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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  .21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently ... externalities because I am benefitting from the fact that Gabe has the vaccine (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 / Art, Literature, Music

  turn the dial to 88.1 hello caller, you're live on the air.

  

  won season passes to Astroworld from a failing radio station back in my ... . So last Thursday, one of my friends, Shaye, who has a radio show on WMBR, the MIT radio station, invited a few of us to go join him on the

  • by Bryan
  • August 21, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto and Emilia-Romagna regions. Interestingly enough, a deep foundation in ... him at "Casa Verdi," a resting home for retired musicians built by one

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Shall We Dance? having two left feet is a thing of the past.

  

  dance last semester when the team hosted a competition at MIT. Teams from ... my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of ... . Initially, I was actually a little confused when I looked online for

  • by Bryan
  • July 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  Hampshire with Joe and Joe's Dad. A picture is worth exactly one thousand ... : Nuclear Engineering. Aha! Pictures! Joe and Joe's Dad cross a ... . I assume this is where we were going... otherwise, why did I take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  from the day: I just had to take a picture of this sign. Haymarket ... During the warmer months, every Friday and Saturday, Haymarket, a ... , my friend Diana and I thought we'd take a little trip out to Haymarket

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  books I’ve read this year slowly but surely completing my 2020 resolutions

  

  refrain from is essentially immoral; charity should be a moral requirement ... more than a million dollars from 25,000 fans on Kickstarter, making her ... completed this goal last week! I think by the end of 2020 I’ll have read a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP ... official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  recommendation from a coach, boss, or community/religious group mentor; a note ... application though,would you be kind enough to answer it. I got a letter from K ... program. RSI only admits a few Indian applicants each year from a large pool

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  " align="alignnone" width="768"] a picture from when I went to a nearby park ... I’ve been back on campus for about a month and a half now, and it ... the classics! I was only a ten-minute walk away during the summer, and I

  • by Gloria Z. '26 MEng '27
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  study biology for a while. Some of this stems from living in Next House. I ... campus without any friends from home.[/annotation]  I had never written a ... I’m typing this at around 1 PM on a Friday. My head hurts, just a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  e-mails from friends, had a few shrieking phone conversations, and ... the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... dusty stripe of stars from Boston. Today, as you probably already know

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  summer is very different from MIT during the school year. CPW rocks. A lot ... wanted from a huge list of humanities classes. But mostly I just think it ... a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  different professors, getting a response from 1 (just to say the class was ... occurred recently. Namely with my schedule. A few blog posts ago, I said I ... .02 (Physics II) This schedule lasted less than a week. 21M.301 was overenrolled

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  getting a lot of calls and emails from students concerned that their mailed ... extra letter from a coach / teacher / mentor / president of your fan club ... , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  the way around the world from my home in the States, the Observatory was ... , Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until ... Observatory built. The Observatory of Paris was a great place to work, not only

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  December Questions Omnibus 2 The deadline is coming!

  

  the deadline, so I'm taking a break from my New Years vacation (in ... submit my form." Minh, have any official from your school write us a letter ... I'm applying from Kenya." Pradyumna wrote, "I have a problem here. My

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  's written on the board into my notes with a five minute delay from when it ... , also a '24, who is 23 years old. She's an international student from ... "]6.006[/annotation] midterm was a 71. I scored well below that, which

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  10, from above[/caption] I went to a meeting for Chroma, MIT's science ... quite a lot and met a lot of great people! I came from a high school with ... from our dorm! 7 // Saturday My evening started out messy, with a Bob

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018