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A Couple of Firsts With a picture game
have gone on. Everyone’s so passionate about their posts, and all of us do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively ... aspects of MIT. Then I noticed something that I had missed in my post -
Blog / Hacks
50 Years of NASA One small hack for MIT, one giant leap for NASA.
a hack! For those of you just tuning in, a "hack" at MIT is clever, elegant, and anonymous prank, designed to amuse and catch the attention of ... 'd expect, hacking is one of MIT's most celebrated traditions, and the actual -
Blog / MIT Life
Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately
Some of you may recall Shuli's whiteboard post, and upon this whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens, most living communities have some version of this exact whiteboard -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Invasion of the Stikmen Another invasion of MIT?
Some of you that frequent the blogs may remember that last year ... . At first, I thought it was just a random piece of trash.... but upon ... over the US! It's pretty awesome that we can find a set of these around -
Blog / About Decisions
Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…
-decision-release onslaught of comments. It's eerily quiet, which is both nice and unsettling at ... - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of ... every year.) Having said that, there are of course many of you to whom we -
Blog / Events
My Kind Of Party Consider this your first frat party.
, a soiree if you will. I think the only crazy part of this party might ... semester, our chef, Karen, who is a trained pastry chef, makes some of the most delectable desserts on this side of the country including chocolate -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Power of suggestion This entry will tell you whether you'll get into MIT or not in two minutes.
Kappa Late Night, a fall talent show for charity sponsored by one of MIT ... awards, one of the sisters announced: "Okay, and the next winner is number 1024!" Did you just think, "Hey, that's a power of 2!"? So did I! So did -
Blog / Admissions
Battle of the Bands "Rock on and come to CPW!" ~ Thomas Jefferson"Chris, you made up that quote from…
Hey-o prefrosh. Are you dying of anticipation yet? CPW starts ... an event density so high, it's like a neutron star of awesome! There ... upperclassmen or your favorite blogger, as long as they're both me). But of all -
Blog / About Decisions
swatches of MIT collected like paint chips
. This place is hard, in all senses of the word. It cuts you to the quick. But it can be lovely, too. When I first thought of this blog ... to be about how you predicted many of the pitfalls of this place. It -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Week of UROPing in few words
The first month of the year is a beautiful time for students here: no ... writing (with more words), but my work builds upon some of my high school interests. Back in high school, I was really interested in the art of turning -
Blog / Classes
Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!
Last fall, I took STS.S20, Tales of Two Parallels: East Campus ... the purpose of documenting East Campus culture and history before the ... ="attachment_78721" align="alignnone" width="300"] The coaster we're in the process of -
Blog / How to Human
first impressions of LA the struggles of moving cross-country for an internship
the God of War team.[/annotation] after dropping all of my stuff at my ... lot of first impressions, both good and bad. here they are: this city ... few pedestrians as well, so walking on the streets is kind of lonely -
Blog / Admissions
Class of 2010 profile A ststistical look at the incoming freshmen.
Here's a look at this year's incoming freshman class. Over the next week, we'll take a look at some of the individuals in the class... The MIT Class of 2010, by: Gender: Male 55% Female 45% Ethnicity: African -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Progression of Spirit You must be this tall to ride the MIT Emotional Rollercoaster
I realize that the title for this post could be the title of a hymn ... to watch the progression of the emotional state of MIT students. The ... that they're worthy of MIT, and prove to themselves that they can handle -
Blog / MIT Life
Pictures of me
One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some pictures of myself. I don't have that many pictures of myself, and most of ... . But I'll put some on here anyway. Some of them have appeared on here -
Blog / MIT Life
The Return of QBert Whack-a-mole, a piano player, and a whole lot of fun. All in 24 hours or…
This Sunday, QBert, a long-lost friend of my Nintendo days, and I ... New Hampshire, of course. Now telling you the destination without ... unmarked Toyota Matrix to New Hampshire. All I remember of the drive was -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.
. The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off the shelf because it looks kind of cool" library trips. Linguistics is now my new favorite topic. I read The Unfolding of Language: an -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Murals of East Campus i live in an art exhibition
(This is the second half of the Art of East Campus series. The first part can be found here!) My first and lasting impression of the standard ... of its interior, the magnitude of how different EC is from normal -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
train of thought on feeling deeply
A lot of my time this summer has been spent in transit. I take the subway to and from work. I spend most of my free time wandering around the streets of NYC. I’ve made two weekend trips to and from Boston via the