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  tEpikazoo Thoughts on cooking and gratuitous prefixes

  

  In the past three months, my relationship to cooking has swerved from reticent affection to soul-consuming infatuation. Apologies before I go any further: if you expected me to write about…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  Today I neglected to bring a jacket to class. As the afternoon waned impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into soupy grey cold specked with watery…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Three days before classes start, I woke up at 7:09 AM, ran 6 miles, discovered three new species of granola in an unexplored section of the pantry, preheated an oven…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  that begin with the last 13 letters of the alphabet (N-Z) (articles and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  My first Fourth of July in Boston was spent on an inflatable 61-inch-long mattress in the middle of the Charles River, drifting underneath the hulls of pearl-white private yachts and…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• 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 persuasive five-paragraph essay, my three thesis-support arguments would be: (1) prior to Monday, I was under the…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Eternal sunshine of the sleepless mind Once again, the title has practically no relation to the actual blog entry.

  

  Remember the plot of The Matrix trilogy? Neither do I, which is why I IMDB’d it before writing this blog. Fun fact: under the space-warping influence of continued sleep deprivation,…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 13, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of Boston weather reminds me that springtime is about to melt over this hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter.…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  [EDIT: It has been noted that the photos in this entry don’t show up in Internet Explorer. I’ll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I suggest converting…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  Recap: I survived the last week of February with hit points to spare, despite running out of energy cards sometime around Thursday afternoon. During my confrontation with Level 10 Opponent…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This title is irrelevant In which I discuss two important aspects of undergraduate life: scientific research and climbing stairs.

  

  For a gaspingly radiant millisecond after I received my acceptance letter to MIT, I glimpsed a beautiful future in which all of life’s hardships and stupidities were swept away from…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Good Will Mystery Hunting 63 hours of puzzle solving: a classic part of the MIT experience

  

  “It’ll be over before sunrise.” The first time I heard it, midnight was approaching like a derailed train headed toward Charleston, West Virginia, the most important city in the world…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 21, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  Back in the sepia-toned pages of my high school years, Personal Finance was one of two classes that the school administrators recognized as a practical art, colloquially known as an…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  Thanksgiving morning was a groggy smear of coffee, subway, and airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over the Charles river as the Red Line…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  List of Rejected Halloween Costume Ideas, 2008 Edition 1.Washing machine: Unfortunately, someone fixed the perennially-malfunctioning washing machine in Random Hall’s basement, so I couldn’t wear it. Thus, my intent was…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  (Editor’s note: For rhetorical purposes, let’s pretend that “today” is October 24th, which is when the first paragraph was conceived in a rush of inspiration mixed with Google calendar.) Exactly…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  To be honest, my weekend mornings are probably less exciting than yours, especially if you spend them in riveted perusal of my fascinating blog posts. On Friday nights, while the…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day in the Life: Weekend Edition 80% more fun and 800% more apples in one serving!

  

  Some days begin with ballistic alarms and spilled coffee and calculus homework. Some days begin with silence. I woke up on Sunday morning, a translucent silence filling the room. Dawn-ish…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 2) The dog days of summer.

  

  to Z-Center to do the day's weightlifting workout for varsity track

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  flip to there are the underlined words "The characteristic impedance z_0

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006