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Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue
Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day off, free street parking, copious amounts of barbequed meat, and beautiful displays of explosives. That is... as long as your weather report -
Blog / Hacks
Mario Institute of Technology hack Laura's entry on an awesome hack.
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Blog / Challenges
Anatomy of a Late Night There are some problems caffeine can't solve. But only a few.
2 liters of Mountain Dew: $2.75 Mint Milanos: $3.39 Artichoke Spinach Hummus: $2.99 Wheat Thins: $2.29 Getting all your work done... priceless And now, I sleep, perchance to dream... -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Happy Year of the Pig Photoshop fun for the lunar new year.
Happy Lunar New Year from Peggy and the Office of Admissions! Here are the results of this year's new year mini-contest! (Remember, this will have no impact on admissions) "The source of inspiration was the -
Blog / Admissions
In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family
killed in the line of duty by the Tsarnaev brothers on April 18th, 2013. Sean was a beloved campus police officer, a member of the MIT Outing Club, and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to -
Blog / Events
Dark Side of the Moon And everything under the sun is in tune, but the sun is eclipsed by the…
eclipse of the moon, in fact. The last one until 2010. You should go watch ... take a good photo of something that's over 360,000 kilometers away on a ... of the eclipse totally unworthy of viewing, and hide them from all of -
Blog / Hacks
A Brief History of Hacks Unfortunately I couldn't get Stephen Hawking to narrate.
I was out meeting a friend and some of her friends that I didn't previously know last night, and the topic of school came up. (SIDE NOTE: that ... think the problem stems from not having a good word for "friend of a -
Blog / Life after MIT
The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing
So one of the unfortunate parts of graduating is that you actually have to pack up your life from the past four years. No more of this, "I ... a member of the rowing team, I have had the same locker at the Pierce -
Blog / Academics & Research
Attack of the Giant Squid Attack of the Giant Squid!
Intensive) class, 14.33. Sam has also commented on one of his as well. My ... aka HST.541J. One of the major topics in the class is the Hodgkin and Huxley model for the propagation of action potentials. The model is fairly -
Blog / Academics & Research
Taste of the Middle Ages
My 21H.927: Economic History of Work and Family teacher, Professor Anne McCants, ran an IAP event entitled "Old Food: Ancient and Medieval ... the Met(ropolitan Museum of Art)'s Medieval Art collection -------- -
Blog / Events
TBT: The Science of Chocolate The school down the street does cool things
outside the MIT bubble is an important part of being a student here!) One of the best things about going to school at MIT is that you get to live ... 's always a TON of things going on. Since it's my senior year and I have this -
Blog / Events
Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!
C. '16 explained in his post about Ring Premiere what the design of our ring looks like, but as of last night we now have our own beautiful ... RING! It feels so good! I have many pictures from and of the event -
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 ... -enviable genetic makeup is devoid of lottery-winner DNA, and (3) I've heard that it ... turns out that, much like a gourmet pretzel, life is full of twists. On -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante
aspects of an affair that novels were concerned with, like whether or not ... most visible manifestation of more important, more illegible conflicts ... -winded way of explaining that I just finished reading The Lying Lives of Adults -
Blog / Classes
A Collection of Creative Questions A collage of some of my silliest assignments
I think a lot of MIT professors have a humorous side, and most of them do their best to demonstrate this through the context of the questions they ask for their assignments. So here's a short collage of some of -
Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2021 Wait List Today, we have closed out the wait list for the Class of 2021.
The May 1 reply deadline has come and gone, and we know many of you ... , we had a record-high percentage of admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions parlance as the "yield") of greater -
Blog / MIT Life
a tour of New Vassar also known as west garage
'd do a bit of a tour. I invite you to walk with me from the front door ... outside. I'll be honest - I'm not the biggest fan of the architectural ... well as the design of the little overhangs on the [annotation note -
Blog / MIT Life
At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles
to fifteen hours to finish. When we emerge from our cyclic periods of ... , it's not...that great. But I digress. I actually wrote the bulk of ... . A ray caster, if you care, is one of the most basic conceptual layers -
Blog / Events
The Stuff of MIT Legend I'm about to tell you a super cool story. It happened two years ago, but…
's worthy of a blog entry, even if I'm 2 years late in posting it. Yesterday and today, MIT hosted hundreds of middle and high school students for a ... is a huge project that encourages dozens of MIT students to teach