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  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  things. For me, there is nothing to be said for locking yourself in a room ... Cambridge. You may be wondering where this is going. Bad Ideas? Green ... . Personally, I find this a lot more exciting than Mystery Hunt. I mean, there

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Back to work

  

  since you can declare yourself "undesignated." I've done a lot of thinking ... 's pretty awesome that during your freshman year, you can have a world ... seminar, you can maintain weekly contact with your advisor in a classroom

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  . The fact is: there are a lot of really cool things you can study here. I ... , you can declare "undeclared", but most people do make at least a ... ), all you need to do is fill out a form and get it signed. Basically

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Fortune Favors the merits of not working too hard

  

  paying job you can find because it's there. This is where the "work hard ... making sense, even if you didn't see it that way going in.   There's a ... 's Cookie." Lewis, an art history major at Princeton, is a famous journalist

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  behavior and the brain? 10-C is a flexible enough that you can juggle it and ... , there's no boundaries. So in short, a poetry slam is what happens when ... next four years at MIT. This is a safe place where everyone has a story

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  's a tube that goes through the middle of you, just like there is for ... replicate - sure, maybe there was that one time where i worked on a cool ... where it comes from. it is a confidence that i could really use right now

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  ! YOUR SUMMER ASSIGMENT IS SO THAT YOU HAVE A PLACE TO STAY UNTIL YOU ... 'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  bed makes you feel cozier than you've ever felt before. Love is when a ... down, hoping that my life will unfold like a romantic drama where a ... just because I’ve taken a linguistics class and so now my brain is always

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  . There are some things about how you complete the application that can ... clearly labeled. While there is a specific rationale for every question that ... there is something optional that you would prefer not to respond to, feel

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  got me an answering machine or a "so-and-so isn't home." Regardless, it was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... living in a Francophone country, describing my work, my environment, my

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  intentionally by taking eight classes a semester so they can graduate in two years ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it ... example: a bass drum's frequency is usually around 60Hz, so its

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  . You can't get all the information you need from a video -- you can get ... with people you don't like in a shiny new one. You can use amenities to ... ridiculous; there's no "best" dorm, just one (or a few) that are best for you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: A Smile Worth 1,550 Words guest post by Mariam D. '20

  

  large eyes that have tasted a life beyond what my sheltered palate can even imagine. The solemn looks that you can’t prepare for. The looks that ... shooting stars for the first time with a friend who is no longer with us

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  (Q & A)^n

  

  riots, but it is a place where students believe in working for change in ... MIT. This is also the answer to your second question, how can you find out if ... that it would be a place where my interests in politics and government

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 3, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second First Week Quick update at the start of term.

  

  and studios where you can screen foreign films to hone your language ... the same room as last term's writing class, and is held in a similar ... 's course is taught by Cathy Culot, a native French speaker from Brussels. The

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  how to adult spoiler alert: no one knows

  

  is that a big part of adulthood is figuring it out as you go. you ... ? each life has its ups and downs. all you can do is live the one you have ... life is about the day to day, the work you do each day to build towards a

  • by Melissa Cao '20
  • November 3, 2021
• Blog / Events

  some food around boston plus a random ski pic!

  

  Bridge to get on the Boston side, there's Santouka, which is a fairly ... basically only one menu item, which is pork ramen, and they give you a HUGE ... dinner, which is a small place in Chinatown where they specialize in these

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 1, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing the wall why so defeatist?

  

  There are a lot of phrases in the english language that can be used to describe me- "athletically inclined" is not one of them. I can ... is, you can climb it too. )

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • October 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  you can buy it at our booth in the Student Center in early May for $65. ... give you a sneak preview of what the cover's going to look like :S Isn ... year's book. There are a lot of fun things we added just for this year

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  do, to get there. When you sleep 3 hours a night for a week and ... it anyways. Many hold the mindset of “there is nothing else I can do to ... . Starting to push a boulder is difficult, and stopping it is equally as hard

  • by Anika H. '26
  • April 6, 2023