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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  Goldberg Variations, of which you can listen to here (LARGE file ... prior to MIT. Jenn: I began playing piano at the age of four. Of course ... at MIT for performance. Because of this, I've been able to realize my

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  'm stuck on a deserted island of pre-afternoon hours with nary a soul to ... tourist guidebook to Boston, you'll see this listed as one of the tastier ... verge of making a purchase that will someday cause your roommate to leave

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks ... of IDE: International Development Enterprises) spoke to my D-Lab class

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fuel from the Fields: MIT Charcoal Project a "simple and affordable solution" to charcoal production in Haiti, 21 pictures

  

  causes the organic matter to be carbonized instead of burning away ... (in sunny weather, it takes a couple of days) and then they're ready to ... solutions to the fundamental, seemingly intractable problems that plague

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  of the early pool, I must say just how difficult it was to narrow it ... , truly. And each of you is going to make the world a better place, whether ... While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / Community Projects

  are you stressed/anxious/ [emotion] about finals/decisions/[noun]?  here are some adorable dogs. also, me as james bond.

  

  other enough to submit anonymous displays of affection, but not enough to ... , I'm in front of the camera for once! and to alleviate any concerns, we ... Are you looking for true love at MIT?  Are you not willing to leave

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 13, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... , I present to you, Snively's real view of CPW.      

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  /GRE word!) I guess, strictly speaking, I don't have as much of a right to ... Well, the last week and a half has been busy, to say the least. I always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right ... Boston, I knew not to expect midwest-levels of friendliness. I frequented a ... irreversibly changed the trajectory of my life. I wrote an email to one of my

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... or a pset or a test sneaks up to the top of my list. It's hard to keep ... saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  admitted who don't mind the expense of traveling to boston for the weekend in ... . When Olin College of Engineering asked me if I wanted to attend their ... thing of me to do, but I guess it reflects the state of my mind at that

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 1 MITWE (+ FJE and VJE) go to Brazil

  

  to the city’s latitude and the time of year, objects outside cast ... somewhere because the restaurant ran out of food for us, so we had to return ... MIT). To get there, we took a boat ride up the Rio Negro – one of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 18, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  dramatic because it’s nowhere close to true, but I am scared of graduation ... . With the current state of the world, I may have to work twice as hard as ... are better left burnt. Sometimes I fall asleep to the fantasy of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The ... existential, I used to worry that humans were pieces of four-dimensional beings ... never actually get to something 2-dimensional, given that the slices of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Music Scene by a non-musician

  

  ’re strumming a guitar wistfully pretending to be in a 90s kids coming-of-age film ... taking a day off and going to one of Boston’s many concerts, or even ... affordable) way to relieve some of the stress MIT can give. And trust me, there

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 23, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  to talk about some of the processes that went into making sure ... convince two of my friends to join puzzle team, as did Sophia, so puzzle team ... this done. [September to October] Sketchy Building Because of the tight

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not afraid to get to the heart of issues. So in the spirit of Charlie Rose ... classes and one of my middle school teachers encouraged me to apply to a

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  The reading season begins

  

  many amazing students are out there. As I said to one of my colleagues in ... assemble more folders for the admissions officers to read. And speaking of ... ? That's right -- the first completed folders of the year. The brown

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  hard to believe, since everyone has this image of me being this cold ... . I swear. But then I figured out how to make money off of it. See, I ... the ex about ME. I am truly sorry to all of you out there who will never

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Small Victories The view from a month into MIT

  

  floundering in the amount of work you have to do The word itself comes from the ... different interesting events happening at all hours of the day that I want to ... shock for this reason. I'm the kind of person who is used to saying yes to

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 8, 2011