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  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  It's December, which means it is time to (drumroll please)...   ... (cue airhorn noise)🎉🎉   As someone who loves to obsess over random, [annotation note = "Spotify Wrapped HATES to see me coming

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  cognitive augmentation probably the most mindblowing course i’ve encountered at mit

  

  classes i was interested in but didn’t have time to take. one of those was cognitive augmentation (mas.s65), a class on using technology to augment human ... . it turned out to be a very inspiring class that truly expanded the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 19, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... where it would be kept and for how long) or a storage facility in Boston (which can be expensive and annoying). I was happy to pack all of my stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides ... who are committed to learning French at MIT. You spend two weeks in ... going to class, we had a packed schedule of walking tours of different

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  , according to the program bio, "Music Director of both the Simón Bolivar ... . Feeling very uncultured, I went on to read that he was voted into the ... a little surprising - to read that Harvard recently awarded him the Q

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Talking about a difficult subject Answering an FAQ.

  

  , but also a call to action. No doubt, we wonder how young people with so ... highest suicide rate? The answer to that question is: No, this is not true ... . Most people who come to MIT are happy, well-adjusted people, and leave

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more ... want to do. We were in this boat as prefrosh, and then in our freshman and sophomore year, we hopped into the “did we come to the right school

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Let the games begin! Last minute advice for your CPW.

  

  Hey prefrosh! Welcome to campus! If you're not here yet, hurry up ... you aren't sure what to do yet with your CPW, here are some tips from my ... this cool one MIT student and get to know them and blah blah blah

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  From the eyes of a newly minted EC A flashback++

  

  absolutely no excuse aside from the fact that I don't really know what to write ... to talk to you about college decisions and my own experience. When I applied to college, all I knew is that I was going to college, and hopefully

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fear of Flying Shake the haters off.

  

  This entry is meant to complement the one I wrote prior about being ... , when other people found out that I'd been accepted to MIT, their reactions weren't so positive. A lot of people told me to my face, "Bryan, you

  • by Bryan
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  composed symphony. How often does an opportunity like that come around?! The ... Department here at MIT. This was the first time I had ever been exposed to a modern piece, and boy, was it fascinating (and at times, difficult to learn

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Top Blog Posts of 2015 widely viewed and capturing the essence of 2015

  

  ? by Ana V. '15 May 2015 A Hard MIT Class by Vincent A. '17 How to ... want you to know by Allan K. '17 The 'How to College' Masterpost by ... earth. From little victories to large setbacks, everybody's gone through

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  . How in the world did you both go from doing engineering at MIT to ... biology, architecture and computer programming to design fashionable ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  What I’m Watching ...

  

  learning to trust shapes and colors to be the real thing? Like a faraway ... someone gave me the opportunity to find out, would I? I'm thinking if I ... the world to ease the pressure of having to choose a direction for "my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And term starts again…

  

  programming, game theory. My comments: The description sounded fun. I want to ... strengths and limitations of fMRI compared to other techniques, and the design ... high-level vision. Upon completion, students should be able to understand

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anna Teytelman: Japanese Hip-Hop Extraordinaire! Anna Teytelman studies Japanese hip-hop and culture at MIT's Hyperstudio.

  

  (Course 15) and Mathematics with Computer Science (Course 18C), showed up to ... at her and possibly send her to MIT Medical. Anna has every music lover ... Department and Comparative Media Studies, she is helping to lay the foundation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 27, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  New York, New York

  

  Chiara Coletti, a vice president. Hmm... it will be interesting to see how ... writing habits. "It appeared to me that regardless of what a student wrote ... the panel from the College Board disagreed. "He told me I was jumping to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  to expecting a lot of myself, and I was a bit baffled when I just ... ’t suppress the desire to go back just 48 hours, so I could’ve slept just a bit ... could’ve transported myself back to pre registration, to change my course

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  to figure out how it achieves its effect. If you read one thing from ... drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person ... daytime so there was nothing to observe, but I couldn’t stop thinking about what she said, because she read me to filth. Spotify and I have a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022