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  Arma virumque cano: a guest post by Quynh N. ‘15 Why you should take Old English at MIT

  

  . The Dean of the School of Humanities, Deborah Fitzgerald, already wrote ... the power of the humanities at MIT—the work you do in the humanities can ... virology, and I can find others who share the same strange combination of

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Talent Show ua innovation gets lit

  

  -wide digital talent show. It was a huge success and a great means of bringing the ... span of a month, the committee reached out to as many people as possible, expanding the range of talent categories to include unconventional ones to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  We're closing in on Pi Day and still in the midst of making decisions, which I know many of you await with varying degrees of anxiety. But while ... 've been talking about this kind of redesign for the last few years and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the ... that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... sandwiches with out-of-this-world names after political figures ("The Dick

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm ... -commitment sampling of the corporate workplace. This year, there were over 400

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  of balance, at least the attempt of finding one. This summer was a ... styles, cultures, etc. suit me best. I had the least amount of imposter syndrome this summer, and I can’t tell if it’s because of the team I worked

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  sponsorship group boldly asked panels of businesspeople for money. For the three ... university. All hope is lost for the latter if you can't do the former. Of ... 's Award (the most prestigious award FIRST offers its teams.) I did become

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in my last stale months of preparatory schooling. The second half of the year I was thrust into a new, thriving, churning

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 2 A followup to "A Post For Parents, Part 1."

  

  child survive the process of choosing the right college for him/her. As you may suspect, this blog is written from the point of view of a man of color to an audience of color. With that said, I believe that the vast

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  and i try to find my place

  

  offer me the pats of condolences and, instead, I'll be pierced by their ... in the mirror and I see my accomplishments. I think of how far I ... in the past year. But then, I sometimes see the flip side of that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from ... Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world ... offered during IAP and that we should take one together. We looked up the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  other schools, but here are some of the approaches I’ve developed from my ... generalization, but the realization was enough to turn me off from these type of clubs and this entire flavor of career. I’m still on the mailing lists

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Is This All I Ever Will Be? on friendships

  

  drips of the night, chatting away. I remember sitting there and looking at ... that is here now? My friend Emma describes this as the end of the honeymoon phase, a phase often attributed to the early part of a couple

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  I couldn’t have prepared myself for the stir of emotions that suddenly ... had happened. I thought about the rise and fall of the sun. Every day ... exist in the background of our lives. If sunrises and sunsets occurred

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  usually choose to watch like The Bear or Black Mirror. Then out of the blue ... uncommon in the mind of a [annotation note="I do NOT encourage sleep ... ,[/annotation] I sacrificed six nights' worth of sleep—an offering of my life source

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  it was all worth when I was offered the role of Bobby! I was so hyped ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post ... the end of it. I’d spent the last two weeks either rehearsing for six

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  mode during which we coded most of the bot in the last 24 hours. If ... tournament, the results of which will be released at an event next week. There are over $30,000 in prizes on the line, courtesy of trading companies

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  . The studio was in a super cute neighborhood in the middle of Copenhagen ... grappling. I felt that I was grasping the arc of a fight, where everything ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i used a selfie stick for good and other things i did in 6.811

  

  tackles hardware, software, and mechanical solutions to the needs of boston ... , but it wasn't quite up to the job when clamping to the underseat of the wheelchair. after extensive testing, a little 8.01 and the help of one of the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 4, 2014