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  Study Abroad Fair Learn about opportunities to study in another country (8 pictures)

  

  can't really read it, but the white banner in this picture is for ... (This is a direct paste from an email.) The Undergraduate Association Committee on Student Life is proud to present MIT's second

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 5, 2005
• 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

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to ... of unshakable resolve in the face of insurmountable odds. It is, in ... the French language across the channel in 1066. To give you more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  myself outside in the snow or in the rain, waiting for the strobe lights to ... , waiting to be let back in. You can actually hear the Simmons fire alarm from ... , Simmons Hall has a bazillion little windows in order to make the building

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sore Subjects state of affairs isn't so good. But here are some telescope pictures!

  

  analysis for the 3rd 8.14 lab (Zeeman effect in Hg). My oral presentation is ... light, is definitely by far the fewest number of units I've stood to ... , but losing spring break productivity to vacation in the Virgin Islands

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • April 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  HackMIT, in our 2017 theme: Hack to the Future. On social media, the ... all of the puzzle’s components gain automatic admission to HackMIT in ... ’s Back to the Future-themed puzzle involves topics in security, AI, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a ... is the standard introductory physics course offered to freshmen at MIT ... telephone. The class is new to MIT this year and has less than eighteen

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Post-Valentine Blog Roundup Valentine's Day capped off by a serenade.

  

  finest memories of walking to class in the morning from my dorm were on ... ? Check. And a serenade? Check! Thanks to our secret admirers, the ... on. Right: Mari and Gisele watch the serenade. Also related to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  from beginning to end. We'll choose a firm in the next few days, and the ... on the current viewbook I would love to hear them. What do you like or ... 'd keep and what you'd change. I'd also love to know what you feel is

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there really a swim test?

  education courses for undergraduate students to complete the swim requirement and the eight point General Institute Requirement. The swimming ... even earn your Pirate's License! (Enter "pirate" into the search field to
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  goal, they explain on their Web site — vds.mit.edu — is “to identify the ... our future. MIT has been very active in developing solutions to energy ... Vehicle Team, and the Solar Decathlon (read more in the Spring 2007 issue of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2014 FAQ

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... your QuestBridge application is being used in place of the MIT ... taking my tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less ... needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  Thanks to reader Timur, who sent the bloggers some "holiday ... holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the ... I can. I was talking to a guidance counselor over the phone today

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  something all of the time. One thing that's vital to learn how to do is to ... 've been up till 3 AM in the Hayden Library (an awesome place to study, by ... photos ourselves in a darkroom. This is my first print - a shot of the

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  about the event and this is what he told me: "The Next House Thanksgiving ... think approximately 85 showed up. The dinner is generously sponsored by ... family. While it is only advertised to Next House, our goal is to give

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are ... settled in the dorms of Jeju National University. Then we went outside ... were about to find out how Jeju does New Years'. (I apologize in advance

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Linkdump: Smart Leaves, Burritos, and Shaq cool things on the Internet

  

  reminding me to brush my teeth; on the bathroom mirror a note would remind me to read the note that would be waiting next to my breakfast. This is ... across in the last few weeks and months: Boston Globe: "And the band is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  As I wrote in a previous entry, I signed up to run the Back Bay 5K ... the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... -- thanks for the pictures! It is freezing, but we are happy =) The Boston

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  drums to destroy the undead is so strongly swimming in the zeitgeist that ... awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... the kind of world I want to live in with its terrible beauty and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Other ways I’ve been rejected over the past fifteen years [suffering-from-success.jpg]

  

  notice that, in the rolling average of emotions, successive bets feel much ... . Some turn to exposure therapy, or perhaps the simulated version, maybe even a literal game to conquer, in a pressing effort to desensitize

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • January 21, 2025