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• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  statistics. Daniel Kahneman won the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2002 for showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... and a 2/3 chance of saving none. In this version, people prefer the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)

  

  you all. When I left MIT in 2018, I "graduated" with the first class I helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a ... acclimated to my new community, the louder the whispers in my head became

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  responsibilities in favor of going out and wasting the night away, and ultimately ... living it and participating in it. I was recently asked by my friend "Are you okay?" and in response, I described a bunch of things going on in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  I spent my IAP in northern Wales through Global Teaching Labs, a ... dozen other MIT students in South Wales, I was the only MIT student in ... train back from a day trip in Liverpool. Then I painted a few scenes while

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  of a thrill upon seeing the Dome for the first time in months. As soon ... Gmail inbox was already filling up with promises of “FREE FOOD” in return ... spending two-thirds of my summer in the unfamiliar chaos of a foreign country

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Students Welcome Events Your first MIT experience is closer than you think

  

  coming up in April (sign up now if you haven’t already)! We know you ... exciting opportunities for Admitted Students coming up in cities around the ... the world will host parties in their hometowns for students admitted to

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 17, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  with a faint, delayed crackle. Most nights, this summit was shrouded in ... ’m an alum of French House. I graduated in 2012 with a double major in Math (combinatorics) and Music (opera singing). I then spent a year in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I ... currently in Manhattan trying to find my bearings and eat as much cheap food ... of my sorority sisters -- Nicole, Rebecca, and Ruisi -- in a cozy

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  three months. I've lived in Burton Conner since freshman year. BC residents are not enrolled in the MIT Dining Meal Plan, but we are blessed ... eateries and La Verdes convenience store in the Student Center, a three

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  learnt them in England, from British people.) These words are among the ... “the other Cambridge” *mysterious music ensues* Yes, Cambridge in ... picked up in England) and last but not least, the place where the structure

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in ... settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  In general, it would be considered a good idea to know more than just ... . This would seem an even better idea when you'll be spending six weeks in said country, which in my case would be Germany. Too bad I don't know

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  almost a year. Today marks the beginning of a change we can believe in ... big, in fact, that the following email was sent out to the MIT community from Chancellor Clay last week: Dear MIT Community, In response to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  doesn't mean that there's less to do - in fact, I find my days are STILL packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging ... Cambridge was hosting a city-wide dance party in the street, and so we decided

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Stu Schmill ‘86 named Dean of Admissions Exciting news!

  

  done a "remarkable job" in that capacity. "Under his committed ... President Emeritus Paul Gray, for its work in picking Schmill. Schmill said ... and the rest of the administration have in me," he told the MIT News

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  Anne Liu and I spent January 7th through January 17th in India on a project to reduce indoor air pollution in rural homes. We owe special ... Service Center and the Legatum Center, which funded it; and to our host in

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] The night still hung in the air at 0630 as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... shrill tone broke the silence and my adrenaline spiked. In a frenzy, we

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  afternoon, Wednesday, April 18, at 4:00 p.m. in the Chapel. We anticipate that in the days to come members of the community will organize additional opportunities to gather in remembrance. At the same time, we encourage those with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Design Squad: Pretty much the opposite of The O.C. A show where 8 teenagers use their engineering skills to build some really cool stuff.

  

  with an array of engineering challenges. Working in groups of four, each ... designing a low-cost peanut butter machine for a women's collective in Haiti ... the show today in the largest lecture hall in the Stata Center. Not only

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... umbrella on a train in Switzerland last weekend. It was really a great

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006