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• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  CPW has come and gone, and now you're deciding where to spend the next four years of your life. It's a big decision. And whether you ... psychologists Dale Griffin and Amos Tversky (one of the discoverers of cognitive

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  who are also passionate about advocating for equity and inclusion. Here ... community what it is!   Hey there MIT Blogs! I’m Taylor, and I work in ... the first person in their families to go to college, their university

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  (a holiday celebrated almost exclusively in Massachusetts and Maine ... minutes). Despite the extremely packed state on the trains, Kenmore Square is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  you count Bermuda and the Bahamas, which I don't). This makes me very ... such a sheltered life so to speak, and when I gush over the fact that my ... travel experiences really were, and how little of world out there I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  minutes and answer questions if there are any." We swarmed to the stage while Neil walked to the edge and crouched down to shake hands with ardent fans. My friends and I shoved cameras at each other and posed: Neil

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  really goes above 80 degrees, and enjoy the infrequent summer drizzles. I love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!

  

  How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Trans-Consciousness Messaging Protocol! Of course I can't resist. Who do you think I am?!

  

  For those of you who haven't seen today's xkcd comic, I'm putting it here, because it seems all too fitting for the state of our comment pages. ...what, you don't think it applies? (I do have a huge post coming up. This

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS ... subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why Apply? Putting your hat in the ring if you're not so sure

  

  their ideas well to people outside of their fields and instituted a ... myself to you. The ghosts of Uncle Labs and Beatriz have haunted me all weekend. I cannot hope to match their wit and experiences, but I am SO

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 9, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  , much more important––and much MUCH geekier. It all started, as most nerd fights do, on twitter and facebook. (cue flashback music) Some brief background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Not About the Name First impressions

  

  About a week and a half ago, I arrived at Logan airport to start this college thing! With two bags in hand (well, ok, one was a backpack), and my ... and just took in the imagery of the Charles River. The cab driver

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... . The inside is magnificent, and the history is quite interesting. All of the objects and paintings in the museum are exactly as Ms. Gardner left

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and an outspoken advocate of ... as applications rose and they could become choosier in assembling a ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Color by Numbers

  

  fairly reasonable restrictions, and my roommate and I decided to take full advantage of this. Who wants a room that's painted "Institute white"? I mean ... off to 3 feet, and then used the shelf like a super-ruler. No, I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Lost in other people’s stories My brand of escapism

  

  start circling around and around in my head, descending into a state of ... worth of audiobooks–while doing chores, while falling asleep, and ... falling in love. You're thinking their thoughts and feeling their emotions

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 28, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  50 states, 62 countries, and nearly a thousand different high schools ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... you click View Update.  This year — inclusive of both Early and Regular

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  Sooo ~ MIT's back in session and life is again much too full with ... asparagine was named after asparagus, and that if our body pH levels dropped below 7.0 and we didn't have buffers, we'd die. As you can tell, both

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mind Dump (Episode 4) What's going on RIGHT NOW!?

  

  The ironic part about MIT and wanting to share everything that ... . Pictures, links, narrative, and humor are a lot of work, and past freshman ... snippits, flashes, and whispers. Almost like . . . Twitter. Let me say, I

  • by Snively '11
  • April 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  States and all proceeds will be re-invested into the program, the shelter ... travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006