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Today A Trader Joe's monologue
Today, I woke up and walked to Trader Joe's. The elevator was taking a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees -
Blog / MIT Life
Needles That was anticlimactic.
little more training than a stapler) to put two new holes in my ears. A few ... point came when last weekend my friend Ami ’14 decided to get a cartilage piercing and I decided to tag along, ostensibly for moral support but -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
The MIT Spring Concert An annual tradition bringing famous bands to campus.
. Every year, MIT brings to campus a national act to headline a big concert ... the band's most popular song (according to iTunes) and my favorite song ... ("White Rabbit" / "Somebody to Love") 1969: Janis Joplin ("Piece of My Heart -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.
you go to college without it? 18.03 Book Mmmmmmm, Differential ... nestled closely to a book full of the phone numbers of every single freshman ... Review and Manuscript Book Everybody at MIT gets a free subscription to -
Blog / How to Human
Batman Picks a Username learn from him.
Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman. -
Blog / Academics & Research
Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks
purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to the SHASSy side of MIT as they try to navigate the Institute and figure ... : Anthropology 21A.00 Introduction to Anthropology: Comparing Human Cultures; HASS -
Blog / Challenges
Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified
the reasons I should stay One by one they all just fade away But I love ... for reasons to stay, all I found was emptiness. A yearning for somewhere to call home, a place that'd last, not like the city I'd move out of -
Blog / Events
Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty
series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on ... means to be truly unbiased, and our responsibility in wearing the mark of "higher education" to be truly educated, to approach issues of rampant -
Blog / Admissions
RA Selection Day 7
into the place to be. Other folks who were eating today's delicious gumbo ... finally got around to reading a bunch of articles from the MIT News Office ... of media, from USA Today to CNN and space.com. Full article at http -
Blog / Admissions
App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…
Sunday. One would think I'd be efficient at it by now, but I'm still ... still about an hour per app, sometimes more. They tell me not to worry ... that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the -
Blog / Events
Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning
birthday celebration. Alumni and community from all over are making trips to Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our ... months now to gather all the history and artifacts they can muster to make -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!
Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... conversation-snippits that I caught as I passed by people. In high school I was -
Blog / Athletics
ice skating don't fall
cj: pushes feet apart wayne: no i mean you need to keep your center of ... physics when ice skating wayne: you can also bend your knees to keep your center of gravity closer to the ground cj: ah, just like in every other -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times
“Fiona, next round, you should use your thumb to push the buzzer, not ... your thumb above the buzzer, so you’re always ready to buzz in.” “Okay.” Apart from that advice, J was silent as we walked through the corridor to -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Democrats, Republicans, sportsmanship, books The unbearable awesomeness of literature at MIT.
thanks to Ariel '09 for sending me a text message at 2 AM with only that ... Scottish sheep are black." To which the physicist replied "No, no! Some ... la la la I'm going to read Interpreter of Maladies and then The -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Brass Rat
MIT Class of 2007 class ring. (Thanks to Mitra for the invitation ... the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Class Ring dates back to the ... , and 1932. Their mission was to design a ring to be used as the Standard -
Blog / Academics & Research
Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.
never occurred to me that it’s run by real people! People who may have ... Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Celebrating the Moon Landing MIT celebrates today's 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 landing.
's pretty inspiring to see all those folks from the MIT Instrumentation Lab ... you want to try at home with your vacuum cleaner. Ours is very different, with a special attachment to stick on top of a hose. Some background on -
Blog / Life after MIT
Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.
up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... . Aomawa is also a contributor to the new book She's Such a Geek: Women Write ... about her career as an astronomer. Other contributors to the book include
