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Off to watch the elections (and you should too), toodles!

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Why is it that the urge to blog when completely hosed is so much higher than the urge to blog when not hosed?

Posted by: Snively on November 4, 2008 05:32 PM


Snively: Because most humans are hard-wired to avoid work. Even those that work hard to get into MIT still fall back into this cycle of procrastination. It's inevitable. And those that don't procrastinate...I don't even think they exist.

Posted by: Colton on November 4, 2008 05:36 PM


@ Snively: Because when your completely hosed you need a break from it all to do something you enjoy and/or takes your mind off your work.

Posted by: Ehsan on November 4, 2008 05:50 PM


Snively you totally wasted a great opportunity to say first!

Posted by: Chris on November 4, 2008 06:21 PM


Snively: Congratulations on not being a troll!

Ehsan: It only becomes a problem when you get carried away and forget about your work.

Posted by: Colton on November 4, 2008 06:30 PM


Just curious: Has MIT conducted its own poll on the election? If so, who won? Was there any overwhelming majority or was it too close to call? Thanks.

Posted by: Anna on November 4, 2008 06:48 PM


nice energy vs knowledge depiction :P

Posted by: deng on November 4, 2008 07:02 PM


Posted by: Snively on November 4, 2008 07:03 PM


Completely off-topic: looks like Ca.,. that other institute of technology... got its own admissions blogs. http://caltech.typepad.com/

Posted by: Harish on November 4, 2008 08:12 PM


Harish: Ah, but Caltech's blogs are run off-site. Are they that lazy not to set up and maintain a simple blog on their own servers, even with blogs like Wordpress and Diario available?

Posted by: Colton on November 4, 2008 08:22 PM


YES WE WON!!!

Posted by: Anonymous on November 4, 2008 11:21 PM


~Yay!

Posted by: Little Peonies on November 4, 2008 11:49 PM


Good day :) My name in my SAT registration is
Joanna but my whole Name is Joanna Marie. Is this
going to affect my application to MIT? Thanks :)

Posted by: Joanna on November 5, 2008 12:45 AM


ChrisKCD? Awesome :)

Posted by: Ahana on November 5, 2008 08:28 AM


@Colton: I was thinking the exact same thing.

Posted by: Harish on November 5, 2008 09:09 PM


Hey Chris, how do you like 7.03? Why did you choose 7.03 this semester over 7.02?

Posted by: prospective bio major on November 5, 2008 10:31 PM


@Joanna: I did about the same thing, slightly shortened name, much shortened surname, but MIT successfully matched my SAT scores to my application. UNSW on the other hand, totally screwed it for a month and forced me to take the IELTS as well >:/

@Colton: Heh, ironic that while I should be going back to work, something tempted me to look at the MIT blogs :P I believe any human who lacks the procrastination instinct has gone extinct because (s)he spent too much time working and not enough time socializing, thus, failing to mate.

Posted by: Muz on November 6, 2008 01:44 AM


colton - what makes you think mit's blogs are hosted on-site?

Posted by: Anonymous on November 6, 2008 03:00 PM


@ bio major - I decided to take 7.03 since it's a lecture course and I was going to be taking a slew of other courses at the same time. 7.02 is a big time commitment and I would just do it next semester when I'm not on so many credits.

Posted by: Oasis '11 on November 8, 2008 02:31 PM


Hey there can you people of MIT just persuade a "Real" international student I mean someone with no previous connections to the US blog for MIT. Well, Chris you're fine but what I want is to see a real "alien" blog about MIT.
- Raj;from Thimpu...that's in Bhutan( South Asia)

Posted by: Raj on November 9, 2008 11:35 PM


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