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  Español Foreign Languages at MIT

  

  spring break light reading about a French serial killer and the birth of ... García Márquez entirely in its native language of Spanish: Crónica de una muerte anunciada. The novel is one of the assigned readings for 21F.704

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  and took a gap year. The story of how I decided to take a gap year is ... . What can you gain from an entire year free from the bondage of school ... dream life. Well, no! No! It’s not fine at all! The first few weeks of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  the end of each semester to fill out course evaluations. Professors do ... did something similar in GEL last year: At the end of the fall semester, each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  Technique) It is far too easy to be taken by the material—one of the many fitting themes of Prof. Tod Machover's masterpiece Death and the ... 's sneak preview of the production, technology, quite literally, only serves

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Introduction to D-Lab Saving the world - just one of the many things you can do at MIT.

  

  When most people I know think of MIT, the first thing that leaps to mind is almost always computer science, physics, or some other aspect of ... dedicated cadre of people at MIT dedicated to changing that perception - and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Jeff Karp and his gecko-inspired band-aid Mimicking nature to create a better surgical adhesive

  

  Update on 8/19/2008: Prof. Jeff Karp has been recognized as one of ... hue of morpho butterflies, the super water-resistant Lotus leaf, the highly maneuverable fins of the Bluegill sunfish: all of these natural

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  all heard the Chorollaries’ beautiful renditions of the Engineers ... expresses a lot of prefrosh’s current feelings. This is quite seriously how I am feeling at the moment. Like a lot of prefrosh, I am dealing

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  Orientation (Pre-orientation rather)? MIT’s next installment of the “Here’s a HUGE envelope full of colorful stuff for you to drool over.” of course ... floor of the student center to pick up all of my goodies, secretly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  DID YOU KNOW? One of the sister cities of Hiroshima, Japan is my hometown of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The title is taken from a short story ... couldn't be all bad. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: Read Everything is Illuminated by

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Beyond the Iron Cur…I mean, Mass Ave

  

  Campus dorms can be considered more traditional in terms of college atmosphere. There are lots of parties, dances, and social events. East Campus ... , which is a specific dorm which falls under the umbrella category of East

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little. It’s pervaded by the soft buzzing that follows too many days of too little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of arrived at the level of hunger where your sides begin to tingle as if they

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  dollars. "Yes," he said. "Because the amount of good I can do in my lifetime ... to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same question. "No," he responded. "Like, I also don't believe the amount of good

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... -off because shaking off the mentality of 'if it's not on my resume then it's not ... application process kinda messed me up and i'm still unlearning a lot of things

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  Those of you who have been following me on the blogs for a while - or ... qualify what exactly about it has stuck with me for ~40% of my life - the ... times[/annotation], played all of the prequels/sequels that [annotation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... thought but nary a blog. My solution has been to throw all of my random

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  parents. Old friends. Blotches of forest in the neighborhood where deer ... views of the setting sun. Here, I get the best seat under the setting ... this summer. In the beginning, I braved the Boston streets in a week of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  Physics demos at MIT are pretty high on the list of awesome things in ... the semester by breaking a glass. A lot of people compare at MIT ... of material towards us at all different frequencies and intensities

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  like that. .______. I realized that I'm very capable of taking four HASS classes, but not capable of taking four science classes (friend: "why are ... under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Trip to India ...to the slum children who smiled at me even though it seems that they have…

  

  took care of me when I got sick. I’m not going to try to do ... follow are just a few of the highlights: We spent the first leg of our trip in Hyderabad, one of India’s renowned IT hubs, and the latter

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  happenings and other life events. Of course, our conversation arrived at the topic of blogging. I want to reflect on a couple of points -- this ... representation of student life, providing prospective students and applicants with

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006