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  a walk down memory lane in the form of albums

  

  Sunflower does. This is such a lovely album and I can't wait to hear it live ... , they made this fanmade MV for it which included Fall Out Boy's Sugar We ... forgot this song existed until I heard it in Darwin's, a Cambridge cafe

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  and it was FUN. I went from not knowing how to properly handle a drill ... others liked are at the very bottom. It really depends on the person, but ... D I took the Concourse version of this class, and I found it so hard

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  called it a night, feeling pretty happy with how much we’d gotten done. I ... , but I think that’s as much as we accomplished. You can picture how it ... . It’s a daunting task, as the systems we’re designing are underspecified

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  It's nice to meet you. I'm a new freshman at MIT, a member of the ... of a button. It certainly left Hot Wheels in the dust. I turned five ... relationship and found it necessary to divorce, with my mother moving out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  at MIT. It's also amazing how much effort the student groups put into ... such a trivial thing? It’s amazing how much effort MIT puts into ... !" Mathematician: "If one more person goes into the building, it will be empty!" The

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ironic though, given how cold it was outside.) At this point, we only had ... ’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in ... surprise” that turned out to be a free week-long trip to the Amazon

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Talking to Strangers

  

  bought so he could send it to his girl back home. I agreed. We were in a ... details because I don’t feel like it. In essence, the situation did not play out as I expected. It was not harmless. It ended with the man exposed

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  (unfortunately I don't have a picture): "One day I went to Nasa! It was fun, very ... clean it up. Good times. A few years later, crucible-flinging me had ... (it was connecting dots it shouldn't have been connecting) and sorted it

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  stressful experience of my whole time at MIT. It turns out that there's more ... scientific presentations. Furthermore, it would be impossible incredibly easy ... .  How could you tell the person who is writing your most important

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  "I like how you say that with a smile on your face," my hallmate ... working in studio for five hours and I hate my life but it was awesome,'" he mimicked in a higher-pitched voice and some sort of everlasting smile. It

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Freezing My @$$ off at CPW By: Andrea '11

  

  loved how every time I met a new person it went sort of like this: Me ... went there with this “what the heck, they’re paying for it so ... !!" Oh, where would we be if it weren't for Facebook... *sigh* Some people

  • by Bryan
  • April 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  long time, but of course it's not better than Galaxy Quest, because ... Professor Ellen Harris was speaking. You can read all about it on Mitra's blog ... movie I have ever seen. How the photographers got all these beautiful

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT Goes To Senegal Like Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, except with fewer filibusters and more dancing.

  

  offer, although it does mean that people sometimes look at me funny as I'm doing it. As an undergrad I played with a drumming group called Rambax ... Senegal and work with drummers there. Oh, and did I mention it was free

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  One Giant Leap For beaver kind

  

  powered but it does add a nice touch. So that's that! Happy soon-to-be 40th ... I'm up early. I'm up REALLY early, and it's not because I stayed up, it's because I woke up . . . to go study. Finals are coming up! You see

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  weirdness, and recognizing that it comes from a long history that makes the US ... it never got posted. I'm posting it today because it's Memorial Day ... standardized American can to shame. It's a totally different cultural experience

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break! *frantically waves arms in the air*

  

  It's always exciting to get not just a three-day weekend, but an ... middle of April, but here it's at the end of March. Most other colleges ... which eventually does research in a UROP, but surprise surprise. I won

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 20, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  about class rank (her school is considering doing away with it), and I was ... rank does not affect our decision. And at schools like the one in the article, it would probably be better not to rank... I just got a visit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  And if I had a million dollars Solve this problem and win a million dollars, SERIOUSLY.

  

  . The distribution of such prime numbers among all natural numbers does ... first 1,500,000,000 solutions. A proof that it is true for every ... distribution of prime numbers. Or if you saved a penny every hour, it would take

  • by Bryan
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ

  

  selection process has begun. Does that mean that everything else, including ... grades) note, and reconsider it as soon as we have received and reviewed ... . It is too late for any supplemental materials to be considered by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• FAQ / Prepare for MIT

  Will I receive AP/IB college credit?

  'll learn even more. So it's always a good thing to push yourself academically in high school, for your sake and ours. That said, MIT does not ... Standing Exam (ASE) to test out of it. It's essentially like sitting the