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Blog / MIT History & Culture
G(e)e^ks
First, a couple of questions answered. Vidal Carlos Garza asked ... you to someone who can)! That's part of why I'm here! He also asked ... of my blog is, in fact, part of a quote from Neil Gaiman's novel -
Blog / Academics & Research
Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.
MIT classes are assigned a number of units to roughly scale their difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer to the approximate number of hours that class needs of your life per -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections
In my junior year of high school, I had a phase of telling everyone ... from years of watching [annotation note="my favorites are coolirpa ... celebrate completing half of our undergraduate journey through hell the -
Blog / Challenges
processing in which I visit home and take time to think
the white bathroom ceiling of my childhood home, it really registered just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... ; I’m intimately familiar with the feeling of overworking and of -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach
reflecting on how I've spent my time outside of class. Of the various activities I have tried here at MIT, teaching has stood out because of how it has consistently inspired me and given me a sense of fulfillment -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…
with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips ... there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and -
Blog / Academics & Research
First Days in NYC
externs of any in the entire program -- NICE. There are freshmen, sophomores, and juniors here, and we come from all sorts of majors -- Course 2: Mech ... , etc. The project I'm on deals with mutual funds. Since so much of what -
Blog / How to Human
Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19
*to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a bit of a scattered mess at this point. Some of the boxes are full, but hell if I know what’s actually in any of them. While I finish packing the -
Blog / People & Identities
On Reconnecting spending winter break in India
fields of crunchy-green grass. A place where the laughter of children playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect ... place that they would return to, holding the hands of their American -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT Computer Timesharing in the 1960’s an extremely influential solution to computer bottlenecks
my 15.565 Digital Evolution: Managing Web 3.0 class, we learned of the ... is stored, accessed, and shared across a network of servers on the ... "Google". We learned that this mode of computing is not all that different -
Blog / Events
2015 Brass Rat finally unveiled!!!
Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium ... long and rich tradition of "The Standard Technology Ring" (but everyone -
Blog / Events
Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness
laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring people. Thankfully for me, I was able to see him in the first of three -
Blog / Extracurriculars
How to Make a Flashlight MIT-style that is.
training class that is. Never heard of the Edgerton Center Student Shop ... what kind of tools they have, they have mills, lathes, bandsaws, drill ... take pictures of the machines (: In the meantime, in order to orient -
Blog / Events
Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours
greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I ... salad, a baguette, and a pie-tin full of spaghetti with sausage, and ate ... . At my advanced age my pace of eating has slowed down somewhat (though I -
Blog / Events
Camp Kesem! It's magical.
Exactly three weeks from today, I'll be done with my freshman year of ... , finals...), and several doses of caffeine lie between me and that fateful ... ' :) This might sound familiar to those of you who have been reading the blogs -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
All these days I spend away What does "home" mean to you?
BREAKING NEWS: Stu Schmill '86 Named New Dean of Admissions - go wish ... students reprieve and respite from the constant deluge of problem sets, essays, and tests so commonly found throughout the dread halls of the -
Blog / Events
Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.
stack of applications before me. To my right, out the window, I see big, fluffy flakes of snow falling from the sky. I start to think that I could go for a hot cup of cocoa, but I realize we don't have any in the house -
Blog / MIT Life
More about Residence Based Advising Still have questions about RBA?
A view of Next House from across the river: I have gotten a lot of ... was one of the main reasons that I chose Next House. In RBA, you live ... an RAA and I can confidently say that they are a group of really great -
Blog / MIT Life
Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two
first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the hallmarks of our entire trip. Walking around the city trying to find a restaurant was how we spent 7.89% of our trip. Come on, we're MIT students