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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
What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines
The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of developing algorithms resulting in the high-level understanding of images by a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…
as large-scale or well-known as that of its nearby Ivy-league counterpart, there is still a contingent of incredibly talented, committed ... on a series of fantastic shows each term. This term I've been -
Blog / Uncategorized
winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity
culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The ... taste of what I’ve done. [caption id="attachment_85363" align="aligncenter" width="225"] Sao Paulo is full of murals -- we saw this one on the drive -
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 / Life after MIT
Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…
College is generally held to be the last enchanted shore of youth. My ... . I haven't revisited these blogs in some time; the public ramblings of ... four hours of sleep tonight I'd be out of it for days), her idealism -
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 / Admissions
And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.
It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist committee, May 1 (really May 2, since May 1 is a Sunday) marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next. From an admissions perspective -
Blog / MIT Life
the world is blooming! and so am i?
with the colors of a tree: from green, to orange, to white, to pink, and ... ’s orchestra room door had a textbook version of these posters for their concert ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] btw this is 35 sheets of 17”x11” paper painstakingly de -
Blog / Academics & Research
It Ends My last last day of school
start at the stroke of midnight, at the sun’s first rays, or at whatever moment I finally decide to roll out of bed? As a college student with a ... regimented to be useful when attempting to frame my life in increments of “days -
Blog / Academics & Research
What It’s Like To Major In Science Writing at MIT according to one recent alum on reddit
As some of you know, I got my master's degree from the Comparative ... the student to develop mastery of the craft and rhetoric of writing about the worlds of science and engineering for broad audiences. This -
Blog / Events
“Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*
from my freshman year. It was early December, 2011: the flame wars of dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... the foundation of MIT's online education efforts, was still a couple -
Blog / MIT Life
OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.
every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological ... 's view of New York: they forget the rest of the country. And while you don -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural
Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in 2017, where students cover the walls of one of the campus tunnels with -
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 / 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