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• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  strike something intimate in everyone. I was hesitant to attend the ... lot of money. I did some calculations in my head. The benefit I'd get ... value to be so high. So, while I was sitting in office hours, I sold the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As if course numbers weren’t enough: Learning your A, B, Cs, and OEs Different majors at MIT, and why I chose mine

  

  in a future entry.) I’m ashamed to say that I had received an email ... expected to understand this alphabet soup. Once you get here, though, you’re forced to dip your spoon in and search for the right letter (or combination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will, I will set this schedule on fire This has been a long time coming. Text- and picture-heavy! Link- and acronym-happy! Take it…

  

  upcoming term. It hurt me to do it; 9.15, only offered in alternate fall ... from last term, where by some miracle I managed to get all three. For ... schedule. Make the most of it, willya?) Take a CI-H to get them out of the

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 10, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  more robots in the Media Lab." And to that I say, of course, that’s MIT alright, and we plan to show you more of that in the coming months, so stay ... By now many of you have seen our new promo video on the website. And

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  's gaping maw ready to swallow me whole again. In other words... BRING IT ON ... something in the lot, Teaching English to a class (and watching them sing "I ... 's close and dear to my heart (working with Asian communities in Chinatown

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 Nobel Laureates in Economics! -- and -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C. Schelling. The Nobel website has a nice summary of their work on "conflict and

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  Department has long contributed to learning in the arts and humanities at MIT ... amphitheater, a little blinded by the brightness of sun and snow. In searching for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  pants, closed shoes, and no hanging jewelry) to get in the door. However ... they'll get to the Geo report in the near future. Helen wrote, "First, I ... : once in the late '80's and early '90's, and returned to doing it just

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  conduct ourselves in the classroom. The program was going to be split into ... to be a video game developer in the future and often shared with our ... was an absolute delight to have in class. She was always one of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Students Are Cool: Brian Chan edition These are the kind of people that you will go to school with.

  

  . Brian came to MIT from California as an undergrad.  He majored in Mechanical Engineering but decided to do some research in the Math department ... .  He helped to figure out a longstanding mystery in fluid mechanics about

  • by Dr. Dawn '04, MS '06, PhD '11
  • October 15, 2013
• Blog / Residential Life

  [Guest Post] All About the MIT Panhellenic Association how some MIT students found their "home under the dome"

  

  them again. But in the meantime, I love getting to call people to watch ... since I was seven years old, the idea of getting to know new people was ... to. Going in on the first day, I had absolutely no expectations. In my

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  finding good what i look forward to

  

  events of the past week. But to sum it up I thought I'd put it in short ... scares me, frankly. I don't want to get too excited and think that I ... could do anything to support me in 6.009. She also kindly reassured me

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Funnies An Appetizer

  

  Body: Memo to future self: I probably won't remember this in the ... myself to get off the internet. The monkey was writhing around on the ... ! </Monkey Story> In Talking to a Physics Major Another night

  • by Snively '11
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  examples to illustrate the benefits of getting to the solution before ... fear to reproduce it in this post).  Insight: The &ldquo ... away from “bad guys” and throw a stone in a nearby well to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  management, once you get over the small hump of activation energy to actually ... other than maybe keeping a list of to-dos in Google Keep, or my ... made a valiant effort to get through my backlog of games. Since freshman

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  background and ability to pay (why else would I get bullied in to sending in my ... . To get in, you must either be the next Newton, or filthy rich. Good ... Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  coach before I apply to MIT or just (if i get in) show up for tryouts? And ... seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to ... needed to. On collegeboard.com's website, there is an option to send scores

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , or, in some cases, freshman year.  The differences meant little to me then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a

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

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  travel somewhere in the physical world to obtain information. Information!  Fortunately, you live in more civilized times. Nowadays, when you want to know ... to clarify it. If there was a nicer way to get a certain conclusion

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  MIT seemed to take all of the things I used in my application to get ... INTRO First things first, I have to post this, as promised in an ... when I started, and I get to look back at all I've done. Not gonna lie

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011