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  The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes Learning Middle English, sketching constellations, holding meteorites

  

  . In college, I think it's important to take classes that are special, in ... went to a Burchard Scholars reception, where I identified Prof. Bahr by ... -western-culture Medieval texts - with a Medievalist. In the original Middle English. If I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the high life, man. But despite the fact that I am totally in denial about ... introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  interested in Comparative Media Studies, which is where I earned my graduate ... an actual wizard. Loren applied to MIT while I was in grad school, so I ... , Elizabeth, and I started spending weekends in the NMC together, recutting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  My childhood best friend changed schools in 8th grade, so I didn ... optimistic, and thought that if I am just honest in my application, wherever I ... so at first. In senior year of high school, I was not understanding AP

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIA No More Why I haven't blogged in 23 days.

  

  lets you combine your passions and interests in many different ways...I can't help but wonder if I've been taking advantage of this opportunity. There are two activities in particular that I love doing, that I could

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 1, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  song? First, when it dropped in 2004, I was a subteam captain and the ... date on this song makes me more than a little nostalgic. I did a lot in ... in college, but I am far and away the better for my FIRST experience

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT: REGRESSIONS a documentary on MIT, and why it's so important

  

  dance is different, and in my eyes, much worse. I can only wonder what ... code. I can't help but miss the way things were in my freshman year ... people in student life administration who are leaving as well. I can only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  farewell, first semester p/nr-ing just hard enough

  

  I grew up in Nashua, New Hampshire, an unassuming city with lovely people but not much to do.    Now that I’ve been living in Cambridge ... 'm enveloped in an impalpable childlike innocence that convinces me that I spent

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 19, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... ’m over on the West Coast, at Stanford, where I just finished my first year

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  country where it never snows. :) On a equally festive note, my dorm, i ... So yesterday I saw the first real snow of the season!! (come on, the snow on November 21 wasn't "real snow" - it melted all before noon!) I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New Year, New Semester Celebrating Lunar New Year and a new spring schedule

  

  . Hooray for living in Maseeh! Katherine ’17, Cathy ’17 and I managed to ... . Classes are in full swing, though I’m just getting acclimated to how much ... .06 [Cell Biology]: I ended up dropping this class in the fall, but it

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  where I don't have to sacrifice one for the other. To learn how you can ... FAP I signed up for a freshman advising seminar in the arts called FASAP ... I'm doing both. In a sense, the two influence each other. I'm a better

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  before. In fact, I know the guy who made it, so it made for a great story to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... could get it out. That's when, and I can't remember exactly who, but, some

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus, Part One Photos and commentary of a sample floor of the East Campus dormitory.

  

  is similar in architecture, layout, and structure. I haven't counted ... -- so you can gather opinions from many sources.) I should note that there ... Campus the only dorm where I could be happy? No -- thinking so would be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note ... of January where students can conduct 'independent activities' before

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Forget your plan for a minute The beauty of collage

  

  now that I went to an art school and spent most of my time in film ... This morning at breakfast, I gave my son (the high school junior ... make a quick collage? You can use existing images from magazines and your

  • by Kris Guay
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  , where we had a meeting scheduled in the auditorium. We were a bit worried ... state of Montana in attendance. And I do mean "all across": one father and ... ,898 people!! That's insane! I hereby propose a new metric in admissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A bevy of beautiful Brass Rat bezels More on the evolution of the MIT class ring.

  

  , for the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in ... lucrative ring contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a ... each year of prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."

  

  the unveiling of the class ring. The design process begins in freshman ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... prime MIT ring-buying. Using imagery representing events from their first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So You Want to Declare a Double Major? This is why/how I'm doing it, in case you were curious

  

  , or understanding the progression of disease in humans. I also want to ... . And because I like biology, but don't necessarily want to work in a ... year I was majoring in Course 20, but recently switched to CMS as my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 5, 2014