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• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  MIT) and then threw dice to stochastically select among the remaining ... . Kahneman is a pioneer of behavioral economics and the psychology of decision making. He is one of my favorite social scientists, and his work laid the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... twinkle in a record executive's eye. And yes, mailing lists are not as fancy ... , LARPing, literature, and so forth. Let me share with you a few stories of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the ... in which time had absolute meaning and humans had free will over

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Making money: my campus job "Hello, MIT Computing Help Desk, this is Laura, how may I help you?"

  

  , with pretty limited support from my parents. Tuition, housing fees, and a ... of "things to stress about." (Especially because I like my job, and ... Services and Technology. (Yeah, IS&T's website is sort of an

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Semi-Real Time Mystery Hunt Update v. 2008

  

  immature and want to do it too, so you guys will just have 2 entries to read ... , I just got out of class and ran home to get my laptop. So nothing ... other, and Adelaide is more important than Mystery Hunt. The puzzles aren

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  Note: Anika drew Anika and Jebby drew Jebby. If you can't tell who ... and get an ad for body wash where everyone is talking with a British ... would have a hard time believing that Nempnett Thrubwell and Coombe Dingle

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  , full of promise and mystery and challenges that I'm not prepared for but ... from the bubble to glimpse the wider world and plot real moves. And ... the fall semester, barely able to believe that I passed and do not in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  with Janet '27, Allison '27, Ellie '28, and Sara '28! I won by hitting ... molasses exploded and flooded the streets of boston, and it straight up [annotation note="According to Wikipedia, 21 people were killed and 150 people

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a ... math itself is a lot rockier, swinging between begrudging acceptance and ... 's understandable, since math is what you need to understand old systems and build new

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  Thinking and Data Science"]6.0002.[/annotation]By the time I realized it, it ... that time? Not really (See #2). So, with a hefty bit of insecurity and ... . This semester, I am taking 8.01L, 18.01, 3.091, and 6.A01, which is a first

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / People & Identities

  another year around the sun I guess I'm 19 now

  

  post a few weeks ago"]birthday[/annotation] today, and one of my ... ’t been in a while, and I’m really into it. I think the time I spent in ... absolutely lovely, all warm and sunny and shiny from the snow. It’s not every

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  how to become a morning person a matter of willpower

  

  night, which sounds kind of creepy on the surface and definitely raises ... asleep, when I wake up, and my trends throughout the years. If you asked ... sleep deprivation and procrastination. I stayed up late to do my work, got

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  food diaries pt. 3 amazing restaurants around MIT

  

  Somehow, I've explored more of Boston and Cambridge while living in ... 's basically flatbread"]Oath[/annotation] and [annotation note="Greek food with ... closest to campus, as well as [annotation note="sandwiches and delicious

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 8, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food diaries pt. 2 recipes for people tryna Little Chef it up

  

  favorite things to do. You get to put ingredients together...and then feed yourself...and feel satisfied that you're being #healthy and #adult-y. What ... weeks! Panko-Crusted Fish and Roasted Potatoes   This recipe is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 19, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics ... died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I ... , and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Room 251 a room tour!

  

  , and it was a lot more fun than I expected it to be! I might blog about ... specifically, I live in 2 East, or 2E for short. 2E is like a family to me, and I ... will give a shoutout to my roommates Caleb R. and Cory L. (both 2020s

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 1, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Dear Seniors let's talk

  

  year left and a whole lot of stuff to do. And whether you choose to ... life-changing. You started in one place and will end up in another. You ... sad. You’re going to miss your family. And your friends. And home cooked

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  filled with too many midterms for me and too many college applications for many of you, I’ve watched motivation jump off of a building, and with it, inspiration and optimism. I’ve searched high and low, from Facebook to Instagram

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  Disney World and Disney Land do an unthemed series of runs.  Disneyland does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5k, 10k, half marathon, and full marathon in January.  The Goofy

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Taking at MIT The beauty of The Cheat Sheet

  

  last semester’s trials and tribulations in 7.05 Biochemistry (bottom left) and 20.310 Biomechanics (the other three pages). For each exam in 20.310, we were allowed to fill one 8.5” X 11 sheet of paper, front and back

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 3, 2015