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  Unedited notes on gravity, etc. Brief thoughts on gravity, science, and consciousness that I plan to elaborate later when I…

  

  [Tonight I worked on a problem set in General Relativity until 4 AM ... shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a ... on a river, falling leaves, the mass of flowers in spring. gravity is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... computing in the Media Lab, and miscellaneous cool stuff in the Precision ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  In its 149 years of existence, MIT has been involved with many of ... : the first intercollegiate Indian classical dance competition in the ... , MIT Natya put on a show called Laasya, which means 'dance' in Sanskrit

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  40 Hours Left! The time is 0500 EST, 12/15. I am studying for finals. You are waiting for…

  

  sped from lower Manhattan to the Bronx, they fell in love: (Boy) It was in no sheltered nook It was by no babbling brook When romantic'lly we met. (Girl) Ah, the scene I can't forget We were thrown together in the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admission Interview Tick tock!

  

  . Every student in the MyMIT database is assigned an alumni interviewer, aka Educational Counselor (EC). The interview itself is usually conducted in your home town – or someplace close – in an informal setting like a coffee

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Welcome to the Woodshop Don't forget close-toed shoes and please WEAR GOGGLES.

  

  around campus in her epic Machine Shops entry. But she missed my place ... week, I work as a monitor at the N51 Woodshop. In Building N51, next to ... make sure everyone working in the shop knows what they're doing, uses the

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Operabots with Personality Ahhhhh.....music to my ears

  

  students here absolutely LOVE music. While 75% of students participated in the fine & performing arts in high school, over 60% of accepted freshmen last year participated in music related activities before they

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • August 26, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day ... incompetent. # Sign-ins should not be seen by the general public. Sign-ins exhibit one's pride in having found a location. Most hackers aren't proud of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  hemisphere like a pool of microwaved butter. Spring, wrapped in connotations of ... renewal and other synonyms for “change” that I don't have time to look up in ... changes that have changed my life recently: 1.I declared a major in Physics

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  dwindling battlefield of questions about giant disembodied vectors in space ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to read the previous paragraph, in which I describe my 8.022 exam in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Well I Know That It’s a Wonderful World from the sky down to the sea, but I can only see it when you're…

  

  all the lost sleep in the last 3 months. After obsessively refreshing ... to find a semester's worth of rushing over to Building 68 to turn in ... playing in the background had turned into five simple letters and a two

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The ... .09 in the afternoon, then 8.07 all night and in the morning. I answered my mom's birthday phone call in the Hayden Library staircase. And then

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Thoughts on coming home With guest appearances by MIT's Dean for Student Life, the communist dracula, Roman lasagna, and…

  

  airport, a rhapsody in grey shattered once by an outburst of sunrise over ... in which time had absolute meaning and humans had free will over ... (read: non-MIT) visitors, locking myself out of my room two times in one

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ops Air Force A summer spent with B-1Bs and C-130s.

  

  Force life so that they will become better officers in the future. I spent my summer PDT at Dyess AFB in Abilene, TX. Dyess is home to the 7th ... and dirty in some jets and really get to know the enlisted side of the

  • by ROTC
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  , and it’s where you can put his invention to work in 6.163: Strobe ... at MIT’s Visual Arts Program until his death in 1976. White was ... met him last semester in 4.341…amazing). MIT might not strike you

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Brief Taste of Orgo Basically, Sam Maurer is a prophet.

  

  In today's 5.12 lecture (in English, that's organic chemistry), I ... scheduled to be covered in the discussion. The list went something like this ... really choose to learn about it. It just sort of happened. In case you

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 12, 2008
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Whoooo!

  

  your profile a map of all the places in the world that you have been. As ... actually know anything about. Places I've been are highlighted in blue. (Also ... 'm spending spring break visiting Adelaide in France, with a 2 day excursion to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation process in which you are formally admitted into the university and your ... college. All the CME students participated in this process. My college

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  studying civil engineering. I’m participating in the Cambridge ... University). The term “punting’ in MIT lingo means to relax, chill, and avoid pseting (the opposite of punting is tooling). But here in the

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Helicopter Flight Training [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] 500 feet above Boston with two MIT Deans.

  

  [by CDT Greg Wellman '09] For the second time in my life, I had the chance to ride in a UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter. My first experience was ... coming in low over New House. It was an awesome sight; definitely not

  • by ROTC
  • October 3, 2007