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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 / Personal Travel
Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…
Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 -
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 / People & Identities
everything i think i’m not (rush, part 2) and what it would take for me to be it
frats operate at MIT, they are all collected under the umbrella of the ... . To begin the week of rush, IFC hosts the annual Kresge Kickoff in which ... around to the different tables and talk to the brothers of different frats -
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 / 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 -
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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 / 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
