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Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation
Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... year out of MIT: Another $10. Second year:$10 + $10 = $20. Third year -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
For great justice…
Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having ... experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Rush photos
I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... , I'll cover Hall Rush with 5E Rush photos. Most of these are actually ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
Soup Dumplings, Fever Pitch Yesterday after work I headed downtown for the evening. First stop was one of my…
was one of my favorite restuarants in Chinatown: Taiwan Cafe. Taiwan ... of geeks, and suddenly remembered that this was the night of the super-secret pre-screening of Joss Whedon's next film, Serenity (trailer here). Of -
Blog / Admissions
Match Game
of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I ... 's mission. The founding mission of MIT was to improve the world through -
Blog / Academics & Research
The most beautiful class schedule yes. good
likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted ... ’ve been a junkie for the kinds of dusty old works of revolutionary politics that continue to organize small modern factions of alternative thought -
Blog / MIT Life
learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how
how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... things, you get a community of igloo-building, solar -
Blog / Events
Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.
fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily -
Blog / MIT Life
Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.
Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…
In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking -
Blog / Academics & Research
Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.
DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition
than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue the ancient MIT tradition of repainting the Smoots. But first, let -
Blog / Challenges
novelty the closest thing to time travel
i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... indistinguishable blob. this is a familiar experience, the feeling of days blending ... camps, every semester of college, group houses in new mexico and alaska -
Blog / How to Human
So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?
It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails. I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job -
Blog / Academics & Research
What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet
with Ethan Zuckerman, the Director of the Center for Civic Media, cofounder of Global Voices and MediaCloud, and board member for Ushahidi and ... of diversifying your sources of media: Ethan and I -
Blog / Personal Travel
June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.
one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... , seeing everyone and feeling the ENERGY here. But before I get too ahead of -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.
The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight ... results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of -
Blog / Events
Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date
dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... few months of MIT are tough for most seniors – we are torn between our -