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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.

  

  armchairs and a big TV. This week, I learned that to be a great composer in ... learn that Beethoven may have met Mozart. I'm not sure how to describe why ... Milton's 400th birthday: December 9, 2008. I was a junior in High School

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  't realize how much jargon was in these notes until I posted them. Now, big ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more ... can let my Day 1 Lecture Notes stand in place of a blog post describing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy Thanksgiving! Holiday wishes and fun stuff.

  

  /baker extraordinaire. This week I got her annual Thanksgiving comic in my inbox: Dear ... family, friends, food, and fun! You can learn more about Jennifer ... Thanksgiving group, including how to fry a turkey. But the awesomest Thanksgiving

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life, the Universe, and the Energy Content of Gasoline "Don't Panic. It's the first helpful or intelligible thing anybody's said to me all day."

  

  pset was due, we had our only exam in that class (Sustainable Energy). I ... freshman year: "Considering my track record in math, I figured I'd need ... important message in what I hoped were large, friendly letters." This quickly

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 16, 2008
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I ... media affiliation), but I was able to get in on the last day for free ... shiny new consumer electronics. It struck me how so many of these products

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in Cambridge I less than three the holidays.

  

  Well, I'm back at MIT after a lovely Thanksgiving in the land of the ... , even though it was pouring rain and freezing. I elected to stay in bed ... Thanksgiving dinner as I'm sure my family had back in Ohio, but don't tell Adam I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 26, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  paintballs. I hadn't played paintball since I was in high school almost a ... , I knew we were in for a bumpy ride. The weather conditions were far ... was stationed outside of the prison, patrolling the perimeter. I was in

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your ... you can get as much as you want. And I mean, it was 5 courses so we were

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  What’s the big deal about 40^2?

  

  Okay, so I'm in the middle (towards the end) of a long day of reading ... recently. I come to the second to last piece in the folder, which is the ... , I don't think I have ever in my summary of a student used high

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2004
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  currently wrestling - is the freedom to work in my underpants. I'm living the high life, man. But despite the fact that I am totally in denial about ... introduction, unless of course you've never heard of him before, in which case I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing ... , depending on how busy things get. At this point, I have no idea, but my ... time than I'd thought...   That's...it? Let's see how things pan

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MVEMJSUNP A contest!

  

  mnemonic. I'll select a top five on Sunday, and then voting can occur through ... actually be time for a new mnemonic, sorry Screech. So here's a contest: Assuming that the new order of the planets is: Mercury Venus Earth Mars Ceres

  • by Bryan
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  in a tray, you can cook them later EAT THE DUMPLINGS: use dipping ... ; (special thanks to the toons) (and the gorgeous airbnb in new hampshire we ... make the dough into a few big lumps. put the lumps in a bowl cover with

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually ... because I'd rather take classes I'm interested in rather than a whole bunch ... me happy. :) So what am I taking? (Man, do I know how to get off track

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Events

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

  

  wish I could tell you myself how wonderful it was but unfortunately I was ... , laughing and having fun that I can’t help but smile and be thankful for so many blessings that God has given us. Even in the midst of MIT, I kinda

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  Arts at MIT) in Fall 2020, but I didn't have any more blocks to carve ... ="aligncenter" width="507"] specifically from the tree in front of Walker Memorial ... rail has caused me so much anguish this summer, but i'll defend her until

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  in the near future. Plus, I can tell you that based on the 7 prefrosh I ... CPW 2011! I hope you '15s realize exactly how excited we all are to see ... handle it. During CPW, I sat in on an 8.02 (Physics II: Electricity and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  one hour of musings we're so back

  

  . Subsequently, in effort to break that spell, I've set a one hour timer to write ... start off the summer, I conducted energy poverty field work in Patagonia ... -nanobubble water molecular gating, so basically seeing how scientists can fine tune

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-year Grade Reports And Other Common Questions Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last…

  

  Quick answers to a few of the common questions in my blog over the last few days... ------------------------------------- How will I know if ... be released? I don't know the exact date yet. Sometime in mid-March. It

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  Mentoring Social! You were probably wondering how I was going to tie this in ... . These are just a few of the questions we faced. How many of these can you ... about to sit down to continue the studying I had started earlier in the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010