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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  is no help, and I am not compensating others for this. If I had to pay ... Gabe '08 got one today, but I didn't end up getting one for myself. In 14 ... (decreased odds that I'll get sick) in a way for which I do not compensate him

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  No Child Gets Ahead?

  

  are entitled to an appropriate education for their ability, not just ... that is very interesting to me (and you, I suspect): gifted education. You can read it: Some New Help for the Extremely Gifted (registration

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ISEF Reception MIT will be present at the Intel International Science & Engineering Fair in Albuquerque this…

  

  The MIT Office of Admissions will host a reception for participants ... Thursday, May 17th, from 3:00pm to 4:30pm at the Hyatt Regency Albuquerque ... ) to me (in the comments or via email). I hope you can join us! MIT ISEF

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Match Game

  

  to be a "good match" for MIT? What do we look for? Alignment with MIT ... that good stuff isn't handed to students on a silver platter, but for ... questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Managing a Full Plate Both Food and Life

  

  allows for my limited time to be used elsewhere or reaffirming my ... headed to office hours for both Physics and Real Analysis as the psets for ... challenging problems to complete. It really has helped me a lot for Real

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 26, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  and enjoy. As for the football: the TV in the background is set to the ... to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Last Blog: Introducing My Successor I started "The Humanitarian Blog" to spotlight the amazing work that MIT students are doing…

  

  continuing it as an alum, but I decided that it'd be good for someone new to ... freshman class starting school tomorrow, it's strange to think that I won't be returning to my beloved 254 suite in Burton-Conner, hanging out with

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • September 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Working With WashLava Time management in low places

  

  for it, so it is going to take me more time than most. Hmm. Do I have ... . Enter WashLava. WashLava is the app we use to pay for loads of laundry. I ... entail? A timer. For example, a wash cycle generally takes 36 minutes to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 7, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  made a "syllabus" for my summer. I gave myself goals and intentions, reading assignments, projects, and permission not to follow through with any ... progress you made iii) how that progress contributes to your overall

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  sheet deep enough for you to support yourself on, and kicking spikes on ... . Looked like we were going to be in for quite a bit colder than the ... A critical factor in getting outdoors is having something to do, and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  really easy for her to get what she needed." Such a need has been around for nearly 40 years. The mission to advocate for LGBQT members of MIT ... positive environment for LGBQT students and to raise awareness of related

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  attend a Faculty and Administration Dinner for Ramadan. The dinner was to ... four years at MIT. I had a chance to meet Iman and talk with her for ... to the MIT community and thanked me for coming to learn more about the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  myself up for this SuperUROP, and they gave me the freedom to choose where ... since the most common way to work together didn’t work well for me, I was ... papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  rand.random Random photos of 2016

  

  program and to visit family, Boston/California for my UROP, and Ethiopia for ... say hi to my grandmother.   October Back to MIT for the fall ... now I'm half of it. Lots of fun robots to play with here!  Thanks for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  -candy guns, just to name a few. The space has tons of resources for tinkering ... so much cool great fantastic stuff, that it becomes tough to blog because I have no idea where to start (I know, I know. It's a tough life

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  third floor of Building 36. To allow for these kinds of circumstances, MIT ... My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful ... room with mirrors for walls, from 9-10am on Mondays and Wednesdays. At 10

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about ... write a paper. Details to come, so stay tuned. 21M.733: Design for the ... whole "cover letter" routine and hope for the best while trying not to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  back home to New York. I took my last final exam, for [annotation note ... syndrome, for the whole world to see, while on a train to New York"]taking a ... my dresser, waiting to be picked up. It had been there for over a week

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... utterly thrilling. Unfortunately for us, we had a train to catch almost ... picture above) but also because I want so badly for the words to be true. My

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  for me to get back. Over the course of the last semester, my room has ... BC. I'll check to see who's around, hang out for a bit. I'll make tea ... my younger friends ask me for advice, I'm able to give it. I barely go

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023