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• 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 ... 've plumbed the details of syn addition, Markovnikov's rule, carbocation

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... dryers. It's like the CNN of laundry. 2.My physics class: I had physics on ... center of mass: I felt like this would have been too selfish of me. 6.The

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Case of the Disappearing Admissions Officers Where have the Admissions Officers been lately?

  

  's been lots of other exciting news, including the production of the first 1,000 of the "$100 laptops" (currently coming in at closer to $150). One ... technology into the hands of millions of the world's poorest children. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  As some of you may know, this summer I'm working at the NIH National ... entire human genome, so that we now know the location of all human genes ... least in my opinion.) Well, Dr. Francis Collins is the director of the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  city planners and conduct research on the topics of their choice. These ... . While in Scandinavia last spring break, a few of us met up with the 11 ... 'll register. It's a CI-M class, so it fulfills part of the Communication

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thanks Guys A thank you from a blogger to the best audience ever.

  

  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 ... , awesome, LOL, to the left of the interdimensional door, YES YOU CAN #Chinese

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 27, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us ... work at the loss of self-care and health.  However, amidst the chaos of classes and ridiculous amount of stress bestowed among the students here at

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the luxury of bad art nothing but the truth

  

  ’s Sour album and realizing how wonderfully she captured the pains of first love ... for years, like how I felt trapped between the dichotomy of being a ... sometimes, but it can also get in the way of the reasons I began writing in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 11, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  choice of how much slack doesn't depend on alyssa or bob. it depends on the ... , they could've divided XYZ differently. the last week of my semester has ... with three of their other friends in the area before coming to east

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  for context) For the first half of this class, we had to take a ... figure out how I would constrain the balloon. I tried thin strips of duct ... amount of slime I needed was way too much, and removing the slime after the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Comments 3999 & 4000

  

  profoundly frivolous. As director of the Comparative Media Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Jenkins has played a leading role over the ... technologies and the distribution power of the Web, fan communities are

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 25, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…

  

  a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about the EA process. So consider my blog, for now, to be a bit of counter ... head-on shot of my desk. It's the place that I store my most important

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Events

  V Storms the Senate One hack is not enough.

  

  , right? Not at MIT. Allow me first to set the scene. As some of you may ... represent and protect the goals and interests of all undergrads in an ... happening across campus. Dressed as V, the enigmatic anti-hero of V for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  that weekend was the Richmond Night Market, a local attraction full of ... wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  While some of us have spent the first week of freedom from classes ... Patterns is the name of the curriculum that is being taught in all of these ... ) while trying to maximize the happiness of the matches based on the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What’s happening with Senior House The thing that happened, why the thing is upsetting, and what can hopefully be done

  

  the body of the announcement. Here’s a screencap of the message ... the plan more depth. As I mentioned, there is an enormous amount of talk about this in public channels by residents, alumni, friends of the Haus

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • June 13, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  Hummingbird in a Cube of Ice Singing in the shower, taken to a whole new level.

  

  For those of you wondering, I ended up working only until the first 2 ... thereby increase the efficiency of daily lives--like, for example, the ... you're in the middle of a problem set. Continuing in this vein (not the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Results from the Photo Scavenger Hunt On the bright side, there's alt-text!

  

  Summer Glau. Speaking of winning, here are the winners:     So congratulations Elizabeth and Mohammed (respectively) you're the winners of the ... Much like the luminiferous aether theory, the Photo Scavenger Hunt

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 27, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might have heard of a liberal arts school down the road. It’s got buildings of ... humanities. I’ve taken classes from the history of the French Revolution, to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stealing from the Class of 2016 And you'll have to work to get it back

  

  Good day! One of the many unique and altogether unavoidable aspects of MIT life is the mailing list. Mailing lists are powerful tools that ... during your time at MIT. By the end of my four year stint I believe I was

  • by Snively '11
  • September 27, 2012