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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  .R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold ... poignant account of the Crucifixion (The Dream of the Rood), and a host of ... a scene from Tom Stoppard's 1993 play Arcadia (which MIT is currently

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I'll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty ... quite a few years ago. Seeing the MITLeaks announcement on Monday reminded ... . Before the magic of the internet we actually got a real letter announcing

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  deep underneath a basketball court, behind several locked doors, and ... ammunition, and more guns than you can (or would want to) shake a stick at. A ... (dodgeball, flag football, air pistol). Not a lot is said about these, I guess

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Neil Gaiman: The Liveblog "This is a land of fire and dreams."

  

  know something is Really Important: Now, MIT has hosted a pretty ... hosted the infamous Ollie Smoot '62 (for a lecture about Smoot's Ear ... expecting Neil to be here by now. There is A few people start clapping (widely

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  regard to our engagement. If you are a person who likes this sort of thing ... future reference. A cool thing that I find amusing We went over to the ... space over the main entrance to the museum are the vehicles Daedalus (a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ripping shirts and other clothing mods

  

  shape the world around me, and clothing mods are a great part of that. So ... ="96640" /] b1 had a craft REX event (tie dye and embroidery) est. time: 60 ... est. time: 2 hrs I found these black cargo pants at a thrift store in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 1, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  I Could Never Do it Alone People of a semester, thank you

  

  a 45% on the 3.091 final. I could write about the classes I loved. The ... academically. Therefore, community is virtually required. There's a phrase I hear ... share memories of friendship in the form of a poorly formatted digital

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • December 19, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  for a couple days, the bulletin boards begin to look familiar. You ... , even if you don’t actually take it, because you can guess. You’ll get a ... ’ll be right enough that you’ll never be truly surprised where a hallway

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  All the advice you’ll need for the next twelve hours not clickbait

  

  more important. In a few hours from now, you'll read the decision ... truth is that there are uncountably many factors that go into a decision ... . They are all great posts, but here are a handful of my favorites: Into

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 14, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  walking, walking, walking walking and/as coping

  

  been fantastic in a lot of different ways. I'm back in Cambridge, I did a [annotation note='this is a program run by CAPD which has, in the past, been ... actually find me in a photo in this post!']micro-internship[/annotation] at a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 31, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/19/20, 3:14 PM ET

  

  and a Slack message from Petey appears saying, “Kellen, I need you to ... ,’[/annotation]it’s anime. Can you do this for me?” And, with a tear in my eye, I looked at my ... email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named [annotation note

  • by kellen manning
  • December 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22 ... year she was (a freshman, like me) and what her major was (she said ... was really happy with her answers, given that I was also a freshman girl

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/14/19, at 12:14 PM ET

  

  I've stopped watching this video of a tiny hedgehog being bathed and ... receive a decision on the 14th, you should visit decisions.mit.edu and try ... saturday but you're just a tiny baby who hasn't verified and it doesn't work

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 5, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... a friend who's an LA native about this feeling and he said that it ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  enhanced while a student at MIT? How do you perceive the sense of community ... -being? Please take a few minutes to participate and provide your perspective. To ... presented in a way that individual respondents cannot be identified. If data

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  , is that we learned that Elizabeth’s “mistake” was actually not a ... to a study: They found that 191 couples — 14.7 percent — were ... told they were identical. Here is a diagram to sum up the relationship

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fig. 3: La dolce vita snaps from an extended spring break

  

    Earlier this month, here at ETH, we had our spring break a ... embarked on a journey to warmer, sunnier lands down south. Two weeks before, however, my exchange friends and I did a pre-Spring Break weekend trip in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

   FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS FRIENDS ” -D.A. Twins 2/25/2018 (we imagine our words echoing after we throw them ... named. Then, at the end of a meeting of a club we’re all part of, we ... , Danny mentioned a conversation he had with Alaisha A. ‘18, who actually

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  , high character, and a strong match with MIT's global mission to ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a difficult decision to receive; please trust that we have done our best. Take a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  To go home or to stay home Homesickness never hit...but I'm still thankful to be in L.A.

  

  to stay close to home (potentially as close as a half-hour drive) or ... a very close relationship with my family. At my high school, one of my ... . A lot of the time, the highlights of my day and the events that I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 27, 2015