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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM
I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had ... cluttered desktops that got too unwieldy to organize. And then, I saw MF DOOM ... of a thing to happen to someone so large. Another thing that caught me -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Trashion 2014 are YOU trashionable?
, though, it can be a harder question to answer. Our profession requires no ... conflated, it's hard to translate our professional skills to make them legible to a lay audience. I don't operate heavy machinery or conduct -
Blog / Academics & Research
The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.
my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is supposed to be one of those posts where I talk about how much I've grown over ... 's to come. I don't think this is going to be one of those posts. I don -
Blog / Challenges
Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.
lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I was about to start playing Ultimate Frisbee. The teams stretched ... would inspire me to new heights of athleticism (although given his recent -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Truth Values [by Ken Haggerty '11] A fantastic one-woman show about life at MIT. (Now playing!)
't quite sure what to expect. The show, Truth Values, billed itself as "one ... in the arts faculty that I finally decided to check it out and squeeze ... venue. (Photo by CST) The Central Square Theater, home to two theater -
Blog / How to Food
[Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, per se a selection of fantastic dishes, part 2
somewhat arrogant and definitely premature [annotation note='Link to previous ... . Now, allow me to present the sequel to my assortment of culinary ... the MIT dorm kitchens and subjected on campus students to a dining hall -
Blog / MIT Life
hope springs eternal a warm feeling
,[/annotation] and it may be a few more weeks before we see leaves begin to return to ... are already signs of life. People have, slowly but surely, began to ... everyone, and I know that there will continue to be restrictions, I cannot -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university
quickly ran out of room. There's an incredibly interesting story to how MIT ... almost closed again, only to be saved by a last ... ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
MIT (Maker) Women Rock We are what we celebrate
traumatic brain injury, the NFL continues to sell photos of "big hits" and stupid sportswriters continue to laud players who play through injury. What we celebrate, and whom we praise as heroes, becomes what we want to -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
[Guest Post] The Alleyway by Isabella Y. '24
brownstones to tea and scented candlelight. Yet some are always late. They ... of rain. Rat. Squishy soles. No time to stop. Enough time to smile. Through moments like these, I’ve come to realize the back alley is my -
Blog / MIT Life
i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman
okay, it’s a bit early to proclaim my love for this place, especially ... Chinese, and spending an obscene amount of time on Facebook talking to my ... regular day, to a CAMPUS with PEOPLE e v e r y w h e r e was so much -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!
to prefrosh, welcoming them to our home. This is CPW. I already wrote ... incredible this experience is, and how grateful I am to live in a place this ... how I can help people, and I've had so many great ideas about how to -
Blog / About Decisions
Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic
this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical -
FAQ / First-year application
Can I get a copy of MIT Facts?
MIT Facts is a pocket-sized compendium of essential facts about the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Unfortunately, we don’t mail the booklets, but you can find it online! -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.
Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of chocolate on campus, and to bringing opportunitites for learning about -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
welding 1000 digits of pi nom nom buzz buzz
social. The pies were oh-so delicious. I want to share with you some ... event where makerspace mentors welded on digits of pi to a steel apparatus ... learn to spot weld 5 digits of pi, and mentors/staff can arc weld them -
Blog / Life after MIT
seattle ➞ mit an epilogue in bullet points and pictures
was a working adult, living the 9 to 5, subconsciously looking forward to the paycheck every other friday. [annotation note="the 9 to 5 i didn ... feeling of transferring income to a savings account. by august i grew to -
Blog / Uncategorized
Open Thread: The Final Countdown a noble tradition of posting all day on the internet
making it hard to blog right now. So, in order to not have to migrate n ... Charles in frustration over these EE bugs, this post is going to carry us -
Blog / Academics & Research
def hackMIT(); cool code & company
P.S: This is the only bit of coding I did this weekend. Stay tuned for the next three HackMITs to hear about a possible project ;)