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

  

  [/caption] “Aha!”, you might say. “We can see that employment in New Jersey is going ... . Much research that happens in economics is very different from what you ... when economists can randomize interventions; that was, in fact, the

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 14, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  learning how to drive and other matters of identification

  

  to happen in Boston so that you're not screwed if your card isn ... you live in a more suburban or rural area and local bus routes don't pass by your house. However, if you live in a big city or within walking

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Q&A A bit of clarification on being waitlisted.

  

  students will choose to remain on the waitlist. Can you tell me where I am on ... MIT waitlist, everything will still turn out well for you in the end ... addresses will be sent an email at the same time). Students can either send in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  can opener—you just can’t get anywhere with it! “Well duh,” you say. You ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been ... he or she can in the positive direction, the value your program will

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2nd Half of IAP a quick and slightly belated list

  

  bulk of the time commitment is in one week over IAP. You get divided into ... you can "learn on your own." We signed up despite this, and honestly do ... stuff! In no particular order, here is a list: 1) We went on an errand

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 13, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  -ness; no superficial, external failure or conflict can faze you. But keep in ... little I can add to Khan's awesome address, so I will instead link you to ... ways. Many of you may not remember, but in the late 1990s and early 2000s

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  the ballot box’ since I can’t vote. Even in conversations, I catch ... from my relatively privileged position, being black in America sucks. You ... a people. In my opinion, by being silent, you are enabling the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learn Coding Before School Starts you've got one month left. go!

  

  learned SQL to store the user's data online in a MySQL table so they can log ... . In Python, whitespace matters. In Java, just be sure you have brackets ... coding and then give you some resources so you can too.\n") def history

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 2, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  “PUSH IT PUSH IT.” Immediately, we both just grinned, because how can you ... class. Other times, you can slow down, and take the time to stretch you ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  As Winter Melts things are gonna change so fast

  

  sense of immediacy and a let's-do-it-because-we-can attitude that you ... well-organized spreadsheet. I'm always looking for ways I can improve ... to avoid doing this in the future. For a while, I've been trying to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  , even in a bad situation where it feels like you're stuck, you can find ... , and you should be sure that the one you searched Yahoo Maps for is in ... (For those who don't know/can't figure out, "Camberville" is a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  viewing pleasure.  Enjoy! Nine-fold Pinwheel Designer: I forgot (and can’t find the model online) I started folding origami in high school ... in a “draft” blog post when I applied to be a blogger. That draft never

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Visit to the Museum of Fine Arts There's nothing like a trip to the Museum of Fine Arts to make you realize…

  

  Roman mosaics ever. At the MFA, they have the original mosaics and you can ... use of lots of very cool machines (as you can imagine, the mosaics ... I just checked off #34 on the list of "101 Things To Do Before You

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  ever written on the subject of Facebook privacy. So you can imagine my ... time you make progress in solving it. Dawn of a New Era: Kai has a real gift for elegant puzzle mechanics. You’ll learn a lot in the course of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  50 (First) Dates You and your significant other -- where to meet on campus, where to go out,…

  

  ? Star Market -- if you can't grocery shop with this person, you probably ... the house more Black Ink in Beacon Hill -- where we found greeting card ... they back together? and if so, WHY??? TechTV video (Of course, you can

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by ... , "Cool, you guys actually get to use index cards and reference sheets. But ... , just in case you forgot the structure of an amino acid or the definition

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  : Sometimes, it seems like MIT people only speak in numbers. You'll hear sentences like "I have 6.001 in 10-250 at 2:30, then my Course 9 UROP in ... legendary (how many classes have YOU been in where students gave standing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  note="If you look hard enough on the Internet, you can actually find my essays online. You don't actually have to look that hard, they ... colleges. You are not losing yourself in these applications. I'll conclude

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a ... ![/caption] In 1974, Dave submitted an article to Skin Diver Magazine which you can ... in high school, but I'm glad I can be here now. And you don't have to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mens et Manus: Building a Camera at the Hobby Shop [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] If you have an idea, you can build it.

  

  the Hobby Shop. If you have an idea, you can build it, and someone will ... projects, the Hobby Shop holds classes during the semester that you can take ... their own 8x10. You can follow my progress at I Build a Camera (I’m

  • by ARTalk
  • May 6, 2008