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

  

  go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a ... playing the harpsichord; I've just seen harpsichords in museums. There are ... why." -Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart *     *     * I took classical piano

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

  The Swing of Things I've been getting into it.

  

  when I was in high school, I would have said something like “prolly ... . Fortunately, I now know how to make a website, something that I never actually ... numbers involved, in spite of writing memes all day”. After that, I wandered

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 18, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  History of the Brass Rat with pictures of the bezel design from 1930 to today

  

  committee strives to design a ring that we, as students, can take pride in ... . Legend has it that it is the third most recognized ring in the world, after the Superbowl Ring and the Pope Ring. The tradition began in the spring

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 23, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  . I arrive at the hotel, and am initially told I can’t check in since I ... hour in Boston is awful. I should have just taken the T. I might even ... at 12:45pm the following day, and realize I left my pencil case in my

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ADITL MIT's Technique spearheads one of the most interesting projects I've seen on campus recently.

  

  Yesterday I carried my camera around all day and took awkward ... other days when I carry my camera around all day and take awkward pictures ... in A Day In The Life, a project open to the entire MIT community

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  post-semester paradise two weeks with no psets or exams in sight

  

  year i'll be back in Burton Conner, my freshman year dorm. my EC floor ... " came in handy... after brunch, i biked to [annotation note ... , i went shopping with my little since i had to buy new clothes for my

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  fun, and whenever someone in the group likes a song a lot they can just ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Watch the 2.009 final presentations webcast!

  

  out there, it's sort of like FRC, but for products. From the website: In ... 2.009 is over, but you can watch the archived webcast on Facebook ... Engineering Processes is a capstone course in Course 2 (Mechanical Engineering

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I need a fix ‘cause I’m goin’ down Or, how I learned to stop worrying and love a 40%.

  

  hour, and since then I've never actually failed a test in an MIT class ... US Government test on the legislative branch in which I was asked "What ... print without a coversheet. Fall 2004 -- So I took six classes in about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  computer shop party in a parking building. I took a lot of pictures, but it ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here ... rock: Last week-end, I went with some friends to a boring little town in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Events

  In Prison Literally

  

  later find out I had headed in the wrong direction. An hour later, I would ... traumatizing,” I said in relief. “Just glad we found you,” Lee replied as we all ... MCI. Paraphrasing her, “I got in here and everything was focused on me

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  ." Eek. Maybe I'll waltz in on Sept 6 and say "ALAN! Hello, Alan. Can I ... random proctor and explained the situation; he suggested that I was in the ... , when I was staying at my friend Daniel's house in New Jersey. I opened my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  people at mit"? i think it's mostly undergrads, people in related friend ... would answer differently in theory because what i like is my personal ... , weird, interdisciplinary, multidimensional i didn't know smart came in so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Majors

  

  extremely excel in. For me, I'm not an extraordinaire in any one subject, but I do relatively well in just about all my classes. My interests are ... The other day, Katharine wrote: Matt, I have a question/concern. It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  gigantic mental lapse, I barely managed to finish in time. It occurred to me ... 're actually functional in college (unlike in high school) 11.Why I'm actually a ... This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  "]Z*OM’S CONSTANT NEED TO UPDATE.[/annotation] I learned how to dial-in while ... ="one day i will be bold enough to figure out whether the physical firehose in ... , but I’m very proud and excited for our Fall babies to work hard in Hack

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.2050 – Field Programmable Gate Awesomeness Featuring my “aggressive and weird” cat robot

  

  ; these days, you can probably build that in just a few hours because the ... ="95293" /] Although I wrote a lot of code in 6.2050, the whole FPGA engineering process ... around for a while, I discovered it was actually a bug in Manta itself

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  and curmudgeonry in our observable universe, I've decided to list off ... sending me a Valentine. In no particular order: 1.John Curtice I ... the cereal in your basket on sale?” Later that week, I had a wildly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PSA: CrowdMath, by Art of Problem Solving and MIT PRIMES, is a thing now a brief note in between committee breaks

  

  A few weeks ago I got an email from Richard Rusczyk. Richard is the ... people who love math, and we occasionally talk about what's going on in the ... Math website: CrowdMath is an open project that gives all high school students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... always empty except for me). I’m hoping to buy prints of some of my ... . You can’t see it in the photo, but there was a beautiful thick snowfall

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015