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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  ", or it's "off." It doesn't make sense to talk about dynamics. In total ... pieces, and write a paragraph or two in response to any of those essay ... go listen to concerts in Boston for free. In other words: I've had a

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

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  something I learned to do well in high school. I talked to TAs and LAs, and ... now stand my ground on what I believe in, as opposed to “agreeing to ... someone was able to win an argument with me or not. Now, none of my friends

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  /Malawian/Ghanaian dirt compares to dirt commonly found in, say... Massachusetts? Or what ... -Lab to my schedule. This involved dropping a few other activities of minor ... sort of pressure to some mixture of dirt and concrete. It has to be able

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining, Dig-Ins and Dives Lady Afeefah travels across campus in search of the best eateries

  

  Disclaimer: This post was supposed to be written a whole 6 months ago ... down my to-do list. But here it finally is! Hey everybody! I'm Lady Afeefah and we're rolling out looking for MIT's greatest Diners, Dig-Ins and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the ... and exploring MIT, or who are concerned about changes to their academics ... disruption. We always strive to evaluate applicants fairly in their context

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  could be very dry (apologies to my colleagues in physics at MIT ... entrance to the new Central Square Theater. (Photo by CST) I had the chance to take a hardhat tour of the new Central Square Theater less than two

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  ’t become not awkward, but I’ve learned how to use my awkwardness in a cool ... in one friend’s room, or on another’s rug, or in the flounge with lots ... me hard. I had to build a model in seven hours in October, with barely

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  toast, or powdery snow on a sunny day. When everything sucks, try to ... Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too much happening to keep up with everything, and it seems like nothing ever

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  place out in the suburbs, Strawberry Fair, then made our way down to ... the past eight years I've been in Boston, and we've never strugged to ... just before midnight July 15, who will wait to borrow it from a friend or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Who’s that girl in uniform?

  

  in my life, because out of everything I do, it means the most to my future. I want to be a fighter pilot in the US Air Force, hopefully going ... Horrors or as “TA number 2” (the one with music on Fridays

  • by ROTC
  • May 3, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... !  Probably to the chagrin of the cops in charge of security.  But they didn ... awesome violinist (Rebecca Zeller) who had to switch bows after each song

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  my stretched attempt at trying to tie in a completely unrelated, but ... a couple hours or a couple days. Usually, when people come to our presentations when we're on the road, or come visit campus, we have a sign-in for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Followup To Mailing Disaster Answers to your questions from my last post, regarding the recent mailing of EA decisions.

  

  want to thank all of you who had my back today and who wrote in with ... or deferred? NO. I almost hate to post this, because I don't want to ... deferred, what is the deadline to send in supplemental materials? Get things

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  who remember back in the day when I used to doodle in my notes. The ... from the other day in class and add a little something to them. Just. For ... afternoon spent in lab. Lab 1 is to build a fluorescent microscope. Our team

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  to invest time in making the trek over there, I want it to be worth it ... greater area, it is easier to navigate around them Harvard classes in ... Shepherds at some point in her life.   Isn’t this invitation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  i’d like to write a happy post a sestina

  

  has been quite a difficult one and I haven't really had the headspace to write. I'm hoping to come back soon, but, in the meantime, please accept ... , the beauty in this sometimes horrid place. We help ourselves to all

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  on a stage in black and red Performing in the MIT Monologues

  

  the green or pale pink of street clothes stood out. We’d only begun to ... met the producer in the blur of EC Rush. She pitched the concept to me ... this concept to the producer, she took it in stride. She asked more

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  ESG to stay in the program, ESG can be only about taking classes or it ... Learning Communities were created to allow you to branch out in these classes ... to your professors. I found myself in ESG (Experimental Study Group

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Our 2017-18 Application Essay Questions

  

  words or fewer) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or program at MIT appeals to you and why? (100 words or ... . MIT students work to improve their communities in different ways, from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 31, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  to change the world in the same breath. I’ve never met anyone who ... ultimately use Public Service Center funding to implement them in various ... ;What do you want to do after school?” “I’m going to set

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007