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  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Announcements

  An MIT Community Vigil for Black Lives

  

  , I want to lift their voices up: their stories have taught me so much ... people experience the world, I hope they mean as much to you as they do to ... , and the nation, to do better. So I wanted to make sure we shared it here

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 4, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  Campus representation, and after much deliberation, we have decided to add ... of us on class council would like to thank you for taking so much ... be rectified continued for a number of days, and due to finals and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• 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 ... much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... , with nothing to block its view, and relatively smaller crowds, becomes a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  ” sounded to me and how much I loved Physics 1 / Mechanics, astrophysics might ... favorite thing I build has to be the light sensing robot, a robot created ... robot Adam Hartz, and Adam personally came to look at my robot 😳😳😳

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  AGAAAAINNN. I have heard a lot of hate on The Man, You Need To Calm Down and ... making up more categories as I go. I am excited to see what you think, so talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  Last week I saw someone screencap my blog post and post it on /r/ApplyingToCollege. I'm flattered for something I've written to get 211 upvotes, and I'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Convention. I donated  $20 and didn't think much of it. Fast forward to last ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  screen as the narrator's voice warmly speaks "Welcome back to MIT Planet ... students as well as other students from all over the country flocked to MIT to compete in these three hackathons: HackMIT, Hacking Arts, and MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  (much to the delight of the tiny boy who was recruiting rides): And rock ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  give NGOs the chance to work at a much higher level of efficiency: lots ... , asking me to take a moment to vote for the idea that she and Divya '13 came ... today, I received an email from Sivakami '11, asking me to do the same

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  It’s amazing sometimes how much life at MIT can seem removed from the ... read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the mountains of Colorado and even time to be bored, it is nice to get back to my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  We all campus for iCampus Innovation and Entrepreneurship: We all love iCampus! (~8 pictures)

  

  I'm not quite sure under what category to file this entry, since it ... , "Academics" it is. The MIT Outreach Initiative "seeks to disseminate ... , sustainable difference in how well and quickly students learn, how much they

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Windy city

  

  beautiful equations." With so much left to understand, Wilczek looks forward ... to Dulles International Airport (designed by Eero Saarinen, who also designed MIT's Kresge Auditorium and Chapel) and discovered that due to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  The selection process continues here, and there's not much I can ... you updated when there's more to be said. Maybe about this time you ... school Class of 2006) that you know and encourage them to expand their mind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  is much closer to us now that we live closer to Harvard than to MIT ... Career Fair is a magical time: in addition to the opportunity and the stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  making solar cells lessons from my nanotech class

  

  that they were the exact same: i’m not going to talk much about the ... ’s too much technical background to explain. for now i’ll just say that you ... that i was taking the class nanotechnology: from atoms to systems (6

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... my favorite professors I've had at MIT. He managed to take something ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  ) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the ... ’m finally getting around to writing mine, and as you may be able to tell, one of my classes is 1.00 (or in non-MIT speak, Intro to Computers and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all the stuff that happened while I was home, except that not much really happened, except this great road trip I took to Elizabethtown College with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006