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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  :[/annotation] That's not the only instance of Helvetica here. On the lower-right corner of the fire extinguisher box, we see an all-caps "FIRE EXTINGUISHER ... the 2012 version of Roboto Condensed Bold, which differs from the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Exercises in Style with apologies to queneau

  

  was offered popcorn by a friend, and the two of us were left in the ESP ... . In it are 99 retellings of the same story, each written in a different ... greeted the family of the school of smaller fish, and left the smaller fish

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the ... schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The ... talk about until the end of time, and my answer was Julia Child. Julia

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  . Students have the option of either staying at home/traveling/doing whatever ... opinion, one of the coolest times to be at MIT. By browsing the IAP ... for Cancer Research at the beginning of IAP and continued until the end

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... with the computing power of 100 Tiny Dells, maybe even 1000, all black ... uncertainty and despair when the the little blue bar marking the progress of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  what any of those numbers mean - have to force myself to say the actual ... system for freshmen, or any of the wide variety of acronyms that have worked their way into the lexicon of MIT slang. So, when someone asks me

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is there an MIT Flying Club?

  The MIT Flying Club, headquartered in AeroAstro, motivates ... -scale flying for the MIT community. Open to pilots and non-pilots, the club offers regular general body meetings for members, hosts helicopter fly
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Scooper Bowl All you can eat ice cream.

  

  Apparently, Boston has the highest per-capita consumption of ice ... Bryan, Boston has some of the world's best ice cream makers and shops (for ... world"), most within walking distance of MIT. Today is the second day of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  This is the more hardcore half or so of the 42 recipes. Most of these ... dish and add a small amount of salt. Cook on high in the microwave for ... . Add the beef to the onion. Add about a cup of craberry juice (I used

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  still thinking of the things I would write for all of you out there who read the blogs. Thinking of all the things I would say post-decision time ... the controls to slow down, but they're just out of reach. You fall flat

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  that it's taken me an hour to summarize and pull out all of the meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  wide assortment of classes that MIT offers over IAP, both for credit and ... " and the second, "The Nuts and Bolts of Business Plans" (ranked by INC Magazine as one of the 10 Best Entrepreneurship Classes in America.) I'd say

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... , we may recover some of that time by Emeryville. The reasons for this ... not expect the catastrophe to develop so quickly. Because of this, the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adam makes a guest appearance Adam's motto: Step one, get it done. Step two, there's always more to do.

  

  of my HASS classes. The first pset was for 16.901 "Computational ... understand." I'd give this pset a 2 out of 5 on the "assume the fetal position ... of analyzing Brayton cycles and figuring out the delta s of compressor

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 14, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  See You Later

  

  the University of Massachusetts, where I wrote my senior thesis about ... 've ever been to a physical therapist, you know the kind of discomfort I mean: the breaking apart of old adhesions that hurts even as it gives you the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  House, and the thought of having to feed all of them, plus visitors from ... charcoal from; I had no answer. Turns out that the UA was delivering a bit of ... anticipated) I had a list of names and numbers of people who had offered to help

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  Going Home We're halfway through MIT? o____o

  

  the size of half a penny. Once you see this and determined that most of ... a condensed "sauce" at the bottom of the skillet. Remove the chicken ... portion of the sauce and add water or just boil/stir-fry the vegetables

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . Of course, I also had to pay to get into the park; however, since Ling ... that for the low, low price of only $20, which is actually pretty ... the drive up, topics of conversation included the plot of Harry Potter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... COVID -- after all, the majority of the nicer things about New Vassar are ... the strangely colored hunk of brick on the side of Vassar Street. But

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021