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  Why no blogs!? I'm busy, ok?

  

  swing and everybody on campus is crazy busy. With what? Stuff like the East vs. West Water War from yesterday. Photos courtesy of our ever-friendly photographer Eric Schmiedl. Video courtesy of yours truly.

  • by Snively '11
  • August 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  , 21A.217: Anthropology of War and Peace, taught by Prof. Hugh Gusterson ... cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture." Second, the Boston Globe had this photo and caption today: A ton of snow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Love Math Snakes on a plane!

  

  Yes, I will be watching this at 10 pm Thursday night. This might be the end of Samuel Jackson's career, and I might as well be there for it. And stay tuned for an entry about my 21st birthday on Friday.

  • by Bryan
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  How and what would I write in the utter absence of the ever ... slice of my life on a lazy IAP Saturday. 12:40 PM Nature precipitates ... will actually trade money for the transient pleasure of drinking it, and

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Neutrality, and Complexity Theory   Humble Bundle/Boston Festival of ... " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Alternative Transportation Fast ride in a short machine

  

  cart and vociferously spewed a sonic soup of bloodless terror and regret ... lemmings gleefully leaping to their deaths on YouTube. I shift forward and ... . (Photo and survival of the author both courtesy of Charles Guan.)

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  , cultural, political, and economic impact of mediated communication on modern ... groups on a term-long project of their choice. Various written and oral ... -accessible treehouse, crawled onto the cold-tiled roof, and stared at the thick haze of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  of our break, I impulse-bought bus tickets to Penn Station. And so down ... American art, typically by young and lesser known artists, on display at the ... on American art, 2) showcasing less established artists, and 3) being

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Reaffirming our support for transgender students in light of the military ban and our ROTC program(s)

  

  of uncertainty and consternation. I write today, as I have in the past on behalf of undocumented and international students, to reaffirm our ... always been a solid foundation for cooperation and source of support for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 3, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  the Museum of Science. Between using the machine shop and working on ... Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  -run art group that focuses on providing an open forum for artists and thinkers alike. It is a conglomerate of undergraduates and graduate students ... potluck dinner, and emerged with a semblance of a mission statement and a

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Miscellany In which I talk about my life and Fancy sportsball DNA folk songs

  

  today, so there's still plenty of time to jump on the bandwagon and offer ... the video and there has been a crazy amount of MIT-related things ... practice and every game (sound has this really funny way of traveling up to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  , which is this week long celebration of Greek life on campus, which is kind of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little ... middle of all that awesomeness is the awesomeness that is Ben Folds on

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  any questions - I know it's kind of hard to follow at first. (And as ... and throwing out lots of different options, and none of us have a ... storage space, the read and write performance, or the ability of the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Sam Guess what? Ben's mom. Ha!

  

  ." (No longer a teenager! What?!) And I'm still at home even though all of ... also celebrating his birthday today (along with myself and Ben's Mom, of ... little detail of my life, just because it's amusing to me. So Sam works the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  it’s thanksgiving or something and other things happening in my life

  

  the few people i interact with these days. and finally, on the topic of ... wampanoag nation. i acknowledge the painful history of genocide and forced ... people from their land, and hostility to the point of killing, is something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 26, 2020
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  MIT-Now in Español!

  

  ideas for the page and working with the communications team on an Español ... have translated the history and mission of MIT so students can help their ... . And we want everyone to gain a deeper understanding of the friendly and

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • July 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  complicated! And it’s definitely not perfect. We achieved an accuracy of 76% on ... a variety of stylisic variants. On the right: failures we were and ... using computer vision techniques, all of which we tackled on our psets for

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A flash of brilliance and answers to some questions

  

  before this summer, and I always have problems with cooking them evenly on ... few and having the same problem, I had a Flash of Genius. Meatcubes. I ... on all sides by the time I put in the last one... and since I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  and ways of life. There is also focus on Black women and queer ... Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian culture, with tons of readings, movies, and museum visits each week. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023