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Blog / Academics & Research
Monteverdi to Mozart: 1600-1800 An organ, three harpsichords, and lots of learning
; harpsichord player. We spent the hour and a half class block with her in Killian -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men
ADPhi, playing Rock Band with brothers for long, late stretches of hours -
Blog / Academics & Research
DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.
This past March, a few days after my birthday, I spent a Saturday teaching three iterations of a three-hour-long class called Hands-on Introduction to DNA! to seventh through ninth graders at Spark, a day -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!
defined by those frogs. I spent hours every week watching them eat and swim -
Blog / MIT Life
The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY
with me about grad school for an hour. When we were chatting at the AAS -
Blog / Events
Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.
my one-hour Introduction to Pulsars class. I ask who thinks he -
Blog / Academics & Research
Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.
restarted the folds. About half an hour later, my supervisor walked into the -
Blog / How to Human
The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.
yellow Johnson's baby shampoo bottles. I spent hours decorating that label -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Urinetown I blame my absence on musical theatre.
difference. He didn't seem to mind at all that we were spending an hour on one -
Blog / Academics & Research
Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise
effectively as most of her peers. A short paragraph can take Y half an hour to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!
.) During work hours, uniforms are standard wear for school children -
Blog / Academics & Research
Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.
office hours. If I didn't have trouble with the homework, I could discuss -
Blog / MIT Life
Introducing: La Maison Française (French House) No, you don't have to speak French to live here.
for three hours per week. Non-MIT-related hobbies include "birding -
Blog / Admissions
Introducing the Class of 2013: Scott ‘13, Cory ‘13, Edner ‘13, Jeremy ‘13, and Bee ‘13 The penultimate in a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.
-- so much so that he has spent two to three hours on homework five nights -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.
slowly over two-hour, three-fork dinners in French restaurants with napkins -
Blog / Personal Travel
A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.
hours later, as I stood quagmired on a dingy Chinatown sidewalk in -
Blog / Admissions
Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way
always involved hour drives to Portland, free pitchers of water, free pens -
Blog / Academics & Research
Campos on Campus A True Westside Story
to do a good job and impress everyone. I worked 12 hours a day and was -
Blog / Events
The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...
fraternity, and the brothers of my fraternity met for nearly five hours. Still