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  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  a kid, my dad would play me a few of the classics—Golden Slumbers, Let ... discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... into 60s lore and learning about the inception of my favorite music was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social circles. Like most people, Call Me Maybe was my first exposure to Carly Rae

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

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  ) one of my favorite quotes does not have a discernible origin. “dead ... that’s been on my mind the most lately is the pandemic — after getting sent home during march of my first year at mit, i spent many months at

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  In my last blog, I mentioned that since the spring semester hadn ... this post and moving on to the 5000 other topics on my to-do list, but I ... my most recent post and stop right there. There were good things that

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Blog Projects

  mit bingo! as done by the bloggers

  

  the morning my freshman fall and would often stop at verdes to shop in a ... finish one of my 6.009 labs, so I submitted a confession in mostly cap lock ... . I needed to bring back a heavy box of supplies I had taken back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A half semester told through paper grownup show and tell

  

  ? Above is the top two documents on the stack. On the left is my 8 ... was my First-Year Pre-Orientation Program, and we were given several ... my favorite. Here’s some documents from a role-playing game lead by

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  My schedule this semester is, to put it kindly, pretty [annotation ... classes and the junior core classes. Pretty much [annotation note="my advisor, various course 16 professors, my friends, my parents, MIT men

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for the Applicants I was in those stressed and anxious shoes last year.

  

  post as a reflection of how I regretfully spent some of my time during ... ), and I started my day. After school, I would normally go to a club or ... that time. It didn’t help that I never had Wi-Fi at my house and had to

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ETH Zürich, hier komme ich! A semester of all things Swiss German and chocolate to come

  

  an email sent out to Course 6 Class of 2019. My friend had also sent it ... Spring 2018 abroad, especially because Switzerland and chocolate. My ... was due within the week. I promptly asked my summer UROP supervisor for

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 1, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving ... . I had the unique privilege of creating my own MIT Blog in my freshman

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  unicorns-and-narwhals awesomeness and my ... I thought I’d try to capture my last three Fridays and compile them in ... them, so without further ado, here are my last three creations. Friday

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  've learned a number of things: At MIT, the week of my birthday has always been ... I've had to study for? It wasn't to make my birthday not fun; it was ... on my birthday, because now I know that it's a sense of responsibility

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  . Which brings me to why I was riding through Central Square on my bike on ... perfect opportunity to get off my butt, ride my bike, and save $3.40 in T ... , it was weird enough to draw my attention from the cops and look around

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Trumpeting for Assassins I get to watch each presidential assassination. Live. Over and over again.

  

  In fifth grade, everyone at my school had to pick an instrument to ... 't like feeling a vibrating reed on my tongue, I shuffled into the band room ... , occasionally painful (my lips hurt!) reconnection with my lovely set of brass

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  I'm finally done done done with the MCAT, and my summer has ... , trying out my new bike, spending time with friends, and watching a ... instantly: flowers, a card, and ice cream! My lab is the besttt. ♥ In

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  be mainstream curiosities. Recently, someone from my high school threw ... had my first 9-5 job this summer in a California cancer research lab, I ... because this is what happens when my mom tries to take a picture of me. Mom

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  about the time commitment. My on-campus job is 6-10 hours per week, and I ... blogs, but I don't want to ruin someone else's chances if my applying isn ... ! After a little consideration, I sent back this response: During my first

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  There's something I've noticed about the summer (well, my summer): It ... good at keeping myself busy, be it building stuff in my garage, wandering ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The First Four Days of the Next Four Years (Guest Entry) "STUDY. SLEEP. PARTY….pick two"

  

  the advice I received from an MIT alum a while back. Throughout my time at CPW, I came to understand the meaning and context of those words. My ... , Cambridge, like…here? Or are you from England?" My trek to MIT was very

  • by Bryan
  • April 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  'd gotten a 730 on my SAT II but only because I'd crammed two days before the ... hardest) is best for you. The results of my math diagnostic said that I was ... background. I got an 80/100 on the first pset while all of my friends got high

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008