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Happy Pi Day
Two groups are hosting pi celebrations: This **Tuesday, 3/14, at 6pm ... holding the following festivities in honor of pi day: Pie baking contest Pi ... -related prizes. ----------- In honor of Pi Day, the UA Dining Committee invites -
Blog / Class Projects
Television MIT on TV.
Tonight's episode of MythBusters on the Discovery Channel will show ... ," which included such classics as the "Winnebago of Science" and the "Flammschmeisser." And, of course, you can catch Ankur '03 on Beauty and the Geek 2 -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.
The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post here one of last year's most clever puzzles (this was just one of 114 -
Blog / MIT Life
Ack, finals!
Sorry for my lack of posting lately. This is just a notice to say that I will probably not be posting anything of substance here until at ... pictures of the new 5th East kitten on it. While I am busy in testing hell -
Blog / MIT Life
A thousand million questions An evening with Gaelic quesadillas and Farrokh Bulsara.
Today while running westward at sunset, I was nearly blinded by the ... , probably because of the massive quantities of air pollution from the city ... be on the other side of me, but then I realized that in order to that I -
Blog / MIT Life
Symphony 9, Op. 95 “From the New Blog” I'll to pay you to hang out with me and watch me type.
Reading a seven-month-old issue of People, I discovered this week that Gwen Stefani, in addition to designing a bizarre new line of clothing, has now taken to paying an entourage of four Japanese girls to -
Blog / MIT Life
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished ...in which I introduce myself and set the tone for this "theater of the absurd."
Director of Minority Recruitment at MIT. So tune in periodically; we'll laugh ... power brokers. For some time now I've been intrigued by all forms of communication and their effect on society, in particular that of minority -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Lewis Music Library Tra la la
things you'd like to know more about (or see photos of, if you're unable to visit MIT), leave a comment at the end of the entry, k? According to the ... Instead of writing only about student life, I'm gonna try to write -
Blog / Academics & Research
‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record
at MIT, and I promise, I’ll blog about it soon. I’ve been thinking of ... fifty minutes of Multivariable Calculus. At its core, MIT is a community of people who aren’t merely brilliant and quite apt at undertaking the -
Blog / Challenges
There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?
. I watched professors walk by, canvas messenger bags at their hips ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in ... looked up at the dome. The inscriptions at its base. The ten pillars. The -
Blog / MIT Life
moving out i'm leaving for a bit
footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... . Friends wandered in at odd times; sometimes to say hi, sometimes to share a hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many -
Blog / Academics & Research
A love letter to psets Masochists In Training
MIT's version of homework. And by "MIT's version", I mean that while a typical pset might only contain 5 problems, every one of those problems is ... your best to crush my soul. You've made eight hours of sleep an alien -
Blog / Events
Curiosity What were you doing?
was looking at it from up above, instead of face-on. I noticed that some ... looking at a presidential election quiz; a long discussion about the ... history of U.S. involvement in Israel, on the Patriot act, the conflict in -
Blog / Events
Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.
exceptions to rules here at good old M.I.T. Anyway, I wasn't really around for much of Bad Ideas, unfortunately. But I did make it a point to go to one ... /Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences/Course 12, and 54-100, one of the most -
Blog / Life after MIT
Double legacy ...what my kids will be, since I'm marrying somebody from MIT!
October of next year. (We're hoping to have our reception at the Museum of ... sophomore year at a party at Baker, but I wasn't really aware of his existence ... in admissions -- legacy kids aren't at an advantage compared to the -
Blog / Events
Mystery Hunt 2006 announced
Mystery Hunt 2006. What is Mystery Hunt? Mystery Hunt is one of IAP's most exciting activities. In short, the Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students and others team up to solve lots of puzzles, with the -
Blog / MIT Life
Sun off a beach The one where it rains. I mean, another one where it rains.
actually planned to their home stadium and just randomly spectate at one of ... . Sorry. That's an apology for a lot of things. Please don't go stalking ... , torrential rain to otherwise lovely places, the weather today at the beach was -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.
, we each took turns running home to clean ourselves of the street. At ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a t-shirt, and my Harry Potter desktop wallpaper's fact of the day read -
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All Hallow’s Eve You're never too old to trick-or-treat...
-promised pictures of my friends and I being all dorky and appreciative of Doctor Who ... 's equivalent of Residential Advisors--housemasters, and associate housemasters ... , chocolate covered strawberries, and, of course, mini variety packs of candy