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  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... holiday. Apparently (according to Wikipedia, anyway) the parade began back

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take ... ; CONFUSED IF FOUND, PLEASE RETURN TO SKULLHOUSE A REWARD MAY BE NEGOTIATED

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Evolution of Physics Physics gets harder as you get older, go figure.

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 Blogging Scholarship for $10,000! I don't like physics. A lot of people seem to think I do. I'd like to ... sorts of majors here at MIT to choose from that have nothing to do with

  • by Snively '11
  • November 14, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  , when thousands of bloggers dedicate their blogs to talking about one important topic to drive the popular discourse towards more important topic ... MIT bloggers are planning to participate. If you have a blog, you should

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sabar drums, Rwanda, and the C.I.A Can you guess what all this stuff has in common?

  

  's impossible to rank the events by awesome, I've ranked them chronologically: 11 ... only wants you to be able to use maths to solve all sorts of problems, but to be cultured and knowledgeable about the world you live in. They

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan, relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... . Took weekend trips to NYC, Montreal. Saw my first Fourth of July

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  last night, in the hallway ANGELA MONSTER: Allin and I are going to Economy Hardware tomorrow morning. ME: Oh, can I come? I need to buy blinds ... receipt? Great, thanks. walking with Allin and Angela through MIT to Mass

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is what we call soccer. And to Europe, it's been the focus of everyone ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  CRACKED [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Part art-support group, part studio, part community, and part activist.

  

  ’d like to tell you a little more about Cracked. Cracked is a student ... part activist. We called our first meeting "Bring it to the Table." We ... well as space in CAVS to meet, and we arrived early in order to prepare

  • by ARTalk
  • May 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How Do You Mic A Stripper? [by Harrison Bralower '11] It's a great question when you really think about it.

  

  interviewed to be the Sound Designer for the Musical Theater Guild's (MTG ... think about it-—how does one attach a microphone to a stripper ... joking around with the case. It takes more than two months to put a show

  • by ARTalk
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Info Session Courtesy of Ben Jones

  

  Barkowitz and I have decided that today would be a good day to ... before so be easy on us, but the way this is supposed to work is that we figure we can each only type fast enough to catch half of what he says, so

  • by Snively '11
  • March 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Crotchets and Quavers The evensong tradition

  

  [by Patrick '09] On Tuesday, I went to Trinity College chapel for ... deserves some explanation: There are 30+ constituent colleges to Cambridge, each meant to serve the every need of its students. Most of them have a

  • by Cambridge
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems Engineering. It has lots of different components to it - so far we've talked ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  high school counselors signed up to listen to Matt's and Ben's presentation. They asked me to tag along as an example of somebody who's not only ... for another, I was actually interested in what they had to say. It

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Study Breaks, Apple Pies, and Formal Halls

  

  past few years. So it's been a little over a month since we got to ... from the city center. It's about 45 minutes to walk there. It is an ... . It was so much fun. We stuffed a bag full of apples and then went to

  • by Cambridge
  • November 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  as the sun struggled to illuminate the lifeless region. In the center ... to act, my eyes focused directly forward. Out of my periphery I could ... coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Work, friends, sleep – pick three In which I manage time effectively.

  

  about MIT. She wants to go (a lot), and I'm keeping my eyes and ears open. It sounds like all kinds of amazing. ^_^ P.S. Devin wants you to ... hours on a MONDAY. And I got to sleep by 1AM, and then I woke up in time

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  New Kid on the Blogs Claim your place. Make your mark. Live your dreams.

  

  was going to end up at MIT for college, I probably would have laughed in ... accomplishments, whenever I thought about applying to MIT, I kept coming back to the ... know the answer to that question. All I know is that I'm here now, and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  a fearless innovator with “new and insightful ways to tackle ... has tinkered with bacteria to make them produce a petroleum-like fuel ... knew what he wanted to do with his life, and he admitted that he always

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m still alive And I missed entry #2000 by one! Blargh!

  

  the O'Connor Lab, guaranteeing me the shortest commute to work I'll ever have to make. (Yeah, you know I used Paint.) The round trip is less ... needed to be posted on the blogs. Expect a real post from me this weekend

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 20, 2007