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  The Case of the Considerate Robbers and other winter adventures

  

  Spanish speakers anywhere else in the world would fail to understand, found ... MIT students tried to better their Spanish, interned at local companies, and wondered why they chose to go to the Southern Hemisphere during

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • August 3, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  calories later- I went to an event put on by the MIT Innovation Initiative ... , and has the potential to instate new initiatives for student life. I see ... Cue Monday afternoon. I'm hungry because I decided to not spend money

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  to this vast challenge, the time for initiating meaningful steps to ... As you know, MIT is embarking on a mission to tackle the world's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biochemistry at its finest!

  

  giant lecture halls) to watch Yaffe cover crazy amounts of information in ... that prevents you from bleeding to death after a measly paper cut ... platelets congregate to repair the cut by creating a clot. What you may not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  Beethoven to Mahler Last semester, I took my first music class at MIT: 21M.235, or "Monteverdi to Mozart". 21M.235 is offered in the fall, and ... . 1600) to Mozart (ca. 1800). In the spring, a class called 21M.250

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  passive. Many times, I’ll feel too tired or socially drained to initiate ... the person’s first name’s initial to maintain privacy.    Ask ... life I miss and try to recreate. J: We had initially planned on calling

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  my MIT admissions essays a retrospective

  

  something. Despite regular practice, I failed to make reeds of an acceptable ... I applied to MIT three years ago (shudders). I was originally ... find it difficult to put myself in that person's shoes, especially since

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC Presents: Black Panther 2

  

  beginning of the semester. We knew for sure it was something we wanted to ... agency to see if we could arrange something, but as this process was going ... Engagements committee (SOLE) worked with LSC to set up the screening. This

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  In January, I heard about an Arts at MIT initiative that provides grants of between $50 and $250 to pods and virtual groups for art supplies. The intention was to support "shared art experiences for learning

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  I have to say I love that. Of course a post about my initial thoughts ... 10500000 things to say but your mouth and brain are like, "Sorry homie, we are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visual Arts @ MIT part 3 the people who make it all possible

  

  As a way to tie up our visual arts discussions on the blogs, we want to write a final installment in our Visual Arts @ MIT series. In the ... ways, from Borderline to Art Club to Animation Group to Freshman Arts

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of My Junior Fall stream of consciousness

  

  and pay, where Google was the end goal that I failed to reach. It took ... initially really hesitant and afraid to live in the house, it ended up being a ... successful MIT semester I've had to date. I've gone through a series of ups and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 31, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest post] Eating Your Way Through MIT The story behind Chop Stir Hack, an MIT student food magazine

  

  of MindHandHeart-funded initiative to make an MIT student cookbook to ... initial goal of Chop Stir Hack was to make a cookbook, collecting recipes as ... project because the How To Food admissions blogs functioned as prior art and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  the initiative to make a change in the community. The MIT Public ... amazing students who took the initiative to launch projects at http ... “MIT engineers go to work for Harvard graduates.” This phrase is no

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  initially thought, so I decided to let myself enjoy some of that free time. I ... , I am failing. I regret that I did not just focus on studying 6-3 to ... ≧◡≦ , my name is River. Just like most people, I had dreamed of coming to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… The deadline has passed, but if you're an EA applicant who has not yet contacted…

  

  posted here.  The deadline to contact your EC has passed for early action ... be reviewed and added to your application when we receive it. Remember ... to connect with your EC for some time and have been unable to reach him

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  the opportunity to experience life in Italy while simultaneously working at a civil engineering company. She was able to travel around Italy on the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gendered language y/n?

  

  to my mom, her initial opinion of this was sort of like, “that just ... initial difficulty in getting used to it. I’ve also heard a few people ... was interesting enough to share and discuss. See here: (sorry for the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 30, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  “Nobody is going to do it, if we don’t do it.” The room is quiet ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia, to get some things off everyone’s chest and provide a safe space to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018