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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

  

  how you're expected to sleep for grief, so I'll try to comfort you with ... different department?" More on the rest of my classes later, but I want you to ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

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

  I have SMASHING news!

  

  now I quite enjoy being able to stream BBC Radio to Zanzibar while on ... using the same username and password that you use to log into your My ... to receive your decision online before logging in to decisions

  • by Sir Nigel Blogberry
  • March 7, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  I [started] writing this blog on 3/17, and it’s the warmest day that ... .  How the class works is we read a book by some salty New-England sea dog ... changed to be shanty by pop culture. When I say CHantey, I mean a historical

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  screenshot of my spreadsheet. I went to 18/33 of the events I put on my ... actual event, we also had to go on a few shopping trips, including one to a ... cake on fire" event. Apparently to set a cake on fire, you need a LOT of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  past by carrying on old traditions. "You could get an idea of what ... . Jackson was persuaded by the brothers to stay on to cook breakfast for ... brothers recalled how Mr. Jackson had cooked and sent meals to the needy

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be ... the entire park, and my entire job was to make sure that none of them

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  East, on the wall next to her: And here she is again, getting fed an ... about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... to light a clove cigarette as Brian '08 looks on. It was a huge cake

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Forth and Measure Casey at the Bat: Science Edition

  

  skills would come in handy until about a week ago when I scrambled to get a ... . Basically, the project was designed to have us develop some type of scientific question, and then use a measurement device to validate our hypothesis. But

  • by Bryan
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  emailed the president, Kathleen S. ‘19, to see how I could get involved. A ... weekly check-ins to see how they were going, and helped develop question ... competition where two teams try to answer science trivia before the other team

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blog Links If you have a blog, share the URL in this thread!

  

  cool to collect links to other blogs somewhere. So if you have a blog, leave a comment with the URL. Let's see how many we can get! ... I haven't disappeared, really! Just haven't had a ton of things to

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... your head is that of punks standing on a street corner in a bad 80s teen ... possible they weren't joking? On the T, I started to hear more of the story

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  , if not a roomwarming one. On the trek back to my room from the front ... slices of bacon, which was equivalent to a 6-unit course in Not Getting ... 's study break should be Canada. Come to Foo at 22:47 and donate your

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  to handle their newfound "empty nest syndrome" was to get literal pet ... After getting the chicks, my parents set to work building a pretty massive ... sign to hang on the side of the coop. The structure they built actually

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP ... classes included "How to Accessorize/Dress for Success," "How to Tell ... drink, is on the right. I'm going to have to remember that one. Next, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  't only have to choose a place to spend then next five years of your life ... wallet itself. So I might have to get my debit card replaced, at worst. But ... awesomely scored tickets to see The Colbert Report on Wednesday, so we

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... must pay $1.10 a gallon to get rid of this oil, which is used to deep ... making an impact on their community and world, keep your eyes open for the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  only, you can't get much closer to the fireworks barge. The nice folks at ... , "preview concert" on July 3rd. This was the second year I decided to attend ... , and MIT has a front row seat. Each year on July 4th, a concert by the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  next Saturday, 12/14, at 12:14 PM ET.   To check your decision on ... our automated system to reset it. Simply visit MyMIT and click on the ... I've ducked out of committee for a moment to let you know that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  interested after the first hour, once I figured out how to turn on the ... to get tickets but also find an opera buddy steadily dwindled, until I ... boorish man took the heroine to see a Wagner opera. Being a frilly type of

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  than I want to talk about them, which was not how I thought about things ... the self, in an autonomic sense, and how we might begin to attempt to ... be present. She tells us to consider how our body feels before we

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023