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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  offer the good at a price of P=0. It's a weird kind of subsidy, but it ... case, universities) subsidize something that they are offering for free ... vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  want to write today.  It started when we moved from Brooklyn, New York ... laugh, and formed a small group of friends, who we’d sit with at lunch ... answer. Our fourth grade math curriculum in New York happened to almost

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to ... university shields us from the recession and a sea of red shelters our tiny

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  :50 A.M. on a Sunday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... :50 A.M. on a Monday Morning. I’m in the kitchen of my floor at Random ... notifies me of his new tweet. I check it out and shake my head. It’s in the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  College of New York. Just curious wrote, "This has probably already been ... , the college counselor at the Loyola School in New York City, about this ... have these traits as outgoing people. There are many types of people at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  retreating and proceeding favorite thing about mit's campus? leaving it

  

  opportunities freshman year? Proceed) At least 1 out of 16 student bloggers agree ... common with MIT. Photocred: Connie H. '15   April - New York City ... field trip to the MoMA in New York this past weekend to see the exhibit

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • April 13, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Flies And I lose track of it

  

  Matilda, and go to New York Comic Con. One of the greatest parts about ... travel to New York, wander around the city, meet up with friends from high ... create a Vlogbrothers-esque “Thoughts from Places” video about New York

  • by Ceri Riley '16
  • October 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  ). I have also had candidates ask me "what majors are offered at MIT ... MIT?" If you are enrolled in a degree-seeking course at a university ... beginning of next academic year, or possibly at the conclusion of this

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  photoshoot while they supplied the breakfast :P At the end of the first year ... major. This means you get two diplomas at graduation. Probably to decrease ... spurred on by this stupid idea of graduating each with two diplomas, we went

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Presenting…the 2008 Brass Rat!!! As the only sophomore blogger, it is my duty, no, pleasure, to describe the unveiling…

  

  sash. Our class year appears at the bottom of the class shank. The font ... and a worker at an anvil, symbolizing the union of knowledge and ... controversy from reoccurring, all of the sophomores received a survey at the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  such events as the University of Missouri incidents in November ... creating a diverse, accepting environment at MIT. He led the creation of a ... events highlighted across college campuses such as the University of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Rejects, I feel your pain! I've never been stung by a bee, but I imagine it felt sort of like…

  

  that we are not offering you admission to MIT in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning. The number of applicants for admission to the ... ? University of Pennsylvania or Cornell University? :) If anyone thinks I should

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Blogs Featured in NY Times "[N]one of the [other colleges'] blogs match the interactivity and creativity of M.I.T.'s, where they…

  

  From The New York Times (check out the awesome photo of Paul, Jess ... York Times CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Cristen Chinea, a senior at M.I.T., made a ... Lord, dean of admissions at Haverford College, which posted student

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  of tomorrow's New York Times.  That's because he makes the news. [edit ... : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m in New York Picturesss on flickrsss

  

  Staying with my friend Larisa in her and her mom's swanky apartment across the river from the city. And taking some pictures. Finals seemed like forever ago. Taking the train back to New Haven tomorrow.

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Rubbing Elbows I have pizza with a famous person.

  

  , from this one pizza shop in New York Dr. Langer was particularly fond of ... distinguishes the Institute from any other university that I know. On one level ... amount of passion, creativity, and pure intelligence that suffuse all of

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  (central mtg in Hartford on 9/19), New York (central mtg in Westchester ... some of you guys. I have mixed feelings about recruitment travel - I like ... endless sea of rental cars, maps, airports, hotel rooms, and fast food

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  fraternities and sororities ( NALFO ). At MIT, like many New England institutions ... organization offered a snapshot of their own, unique chapters below. For those ... , Incorporated was founded on the campus of Cornell University in Ithaca, NY by

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I Met John Waters This beautiful mobile home you see before you is the current hideout of the notorious…

  

  should all move there. It's great that you don't have to move to New York ... lot of people just don't go to college at all and yet they thrive ... On Monday night, instead of studying for finals, I went to church

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 22, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  . The buildings are built out of tasteful sandstone and, as a bonus, rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should ... of people do, in fact, look like people, and were created by famous

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014