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When was MIT founded?
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Consilience From college essays to a Medieval Studies @ MIT Colloquium
became obsessed with the word consilience. I loved all of my classes ... - and was enamored by the possibility of doing research that bridged ... it's been collecting dust. On Monday, at the beginning of my Chaucer -
Blog / MIT Life
It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.
potentials inside charged cubes. Erons is the type of person who carries all ... . Incidentally, the set of such people that I know contains one member: namely ... the Cold War or the ending of The Matrix trilogy, academic life at MIT -
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Classes – Spring 07 Ending MIT with a literary bang. Can you hear it?
Description: Studies important examples of the literary form that, between the beginning of the 18th century and the end of the 19th century, became an indispensable instrument for representing modern life, in the hands of such -
Blog / IAP
some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll
on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the semester, I haven't had time to process it all. In lieu of a more thoughtful -
Blog / Admissions
The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair
hustle and bustle of the street had a certain magic to it. The cars were ... (earlier than me!). She stares outside of the window, amazed by the scene in front of her. It reminds me of exactly one year ago. When, MIT was a new -
Blog / About Decisions
Just Desserts No metaphors here...
Given that tomorrow is pi(e) day, a celebration of irrational numbers ... experiment. Let’s imagine that one day, a pang of hunger strikes you as though ... search of a bakery for a well-deserved snack. As you’re wandering through -
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Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.
change gonna' come." For the greater part of my blog's existence, many of ... ). Well thanks to one of my favorite prefrosh, the dream is now reality! Check out an incredible piece of graphic art from Ms. Star Simpson of the -
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Goldilocks and the n HASS classes too hot, too cold, just right. on picking a hass class.
semester. Unfortunately this semester, I left the selection of my HASS class to last, so I have to find one that fits my schedule instead of ... ; let me know what you think! 11.002J Fundamentals of Public Policy -
Blog / People & Identities
an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes
friends"]60+ days[/annotation] of anime and have read tens of thousands of chapters of manga. I learned Japanese so I could watch shows without needing ... part of me that I wouldn't actively think about writing about it, but -
Blog / MIT Life
40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…
On the first night of my mandatory vacation, I walked to the beach with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down the symptoms of workaholic withdrawal through the ancient zen technique -
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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 ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the -
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Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time
In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a ... split over the idea of establishing an MIT-affiliated but independent ... opposition. Fink remembers being a part of one meeting about Whitehead in which -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.
week of grueling exams. However, during this time I decided to take a break from the endless hours of studying and just go through some old ... those of you that haven’t gotten there yet, Chris always has some of the -
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LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.
? This: (video credit: Tony Eng) The official description of LeaderShape, as detailed by MIT's Division of Student Life, is as follows: MIT ... within a diverse community while developing skills in areas of problem -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
#Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni
Most of my entries center around things I've learned or ... through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page -
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Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.
IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... , which is this week long celebration of Greek life on campus, which is kind of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little -
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The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.
of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary ... ; halohydration, osmylation, reduction, alkylation, and (of course) ozonoloysis. I -
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It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)
prove that all of your tooling has made you a better thinker? For most MIT ... must be completed by the end of your senior year and it will be permanently archived by the MIT Libraries. I did a little bit of web surfing to -
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…More CPW The last of my photos from the weekend.
. You get a sense of what it is we do at MIT, how we play, see the ... about your living group, the student groups you're a part of, your major ... to 1,000 potential members of next year's freshman class. Are you going