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Live Blogging from Techfair

Techfair is here! Held right before classes start in the Spring semester, Techfair is a student run career fair that showcases not only some of the biggest names in technology but also the works of...

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Nemo Found

The blizzard helped me and Liz run out of things to do incredibly quickly. On Friday we watched the first half hour of half a dozen movies before we realized we simply just needed to get outside of...

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The Great Snowball Fight of 2013

Did you know? "Nemo" is Latin for "no man" or "no one", and the name of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the Weather Channel's new ratings-driven non-scientific naming...

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The past four weeks, in maps.

My adventures from the past month can only really be described, and my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip.    Where?...

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One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life

Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I mean...) school is open tomorrow, so it's back to a mostly snowballfight-less life. :P Nemo just getting started in Boston --...

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New Semester

Hi! So I disappeared for a bit last semester on the interwebs, but one of my New Year’s Resolutions was to get back to doing one of the things I absolutely love to do: Blogging. I love sharing my...

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A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1

I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday. On Wednesday, something mortifying happened that...

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A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2

My PE class for the quarter is "zumba", taught by a very cheerful, coordinated, muscular brunette named Ashley. It is held in the T-Club Lounge, a room with mirrors and windows for walls, from 9-10am...

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Two Valentine’s Day Serenades

At about 10 am on Thursday there were about 100 people in lecture for 7.06, cell biology with Professor Iain Cheeseman. We were learning about how proteins made in the cell are marked for distribution...

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Hitting Rewind on 2013

I know, long time no see. My last entry was almost exactly four months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more overwhelming than I thought it was going to be - a confusing...

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Guest Entry: MIT Cycling Team Training Camp

This blog post is by my brilliant Randomite, computer scientist, and cyclist friend Matt R. ’13 (used to be ’14; pictured below), who recently joined the rest of the MIT cycling team for training camp...

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A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 3

On Valentine's Day, (boy/girl)friends of MIT students have a unique opportunity to mortify their loved ones. Three student performance groups - the Logarhythms, the Muses, and the Shakespeare Ensemble...

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This is it.

Hi friends, My final semester at MIT is well underway and spring break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely...

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Quarrying Around

In my last post, I mentioned that I had gone on my first caving adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to continue my adventures here at MIT by doing all the things. So...

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24 Hours

10:25pm, Friday. I was sprinting down dorm row from French House to 77 Mass Ave, wearing baggy sweatpants and a baggy long-sleeved shirt, clutching a handbag that contained an article for my Science...

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2015 Brass Rat

Last Friday, Kirsten '15 and I (well actually the whole class of 2015) lined up outside in the chilly weather right outside of Kresge auditorium for a good half hour. For what purpose was this?...

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Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?)

I am what one might call a "professional blogger", or what a liberal arts graduate might call an artiste, or what reality might call "an unemployed college freshman."  And the best part of being a...

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We were worried

Two weekend ago, I spent my Saturday at a wonderful show called the Vagina Monologues. For the week following the show, I attempted to put into words what the show was about, what I thought during the...

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Everyone at MIT should take this class.

What do you want to do in life?  For some people, the answer to that question comes easy.  They're the ones who've been coding since they were out of the womb, who were building robots before they...

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The Junior Spring Line-Up, Part 1: Classes

"The bente moone with hire hornes pale, Saturne, and Jove, in Cancro joyned were, That swych a reyn from heven gan avale That every maner womman that was there Hadde of that smoky reyn a verray feere;...

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