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  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  member of the Theta Xi fraternity. Last Friday, with Rush winding down, we ... matters to you. To them, I say: please don't let the availability ... someone about them. The brothers of any fraternity who gave you a bid want

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the ... anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad ... -- the banana lounge is actually an incomm project"]UA Incomm

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  ? =P So Momchil, here are my thoughts, short sweet, and to the point: Everything you just said is wrong. People are just people. The end. And now I ... the MIT Ambulance. EMTs must protect patient privacy, so we're never

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Is this the real life? Guest writer for Sam's Blog, Ruth '07 goes home to Georgia, gets ditched by most…

  

  , coming to you blogged from the Athena cluster in Building 12. While your ... , Georgia, but the Dukes of Hazzard TV show was filmed in my hometown of Covington, as well as In the Heat of the Night, certain scenes of Remember the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  Barbie five (5) times, almost always multiple times during the movie. Although the “I’m Just Ken” memes and bright pink were shoved down everyone’s throats enough for society to collectively forget about the movie after last

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... Court, but the sun was causing too much glare so i’m in the library right ... semester."]2.S02[/annotation], and 21M.299. The last one is a world music

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  I did not graduate on time

  

  not graduate?  Freshman spring was the first period of crisis. I had ... conclusion, where, for the first time, there wasn't one. Was it a ... heartfelt, like other bloggers’ posts. That's not the Imposter Syndrome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how ... , so you’d have to watch your monitor as you made the strokes, which took some serious disconnecting from the mind-hand connection [annotation note

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  ? Well, dear mortals, I have perfected the art of photosynthesis and subsist entirely through sunlight. Unfortunately, with the encroaching ... all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  Even while I was excited by the thought of MIT, I spent many years ... ; and as a prefrosh, getting a glimpse of the amazing things my future ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  everything that went down since last Monday.  Finals are still looming on the horizon, but the past few days have been when a lot of project classes begin ... , have no time limit.  They can quickly fling a black hole in the middle of

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  in another country? And what if you’ve got other plans for the summer ... —which is a pretty common case for MIT students—then IAP is the perfect time to travel! (with the added benefit that you can escape January in

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past ... understand the true meaning of the word “hosed”. Here is a post exactly in line with my life during the last two weeks--working and sleeping at MIT

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions…..*sigh* Is (Fill in the Blank) University the right school for me?

  

  college search process. She is the first in her family to attend college and ... uncertain about the process of identifying schools and how to apply to college. Nevertheless, Big Cuz Q stepped in and has been providing some advice on the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • April 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week of Chocolate and Octagons Some thoughts and some pictures.

  

  . Time flies here like I'd never fathomed -- before you know it, the day ... years here will feel like that, a mere blip on the radar. And while there's such an abundance of amazing things to do, both on campus and around the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  's house and played Guess Who with the extra rule that you couldn't ask about ... , good enough. Then I visited Dot, my across-the-street neighbor, and she ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The College Circle of Life Nance starts waxing about some deep stuff.

  

  Over the Memorial Day Weekend I packed the family into the car and made the 12-hour round trip from Boston to Ithaca, NY. When I departed Cornell 10 months ago I made a promise to return in each of the next three

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • June 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  ... and arrive at one of my favorites -- I mean, just look at the pattern on ... the ceiling in this neglected room, but it looked interesting, so I took ... worn task chair waiting patiently in the corner. Hi, chair! How do you

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  MIT is serious about research. The Institute is the birth place to the hologram, artificial intelligence, "pharmacy on a chip," stop-time photography, and holds the distinction as one of the greatest think tanks in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  something strange about our website. Specifically the fact that it isn't there ... such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012