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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  advantage of MIT's subject offerings any other way. ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to read them. Besides being the language of Rohan in the novels of J

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  legendary, landmark effort. Ben's central use of blogs to speak honestly and ... feel the same way. With that said, let me give you a little tour of the ... over 20. This was one of the most difficult things to do. Over time, the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  've covered a lot of ground, if we go by number of categories. Our blogs have a ton of primary categories under which a poster may classify an entry ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  in a pinch. If you'd rather go outside, the snow offers oodles of ... plenty of not-for-credit offerings that usually amount to single sessions ... some of my friends from warmer climes, you may consider scarcely one

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  New kid on the block

  

  Laureates (only 15 fewer than MIT, no biggie- notice the new sense of humor I ... of DNA was discovered (I am a biology major, I have to throw that in ... past 10 years (CME) and I am proud to be one of the students on the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  my friend, Maria '08, to visit one of my best friends from high school ... of numbers, I found that they are very, very different. We arrived on Friday night, after 7.5 hours of traveling (via T, Greyhound, walking, and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Eighth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 5PM on 01/24/06.

  

  other version of the TOEFL was being offered, but I was unsuccesful. Many ... official school profile which gives us a bunch of info (courses offered ... in english. My other question is that my school doesnt offer a lot of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  MIT for Book Lovers Yultide Day 4

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... for book lovers: MIT and the Greater Boston area have plenty to offer

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  - Intro to Comparative Media Studies. Offers an overview of the social ... , discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry ... of granola flatbread, studied experimental bacon physics for six finger

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  On Moving A goodbye that took me a semester, and some distance, to write.

  

  degrees!!!   (the real MVP of overlapping interests/fandoms/etc. is ... . All last semester I was thinking of the right way to say goodbye to this corner of the Internet, to sum up all my feelings from the past four years

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  things worth updating y'all about. So: a brief accounting/recounting of life since my ISEF Trip Report on May 13th. Week of May 16-22 After a ... was recently named the most innovative app of the year. It's basically

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  provide a general time frame of "what's next?" -I offer all of my ... 've been satisfying that urge by writing a couple of marginally helpful posts ... 's nothing on my beloved Hayden, but I must say that a library in front of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  in college). Given all of this, I turned down offers to Brown ... Department of Literature (21L) offers an exciting series of literature classes ... . I hope the rest of you will similarly find this useful. "MIT is just

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  I've sort of been implying this on the blogs for a while now, but I ... the school year has progressed, I've sort of come to the conclusion that ... overwhelming amount of exhaustion. I am doing much less than I ever have in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my application essays try not to cringe

  

  sadly still 5'2". That's 157 cm, for the 95.7% of humans who don't reside ... ripening. The sky is full-bellied with sunshine. Still, we're on the verge of ... again. Of course, this is only one approach to the essays. The most

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 27, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Meeting Neil deGrasse Tyson ASTRONOMERS! Learn to moonwalk. You'll need it some day.

  

  responding to various offerings of the universe made in these media. Twitter ... 's perception of science is changing. I was wondering if you could spend a few minutes talking about how scientists' perception of outreach is changing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  High Stakes Because it’s you who makes you.

  

  winter around here. I'm done with yet another MIT Wednesday, consisting of ... mid-afternoon. It's been a busier than usual couple of weeks though ... after running to Building 35 for a quiz. I've since spent the balance of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • December 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  tap dance break or something in the middle, and at the end of the song ... old adage "Chemical engineering is the practice of doing for a profit ... metal-ligand catalyst via spectoscopy (5.04), finding the best set of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i ... 'd do it again. in my preparation for this class, i read one of the ... were utterly confused, now makes sense. and at the end of every semester

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-France: To The Observatory of Paris and Beyond The MISTI experience of Anjali T. '09.

  

  in Paris, France working at the Observatory of Paris. Roughly 1/3 of ... the rotation of the Earth, Le Verrier worked to discover Neptune, Cassini created a map of the moon that was the best available until

  • by MISTI Program
  • September 17, 2007