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Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.
2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream... -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.
Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the -
Blog / MIT Life
Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…
Amidst a Dali-esque landscape of finals-related drudgery and holiday travel rushes (think The Persistence of Memory, but imagine unfinished exams underneath the melting clocks), there resides a species of creative -
Blog / Admissions
In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family
killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013. Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club, and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to -
Blog / Admissions
Welcome MIT Class of 2009!
about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I -
Blog / Events
Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…
eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... take a good photo of something that's over 360,000 kilometers away on a ... of the eclipse totally unworthy of viewing, and hide them from all of -
Blog / Hacks
A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.
I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The Top of the World If I have seen farther, it is by standing on the roof of the Green…
It's sort of funny how some of the most interesting things happen ... lab to the tennis courts on the other side of campus to play a quick ... " beneath the Green Building - one of MIT's academic buildings, home to the -
Blog / Academics & Research
2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta
MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... Mehta, The University of the Future: Lessons from a 2600 Year History -
Blog / Life after MIT
The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing
So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years. No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce -
Blog / Academics & Research
Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!
Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly -
Blog / Academics & Research
Taste of the Middle Ages
My 21H.927: Economic History of Work and Family teacher, Professor Anne McCants, ran an IAP event entitled "Old Food: Ancient and Medieval ... the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection -------- -
Blog / Events
TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things
outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this -
Blog / Events
Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!
C. '16 explained in his post about Ring Premiere what the design of our ring looks like, but as of last night we now have our own beautiful ... RING! It feels so good! I have many pictures from and of the event -
Blog / MISTI
Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…
up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples in the Kansai area. Since a good percentage of the interns are working somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class
.05 (biochemistry) final. This was my only test of finals week, so I spent every ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice ... the day. Better yet, I had two weeks of days like this before helping at -
Blog / Academics & Research
a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles
classes started last wednesday! here's a cross-section of my ... .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos -
Blog / Events
A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.
I'm the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a ... -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante
aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts ... -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults