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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FASAP [by Maggie Liu ‘12] T-ride + thought-provoking art piece + yummy free dinner afterwards.

  

  Advising, Seminar Advising brings a focus on a particular subject and ... are genuinely. Some of the FASAP shows are on the obscure side—for example, last week a group of FASAPers embarked on a trip to the American

  • by ARTalk
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Large Format Photography [by Biyeun Buczyk '10] Please, please let there be no light-leaks.

  

  -nighter on the last day, finishing just in time to glue the bellows, roll it up ... bellows together before falling asleep, leaving the bellows half done on the ... from the car. With a little help, I mounted the (roughly 20 lb) camera on

  • by ARTalk
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  'll have to take my word on being there; I had no camera. Since I didn't see ... company again the summer and fall after their senior year, on a project that they plan to write a thesis on. They spend the spring semester after

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from ... bipolar.) The real turning point in my illness took place on Friday, when I ... veins with IV fluids most of them had better things to do - like go on

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The other 2 of the 3 R’s About reading and writing on campus -- forget the 'rithmetic.

  

  'd just met seventeen or so of them, and she regretted she was on her way ... -winning writers on the faculty. I was surprised to learn that, apparently, MIT has ... 's a terrific event coming up on campus. Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The New Show In Town [by David Freilach, Guest Blogger/Assistant Director, LVAC] ARTalk guest blogger David Freilach checks out the…

  

  about last year’s production based on Alan Lightman’s Einstein ... a public talk outlined on a blackboard, and an exchange with a female ... -winning physicist (for his work on quantum electrodynamics, i.e., QED), a subject that

  • by ARTalk
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Shakespeare Ensemble This ain't your AP English class's Shakespeare.

  

  groups on campus, specializing in everything from improv comedy to jazz ... : specifically, the MIT Shakespeare Ensemble, which was putting on its summer ... friends be absolutely ridiculous on stage. (And the play was free! Can

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Early Morning Construction and other bexley woes.

  

  this will go on for. The construction has begun at 8am for several consecutive days now and the noise is making it impossible to sleep as I live on ... to lifting up large boulders and dropping them on the ground. So I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Legacy of a Media Storyteller [by Leila Kinney, Comparative Media Studies] Recently, Leila Kinney attended a Symposium at the Media…

  

  Media Studies] On Friday, June 20th, Media Lab alumni and colleagues ... machine. Davenport went on to found the Interactive Cinema Group at the ... Fabrics group succeeded Interactive Cinema, it focused more and more on how

  • by ARTalk
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  presentation on Senior House and Steer Roast created by Charisse '03: "I present ... the courtyard and crowded on balconies for the pit lighting: A ... on its way down, but I do have these pictures of the flaming pit (which

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Decision Day Eve Making your decision by May 1.

  

  the guestbook on MyMIT so you can stay in the MIT Class of 2012 Facebook ... , and letting go of other options can be hard on both sides. That can be ... bordering on apologies (there's nothing to apologize for!) -- letting us know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  writing out my thoughts on the poem, I'm able to make connections that I ... on-- There are very huge stars, man, in the sky, and from somewhere ... , white ice cream on top of it, and I eat it-- Slowly. And while certainly

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Great Debate: Latke vs. Hamentashen The post-coverage.

  

  : - Hazel Sive- Professor of Biology (sitting on the left) - Ari Epstein ... Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (sitting on the right) The three ... and is now a teacher in Concourse. (He's on the far left of the Team

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  The Infected It's not a zombie outbreak...yet

  

  ! (Come on, how unprepared can you get?) It turns out that three of us ... saw these two posters on the wall of a bathroom: (And then a girl ... taking a picture of a poster on a bathroom wall, which is exactly what I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Valentine’s Day from MIT Because theobromine is delicious.

  

  on a secret: MIT Admissions loves you. No, really. I know the L ... dreaming up MyMIT and the blogs, and to everything else that goes on behind ... cycle - so unfortunately, I missed out on some of the cool traditions that

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  a daunting task. I discovered MIT fairly early on in my search, and ... just finished William Gibson's Neuromancer. On the more stereotypically ... there were many classes on mathematics, computer programming, duct tape

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  comfortable chairs. I went into 10-250 yesterday to check on the remodeling ... , providing a lot of room for resting your arm and writing on paper, but this ... forward on their seats because of the hard chair back. Wooden Holy Chair

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  equipment, successfully conducted your first experiment on this equipment ... bent on teaching you Matlab. That was one thing that was pretty brutal ... were on your own. But where you really needed help- mainly the theory

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  REX Now An Option for RBA Freshmen Next House's freshmen, starting with the class of 2012, can now participate in REX. !!!!!!!!

  

  other appetizing choices on the menu, like french fries, or apple pie ... based on the idea of having students with the same advisor live together ... feelings on the subject, met with the RBA coordinator to discuss my

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 30, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  -standing policy of not speaking with a single institutional voice on matters of ... . “People asked me, ‘What’s going on at MIT to address this ... important upcoming events: DarfurFast on Wednesday, December 5th, and a Darfur

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007