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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  So in my previous entry, I talked about how the Medlinks were providing free flu shots in the student center. WELL it turns out my suitemate ... , proportion). NOTE: Technically, my cost/supply curve (in this case, we made

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tribute This is not the best joke in the world... actually, maybe it is.

  

  turnout than they expected. Luckily, I reserved my 12 tickets early... here ... kissed my sister" joke, the random operatic soprano belting "Phantom of the ... and Fonzie just walked in or something, my GRT Chris noted that they

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Florida, complete I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was quite a…

  

  I'm back in Boston now, my meetings in Florida being done. It was ... and had some great conversations with our ECs. It was my first time in South Florida and Florida's Gulf Coast. I really enjoyed my time there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  maybe my favorite story from last year's early action will help lighten ... mail, only to find NOTHING from MIT. So, I have taken matters into my own hands. I wrote a note to my mailman, telling him to leave anything from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... with my uncle out in Shinnecock Bay. Nothing too big: we were just going ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  Hi folks, Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over ... . But only you can decide if it's worth your time/money/effort/etc. My scores are xxx and my grades are xxx. Should I apply EA or RA? Again

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  until a few weeks ago, which was when I applied for my first credit card ... months of activity before they started existing. Oops. My grand unified ... feeding yourself, or Roth IRAs. My holey shoes aren't a problem now, but

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  I’ve been spending most of my writing ability and brain power working ... in the future. That plus my involvement with MIT’s fall planning plus my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s --------------- I vividly remember the day I received my SAT scores. The sky was a ... walked around that day, seeing four-digit numbers float above my classmates

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  HELLO WORLD and welcome to my playthrough of a new game - college! I ... , but if I can finish all of them, I’ll consider myself decently on my way ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  this all in one go in my remaining 47 minutes on the train, instead of ... misty background of my mental landscape. Knowing me, it really is one or ... beginning of the transformative conquering of my sole remaining fear, writing

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Other Side The view from another cambridge

  

  Cambridge University students swap places for a year (or in my case, a ... more brutal fall semester than the one that hit my Junior fall. IHTFP ... deathly combination of classes to prepare for my semester abroad. The work

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soldering Things pronounced "soddering"

  

  my life, I get to actually do cool engineering-y things with my actual ... circuit boards are really cool and I'm learning tons about them from my UROP ... Laboratory and do Real Science with my Real Hands, and that's actually exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 25, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of ... been pretty business as usual, thank goodness. Take my last two days, for ... who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge.  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making ... way to prepare myself for eventually getting my EMT certification.  Anna

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent ... information from my colleagues, teaching my last lesson with a group of ... of Passau. But now I find myself alone with my thoughts, reminiscing

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is ... form, didn't seem like it was quite for me. When I started my next set of ... . I did a thing that I had believed all my life was supposed to be a

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tweaching and Stitches Two things that happened this week, one of which I liked.

  

  ; and confusingly just as much juggling. But one of my favorite parts of ... all my sensibilities, split my chin open during a match. Against my own ... on my clothes. Oops, so I ran off to find just where I'd sprung a leak

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 12, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... post about being busy. In essence: deciding how to spend my time here ... signed my name on so many mailing lists that I honestly forgot what I had

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... bombing one of them could bring my score down almost irreparably. So while ... screwing up my grade for the rest of the semester. It all started last

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010