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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

  

  of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien, Old English (also called Anglo-Saxon) is a language of long, cold

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

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  Weekend was only at the end of October, a mere 59 days, 4 hours, 32 minutes ... something that I could show them. Something that’s a perfect representation of ... . My parents and I alongside one of my friends and his parents.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• 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 ... parties I've typically blogged about in the middle of October? And the exams ... myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work

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

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  t-shirt. Photos of Paterno, the football team, and Beaver Stadium, signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... minute later. The photo was of Beaver Stadium, filled to capacity during a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... still. :) ... I sort of want to email admissions and ask "So thank you

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the ... over 20. This was one of the most difficult things to do. Over time, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one centimeter of precipitation - enough to finely coat the Earth's surface with a negligible amount of snow - to be a shocking amount. And that's understandable

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Moves and Music(als) Illustrated with tons of images and a video, and not *as* many words

  

  , not-so-involved career. I got my start in the second half of senior year, when my high school staged its production of Guys and Dolls (this will be moderately important later). But let's get to the heart of the matter. Let

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 24, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  for this year's edition of Technique (the yearbook of MIT, since 1885 ... process so that everyone working on the book, including myself, was aware of ... means that the books should be in towards the end of April, with

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something ... three midterm tests in three of my classes, and an essay due in my fourth class. All of this happened within four consecutive days. Ow. I got

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  is usually incoherent, a bowl of liquid gelatin wriggling with light ... five precious seconds of my life. 10:25 pm: Someone has sent me an email ... I have a granola bar for lunch tomorrow? The grotesqueness of bananas

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of ... anything else you might need. While a lot of people who decide to be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  == Empty A lot of what makes MIT MIT is the people you'll find here. I didn't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... Conner 2 (2nd floor, Conner side of Burton-Conner dorm) and I no longer had

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  , though, it evolved from a source of amusement into a source of irritation, even anger. During my year off, I read a lot about activists of the 1960s ... become something of a fashionable habit. I felt as though I couldn’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: A sneak peak at research @ MIT This new website is sure to change the way that the world thinks about MIT…

  

  researcher (or more likely, a group of researchers) behind the finding. Granted ... as being analogous to OpenCourseWare, featuring research instead of class materials. He elaborated by calling it something along the lines of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 13, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Worlds within worlds

  

  I hear Early Action decisions went out. Congrats to those of you who got in. If you got deferred, don't take it too hard, plenty of people whom I know here got deferred EA and then got in. Eventually, those of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  , claims to have the largest selection of cold drinks on the East Coast. I ... , your personal worth is determined by your workload: your lack of sleep, your berth of problem sets, your number and difficulty of major. Your

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... shots around this joint. The sort of puzzling thing is that nothing that

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what to expect when you’re expecting a bad grade, that is

  

  pointless, but not so hard that most of the class couldn't do it. 'Twas I who ... walked out. In light of this, some serious cheer is in order, and so I present to you a list of things to do if and/or when you find yourself in a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 29, 2025