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  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
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  such bill working its way through both houses of the Congress right now ... Bill 968, the PROTECT IP Act (PIPA) are corresponding versions of a bill ... latest battle in a war which began when the Internet began an age of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hitchhiker’s Guide to CPW DON'T PANIC.

  

  Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation ... to be taking over MIT's campus in five days. You may have heard of it ... but a pale imitation of the truth - valorous but vain attempts to

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  a University of New Mexico Physics site, but I'm glad it is "Sonnet ... hours of inactivity,[/annotation]which tends to keep things pretty clean ... of these tabs have been open for nearly a year, with no hope of ever

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  took off, Boston dropped beneath me, a sea of darkness cut through by millions of nighttime lights. I pressed my face to the window, not quite sure how I felt. It was this strange mixture of disbelief and excitement. My

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Marilee Jones in the news The Associated Press article about Dean Marilee Jones.

  

  surprising pulpit of a university famous for its overachievers, she has become ... Press about our Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones. According to Google ... 's currently on CNN.com, with a nice picture of Marilee and her daughter (at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 12 Step Plan don't pack too much, you probably wont use half of it anyway.

  

  For a lot of you (maybe not all), interning over the summer will be ... to the "freedoms" of college life.  As exciting as these summer ... post-graduation fun. Of course you will have a supervisor to ask

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 25, 2011