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Blog / Art, Literature, Music
World of Wires [by Emily '15] Are you living in a computer simulation?
[by Emily LaVerriere '15] First of all, I need to second Miren ... fair amount of theater in high school, but I had no idea what to expect ... I saw an email encouraging freshmen to audition, so I showed up on a -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
elephants what I've been up to
: elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos -
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 ;) -
Blog / Academics & Research
Jaden Smith was in my 3.091 lecture!!
How Can Mirrors Be Real If Our Eyes Aren’t Real -
Blog / Academics & Research
2.007 Robot Competition 2016 robots dump (replica) tea bags in the (replica) Boston harbor
was inspired by the American Revolution. The competing robots had to ... like ejecting a mini robot to complete a subtask. Aside from the ... early 1970s. His approach to a hands-on mechanical engineering curriculum -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
A Day in the Life see what we're up to
normal day, and post them on the website. To be honest, I'm not sure how ... neat ^_^ The day runs midnight to midnight, so if you'd like to see ... now, back to my regularly scheduled tooling* * except I -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Orientation Lots of fun with picture pages
Wondering what our new freshman are up to this week (aside from the usual East Campus shenanigans)? This SlideShowPro photo gallery requires the Flash Player plugin and a web browser with JavaScript enabled -
Blog / MIT Life
Something is coming, part 2… Snively and I are still working on something awesome.
Snively and I are still working on something awesome. This week: (In reference to this.) (Photo credit: Liz Kimball '11.) (See part one.) (Yes, we ate it afterwards.) -
Blog / Personal Travel
I’m in New York Picturesss on flickrsss
Staying with my friend Larisa in her and her mom's swanky apartment across the river from the city. And taking some pictures. Finals seemed like forever ago. Taking the train back to New Haven tomorrow. -
Blog / MIT Life
P.S.—Check out the Booklet!
I forgot to mention that America in the World: MIT Speaks has been published! You can check it out at http://web.mit.edu/cis/pdf/FAP%20Booklet.pdf. -
Blog / Uncategorized
Graduation Picture Book Photos from graduation because I've lost my writing skills (~23 Pictures)
I decided that since I still cannot write intelligibly in order to summarize what four years of an MIT education can do for you, I'll just post some pictures from graduation until I process everything. -
Blog / Events
Indra Nooyi presentation A presentation from Indra Nooyi, President & Chief Financial Officer for PepsiCo.
This afternoon I went to a talk on Diversity in Action by Indra Nooyi. She spoke at Sloan (MIT's school of management) as part of a series that will host the following speakers later this semester: -
Blog / Admissions
Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…
summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the ... /Mathematics/Engineering Program (HSHSP)Minority Introduction to Engineering & Science (MITES -
Blog / Events
Elephants? I see a lot of weird stuff around here.
Well, you don't see this every day. 10 elephants cruised down Mass Ave and turned left onto Memorial Drive, parading right past Killian Court. I'm waiting for someone to put one on the dome. Coming soon -
Blog / Admissions
Quick update A short entry, a quick link, and I become Seth Cohen.
In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me: And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry) A longer update soon... -
Blog / Academics & Research
Welcome Back, Kotter year #3 begins.
-Fluids Engineering I 21F.703: Spanish III To be continued... -
Blog / MIT Life
And the Lottery Says…..
Burton Conner. Hi Mitra and Sam! *waves* Just felt like sharing. Right now I'm off to go shopping for random dorm room things, so more later. -
Blog / Admissions
International Selection Day 2
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... closer to Friday's expected mail date. Also, today's Boston Globe ... stressful competition to get into an elite school is harming young people -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt in progress
The Hunt is on! I'll be back to regular blogging, and application reading, and sleeping when it's over...