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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  care about the enjoyment/impact axis if you’re reading this, like you can ... a books-by-literary-merit list. Here’s how you should interpret the letters, and a list of all the books. S: will reread again and again

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  Friday. We rolled down the windows, rolled back the sunroof, and cruised ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... us? Woman: Oh, you're trying to get to the festival! Me: Yes! Woman: Oh

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  caught up with the bright green track jacket walking ahead (my friend Eric) and together we ran across the street, to pick up another junior named Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! (2010 Edition!) yay pictures!

  

  now back at MIT. I took a long nap in the library today. I can feel MIT ... !!!!!! ----- So guys, sorry for the hiatus in posting the photo contest results. I ... tsk to the person who sent me pictures that were 20 MB EACH. dang son

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world. It's like a New Yorker

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  ripped out the carbon record of my experimental results and dashed out of the 5.310 (Experimental Chemistry) lab. Though the lab period is scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  enough by this time and arranged the exchange ourselves. we decided we ... house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... scrolled down and down and down in my google drive and found the incomplete

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jugal Shah- Improving the technique of High Resolution Quantitative Autoradiography Sophomore Jugal Shah is improving a boron imaging technique that may potentially enhance a promising…

  

  ) along with a minor in music (Course 21M). As a testament to the diversity ... . Kent Riley, a research scientist at the Nuclear Reactor Lab working with ... both of his passions. Jugal found his UROP by searching the websites of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  Note: this one is dedicated to the expectant EA applicants. Hope you ... rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the ... performing “Icarus” by Bastille (the song some lounge critics proclaimed to be

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ratification: The Story of the US Constitution History @ MIT

  

  If you are at all following the news, you'll know that the US Congress just raised the debt ceiling, after a protracted deeply partisan debate. Just like every political debate, the "Constitutionality" of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically: the snow folds into itself & the green pushes out; fireweed lights ... heavy and silver with fish. The air is warmer, though not warm, and on

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  sometimes do refer to specific fonts, not just typefaces. Second, the ... .[/annotation] Consider this picture I took two years ago: The stickers labeling the building are in Helvetica. So is the "ACCESS RESTRICTED" poster. The poster

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a Problem, Part 1 and the power of the few

  

  6.046, Design and Analysis of Algorithms, is one of the most ... ’s Introduction to Algorithms class, and dives into the heart of designing and ... , especially in the context of limited resources. Limited memory, limited

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 22, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The MIT Midyear Report Further information about completing the MYR.

  

  The MIT Midyear Report is now available! You can fill it out now at http://my.mit.edu. Complete your MIT Midyear Report now.The MIT Midyear ... completed by you, the applicant. The Report serves two purposes: to provide

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 1, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Moment of Truth

  

  Decisions are in the mail and ready to be viewed online. I'm really excited myself, and I've known my decision for a year and a half. =) Best of luck to everyone!

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some of the topics Here are some of my classmates' CI-M paper topics

  

  Textile industry and trade Determinants of the price of vodka Access to the ... the real estate market for condos Impact of Vioxx's downfall on pharmaceutical company stocks December 8: The Atkins diet and its effect on the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 22, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Senior Week On The Blogs!!! oh no, we’re all so old

  

  week on the blogs. *cue all of the sad faces and crying emojis* Writing on the blogs, sharing tidbits of our lives at MIT and hearing from you ... one last hurrah. So in spirit of the normal, sky-diving filled senior

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 25, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet

  

  As you probably remember, we are launching the new MITAdmissions ... the odometer, finally showing its age, and throwing some bugs that are ... + 1 blog posts, and avoid throwing our laptops collectively into the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What is the HASS Requirement?

  100% of MIT undergraduates study the humanities, arts, and social sciences. At MIT, we consider the humanities, arts, and social sciences ... ; for meeting the world's great challenges; and for sustaining the