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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 History & Culture
Snow On working in a winter wonderland.
Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... Burlington area, which averages a bit over five feet of snow every year. While ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the -
Blog / Academics & Research
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 / Miscellaneous
Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!
what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you enjoy and I hope you learn something new. One of the strangest, most opportune gifts I've gotten was a small plastic aquarium, from one of my best -
Blog / MIT Life
Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.
editing was far more polished than any of my dreams could ever dream of ... -and-white-and-symbolically-important-colors-only. The sad truth is that my periods of REM sleep, no matter how R my EM may ... of Helvetica not only gave aesthetic purity to subway signs but also -
Blog / Featured Blogs
A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.
summer. The morning after I got here, I woke up to a pile of stuffed animals on top of me where I had fallen asleep on the couch and, on a post ... say that this note and the feelings behind it was one of my favorite -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
’ve ridden my fair share of intercity trains here in the USA, on the East Coast ... /Miami The City of New Orleans connecting Chicago and New Orleans The passenger train receives woefully little love in the US of A, but it -
Blog / Admissions
The Room(s) Where It Happens You've hit submit. What Comes Next?
2.5 months of chewing, a faceless algorithm spits out a decision. Or ... of time reading alone. My amazing, very human, non-pizza colleagues and I read every single part of your application. We synthesize the -
Blog / Admissions
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 -
Blog / Academics & Research
class sketching an adventure in speedrunned pedagogy
I'm gonna go through some of the classes I took this semester and explain the kinds of things I learned, in a very simplified manner, as a ... . Theory of computation - 18.404 The basic setup for this class, at the -
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 / 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 ... page 2 of my test booklet, and continued to the next round of combat -
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 ... ocean of sky, I woke up and instantly felt the narcotic echoes of the -
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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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 -
Blog / Academics & Research
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 -
Blog / Admissions
…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 -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
My Winter Break Reading List "Take a look, it's in a book, it's reading rainbow"
anticipated, but some), I'll be reading a few books to pass the time. Some of ... of these books, it's the fifth or sixth time I'm reading the book. Some of these books you might ask me why am I reading them, but nonetheless -
Blog / About Decisions
What I Have Learned From The Early Decision Process At MIT Here are some of the things that impressed me.
*Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and ... covered that. So let's get to the meat of the matter (or for you vegans out there, the shiitake mushroom of the matter). Here are some of the things