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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  the most of your MIT education." After three years of eclectic classes ... the institute has to offer its students.  If there's one thing I learned ... yourself to explore your options. Nine months ago, I was in the middle of a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  artwork of Pixar's 20th Anniversary book - happy 20th anniversary, Pixar!.. (three years ago! ahem..) Working at Pixar is kind of like working at a microcosm of a college campus, even if I'm basing it off of a "small" campus

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh, the places you’ll go (reprise) my first ever technical interview

  

  'd offer some hints if I got stuck. I babbled on for a couple of seconds ... (This is part 2 of my oh, the places you'll go blogpost because they ... to be in the same post since they had different tones kind of so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blagoblagz*: Why I’m a History Major at MIT (Guest Blog!) By Dora '11, who is a Physics and History double major and is super awesome.…

  

  of really interesting classes that were being offered. I finally chose ... * for lack of a better title, I have taken the liberty of using the title of the word file Dora sent me. thanks for this awesome blog! :) by

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 23, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  what kind of frat culture you are looking for MIT can offer you something ... I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are simply

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  traditionalist and as one of the "universal synthesists." Using the French Suite No ... classical music-loving group. My neighbors are members of concert choir and ... lot of exposure to music composed between 1600-1800. I've listened to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  In 1965, Jocelyn Bell arrived at Cambridge University to earn her Ph ... string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  HELLO. So the last three weeks of my life have been absolutely ... apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three ... Tried to establish a new normal in the middle of the woods I’ve been here

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  friendly little ceramic spook on my desk offers a welcomed reminder of that ... Under cover of darkness It's that magical time of year: the sun sets ... alarming amount of sound, and I begin to oscillate between my desk and my

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  at least i’m not as sad as i used to be i don’t keep friends, i keep acquainted

  

  imagines a universe when my parents were more accepting of me, and it is ... all the corners of the world. and i saw many of them, for what will ... in some cases, this is true; some of my graduating friends are sticking

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

   hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I ... – to this day I don't remember who – pounding on the door of my host

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I ... workings of the black-box tools we took for granted in 6.2050. For example, much of our work in 6.2050 relied on hardware simulators that magically

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  next few days I used my laptop for my morning alarm instead of my phone ... for its front desk, it was only one of the packages I had ordered, and ... friend let me borrow one of their chargers, which didn't really work

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  almost forgot that I had pictures from the last few days of the semester to ... minds, right? OK. Yesterday was the first day of IAP. What am I doing ... decision to take the EMT class offerred through MIT Medical and MIT-EMS. This

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring there will always be regrets

  

  while planning a semester, I have some general sense of what I want out of the semester or a weak ideology with which I choose classes and ... that I wanted to take because I cared a lot about all of them.  although

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  graduate students from the local university to our house for a Thanksgiving meal. It was a way of giving the graduate students, many of whom had all of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pre-med, Everybody’s Best Friend If you are considering a career in medicine -- and not as a pharmacist.

  

  News Office). Congrats, Farhan! I took 21A.453: Anthropology of the ... it's bad to eat within 2 hours of going to bed, so late at night when ... . Okay, now to the serious part of this entry. Potential pre-meds, read

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... of the instructors. The first two lectures or so were focused on using

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017