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  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  Last night, the Latino Cultural Center (LCC) groups hosted their annual cultural night, Sabrosura! Sabrosura, as described to me, means: “sabor = taste…sabroso = delicious/tasteful…sabrosura = even more tasteful?…yeah so…

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Metropolis and the Alloy Orchestra "The Mediator Between Head and Hands Must be the Heart!"

  

  [by Farre Nixon ’11] Check out the Metropolis trailer! On Saturday, March 5, the Somerville Theatre was packed for a World Music Crash Arts event. There was a sold-out showing…

  • by ARTalk
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread talk amongst yourselves

  

  Decisions come out in 36 hours, and I know a lot of you may be feeling stressed out right now. You can use the comments below to blow off some…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s the PI-nal countdown! Don't roll your eyes at me.

  

  If you ask anyone at MIT what they were like days before decisions came out, chances are they’ll gloss over the ants-in-their-pants jitteriness they felt – we (and by “we”…

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 12, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Will the pie be bitter or sweet? Hint: it's a trick question.

  

  While I may lack Ben’s ability to speak to the heart, Matt’s wisdom, Yan’s vocabulous wit, and Anna’s inspirational eloquence, I can offer you a byte (or a few) from…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Founder’s Letter A historical perspective.

  

  Boston, February 5, 1861 My Dear Henry, I have just returned from giving a lecture in the Dowse Institute in Cambridge, and shall have time for only a short letter.…

  • by William Barton Rogers
  • March 11, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi(e) No, not π times e.

  

  Yes, I’ll admit that when I first wrote “Pi(e)”, I thought of π times e even though I meant “Pi/Pie”. Anyways, as Pi Day approaches, I thought I’d put up…

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AROTC Day in the Life Notes from Cadet O'Brien, MIT '12 / Course III

  

  Hi, I am Cadet O’Brien. I am a Junior at MIT majoring in course 3 (Materials Science and Engineering) and an MSIII cadet in the Army ROTC program here at…

  • by ROTC
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  My How Times Change… ...and yet, they are much the same.

  

  In June I’ll be celebrating, along with my MIT classmates, a pretty major reunion and I’ve been spending much of the time recently, when I haven’t been reading your folders,…

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • March 9, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Life + Sciences = Life Sciences

  

  Having slept for a solid 8 hours last night, I’m finally awake enough (and on top of homework enough) that I can blog, yayy. First: !!!!!!!! Decisions in 6 days!…

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Math Women Rock k + 8 = awesome

  

  Happy International Women’s Day! I’ve talked before about how MIT Women Rock, but let’s broaden the pool of rockstars a bit. The Math Prize for Girls is the country’s preëminent…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate Can MIT brainpower, with the help of the LHC, finally put the matter to rest?

  

  Last week, six of MIT’s most illustrious professors gathered in 26-100 in a quest to solve one of the greatest conundrums of our time: latke or hamentaschen? The latke and…

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • March 8, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Date 2011 Decided to announce the announcement of decisions.

  

    BREAKING MITLeaks has intercepted the following confidential cable between top-ranking diplomatic envoys within the MIT Admissions Office: The cable was accompanied by the following encrypted text, which was broken…

  • by MITLeaks
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  Two weeks ago, my life was studying. On three consecutive days, I had 7.013, 8.02, and 5.12. (My brain is still recovering from the trauma.) So last week, I decided…

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha’14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Hot Crosswalk Buns free food and football cleats

  

  It’s beginning to warm up here – still in the 20s, but sunny and nice – so during a break in committee I took the opportunity to cross the Mass…

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time Because that really is what we are here for

  

  Public class Spring2011 Public static void main (String [] args) { // So at the beginning of every semester Matt sends out an email to the bloggers reminding us about…

  • by Becca H. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  As something of an absent blogger over the past few months, one of the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where exactly did all that…

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Pulse 2011 [by Nathan Kipniss '14] A lot of talent under one roof!

  

  [by Nathan Kipniss ’14] Last Friday I went to Pulse: “Our Heritage, Our Heart,” an event that explores Black culture through the arts. It was really cool to see so…

  • by ARTalk
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala reception in the MIT Museum celebrating the kick-off to MIT”s 150 Celebration. The party was…

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011