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Blog / Personal Travel
Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…
can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 ... Mefistofele, based on Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's version of the German Faust ... Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto -
Blog / Athletics
A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche
. The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and -
Blog / Admissions
Friday morning potpourri in lab How MIT's campus makes me happy to be alive. Also stuff from Adam.
motivation. So by way of introduction, it is 9:50 AM on a Friday morning. I ... grad school, so working really hard on it between now and the end of ... MIT campus, and it made me think of my favorite places on campus to sit -
Blog / Life after MIT
Radia Perlman ‘73, Mother of the Internet Radia Perlman has three MIT degrees and more than 80 patents.
deter her career. "Some people don't make as much of an impact on things ... University of Washington. She's also penned books and technical articles on ... To follow up on my recent entry about women in engineering: did you -
Blog / Uncategorized
journey to the end of the world visions
configuration of these tiny wires; how many wires you need depends on how many ... fixed by now, but i noticed more jittery movement on top of boats and of ... to wake up to a universe on the brink of extinction, with all remote -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus
the back). On the other side of the Infinite Corridor ... under the Green Building, the tallest building on campus and all of ... -shirt weather spurts in February and March, it seems like this streak of sunshine -
Blog / Admissions
October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.
feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone ... spinning art family and consists of spinning two weighted objects on the ends ... and on. Poi has become a sort of meditation for me, where I can just let -
Blog / Academics & Research
Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.
you did on the first day of kindergarten was color. Heck, all we did on ... passed out of 18.01 with a 5 on the AP Calculus BC exam. My high school ... you have a 5 on AP Calculus BC exam, you can place out of 18.01 and take -
Blog / Life after MIT
Memories I know this feelin', yes I know it very well (Thutmose)
CPWs past on the walls, and a picture of the quad near room 3-108 rested ... helped admit. It felt poetic, in a way. I embarked on a new career as a college counselor to give the same advice I loved to give on the blogs. Each -
Blog / Admissions
Summer Reading What’s in your beach bag?
in. This is one of the best parts of summer in my mind. Whether you actually get to the beach or not, don’t miss out on the last few weeks of ... that I find left out for the taking on a table in lobby 10. Emperor of -
Blog / Events
Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…
on Monday about the importance of small farms 4. Brigitte Madrian ... on for more! 1. Professor James Poterba, the head of the Department of ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to -
Blog / Personal Travel
Leaving home…
you to some of my friends, and to the hall on which I'm temporarily ... something of a college preparatory nature occurs multiple times per week. For seven months, the notion of a new life and future along the Charles River -
Blog / Events
5 days until Mystery Hunt
which on "Call of the Wild"... The coin is found! Everyone listens ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the ultimate goal of -
Blog / Admissions
Everyday Is Like Sunday
. The early pool this year was very strong. On the topic of the strength ... While there's no delivery of post today, I can assure you that the good men & women of the United States Postal Service are even as I -
Blog / Academics & Research
St. George’s Day England's National Day
, Wednesday 23 April and has a picture of a knight on a horse. I was with another MITer at the time and neither of us knew what St. George's Day was ... entry on 23rd April but I'm in the middle of exams. Very stressful. More -
Blog / Admissions
Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…
gratitude and appreciation for a country founded on a dream of fairness. I ... rumored for awhile, but now seems to be approaching some kind of decision ... Reif argued against the possible repeal of DACA. You should read the -
Blog / Events
Noam Chomsky Talk in 26-100 i still have to send these pictures to amnesty
Amnesty International's MIT Chapter, as a part of their lecture series, hosted Noam Chomsky, an MIT Professor of Linguistics, to talk on the issue of social action within academic institutions. The title of -
Blog / MIT Life
Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two
restaurant was how we spent 7.89% of our trip. Come on, we're MIT students ... has a ton of steps any of which if you sit on them, you get whistled at ... first voyage of sorts was to find food which is probably one of the -
Blog / How to Human
Things to do before you graduate
poster on which are listed "101 Things To Do Before You Graduate". Out of ... disappointed that this year's didn't include a couple of things on last years ... that aren't on the "official" list. I haven't done all of these things
