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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
Welcome MIT Class of 2009!
about the Class of 2009. I'm very excited to see who the class will be! In the meantime, all of you '09s should check out the Firstyear site ... ... yes, we're now thinking about the MIT Class of 2010 (and beyond!). I -
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 / 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 / MIT Life
making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft
I just wanted to quickly share something that brought me a lot of ... ), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not occurred. This party is typically a huge affair that thousands of dollars go -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.
As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings go, these things are pretty big hunks of metal. Second of all, they are -
Blog / MIT Life
A Re-Introduction of Sorts Hi, my name is Bryan.
failure did not determine the rest of my academic career. Fast forward 16 ... a ride in my virtual time machine and look back on some of my science experiments: 2nd Grade: Will the Leaning Tower of Pisa fall over? 6th Grade -
Blog / Admissions
Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…
I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status, and I'm just sending pictures of my office. Matt and Ben are doing a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about -
Blog / MIT Life
a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight
hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... so happens that christmas coincides with the end of the fall semester, which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella