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  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  student to take at least 8 humanities classes during their time here. Three ... adds so much value to your education and to your sanity at this place. I ... these ideas much better than I ever could. I will say that having at least

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  forensic science. I bought it at a hardcover sale at the Harvard bookstore on ... last 6 years. You’d think by now I’d be at least vaguely proficient, but ... class here at MIT, because I have always wanted to travel to a Spanish

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  -shirts and two sweaters. We are at 10,000 feet, so I guess the cold temperature ... Ecuador!) and gazing at Cotopaxi. t When I finally dragged myself out of ... fruit. At breakfast, we met Feyi (a young woman from San Francisco) and an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  . Unfortunately the snow had to go if the car was to be at all usable, so when we ... when I called Zipcar the nice lady at the other end worked some magic and ... (2x) [my mom made these at home all the time and they are fairly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  , in my graduation speech, with strangers I met at conferences. After I ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer ... middle of our Middle English quiz. At 5:30pm, I followed Professor Bahr

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp Hundreds of miles of riding and thousands of kilojoules spent.

  

  purchased so much food that other shoppers at Costco mistook their shopping ... downhill at 8% grade with sweeping views of the desert playa at nearly every ... Engineering) at 340 watts, followed by a series of intervals up Montezuma grade

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... you doing at 8pm on Saturday Dec 8? Sam: Probably laundry. Me: Would you ... (except that Sam was wearing a suit jacket at the time) which drew a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• 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 ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work ... , that's at the root of it. For what it's worth, I enjoyed some

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

  You Got The Gig So excited about ALL the Things!

  

  in a lab at Stony Brook University back in New York, supervising my ... .  I looked at my computer and I saw the e-mail, and it was just ... Rachel, and I love course 3 (materials science).  I love looking at how

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  and what you’re good at. It’s been almost two decades so ... and effort to. But at the same time, you’ve always wanted to ... thought to myself, why didn’t I start piano at six? Six is so young

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  - although, at this point, "night" is probably the wrong word, since the sky is ... clearly not socially acceptable options at this hour. (1) is less than ... fellow undergrads) and at local community centers and neighboring schools

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  Taken a Math Class at MIT) See, I wanted to write a post on stuff I ... 's all totally not subjective at all - I mean, I spent a whole two ... . "Meet Me Here At Dawn" covered by Andrew Bird feat. Priscilla Ahn: This is

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at ... Sacramento only to arrive at the extremely foggy (extremely, I tell you!) mid-60s Muir Woods. (Left) At first, my hair behaved in the humidity

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  we were living under the same roof this summer at pika*. You might recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  enjoyed making things; that hasn't changed at all. This summer, for example, I built a bike. Working at MITERS, one of MIT's student groups which I ... 't want to bring the nice bicycle I had at home, which my grandparents had

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  During your first day at MIT, after you check in for Orientation ... up in her room. At last count (beginning of the year this year), I ... laureates and study their theories in the lab." Although at last count, there

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Events

  In pursuit of freedom MIT might not be free, but plenty of things are.

  

  lot of nothing whisked me into the Boston theater district yesterday at ... 're interested) in the internal piano of my soul. I should confess now that at the ... me. Observe the following exchange at 2:45 PM on Saturday afternoon

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 21, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Expanding on Pass No Record It's not so much a time machine, as it is a dodgeball cannon!

  

  3) Nothing is new anymore During your first semester at MIT you'll be ... took a bunch of classes at a local college, you're going to have to get ... /didn't really enjoy these classes. Yes, I know, it's MIT, "we're" good at these

  • by Snively '11
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  , which is always sad. So here it is, my attempt at some sort of summary of ... did my best. What can I say, I suck at goodbyes. Things I am grateful ... England winter. I feel sorry for my friends at MIT, I'm sure my complaining

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 1) I ask my friends and fraternity brothers the immortal question: "What are you doing this…

  

  research at various places will be helpful. (Oh my god, grad school ... working at Capital IQ in NYC this summer. We write software that can be used ... 'm 'tagging' DVDs at Hayden Library. It's like YouTube, but for DVDs that Hayden

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 22, 2008