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

  

  , nineteen from Euripides, my lady! You should no more grieve for the rest than ... lost to view will have their time again. You do not suppose, my lady ... spring, I told my Chaucer professor (Arthur Bahr; more on him here and here

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

  Class Crossover Using engineering leadership while stuck on the wrong side of the internet

  

  on the previous Friday night, my friend and incoming editor ... period of five 8 hour days. Now I could talk about my reflections on the ... of Hacker News and cause my inbox to fill with conversation going back

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  silicon membrane, and BAMF! Cell phone power! My friend Jacqueline and I ... business. Although I guess my sentence could still be technically correct ... killing people with my cell phone, but some smart-alecky student pointed out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  on display with 20-foot-long tentacles. Last night in my dorm we had a ... Germany got my attention from across the hallway to ask "Hey Sam! What did ... places to get food are." So here are five of my favorite everyday things to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  lot of my friends in industries like big tech or finance openly admit to ... half my friends bookmarked the article quit your job: Even if you are ... end so i took the chance to ask my interviewer (let’s call them p) a few

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  you can work abroad. Several of my close friends have done research in ... longer than we'd planned; my hallmate and I swore we would only stop in for ... , most people who make it through this place. My calls only made it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Deadline-time Questions Omnibus Answering all of your questions. See you in 2007!

  

  any chances" Like Ben wrote in his most recent post, "as my friend ... project I have worked on in my graphic design classes, such as a poster ... several works from my art portfolio." In the optional creation essay, it can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Trick or Treating Halloween Shenanigans

  

  on my butt) around the ice rink a couple of times, sans costume. But ... few days ago, I was aimlessly scrolling through some old photos on my ... highly amused by my get-up and probably hopped up on the mere anticipation

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 1, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  will be an e-mail saying that my friends and I get to be co ... your eye through a telescope. Professional radio astronomy - my kind of ... than) I love writing code, however - and this makes my life awesome

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  International or to make friends with that one kid you've had Spanish with all ... ago that I was filling out my application. Just something to think about while you still have the time... Anyway - I suppose I'll talk about my

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus Okay, so it's not even really half a bus. But I'M not the one asking…

  

  tired, so I changed my classes and went back to sleep. MY MOM/MY ROOMMATE ... into 8.01 at 11, changed my calculus recitation to 3, and went back to ... TA you like the best and go back to sleep.) So I finished my first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  places, like design and build a vision-capable robot. I love my friends ... I do here. I love my UROP. I can't imagine how my college life would ... !" Roli, I hope I answered the "why" part above. :) As to the rest...My

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  between, but emotional compartmentalization is my best friend, until my ... thorough post and also writing it required grappling with my existential dread about the passing of time and a lurking fear that I am wasting my

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three ... because I wanted to capture all of my experiences, good and bad, and as it inched closer to a month since my last post obviously I couldn’t fit

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  , with or without chocolate chips. Mmm. 38. Wraps My friend Masha K. ‘13 ... on the edge of a quiet, salty lake, watching my little brother feed ... , northern South Carolina, sweater weather. Like geese, my family migrates when

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  didn't share with my podmates, I was able to meet up with friends I had ... of my classes this past semester, and honestly... working with friends ... that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  highlights: high points of a virtual fall Part 1 of a fall semester recap

  

  writing feels quite odd. There have been many swirling thoughts through my ... compartmentalize my thoughts into two pieces. So this blog will focus on the positive ... hopes for doing well during my first semester, but oddly enough, the first

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  for my friends to use, and they'd later feed me with whatever I provided ... longer have my trusty friends Aiden and Mariia to cook things for me, so I ... around my family who does not know a thing about MIT while simultaneously

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 2

  

  Beaver, nature's engineer, was adopted as MIT's mascot in 1914 (my googling ... Columbia, have taken to address it. Hezus asked, "When will MyMIT be updated ... new application is available, even if that's in the summer?" MyMIT will

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  branches was it easy to let go?

  

  games like ddlc, which is why i still haven't played omori even though my friends highly recommend it. of a different taste is existential dread, like ... 't call everything a feel good game. i'm working on my first large code

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 12, 2023