one day in the fall semester, when Danny was in CMS ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a double on the third floor of Next House, specifically in Safety Third (the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... bed in the morning...I will be cranky. So when I needed to stay up to ... office last week, and I didn't want those clips to go to waste. In many

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  'M IN IT FIND ME (you won't be able to, so here, I'll just tell you: I ... I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  month, Glenn passed at the age of 78. You can read his obituary in The ... Silva. He's painted my name at least five times since I've been here as we ... not more, important than doing the same for innovators, I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  , sports, and the occasional hack." I hosted Episode 4, check it out! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart ... scripted. You can also check out the first three episodes: Episode 3 has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang ... When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... appointments who live in dorms alongside undergrads or grad students. (Maseeh, Ashdown, and iHouse also have Residential Scholars.) When Shannon came to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new ... , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  part of MIT folklore, hacks can tell much about MIT's culture and ... of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  , so if that doesn’t tell you how trendy of an event this was, I don ... the colors of fall and use materials I see in everyday life." Created by ... armor, an ancient breast plate. In my essay I explored the idea of the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016