In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of the world’s firsts . This past weekend, MIT dived into yet another: the first intercollegiate Indian classical…
Because my roommate is in a sorority, she receives a whole slew of informative, interesting, and often inane e-mails. As she does a great job keeping up with her inbox,…
Some weeks ago, Jeanne ’13 and I embarked upon yet another of our voyages into Boston, meandering past our usual destinations and toward the Boston Symphony Hall, where we hoped…
Laura did a pretty great job covering the variety of machine shops around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place… ;) Where architecture comes to…
More than a month ago, I stepped drowsily off a Southwest Airlines flight, lugged my two massive suitcases into a relative’s waiting car, and stared out the window, as trees,…
As Virginia Tech held its Commencement recently, the media once again started using the "c" word,
"closure", the all too convenient word people use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly
overused word in
are only graded in a pass/fail fashion -- if you get an A, B, or C in a ... ), a C+ in 18.01 (single-variable calculus), a C in 5.111 (introductory chemistry), and a C- in 8.01x (physics). Passing in 8.01x was an overall