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  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  You learn how to navigate MIT. It’s inevitable. After you stay here for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... could not find my way from East Campus to Building 7. This was a path that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• 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!

  

  This week I bring to you a guest entry from a very talented musician ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for ... long as I have a piano to practice on, and people willing to listen to me

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  .00 teaches you to think like a computer scientist. Here is a sampling of topics ... .g. "what a function looks like”) and the psets require the students to, say ... that? We've also had to program hangman and Scrabble. Making a working

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  the opportunity to collaborate on a large research project with top ... Solving are working together to create a place for students to experience ... A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  2024 has been quite a year for the Sun—in addition to the total solar ... ! We planned out an itinerary, booked a hotel, found places to eat, and ... supposed to touch the moss because it takes a really long time to regrow

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  refuse to buy an iPhone - I didn't even own an iPod until just a year ago ... eighty semi-hours Ten thousand thirty-two hundred emails to read Ten ... a MIT frosh? You can always spam However you want But just remember

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  to extinction. The story revolves around a bizarre group of neighbours ... : If you had to pick your top five sci-fi movies for a marathon, what ... to do all the classic MIT things before graduating. Accordingly, LSC

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  College Application Anxiety what if your biggest fear is getting *into* MIT

  

  , admission to a wonderful school—it is not because they think you are at an adequate level to pass xyz and abc classes in your time at that school. A ... I recently received an email from a rising high school senior who was

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  're going to forget that it's a Frank O. Gehry building." I actually really ... DID YOU KNOW? According to Wikipedia, "An article from The Onion ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  teaching web.lab aka what i spent all of january on

  

  you were a student in web.lab 2020, but you never had to use this stuff ... your life, you don’t have to address a disproportionate amount of ... actually a lot of fun to think about host lots of office hours for students

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  song that the sixth graders decided to do a flash mob to. And then ... annoying song, and also the teachers had already done a video to it so we ... to update for a whileeee)[/caption] "I need to look so hot for Carly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  opportunities. He began his amazing journey in 1974, loaning $27 to a group of 42 ... a detailed overview of these projects). To give you some of the ... particular, she wants poverty to occupy a more prominent space in MIT’s

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Celebrating Defiance @ the Media Lab a prize for responsible, ethical disobedience

  

  Last July, the MIT Media Lab created a $250,000 award to recognize ... concerns of citizens in Flint, Michigan to unravel a mystery that many in ... seeks to highlight effective, responsible, ethical disobedience across

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 21, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... always feel like I should be volunteering to put on the event as a student ... see and talk to design consultants and tour a possible place I could see

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Home Warning: Graphics Intensive.

  

  couple of days, and it's time to take a break. As you wrap up your ... a pile of transcript/recommendation request forms to the Counseling ... Welcome to 2008! 2008. In equivalent terms, Class of 2012

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  meetings a week and DPhiE the same and I would love time to just sit and do ... A couple updates: I quit two of my jobs I'm taking 4 classes and ... -technical classes are still a lot of work I am good, I am okay But I am very tired

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Supplemental material How to and when to send in supplemental materials.

  

  music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may ... date of birth are included. You do not need to be a music major for this ... classes or be a music major. Art. If you are an artist and would like to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  is necessary to understand the show fully.) I took a long break from ... reminding me a bit too much of our relationship. I only then started to pick ... flighty, crush-having, immature 12 year old boy, to in the final season a 17

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness ... probably not considered “enough” to be clinical) in which a person feels ... have felt that way at times, like there is a horror trying to claw its

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I ... ://open.spotify.com/playlist/34w1NkAVcqH4pn9xpuuGDp?si=6ca6d77b70a546b2 Is there a song that helps

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 8, 2023