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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to ... , it doesn't feel like a sterile box that does nothing to mitigate my ... 's various dormitories. (I didn't get a chance to photograph East

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Examining exams Sometimes, grades matter less than photons are matter.

  

  allow me to redirect you up the river*. (*I'm kidding! Please don't take ... all around. In fact, I couldn't even tell you the frictional coefficient ... thick, stubborn Problem Sets. Segways don't have airbags. But, for a few

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part 1 ECs are some of my favorite people in the world and you'll like them too.

  

  that I want each of them to give when they do an interview. I just don't do that! The interview isn't anything like a test. But each EC can be ... and I know you'll learn something about this place that you don't

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday ... , but come Thursday night I didn't feel comfortable betting on it (or ... figure it out, but that's the point. I didn't explicitly know how to solve

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... Australian man ever actually said was “I don't need to believe in God to ... annoyed by these people who couldn't argue so I bought a burrito, ate it

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  In which I am only slightly less boring than usual The title says it all, no?

  

  to be those two keys? Couldn't it have been something trivial, like F12 ... cool BUT UNNECESSARY WHY COULDN'T THAT HAVE BROKEN?! 2) My life has been ... moved to an auditorium indoors because of a thunderstorm, but that didn't

  • by Keri G. '10
  • July 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  but couldn't, and are now picking out to divide into papers, plastics ... Monday afternoons. After work we go places, or sometimes we don't, and ... . The trick is to keep eating at all times, so you don't recognize you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Graduation Some commencement pictures.

  

  -commencement program, but it didn't do that, it actually just got heavier. Around 7am I ... commencement staff weren't the only people who'd gotten up at the butt-crack of ... weren't a problem today. Neither was dehydration. Picture of the front

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  Skullhouse. As for Junk? Well, most of it is headed for the trash can. I don't ... just aren't sophomores between June and August. Seriously, I couldn't

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My UROP Experiences Research is kinda cool.

  

  finals (8.04 and 8.044) standing between me and two MIT degrees. I don't ... once classes started we didn't have time. Nevertheless, it was my first ... analytically (except in simple, ideal cases that aren't applicable to real

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Events

  And I’m leaving, on a . . . cruise ship? Don't know when I'll be back again.

  

  time to blog about a nice little semi-formal event that wasn't just for ... picture. The first is that because of the angle you can't see me. I promise ... . Finally it was time for some dancing. That's right I danced. I don't dance

  • by Snively '11
  • May 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW-ing the Weekend (Guest Entry) ...even though it is technically two days longer than a weekend.

  

  played Underground Capture the Flag. I was a bit disappointed that I didn't ... , dynamic, and really fun. While I still haven't made my final decision in ... environment that you can't find anywhere else.

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What Do You DO All Day? A guest-author entry by Joan Horvath '81.

  engineers do that they won't have to ask! I graduated from MIT in aeronautics ... that way. It had to be written in a style that wouldn't scare people off, and be short enough to be read in a night. Writing a book isn't like

  • by mitblogs
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Parliamo Italiano! And some other languages too.

  

  ....it's MIT, and languages don't involve math and all. First of all, I can ... overly dramatic but grammatically simple statements. But we didn't use ... love? Who ever knew YouTube would be such a great learning tool? (Don't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  . True, I don't get any credit or pay for the hours I put into the Musical ... aspect of it worked or didn't work. And the ability to make unique ... passions and artistic love affairs, who says we can't have our cake and eat

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  was all fine with me. If for any reason you didn't get a call, you really didn't miss much, especially if you're already a dedicated reader of ... down sick with something today, so he couldn't come. Alas, but it happens

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Introduction To ARTalk An introduction to the ARTalk guest author blog by Kerry Powell, Assistant to the Director…

  

  break-dancing to journalism, something which I personally feel doesn't get ... be creative. That is not to say that the classes I'm taking don't ... where I don't have to sacrifice one for the other. To learn how you can

  • by ARTalk
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  offense to the 10-250 chairs, they're a nice purple shade but they just aren't ... doesn't make up for the uncomfortable seat. Red Squishy Chair The red ... feels cold and uninviting. I'm sorry chair, I just don't like you. I have

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Can You Save the World’s Oceans? Who, me? Yes, you.

  

  ? why don't we just eat less fish?" After reading through thousands of ... answer doesn't seem so simple anymore. There are so many levels to the same ... "eating less fish" simply isn't a sufficient solution to many island nations

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 8, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best ... to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... favorite was a t-shirt that read, "You're different today, I noticed the

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007