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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  , which we'll come back to in a followup piece, suppose I gave you a list of ... ,348,907 test subjects, I can pick 32,768 of them such that if they say “Yes”, and ... = 3 test subjects, I can pick 21 = 2 of them such that whatever they

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Ice cream and an onion Chun Li, pirates, magnetic poetry, and an RLC circuit.

  

  you can! Sam   I was so excited by the prospect of this costume ... is as a Bond girl with Carter '07. Now that I think of it, I can ... , mostly seniors. I forget the exact name of the event right now, but the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... was in the comments of these very blogs that I remember a poster saying ... , there's usually a table in the back of the room that's piled full of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME. Everything was going to be AWESOME. I was going to double major in biological engineering and neuroscience and double minor in history and music and I was

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  the other teams. I put in hundreds of hours writing and test ... together in front of the curtain. I had the best seat in the house to ... intellectual mancrushes of mine are as profound as the one I have for Professor

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post ... (MTG) put on its last performance of “A Chorus Line”. I was exhausted at

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and Ends My brain is too fried to think of any original content. So I'm commenting on…

  

  purpose. Oh well. I am, by the way, the one in the front row middle of the ... the consistency of fuzz, and I am going to confine myself to writing ... knees. (Hint: to find me in any picture of the squad, scan the picture for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available at: decisions.mit.edu You can log in using the same username and ... my job I am constantly amazed by the caliber of character, intellect, and achievement of these students. They are all superstars in one way or

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  firmly in the back of my throat -- out, I finally came up with a simple ... MIT, I can proudly claim the “gay” identity. I’m part of Queer West. I ... cause of the pain I saw in her eyes. But the temporary solution of “lying

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Metabo lite s Why the Broad Institute is inspiring my exercise goals

  

  on that! Well ok, you can, but from the looks of the research, I need ... I’m getting married again in a mere five months and I cannot fit in my wedding dress. This might be because I spent the whole winter in

  • by Kris Guay
  • May 27, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  blogs that are marinating IS THIS POPULISM?

  

  am leaving a suggestion in the comments. OR I am making fun of you ... I'll be gone from MIT forever (?) in five months ... lot of stuff left unblogged. Taylor V. '19 did something like this in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 31, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... relationships we have or can have in our lives should be a means of support rather ... In any given school year or work week, there is so much we can stress

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week The beginning of the final week for MIT's Seniors.

  

  today on this blog, I also begin a weeklong celebration of our seniors. I ... -representative things can be seen: two of the students will be working for Lehman Brothers ... , finance jobs are over represented in this blog's group; grad school (of all

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  final month of school! Somehow, I can't believe this year is coming to an end. It seemed like only yesterday when I stood in front of Lobby 7 with ... ) that I'm living in. It was definitely nice to hear from the President of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Fourth Semi-Annual Q&A Even yet still more answers to your questions.

  

  inside cover of a DVD I sent in with some of my other work. I'm really ... olympiads about which I can write in my app and which were in no way less ... A real entry is coming soon! I promise! In the meantime, more

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  in her lab. I’ve heard you can ask profs for UROP positions after ... , I was telling my sister about hunting for a place in Boston, and she ... has been one of my most treasured experiences at MIT thus far, and I am

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  altitude over some undetermined state in the Midwest. I’m now writing, I can ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... . Here’s what’s been going on in my life: I had a conversation with a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  . "Unity in the face of diversity." And for that, I say Thank You. After the ... . Subconsciously, I've been feeling a lot of feelings. Sadness. Despair. Hopelessness. Confusion. Fear. When I first received news about the tragedy in New Zealand

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Events

  CPW 2008 @ MIT – Awesomeness Guaranteed (Guest Entry) On things that other colleges (namely their dean of admissions) will never letyou do.

  

  ;class="photo"> Um… Speaking of pictures, I apologize in advance for the poor quality ... Schmill. Can you pick up the dean of admissions at any other college? I don ... about the school that I’ll be attending in just a few short months. My

  • by Snively '11
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010