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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!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... your computer in its entirety.) So I actually did this "interview" back ... prior to MIT. Jenn: I began playing piano at the age of four. Of course

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

  Distractions For you.

  

  I've spent the past week or so running about in flip-flops, taking advantage of the sunny, 55 degree weather to catch up on all the vitamin D I ... Court. It was due to this decision that I spent an hour and a half of this

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 10, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the entries about the Brass Rat and Premiere/Delivery, but I think I'm just ... fools and I make up the 2012 RingComm. We have been seeing each other a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  midterms! Although I'm technically only taking 4 classes this term, I had ... . Although the Spanish and Bio went fine, I'm pretty sure that the Orgo exam ... classes that I'm taking this semester (7.05 - biochemistry - technically

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Think Happy Thoughts D-Lab Memories >> Graphing With Matlab

  

  I'm generating graphs, and have been since 8pm. They tend to start ... reasonable, like this: I stress eventually . I think that if anyone understands how I feel about being stuck in an Athena cluster generating graphs

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 2, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of my colleagues are still asleep - they deserve it! I'm sitting here

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Events

  101 Things to Do Before You Graduate from MIT What every MIT graduate should have experienced.

  

  Graduate from MIT." I immediately taped it onto my wall and I've been checking off activities ever since. Now that it's my *final* year, I think I ... -lovers), I've included photographic evidence below. (My apologies to those

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  O, GRE Battle The best of the worst entry I ever wrote.

  

  located in Haviland, Kansas and is less than 1,000 years old. I wrote a ... -Conner front desk, which I then lost when I came upstairs. Obviously, God reads ... : -I am not a chapstick addict, but I carry two tubes on me at all times

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  morning, I was going to go to physics at 9, but then I decided I was too tired, so I changed my classes and went back to sleep. MY MOM/MY ROOMMATE/BEN JONES/EVERYBODY I SAW TODAY: ... NO JOKE! Last night I changed into 5

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dating At MIT: Episode 1 So two of my favorite '09s have just started dating each other...

  

  and (b) I can blog about it. (By the way - while I may write embarassing things about them, I do respect their privacy, so names will not be ... of (a) from said lunch: She: You're a nerd. He: No I'm not. She: Yes

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Day, Another Class

  

  So as promised earlier, this week I'm highlighting another one of my ... pronounces what we know as H20 as "woodur." Too bad I don't have a sound ... picture of his favorite computer game offered by Mad Scientist Software. (I

  • by Bryan
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Song of Myself All we need is music (sweet music).

  

  Oh, I was going to answer a bunch of questions today, but it turns out that somehow along the line I managed to answer them all in the ... , from Wenhao Sun... which I've been meaning to answer for a while: Hey! I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... Shana once said, I like excerpts. They're like snapshots of some element ... window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities. I'm such a humanities geek, I'm writing this entry from my desk as ... place to sleep on campus. Now, I developed the ability to fall asleep on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Activities Midway Each year, MIT exhibits its 300+ student activities. Friday, I checked them out for you.

  

  recognizes and governs MIT's student groups. I love that students have so much power of self-governance here! [full disclosure: I am a former officer of ... , which was held in the Johnson Athletic Center. When I arrived, I was

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 6, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Look at these pictures I drew in class from my lecture notes this semester

  

  [caption id="attachment_83529" align="aligncenter" width="550"] belugas actually don't have dorsal fins but uhhhh who cares[/caption] [caption id="attachment_83530" align="aligncenter" width="768"] i found out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  telling the tale some thoughts on acting, change, and meaning

  

  [/caption] when i saw hadestown in january 2020, it hit me like a train with ... page’s deep voice, of imagining a better world. it was the last musical i saw before covid. as was briefly mentioned by fatima, i was in a

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  (I know you’re tempted to stop reading after the video, but keep ... on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought ... … actually, on second thought, I had a lot of good doodles from this lecture. I

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  when midterms roll around.  While I’ve fallen far from my fifteen ... notes I take in a typical week of classes.  2.086- Numerical Computation ... fifth time since I’ve gotten to MIT).  [carousel image1="105487" image2

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to be an innocuous little break from the stress-inducing shows that I ... tranquility. No assignments due. No exams. I suddenly had a lot of time on my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023