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The summer begins…
some pictures upon my return. Trains rock!
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And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.
Melis just blogged about Senior Ball so I figured that it'd be a good time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... because JKim was around for this too. Burton-Conner had a dinner cruise -
Blog / Events
A sample of life in the past week A summary of a million events in 7 days!
I can’t imagine what it must be like to face such a tragedy, I think I ... front page has an article about Susan Athey, a 36-year old Harvard ... , MIT Professor Daron Acemoglu won the award. “Professor Athey has been a -
Blog / Academics & Research
How To Make (almost) Anything
hedge my bets, I've set out on a crusade to learn more about regular old ... week we cover a different fabrication technique on our quest to make (almost) anything: it's a semester-long crash course on making for those who -
Blog / How to Human
Going Home ... but where exactly is that?
ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... going to Seahawks playoff game(s) while I'm stuck yelling at a TV about 3 ... the wheel after six months of no driving and navigate the roads by a map -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.
, there was a line stretching all the way down the exterior set of stairs ... that I would have had to wait half an hour to get in. Seeing a smaller ... from the International Film Festival (IFF, a series of film events of -
Blog / MISTI
Another year has begun Welcome to my world
rest of the world. After a summer full of restful night’s sleep, books read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Years of the Rat More about MIT's famous class ring: the "Brass Rat."
the ring, here's a bit of history and background. Each class year at MIT ... contract: 90% of all students will purchase the ring in a typical year; one ... class, RingComm designs the ring over a six-month period, unveils it at an -
Blog / Admissions
Reischauer Scholars Program For those interested in Japan or international relations.
Don't you hate it when your computer freezes and you lose a huge ... have fantastic-looking hair all the time? Me too. I have a real entry ... let you guys know about a program that I participated in back in high -
Blog / MIT Life
The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.
's Mom and I have baked four award-winning nut rolls, a tradition that we started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... dorm, Burton-Conner, has a full kitchen and suite lounge for every 6 -
Blog / Academics & Research
Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…
Drug discovery is a difficult and expensive process. The approximate ... efficiency. Bryan Owens (check out his blog at bryan.mitblogs.com), a junior ... currently developing a bioreactor that may potentially be used to accelerate -
Blog / MIT Life
Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.
Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of ... follow her around as a living fashion accessory. Her inspiration in this -
Blog / MIT Life
Hello world!
President back in the day. :) First, a trivia question: the name of this blog, A Land of Dreams and Fire, is yoinked from a quote in a fantasy novel - can anyone name the book and/or the author? A little bit about me, in -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Happy V-Day
MIT performance groups give students the opportunity to buy a serenade ... sitting in class my freshman year, listening to a (differential equations?) lecture, when, out of nowhere, come the Muses, MIT's all-female a capella -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…
The Introduction This is only part of a comprehensive guide I hope ... transportation. Every day, after finishing up a long afternoon in my UROP lab, I ... google maps, the trek is one mile long, but it feels like a lot less -
Blog / Academics & Research
Primer trimestre del primer año Una historia de terror, diría… pero con un final feliz.
primer año a fin de analizar las calificaciones de primer año. Contexto ... con “Aprobado” o “Desaprobado”. Si obtienes una A, B o C en una clase, en tu expediente académico solo queda registrado como “A” de “Aprobado -
Blog / Uncategorized
albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up
I like music. A lot. And I like telling other people about the music ... the albums that I like. So here is a list of cool musical [annotation ... Mountain Goats, and it’s a concept album about Chavo Guerrero, a WWE lucha -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever ... euphoria as a southbound train. There ain’t nothing like slowing down to ride ... passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it -
Blog / MIT Life
Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9
Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this footbridge, cross the street, then walk for two minutes. On a good day, the trip took around twenty minutes to travel a little less than three