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  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle’s circumference and its diameter. I automatically said, “Heh… $3.14. Like pi.” The ... myself. “PI?!” she shrieked in bewilderment. “You know, pi... the

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  The following is a guest entry by Patrick L. '17 Just before 9 pm on February 28th, the 18,239th and final piece was placed into the puzzle in private dining. In all of the reviews that I saw while doing

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Monday a detailed documentation

  

  have class. But mandatory attendance… 11:00 → I’m at Harvard. The light percolates through the autumn leaves in the Yard. I’m listening to Stevie Wonder’s “Visions” for the third time. It’s the perfect soundtrack. 11

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Disco balls in space From an antique bookstore to Drive-By Truckers, and back

  

  One of my NRAO friends is a big fan of the band "Drive-By Truckers ... happy to tag along. (It is very telling that when the crowd started ... a few other friends, then walked downtown. On the way, we passed a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to which I've just forgotten what's important to me. This blog is about the ... wanted for myself. I think one thing that gets underestimated here is the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say -10°C (okay, I know I live in Cambridge, Massachusetts so I can take the ... from London to Bath around 8am. The most adventurous part of it is

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Weekend in New York [by Davie Rolnick '11, Guest Blogger] Art Scholars go to see Wagner at the Met!

  

  [by Davie Rolnick '12, Guest Blogger] Glory be to MIT! The Arts Scholars went to see Wagner at the Met! A weekend-long trip to New York, centered around the Metropolitan Opera's new production of Das Rheingold

  • by ARTalk
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do You Like “Like”? What to do about social sharing.

  

  Almost a year ago I wrote Going Social about adding the "Share ... then, So starting today, you'll see a "Share on Facebook" link at the ... publish the article to the News Feed of your five thousand closest Friends

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 9, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  thought so. (The other fun part is playing different beats in sync with 30 other people, and really getting into the groove - but mostly the banging ... the credit of a normal MIT class, but it's more than twice the fun - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exhibitions@MIT [by Leah Brunetto '12] Something different amidst displays of scientific progress.

  

  involvement in the arts, MIT has a lot to offer. Aside from the numerous student ... -registration, you can even exhibit your work on the MIT campus! My name is Li, and I am a freshman (soon to be sophomore!) very much engaged in both the

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!

  

  As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... considerations included aesthetic sensibility and whether or not the photographer had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 29, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  And so it is… Just like the blogosphere said it would be.

  

  . To kick off my new blog, I thought I'd do some blogging from the road, with some "day in the life"s, similar to others that have been done in previous years (see left-hand column of the "the road" link). So feel free to

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date

  

  with make-up on, and maybe ride in a limo, but in the end you’re just dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... to MIT you will have the opportunity to go to Senior Ball, which was

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NY Times article on women in science Women in science...the debate rages on.

  

  : The Battle Moves to the Trenches” by Cornelia Dean (the Times’s science editor.) The article opens with: “Since the 1970s, women have surged into ... -tier institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where half the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  entry where I talk about the horrible trigonometric torture I endured in my 2.001 lecture. You see the double-angle formulas, don’t you? Yuck ... . I did the following two pages of it: …before finding out that my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  distinction, he seemed genuinely surprised that I had even heard the news and ... , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... family to France and eventually arrived in the U.S. in 1993. Manolis, his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I will begin again. Maybe the time is right (to blog). Maybe tonight.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Takeshi Kaga, the flamboyant chairman from Japan's Iron Chef, originated the role of Jean Valjean in the Japanese production of Les Miserables. If you own the 10th Anniversary Concert DVD, you can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 8, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  Laura had an interesting entry a little while ago about the Mario ... '? Friends of mine were also put off by the use of 'hack' for real-world adventures and social-engineering, and they use 'hax' or 'haxxed' to denote the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 4,5,6: NACAC Conference Part 3 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  The NACAC conference happens each fall. About 4200 admissions people ... for guidance counselors" where all the colleges/universities set up ... to network and ask questions. There are keynote speakers at the

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  referencing street names and buildings and course numbers with all the confidence of a freshman faking it until she made it. I hadn’t expected the ... vocabulary. My friends’ and my vocabulary have become homogenized to the point

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023