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Blog / Residential Life
meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators
ceiling lights, they have very different personalities. Alevator is sweet ... have never felt more important in my life. Alevator is a golden retriever ... favorite. Belevator is probably our most well-known elevator. Belevator -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
[joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.
writing thesis. Alan: Every Sunday, Fatima brings a poem which is ... sestina. Fatima: If you didn’t know, a sestina is a poetry form consisting ... constraints are fairly lax but the form is long and repetitive, forcing you to -
Blog / MIT Life
5 Halloween Costume Ideas for MIT Students but they're pretty bad
Is this you? Are you an MIT student who can't get in on the October fun because you're drowning in problem sets? Is midterm season killing ... different tech school Tired of spelling "Massachusetts"? This is just the -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Atomic Friends a comic
love. This is an especially challenging task because comics live in the ... see the difference between writing and drawing. Here is that script in ... of Niels Bohr is drawn onto a whiteboard in the background, with his -
Blog / MIT Life
I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature
North America, and is home to over 1.3 million trees, shrubs, and woody ... in me was hyped to hear that. The arboretum is a good ~5 miles away ... marker is MIT and the circled green expanse is the arboretum[/caption] We -
Blog / Residential Life
how to grow a vibrant kresge just add sod
Spring is here, which means we are nearing the end of Kresge lawn torment season. From August to March, the grass in front of Kresge is hit ... it to mud. Recovery begins in April, when it is no longer snowing, and -
Blog / Events
I went outside! *inhales, belts 'for the first time in forever' at the top of lungs*
Seriously, this is a real occasion. People talk about never leaving ... alone MIT. Which is why my first blog post in a million years is about me ... something called the MIT Outing Club. Most of what they do is organize trips -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Tour of Phonology, Part 1 fənɛtɪks ɪz fʌn!
text very well or at all, that's okay! What I'll do in this section is ... , manner of articulation, and their voicing. A consonant is voiced if the vocal cords vibrate when producing it. A consonant is unvoiced if the -
Blog / Academics & Research
bump MIT students design products
a real life product. This course is a FANTASTIC opportunity to get to ... that it looks like we only have fun in the class, 2.009 is HARD WORK ... is well designed and functions flawlessly. It's intense. Our product -
Blog / MIT Life
Skies over MacGregor Views of campus, Boston, and the Charles River from ten stories up.
spent a lot of my time in MacGregor, which is where Cory was living for ... tenth, eleventh, and twelfth floors of the high rise and is broken up into ... . Summer in Boston is miserable in some ways but it is beautiful. The air is -
Blog / MIT Life
Don’t worry, the king lives…
Hi Everyone, As you've now heard, Mr. Peterson is going offline to ... . So my task is to keep the trains running efficiently during that time ... year is mostly just to not break anything. (For the clueless, these -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity
people are excited by that, because the cold, bleak winter is a tough time ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... . Sunburns suck, sand doesn't do it for me, and the heat is just tougher for me -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
My Life, As Physics Problem also The Tech said a thing
FPOP, interviewed Matt and I yesterday for it, and the article is pretty ... mostly unharmed. The problem is I haven't taken physics in like six years ... 't remember many of the specifics. So I emailed Yan '12, who is also President -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Different Kind of Learning
Three days into my study abroad program and this is my classroom ... already tell that this semester is going to be very different from anything I have done at MIT not only because it is a humanities program, but -
Blog / Academics & Research
Cancer on my mind Wait, shouldn’t that be Carolina?
Cancer is on my mind lately. I know how to have fun, huh? But maybe ... engineers and half are scientists. Or I could point out that it is the first ... really impresses me is the way MIT understands how a wonderful art exhibit -
Blog / Admissions
Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"
Hi all! A few updates over what is, for us, a long weekend. First, I hope you're enjoying it. The long weekend, that is (or normal ... or whatever it is that you do. If you're busy doing things that you -
Blog / Admissions
MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.
One thing I like to talk about with prospective students is the fact that there are all sorts of folks at MIT. For example, there is no majority ethnicity. MIT is about 35% white, 25% asian (of some persuasion -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!
happened: Undergraduate This whole argument is silly. Well, thanks for ... . Undergraduate uhh, he is graduating, right? and graduating people, i presume, won ... underwear color you are saying "My e-mail is worth reading. I am willing to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.
Oftentimes the best way to learn something is to teach it. I ... uniform rim of mass M and six thin uniform spokes mass m, is released from rest at the top of a hill of height h. What is the angular velocity of