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• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly ... 's wonderful, right?) "That sounds wonderful to me!" As a result of that e

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

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  added another job on top of that and am back at my old UROP, but under a ... Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... is doing this IAP and a quick recap of our winter break! Winter Break

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  author of the computer book I had read at 15, Edmund Berkeley. I told him ... .I.T., while still working at the magazine, I had an interview with the head of Univac, Louis Rader. At the time Univac was a unit of Sperry-Rand and the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i’m thinking about a brief series of incomplete thoughts

  

  this self-imposed rubric, but I'm tired of it preventing me from blogging anything at all. So, in defiance, here's a series of thoughts, none of which ... , a New Years blog, a blog from the beginning of junior fall where I

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 7, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close ... with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west ... , very sure that i’ll throw up a blog every now or then as an alum, and of

  • by Phi A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walking in Tim’s Shoes Trust me, those are some pretty big shoes

  

  at MIT, I got to be Tim the Beaver.   Get to check that one off my list of 101 Things to Do Before You Graduate!   It’s always sort of fascinating when something you’ve been taking for granted turns

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  and don't have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard. This is not a best-of-the-year list. It's not a syllabus for literary self-improvement, nor is it a list of books I think you'll like, although

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... showing him around our dorm. Back at Senior House, he made an interesting ... we take for granted as residents of the East Side. In a similar

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ICE, ICE baby Guess which song would inevitably get stuck in my head as I tooled in the…

  

  amount of ethyl acetate at a given purity per year. Ethyl acetate is a very ... Mary, and my status as the youngest child meant she knew my location at ... Engineering class of 2012 has hit a monumental milestone in the last couple of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 23, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Reference Frames Vision - of the present and for the future - is powerful

  

  the hearts and souls of more than one admissions officer here at MIT ... about the frame of reference that you use. When studying relative motion ... to do is shift your point of view, and things will feel much better

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 19, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  scientific community convened for the first time at the University of Chicago ... (this year, it begins at sundown on March 19). In the interest of keeping ... Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Update The latest on app tracking, app numbers, etc.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... very busy one here at MIT Admissions! This week, The Tech, MIT's ... Kao, STAFF REPORTER November 16, 2010   The number of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Further details for waitlisted applicants.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... aiming for a class of about 1,075 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 camera at the MIT Hobby Shop. After months designing and building this

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Acting, Writing, and Roleplaying: A Match Made in Heaven [by Susan Shepherd '11] Guild members have infiltrated the KGB, made first contact with aliens,…

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Here at MIT, you can find students pursuing hobbies of all kinds – acting in the Musical Theater Guild, for example, or painting a mural on the wall of their room, or writing short

  • by ARTalk
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  following: keep track of your stuff; learn your Athena commands; people at MIT ... the class 21L.702 Studies in Fiction: "James Joyce and the Legacy of Modernism." Joyce's Dubliners and A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man were

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  grade at the end of the semester before deciding if you want the class to ... As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... ) with these instead of Arabic numerals. If you don't know them, the party

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  chance to talk about some of the things I've been up to. Mystery Hunt: I ... references in the name?), a large conglomerate of students and alums of the ... , so we get a lot of random alums in far-flung locales who want to play

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... well. First of all, I like being an urban planning major. I’m taking a ... language class (French III). I’m also getting an Institute requirement out of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Uh-oh Spaghetti-O

  

  really out of hand. So, here's what happened: some anonymous person made ... . Anyone know where to find info on that?) At the same time, no matter how ... "convenient" that the amount of self-selectivity in the female applicant pool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 21, 2006