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Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium
became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Snow On working in a winter wonderland.
Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the -
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Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?
Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such -
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Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)
Below is one of the robots I built for 2.007, MIT's extremely popular ... "robot" I ever built, on the first day of 2.007: Before I took 2.007, I ... , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the -
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Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.
editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it -
Blog / Admissions
Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.
change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality! Check out an incredible piece of graphic art from Ms. Star Simpson of the -
Blog / People & Identities
an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes
friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing ... part of me that I wouldn't actively think about writing about it, but -
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Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time
In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent ... opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.
week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the -
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Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... , which is this week long celebration of Greek life on campus, which is kind of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little -
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The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.
of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... ; halohydration, osmylation, reduction, alkylation, and (of course) ozonoloysis. I -
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It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)
prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to -
Blog / Life after MIT
Former MIT Students on TV Two in a flattering way, one in a potentially embarassing way.
where viewers choose which of three new science programs will get picked up for a full run. One of the shows, WIRED Science, is co-hosted by an ... Sciences, or EAPS) and was a member of the a cappella group the Muses -
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Classes – Fall 06 The inside scoop on all 54 units I am taking this semester
Description: Uses the tools of macroeconomics to study various macroeconomic ... . Requires a 20-page paper on the economics of long-run economic growth ... recitation fun fact: The entire first chapter of our textbook is devoted to the -
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Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.
, got coffee in the lobby, and checked out of the Hyatt (still no sign of ... to see any students (apparently a bunch of them had come to my Hartford ... why certain kids get in when others do not. This is a big goal of ours -
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Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)
In comparing the beginnings of each of my academic years, I ... years of this and I'm gonna run the w-OH MY GOD WHAT IS HAPPENING THINGS ... even read the first chapter of each textbook. Bring it, junior year -
Blog / About Decisions
Just Desserts No metaphors here...
Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though ... search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through -
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Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.
It's October. Cambridge is cozily snuggled into the cusp of a cold front, the air is crisp like tempura in the cracks of a deep-fried broccoli flower, and the crunchiness of autumn tingles with the sound of