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  The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!

  

  life that you can basically do whatever you want, and I wanted to make ... This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  doing so allows you to make sound decisions by seeing past the fog of ... it felt to be held by you”. it’s a strange line at first glance because you’d expect this sentence to be said by someone who was held in the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  work in a short week, professors seem to believe that it is perfectly reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it ... . I guess it's also to make us really really really thankful when we sit

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  can make your week fun to rid of all that anxiety! On Thanksgiving Eve ... with their lives. Inspired by their successes, we then decided to form an ... performing “Icarus” by Bastille (the song some lounge critics proclaimed to be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the ... were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  've come to recognize my podmates by their eyes and foreheads, despite having ... on mailing lists and pretending I'll have time to make the meetings. MIT Cocktail Club, here I [annotation note="not to make any cocktails

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  joking around and whatnot, and I’m all “hey, wouldn’t it be awesome to make ... to be taught how to make a snowman, which I feel is some essential life ... ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Availability Heuristic with applications to pledging

  

  't make it any easier. Many MIT freshmen, myself included, come to ... you to make a well-informed decision as much as you do. They're not ... finally gave out bids to some awesome freshmen (and a sophomore!). They'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roundup Some Links to Summarize this Summer

  

  and rewarded by the world, and I haven't learned them yet. I'll learn to ... -Nehisi's spark-making June cover story, The Case for Reparations, and Roxane Gay's Tumblr. Lifting weights, riding bikes, making things out of clay

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 3, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  satisfying to be able to make something with one’s own hands, and to be able to ... . When I finish making my dinner, and I finally get to take the first bite ... energy to make my own dinner, which spawned additional guilt about having

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  , swayed by other factors important to me, including distance from home ... , and I think thats what makes many so humble and open to helping others ... barely scratches the surface. By trying to give prefrosh the option of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  easier due to symmetry. I quickly caught on to signs of spherical and ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point ... . Let me be frank: If you were to look at my external transcript, you

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  this that makes me so proud (and in awe) to be associated with MIT ... been so crazy busy, I don't ever seem to have time to sit down and blog ... 're interested, feel free to follow me - I'm @MikeyMIT. Meanwhile, I've been

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  by sleep deprivation. So we decided to take the ambiguity out of it ... to make many many more come CPW next week! Up your excitement a few ... them leaves quite a bit to be desired. On a tangential note, I've been

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ana Posada: Improving the production of an HIV medication Ana Posada, who just graduated from MIT, spent a year and half of her undergraduate…

  

  complicated compound that is extremely difficult to make. Instead of relying ... to perform a critical step in the production process. By inserting a ... , GA, will head off to Dartmouth for a Ph.D program next year. As an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!

  

  tested our ability to give presentations by asking us to design our own ... complex to say the least: non-linear differential equations, hyperbolic sine functions, and my personal favorite, error functions. Instead of making us

  • by Bryan
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / Events

  LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.

  

  our minds to. The week was led by head facilitators, Tracy Purinton ... Shape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT ... takes place over IAP. Participants will be asked to wrestle with such

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  has the power to bring people up or tear them down. Make them count or ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I’ve hit that milestone this semester and would like to share 21 thoughts I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  and too kind to be bound by such fleshly desires, but eventually it is ... A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally ... , but if I had to guess, it seemed to be about an affair but not the usual

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  and competitions, and exams to make-up when I'm back. I don't get any ... skates. A career in skating is short-lived. I want to make the most of it ... training as I can. Some days when I can't make the hour round-trip commute to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017