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  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  the great style and culture I see at MIT. Did any of you find other ... probably would have ended up at Case Western Reserve University. Stevens Institute of Technology is another good technology school in Hoboken, New

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  fewer-than-half of applicants insufficiently prepared to do the work at ... takes you to an article from New York Times magazine by Daniel Kahneman ... with the judgments of their commanders at the officer-training school

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  friend. Is it emo enough? Spotted at the Boston Museum of Science: one ... over the Admissions page with my face. At the 2018 Festival of Learning ... 's just a sample from one of my four years at the Institute. There

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!

  

  ; Amy Finkelstein, also of MIT, who does health economics; and University ... lengths about the strength of our economics department. Back to CPW… at the ... your American Cancer Society. During the event, teams of people gather at

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 21, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  after that weekend, none of which i had started at the time. i did manage ... feel like shots at the moon! none of this ambition existed in the first ... 't because i'm doing anything wrong. at once, i feel that nothing is new under

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  , New Jersey, New York, Connecticut, Providence -- finally, the Boston ... arriving in New House, I passed out. Then it was Sunday. I got up at noon ... of boxes on top of my chest of drawers, and two full suitcases + three

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So apparently the Media Lab figured out how to 3D print glass and it's pretty glorious

  

  has given rise to a new universe of possibilities for uses of the ... at MIT, centered at the Mediated Matter group in the Media Lab but ... a way to 3D print glass. I'd actually seen some objects on display at

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  a Youth Lobby Day at the Massachusetts State House. Three of us will ... are in most contexts taboo. The New York Times once hailed it as ... Planned Parenthood Youth Advocates Today at the Planned Parenthood

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  we are twins … but ARE OUR AGENDAS?!? (not clickbait)

  

  , we’ve both always gotten new agendas at the beginning of each school ... our entire lives (at least during the semester). Lots of people use ... into the swing of the semester, I find myself needing to look at my

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the living at pika happens on the roof instead of under it. Pika's homemade

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Blogger Retreat 2023 adventures in liveblogging

  

  59-minute walk according to Google Maps, but 40 minutes at a New York ... Airbnb had checkout at 11am, which for those of us who were up at 4am was a ... of this retreat, we are all very excited!!!) Liveblogging Also about a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 2, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT Perfect SAT scores and #1 class ranks are so last millennium.

  

  or 5 study halls a day, they could get straight As and be at the top of ... a knower of MIT-related things, I have been asked many times how ... to put the anxiety of prospective students to rest; knowing you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF, BAMF, and other west coast adventures planning my next two weeks

  

  typically visit the big Faires in Bay Area and New York to give versions of ... out at the table, along with some of our LA ECs. If you are at ISEF ... seeing a future Hall of Famer play at your local minor league affiliate

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  While waiting at a bus stop the other day, I witnessed one of the ... one against the concrete, like my heart at the mention of coats. I ... -classical music until high school, so this is all kind of new, but jazz is like a

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... University of Cambridge. And yes, none of these were really rejections to be ... down, being an MIT student at all is something that I should be proud of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  , because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel ... can throw a #sorrynotsorry at me.) One day a week, we meet in the office to catch up on non-reading work and meetings and I spied a bunch of

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  occasions I've made bad decisions solely of my own accord; at other times, it ... , I've gotten a lot of work done (three problem sets, one group project, and one revised essay) while still finding a decent amount of time for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  New York to Boston thanks to this). But, that afternoon, several of us ... each way, at 7am, after only three hours of sleep. (The latter was due to ... router if things got out of hand, but that never came about. Still, at one

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  . I'm actually hoping for kind of a combination of the two at this point ... 're skipping all of our classes and making a $15 Chinatown bus trip down to New ... Song" was originally derived from the song "A Son of a Gambolier" by my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007