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Blog / Academics & Research
New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.
's energy and environment problems. Today, I've got two pieces of media to check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... -efficient cars, as well as a look at MIT's Friday-after-Thanksgiving tradition of a -
Blog / Events
Senior Gift Kickoff Make your mark, without (grade?) inflation
Tonight was the kickoff event for the Class of 2007 Senior Gift ... as the theme for the Class of 2000 through the Class of 2005: The ... year out of MIT: Another $10. Second year:$10 + $10 = $20. Third year -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
For great justice…
Orientation 2006 and the status and future of Orientation. It's finally in its final draft pending approval by the UA Senate. I'm proud of having ... experience, especially the residence selection aspect of it. You can read the -
Blog / MIT Life
East Campus Rush photos
I've been remiss in posting about Dorm Rush or Hall Rush, both of ... , I'll cover Hall Rush with 5E Rush photos. Most of these are actually ... rode the rides that people built. Most of what we build is made of -
Blog / Personal Travel
Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…
Half of my family hails from Northern Italy; specifically, the Veneto ... music lies among these members of the family. My grandfather played the ... can be heard on tracks of Beck's Odelay album). And during the late 1800 -
Blog / Admissions
Match Game
of interesting discussion after my last post, and lots of good questions, too. I hope to answer many of those questions soon, but today I ... 's mission. The founding mission of MIT was to improve the world through -
Blog / Academics & Research
The most beautiful class schedule yes. good
likely demoralize you until your stash of motivation is entirely depleted ... ’ve been a junkie for the kinds of dusty old works of revolutionary politics that continue to organize small modern factions of alternative thought -
Blog / MIT Life
learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how
how to do most things. However, a lot of people are confident that they know how to learn how to do things (ew, sorry for the string of ... things, you get a community of igloo-building, solar -
Blog / Events
Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.
fabled season of fall has arrived in all of its deciduous glory and is ... consider the brisk weather a welcome change. My impressions of fall, in the absence of any real comparable seasonal changes, are idealized and heavily -
Blog / MIT Life
Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.
Yesterday morning, I woke up half-dreaming of the scriptural nuisances of airport security, circa Holiday Season, post-2001 A.D. At 7 AM after a night of post-finals merrymaking (i.e, a plate of brussels sprouts -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…
In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most respected newspapers, rising MIT sophomore Grace Kane '11, a native of Glasgow ... drinking in Scotland by people under the age of 21, though the legal drinking -
Blog / Academics & Research
Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.
DID YOU KNOW? An Italian defender once said of Pele, after the 1970 World Cup finals, "I told myself before the game, he's made of skin and ... comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always -
Blog / Academics & Research
Forbes and MIT there's graphs in this one
On Jan 3rd, Forbes published their annual list of the 30 Under 30 of 2017. For six years now, Forbes has put out lists of the top 30 innovators under the age of 30 for each of 15-20 industry categories. The Tech -
Blog / How to Human
So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?
It's Career Fair season, and that means hundreds of companies are ... , and oddly-formatted emails. I've been reading a lot of job descriptions ... profiles" -- lists of traits and behaviors that are associated with job -
Blog / Community Projects
We Are All Slaves to the Wind it gets pretty windy here in Kansas. Day 3 at the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition.
Today was the major flight day for most of the teams at the Design ... possible. We wanted our plane, Corn Dog, to fly all three of our missions ... was built for a cruising airspeed of about 70 mph, but it still took the -
Blog / Personal Travel
June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.
one of these beauties: Usually when I don't blog for more than a ... lack of blogging.) This blog was not initiated for such reasons. The ... , seeing everyone and feeling the ENERGY here. But before I get too ahead of -
Blog / Admissions
CPW Photograph-athon Because anything can be a catchy title if you add -athon to the end!
As promised last week, I'm presenting the winning entries of the CPW ... attendees based on their representation of MIT's revelry in unjaded vitality ... had the tact to resize their photos to something on the order of 10^2 by -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Flame War A play-by-play of the Class of 2012's first flame war.
The dust settles. We the class of 2012 waged epic battle tonight ... results of the class sweatshirt design contest.* In that email, they also ... of the hoodie designs. I just want to share a fun experience. Of -
Blog / Events
Senior Ball 2008 MIT will even help you find a date
dancing awkwardly under the watchful eye of your teacher chaperones (“Sally ... held last night for the Class of 2008. We received the invitation in the ... few months of MIT are tough for most seniors – we are torn between our
