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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  Fidelio. Tonight we had the Burton-Conner Trivia Competition. Prior to the competition, I sent an e-mail to my floor telling them to keep three things in ... message ever sent by telegraph was "What hath God wrought?" The second one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  parkinson's law asserts that work expands to fill the time allotted to it, like a gas does. so i'm telling myself that i need to get this post up by tonight, and though i just started writing this post i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  . Welcome to my dorm's implementation of CPW! MAC.0001: Introduction to Mac ... for other people to cook better food and deliver it to them). Much of Mollie B. '06's post re:MacG remains true, but I may need to update some of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  I have had the good fortune to hear several excellent guest speakers recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to ... founder of the Grameen Phone program) spoke to our D-Lab class a few weeks

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  really big challenge for me. This would best be explained by describing to you how a typical Thanksgiving dinner at my house. If you were to dine ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Western Union A celebration of marriage, nanotechnology, and acrophobia in Seattle, WA.

  

  it by asking all the recent MIT graduates to raise their hands, and of ... Hudson's wedding in Aspen, Colorado.) Last weekend, I went up to Seattle to celebrate the wedding of one of my floormates. She met her husband

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The home of cool toys the best way to spend a Monday

  

  is by far the coolest toy in the inventory. So when I heard we were getting a fly-in for Marine Week Boston, I had to go see. The weather was ... without the coating of dirt (note to future Coure 16ers: that downwash is no

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train(wreck) of Thought

  

  . :-) BUT I had to share a particular incident with you today as I was walking back from working on psets. I walked by the LSC announcement board (LSC ... effective nonetheless. I want to see this movie now. *Nombre is actually

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack or Treat A time for tricks.

  

  To celebrate the spirit of All Hallow's Eve, MIT hackers left a ... this morning on my way to class and it absolutely made my day - although, sadly, it had made like a ghost and vanished by early afternoon

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 31, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Bloggers invade LA What should Sam and I do in Los Angeles? Suggestions welcome

  

  Break starts today! (Does anyone know if milk is okay past the Sell By ... and I are flying out to Los Angeles today for a one-week stay in the ... instead of a suitcase. On our to-do list so far, we have 1. Roscoe

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  fpop-ing I haven't worn a poncho since the third grade.

  

  where we heard how a drug goes from an idea to production - lunch at De ... marathon including Gattaca and Aliens in 6-120 Orientation is by far one ... encourage you to participate in all of it as Jessie and Mollie have both also

  • by Bryan
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  MIT is going through changes right now in addition to the new phase ... to occur around the first week of June. The '18s graduated on June 8 ... pretty cool for a few reasons: IAP feels longer since we don't have to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  by accident. We had purchased train tickets to go from Zurich ... wrote about his awesome experience traveling to Europe with the team! You ... people travel to western Europe to see cultural or historic sites, my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Residential Life

  river and rainwater a rainy walk home

  

  rusty old bike is 19 mph; I wonder how fast I'd be able to go on a sleek road bike instead.  Only occasionally do I glance to the side and notice ... to take it for granted. It's been raining sooo much lately. I

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  3 / A team effort Roll Tech: Your newest Intercollegiate High Team silver medalists!

  

  ; Connecticut -> New York. We also stopped by New Jersey to practice before our ... TO SET THE MOOD: Constellation Hiraeth - Tomek Kolczynski, Tamar ... took it slow, taking time to rest up, take care of my body and mind, go

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 12, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Latino Christmas An introducción to Next House's newest student group.

  

  given himself the nickname "el Che", sent the following to the dorm email ... day', which since yesterday is declared to be celebrated every year in ... November) it is designed to raise Latino pride in Next House and was designed

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • December 11, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weather Sensitive I know you think that I don't care, but I really do.

  

  , it gets cold in that wet, drippy way that makes you feel like you ... said, I present to you three pictures of the view from my window. Early

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 27, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  makes 3 current or emeritus faculty (Diamond, Robert Merton PhD '70, and ... Chemistry). MIT held a press conference to announce Prof. Diamond's win. Here ... .330 Introduction to Numerical Analysis with Prof. Toomre... do any MIT students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Procrastination For Finals 2 T minus 53 hours...

  

  broken Reactions are never gonna make sense, oh, oh oh oh Take me away, past finals week A sweet escape, take me away Take me away, to better ... , to better grades Take me away, warm summer days There's a place that I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 17, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at ... time to apply to graduate school. Favorite MIT event: Rush! Free food ... bunch of freshmen figure out where they'll be the happiest. What's not to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006