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  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  I didn't include a lot of biographical detail in my biography ... member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... MIT with all sorts of misconceptions about fraternities. We're all

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

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  . Well - story of my life. At the turn of the new year, I posted a number of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to ... edged into those rare un-mathematical intervals of time. To start: I had

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes,The New App…It’s Really Here Or Why This Year's App is "Cooler" Than Last Year's.

  

  If you've visited the MIT campus you know that throughout much of the ... however get to give to those 250 lucky (?) people in my session a preview of ... across the room. There were looks of surprise, happiness, and even some

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 19, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  I went to 9-to-5 life in downtown Manhattan. Some of you might have wondered where the rest of us were during IAP, if not building snowmen, solving brain-busting puzzles, and taking classes on the other side of the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  What’s This Mystery Hunt Thing?

  

  So...there's this Mystery Hunt thing...you might have heard of it. It's awesome. It's lots of fun. You should do it when you get here. Or ... tells me that there are 115 people!), and probably 1/4 or 1/3 of those are

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  telling you about my bitterness? Because it's an important part of my life. No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Soothing Words About Deadlines From Joanne Cummings She's both the director of the freshman admissions process *and* Evie's mom, so you know…

  

  This is the time of year in which people start worrying a great deal ... of admissions decision letters. Joanne writes: Having worked in the admissions office for a million years, currently serving as the director of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neurony goodness More lab, because that's what I do.

  

  , because I don't actually have to think about the implications of anything I discovered, I just have to cite old papers done by other members of my lab and ... this paper, since I've done basically all of the work on it; my postdoc

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  very nearly attained twenty (oh dear!) years of age, I had not yet ... way out of Giant, on an impulse, I stuck a dollar into the PA Lottery ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  mourning the loss of the crystal football ie The Rose Bowl. While I can't say I'm the biggest fan of football, this was a great game, and the ... .) So I leave California on Saturday morning to enjoy the wonders of IAP

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  -intensive (CI) humanities classes you have to take as part of your 8 class ... analysis of natural disasters on natural resource firms) and a 10 page ... maximization). As you may have guessed, 14.33 also requires a lot of work. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  the same guidelines. Ultimately, we do not admit anyone until all of the ... in the background [of the stack of applications]." I need my music ... , and afterwards I spied a CD store that was having an amazing going-out-of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  of the Orange County ECs, having a nice picnic dinner. Directly ... introduces the OC ECs. I think all of the Admissions Officers were just a ... life of an admissions officer on the road can be hectic, and sadly we do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have classes

  

  It is term, and now I have classes! Five of them, right now. I hope ... drop back to four. I've provided my first impressions of each class ... 'm hoping for this one to be better. I'm happy that I seem to remember more of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  first regional meeting of the year, Thursday night in Orlando/Winter Park, FL. Amy has already flown to Texas in advance of her meeting in Dallas ... for you? We will of course talk about admissions, including the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Rush, rush Why you should live on my floor, with special guest star Paula Abdul.

  

  One of the coolest things about MIT is Residence Exploration (REX ... first week of orientation, you get to go around and visit all the dorms ... , most dorms do some sort of in-house rush to decide what floor, house, or

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  sick to school so both of you can go shopping... who are you to refuse ... summer, two of which were Memorial Day and July 4, and I've gone in almost every weekend. I deserved it. The first step in my day of laziness was

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Testing requirements FAQ We've been getting a lot of questions about our testing requirements; here are the answers.

  

  [note: As of August 2006, this entry is out of date in regard to ... asking questions about our testing requirements. For those of you applying ... option for non-native English speakers: Test of English as a Foreign

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Events

  bad vision try these glasses on for size.

  

  England Aquarium to check out Sharks 3D. There was a catch, of course ... from a shallow area of water in the Cape Cod area. (public reminder to ... , and the glasses cause one of the images to enter one eye and the other

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Tofu corndogs and low-fat ice cream

  

  Today marks the tenth day of my ill-conceived diet, and all I want ... strictly true. Today should be day 11 of my diet, but on day 2 I feasted on ... . There's actually quite a wealth of yummy, low-cal/fat food out there. My

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 1, 2005