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• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  .042 (Math for Computer Science) is kind of bleh. I still care a lot about ... after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  population. Which means that, in all of those other colleges you applied to ... walked in, there was tons of bread at desk. Even baguettes, and I love ... much of it or something and they were going to come back. At 4:58am, an

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  624 Hours: Columbia, MO or, Things I Made While I Was Home

  

  degrees all winter so when we had a couple inches of snow my town forgot how ... the last 26 days in my hometown – Columbia, MO. Located in the heart of ... a living out of doing these things.” Maita: “Like being a housewife

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT Economics Department in the past 5 years: 5 Number of John Bates Clark Medal

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  my head all Monday night. As part of my summer of fun, a few friends of mine and I decided to take advantage of free dance lessons offered at MIT ... , the Ballroom Dance Club offered lessons in Mambo. My friend Jackie and I

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

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  other MIT students."]this degree[/annotation]. I think some of it comes ... high school science tournament. More importantly, in the words of Hank ... Before coming to MIT, I consumed a lot of Content™ about college

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, Decisions

  

  five questions: On a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the highest and 1 ... mental health of students? In addition, does MIT's tough grading system hurt students when they apply to med school or law school? Thank you very

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008 – Another Highly Satisfied Customer! (Guest Entry) CPW! Meet the Bloggers! Free t-shirts! Tim the Beaver! Exclamation points!

  

  enrolled moments before finishing this very blog entry and am proud of it. Now with that out of the way…Hi, I’m Omar! I come from a small Midwestern town located on the lower left side of the palm that is Michigan (I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cultura MIT students use online collaboration with their French counterparts to learn about each other's cultures.

  

  Gilberte Furstenberg (teacher of French III, a class we're both taking). The homework I'm doing right now is part of a unit called Cultura, where we correspond with university students learning English at l'Ecole Polytechnique

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  increases, so that the highest degree of illusion comes to be the highest degree of sacredness.[annotation note='All text on this blog post comes from the preface and first thirteen theses of Guy Debord’s classic The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  's important to note that basically in terms of applying to grad school ... . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim Sturgess), an incredibly brilliant student at MIT who is capable of rattling

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... Company of Thieves - This is the kind of song that you enthusiastically sing ... . This is completely uncharacteristic of the rest of their material, just

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Stories of Senioritis How to Procrastinate

  

  So the four year roller coaster called "Quest for a degree from MIT" has come to a close. And of course, it wouldn't be blogworthy unless there was more of a story than that. So this semester I had just one

  • by Bryan
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  major uncertainty switch 2 A 6-2?

  

  Engineering and Computer Science, since lots of the classes I want to take as a ... was a solid period of time where I felt pretty set on my major. I ... concentration. Think of it as a flexible version of MechE. I was hoping to do 2A

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  the first day of classes is Tuesday, YIKES! But I didn't get through ... , a snapshot of the dinner table (me, my mom, and my three younger ... faculty and staff from all around MIT help members of the community practice

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  For those of you who have been following my blog posts this semester ... vast majority of my classes, and created some pretty cool things, even though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cancel all operations Tell your friends to cool it, my cover's blown.

  

  year anyway b) plenty of people get in from schools that don't even offer ... , the current state of my life and psyche, and the existence of God ... all of your concerns about MIT and thus help me become a better blogger

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2014 Transfer Decisions Will Be Sent Today see title, more or less

  

  . As in past years, hundreds of students applied, and we only had space ... applied for admission for Fall 2014. Transfer applicants, unlike freshman ... know that this process can be a complicated one. For those of you who

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  IAP, and trivia answers IAP begins tomorrow.

  

  events tomorrow catch my eye. They are: The History of the Universe in One ... Tomorrow is the beginning of MIT's Independent Activities Period (IAP)! IAP is one of the most fun times of the year. It is a time where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  particularly notable. On the other hand, knowing all of the South Dakotans who ... interviewer had set up a meeting for all of us. I met another two South Dakotans ... [/annotation] from South Dakota this year. Naturally, I put all of them on a mailing

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021