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  Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning

  

  "The less learned cannot fail to be pleased, though without knowing ... the chamber chorus. I'm also an Arts Scholar, which means that I get to go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mini-Guide to the GIRs Now I've been through them - don't make the same mistakes I did.

  

  I feel slightly weird to be typing away on the MIT blogs again, when ... blog would never get written - so here goes. I'm also going to stray from the conventional path of telling you what options are available to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  First, I have three very exciting pieces of news to share with you ... (Astronomy Picture Of the Day)! According to the Greeks, the Pleides were the ... Atlas and Pleione. To the best of my knowledge, no one really knows where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  ’s go on a trip. To Salem,” I asked my partner a week ahead of a long ... , I had to choose the latter. One perk of being a poor college student ... part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems to get started. But for the first time in three years I genuinely

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When Econ Comes to Life This has nothing to do with econ, but you should watch it.

  

  Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's a shame that I actually misplaced my poster and have to rely on the copy that my friend Anna has hanging ... , "I can't wait until I get to MIT and brush shoulders with Nobel Prize

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 18, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  spent [annotation note="to be fair, most of it went into sorting and ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into ... ’t sleep until 3am because I hit a critical mass of a desire to write. So

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  a farewell to my phone which hurled itself repeatedly into the icy arms of death

  

  cement below. I scrambled down to salvage it, only to find the screen ... rest stayed black. I went to get the screen repaired. This took going to ... about ancient in terms of repairs. The first shop I went to didn’t have a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring ... blogger--Anna H. ‘14--posted this blog post to the admitted 2018s Facebook

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Happy Birthday to m—-suck. I turn 20 and cry tears of blood

  

  knowledge and experience is now a year outdated. Why listen to me every other day when, instead, you can listen to freshmen who are less jaded and ... an avocado that's getting a little ripe, it's much better to eat the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  To Those with Dreams Deferred in which Selam of Pi Day Past rants about how things are arbitrary

  

  My freshman spring, I had planned to put up this post about pi day ... Aquarius or Year of the Horse is Not Important and you don't need to base ... participant at a hospital, which, to make a long story short, was like being on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 17, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  . She asked me if I wanted to go to Canada, and I said yes. About 24 hours ... adventure to Montreal in the great land of Canada. Neither of us had been to ... visit to old Montreal and we had a biodome day and we had a climbing day

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  This will default to miscellaneous Finishing this blog entry was my biggest accomplishment today

  

  wires to a telephone jack, talked about knitting a hat but had no clue how to actually do it, and video chatted with my grandparents in China ... you the boot in the butt and tells you to get lost. And then what do you

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  We’re Up To Date! Tracking your application.

  

  have received. Now we're really ready to read applications! This is a good time for you to check your application tracking on MyMIT. It will ... wait a while longer before having it evaluated to give you time to send

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo ... looking to hook up with other musicians in contexts other than the "official ... look forward to hearing music all over campus, at all hours of the day

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Visit to eBay

  

  products.   I got lost somewhere between jewelry and sports. To pay homage to the product that made it famous, eBay has a case full of ... . ------------------------------ Thanks to Tiffany for a great lunch and lovely tour of the eBay complex

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5 days to May 2

  

  you on the wait list, we won't know if we'll be going to the waitlist ... to know anything until the following week. In the meantime, May 1/2 is ... that you would love to attend next year. Longtime readers may know that

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Replying to questions and comments

  

  The first thing I wanted to do for this entry was reply to some ... comments and questions! Please continue to do so...or, if you're lurking, don't be afraid to speak up! Lena says, in reference to my previous entry

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  the past month (classes here start early January) and will return to MIT for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different ... will also talk about in a later post). right now, i just want to talk

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  doing homework. What do you have to show for it? What monumental task will ... or Senior year. The topic must be relevant to your major, but can be ... permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008