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  Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium

  

  site (didn't catch where). The guy next to me jutted in to ask how many ... out how to pickle herring! "In fact," McCormick continued, "I looked in ... got to MIT, however, consilience took a spot on my mental shelf, where

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  four semesters left. 2) I have to declare my concentration (every MIT undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or ... classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  students to forums, where they could talk over pizza and snacks. They sought our impressions of the class and suggestions on how to make it better ... fire hose of learning was opened at full force. I'll try to sum the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.

  

  ... although I don't know how much he'll be able to say -- he is funded by the ... I have a couple of unrelated things to relate today, so I'll put ... have no classes on Fridays (except for a 7.28 recitation to which I have

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Untitled Pigeon Post 🐦💕

  

  . I learned how to identify them based on their coos alone; for some ... " align="aligncenter" width="211"] Oh, how innocent it looks ... .” Initially, I knew better than to trust a book written by a gas company. I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  [Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24

  

  carefree hours devoted just to think. Now, I ponder how the lives of these ... brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... of rain. Rat. Squishy soles. No time to stop. Enough time to smile

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 11, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  .  Other lecture topics: how to ice climb, how to snowshoe, and how to pee ... important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy ... , and how to color match a Patagonia jacket with an Arc'Teryx backpack

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  The average length of the e-mails seems to vary based on how busy Mitra ... simultaneous conversations about: --how we should take a trip to Germany next ... buying us tickets to a Clay Aiken concert on 8/28/05 --how I should take a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT after SFFA technology and the dream, deferred

  

  Design, which taught students how to synthesize, model and fabricate a ... me: it was all project-based work that we did, because I learned how to ... institution is important to them and they like how diverse MIT has become. Today

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • August 21, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  about how to upload to this Athena locker, only Ben is a crazy Mac user ... you consider how puzzled I was by connecting my computer to the wireless ... for me. How do you even say that out loud? Isn't it just much easier to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  my last week at MIT since they're a testament to how I feel about the ... how meaningful something is to you. Extrinsic motivation entails ... your goals. Goal Planning — consider how to intervene in the automatic

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Yes, This Actually Happened wwydfcfa - what would you do for chick fil a

  

  started to notice how strange Dedham was. Well, we kept walking and lo and ... some pictures and was just utterly amazed by how everything seemed to ... 's food opportunities. There are some great places I've come to find

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 20, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  autonomous vehicle company) I’m learning how to skateboard. 98% for the a e ... ”. I would cross-stitch that on a pillow if I knew how to sew. I ... I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  ’t know how to do, and would relish in scoring “average” at MIT. Shockingly ... (You’re about to get hit with a wave of sentimentality, braces ... and sophomore year, will be moving back in next fall, and plan to keep

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  fulfilled without it. My secondary motivation was to learn how to cook better ... Heya! So, from 7:00 PM on 7/11/05 to 7:30 PM on 8/8/05, a total of ... something to write about on my blog someday. Kind of. Over the past year, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  I got the urge to write this short story about 2 days ago. Then, I decided to kind of throw most of my writing rules out the window and have ... , shall we? *** Teddy Purdue had much reason to be nervous. The confluence

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  Ebony Affair as a Pre-Frosh A Recap of my Experience from the 49th year of the Program

  

  As a pre-frosh, one thing I really appreciated before coming to MIT was how many programs there were to help students become accustomed to ... that I continue to interact with and get support from on a daily basis

  • by Richard O. '28
  • March 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  djent is not a djenre or is it?

  

  Sometime in high school, I was trying to break the ice at a group meeting. I asked everyone, “what kind of music do you listen to?”  Someone ... was confused as to why that would be the case. I considered myself

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  art; it was more me struggling to learn how to use 3D modeling programs ... When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21M.285: The Beatles the most enjoyable class i've taken at MIT

  

  thrilled to learn what had shaped this new sound and how the group's creation ... discography whatsoever. When I got to MIT, my music taste evolved to include ... 't interested in them enough to take an entire class on them. In May, I watched

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 3, 2022