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• Blog / About Decisions

  The Illusion Of Validity look inside your heart. you know it to be true.

  

  basically, it's a perfect setup for the Illusion of Validity Why is MIT ... foundation for much of the social science research I love best. In his article, Kahneman describes his time working as a psychologist for the Israeli Army

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Y U NO HAVE ROLLERCOASTER this is why

  

  full swing soon, and for East Campus, that means lots and lots of stuff ... .) For the record, the current weather is gorgeous. This year, it's all a bit less glorious, because the city of Cambridge decreed, for the first

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  for me this semester being the type of work we are expected to do. Typical for an MIT student, I am used to not a day going by without a ... different packets with readings for the next few weeks, and I am finding that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  This week, the new MIT freshman class begins arriving for orientation ... than 1100 students who are all excellent matches for the MIT mission and ... : 862 Just For Fun Most Popular Boy's Name Alexander Most Popular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US ... "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  - you should definitely come if you're here for CPW. Details: CPW Closing ... -hop/modern) - Live Music Connection Guitar-off (electric guitars, shredding) (For ... , Lobdell Dining Hall (2nd Floor of the Student Center) (Click here for a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  Thelonious Monk song for a recent 21M.340 assignment. Hopefully, we are not ... channel model for machine translation!" Google: "Sure thing! GRAPHEME BASED ... for it, which is so good that literally every university with an

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  This post is sans elephants. Elephant Sans, however, would make for a ... for the day when he would not have to spent 2.5 hours [every day] of his ... 'm headed off for an hour or two, when I come back I'll update this blogpost

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  was doing during the sound check for the webcast: telling my sailing ... (which might seem weird to some of you, but for me it’s actually really ... pavilion for our lesson, and rigged up a boat with my partner Webb H. ’14

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW time waits for no man, woman or beaver

  

  there's no shortage of activities and information for you at CPW, too. Heck, we have a whole page just for you, plus at last count there were ... webcasting live tomorrow night beginning at 10pm EDT; check your email for

  • by Dave McOwen
  • March 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  would sacrifice an afternoon nap for a one-mile walk across the Harvard ... in my physics classroom for a late-night review session. Somehow, I ... Yankees tickled my sense of humor to no end. I believe my love for MIT

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  -chat excessively with friends I’d already begun to miss. I haven’t had much time for ... ). Whatever it is, I’m here for you! As time goes on, I’ll share more of my admissions story, my interests, my dreams. For now, I just want to say hi. And

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  *Oink Oink* Nobody panic!

  

  isn't actually testing for H1N1, so there's no way to know if I have it ... can e-mail professors. So for now it's up to me to just hydrate, chill (literally and figuratively), and wait for this to go away. Awesome.

  • by Snively '11
  • September 23, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... organization and student-run activities, which is probably for the better, seeing ... . This entry is a shameless plug for an event that Keri inspired me to

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  What have you been doing lately? SPOILER ALERT: Mostly StumbleUpon

  

  surprise projects for when I get back to school, and watching lots of How I ... programming/designing for cool things for school. Other than that, enjoying the

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Want You! Write for us!

  

  basically not sleep for an entire weekend. Current students/bloggers love to ... for the MIT blogs about my experience at CPW" rules. > You have to ... containing the HTML code for the entry. Bloggers will go through it and make

  • by Snively '11
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebie Part II My schedule

  

  schedule for this semester! As you can see, Mondays are pretty sweet, as ... . Oh, and for those of you who don't speak numbers . . . 2 ... competitive robot for an end-of-the-semester competition. 2.00b = Toy Design

  • by Snively '11
  • February 12, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Stomp the Yard, MIT style The Divine 9 and NALFO organizations on campus

  

  umbrella organization for the nine historically black fraternities and sororities. Similarly, NALFO is the umbrella organization for 23 historically ... for meeting students all over New England. In keeping with MIT”s Latin

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • January 26, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I’M BACK!!!!! (and MIT is hard)

  

  **I've been having computer issues for a few weeks, so this entry was ... week ended and I was on a plane headed for Houston on Thursday December ... enough. I just got stuff. My version of studying for a calc test was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 11, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... went for a walk. Freshman year I made a big deal about having a final on ... that might pave way for the rest of my life. I got my first shot at

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008