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• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Safari I sneak around taking pictures and videos at night.

  

  installing solar panels on the dome in order to conserve energy while the T wastes in one day what MIT works an entire year to save." "Somebody derailed the T and smashed it into the dome in order to destroy its newly

  • by Snively '11
  • April 28, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  're interested in film-making, you might take a class in it. Later you might hear ... hanging out at LSC, you might hear about an upcoming play… In short ... hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Writing Science Fiction [by Susan Shepherd '11] Writing takes time, but fortunately MIT gives you good excuses to…

  

  write. That is, there are many people who are interested in writing. A lot of people periodically have brilliant ideas which they then go over in ... safekeeping upon arrival. (In theory, MIT returns your time to you upon

  • by ARTalk
  • March 24, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEGGGGGAAAAAAA! [by Danbee Kim '09] Music from Sonic, Donkey Kong, Final Fantasy, and more!

  

  's associated with it's mascot, Sonic the Hedgehog. But instead of sitting in front of a television watching an 8-bit blue hedgehog in snazzy red sneakers run into gold rings, I'm sitting in a dark concert hall watching a

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Syzygy, basically. uh, what?

  

  presentation in the same week, I'd never been so behind on work. For Thanksgiving ... spend the holiday with the family (Mom, Dad, Aunt, Uncle, Cousin -- in other words, all my relatives that are currently in this country). And

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery ... humanities at MIT is non-trivial. In fact, I have just proved this fact in such a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there may still be documents mailed in late October that have not yet been ... 't yet know on what date we will release early action decisions. We have in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  a marathon. Why? I’m now the owner of an 8x10 view camera. In my last post, I mentioned that I was in the process of building an 8x10 ... camera from scratch, in between classes and a summer job, I finished it in

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  the powers of Course 16 in the form of Raul '10 to back me up. Arun ... represent galaxies floating in that universe, and also that this had nothing ... between 5.111 and 8.01, I headed to the Student Center for some food. In

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…

  

  completely by chance. Case in point: About a month ago, I was heading from my ... when speaking in casual conversation :D). Ternus had recently gotten ... of the Green Building - which is, incidentally, the tallest building in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 3, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  sounds like a house elf from Harry Potter and 2) my parents, who were in ... cons of Burton Conner vs. Senior Haus, and in retrospect, very little ... taught in a field I was interested in. Seminars, he said, were ideal, since

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  to grad students, post-doctorates, and even professors - and in my ... Jeremy. Jeremy is my 18.03 TA, which in English means he's one of the ... taught in lecture, presents us with example problems, and helps answer our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  cross-cast in the IAP musical. To be honest, the only reason why I started ... , an empirial technician, and an ewok in a grueling three-hour, two-intermission-long show. Kenneth Kamrin, a graduate student in mathematics, works with the

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of an Era The last lecture of 6.001

  

  conspiring, which means that I need to put that to an end. In the next little ... was taught in 1980 by Hal Abelson and Gerry Sussman, the authors of its ... invented with Guy Steele in the 70's here at MIT. It's an unusual language

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  place you live in everyday, and even if you think you live in the smallest, most boring town in the world, there are adventures around every corner (or cornfield, in some cases. Like mine. I'm from Illinois, remember

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  Bryant Park have in common? Besides all being located in New York City ... College Women competition. In three action-packed days, we met over 160 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  synopsis" of how the Hunt went down: The hunt began with teams gathered in ... hunt would contain 270--no, 271--no 271 1/2 puzzles, all in keeping with ... came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things you might have wanted to know

  

  curious about and just aren't asking. One of them, I answered in one of my ... . I have only a few days left in Switzerland (I will post pictures at ... picture in your banner? As the observant have no doubt noticed, it's a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.

  

  -year starter on the Bloodhound football team, has consistently ranked No. 3 in ... to the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), which is located in Cambridge, Mass., just outside of Boston. Guillen, who will major in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  Museum of Fine Arts (MIT students get in free! Can't beat culture for free ... /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... cause the student to shrivel up like a bacterium in Lysol. I remember

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006