January 2010
72 posts
Get ready!
21L.705
Instructors : Wyn Kelley, Ricardo Pitts-Wiley
Lecture: MW 11:30-1 (1-375)
Information:
“Speak the speech, I pray you,” says Hamlet in his advice to the Players, but more often in a Literature class weread the speech and thereby miss an opportunity to hear voices in a literary text. In the case of Mark Twain, an accomplished orator, performer, humorist, and oral storyteller,...
“Bemused, he smiles, shakes his head, and shrugs, ‘Oh Life, you’re a...”
– Life, the narration
For everyone’s mental wellbeing, including your own, please go look at your undergraduate degree audit and make sure it’s in order.
exuberance
“Well of course you’ll be admitted with full funding…probably not all fellowship because we want to make sure you do research…now clearly question is, why should you stay at MIT instead of going to Berkeley? Clearly the burden of proof lies with us, so here we go…”
AHHHHHHH.
AHHH.
AHH
AH!
Interview (nervous!)
Naomi,
I have been reviewing the applications to the MST program over the past 10 days or so and I would love to meet you in person to supplement the picture from the paper application. If you are around this week can we talk? Tomorrow is a particularly good day for me and I have time between 9:30-1 or 3-6. Thursday between 9:30-11 is also possible. Next week works for me also but since classes...
Share a Happy Memory
For Christina. We love you.
I think my favorite memory is actually a reoccurring one. Every year for the week of the 4th of July my family used to go camping at Glimmerglass State Park (you know, named after James Fenimore Cooper). We did all kinds of things: picnicking, swimming in the lake, kayaking once my sisters was old enough, talking to the cows at the Farmer’s Museum, and visiting...
Albany High: "persistently lowest achieving" and... →
“Under state guidelines, Albany High must be reorganized using one of four models that would significantly change the school and possibly require the district to replace at least 50 percent of the school’s staff. The four choices include: redesign or replace the school; convert the school to a charter school; transform the school; or close the school and transfer students to higher...
“nice buildings, nice classes, nice drag queens”
– Chris, bitterly, about MIT (as opposed to RPI)
Teach for America says...
thekeri:
No.
…well, poop.
I’m sorry.
Can someone please explain to me why my speakers are also FM radio receivers and play the radio in the background while I’m trying to play music? Also, how did I never notice this before?
Dear Massachusetts,
If on Sunday, days before the senate election, my generally not so ill-informed friend could say, “Scott Brown, I’ve seen his name everywhere. I don’t know his politics but I also don’t have any idea who he’s running against,” do you think that qualifies as a problem?
Well, he’s done it. Scott Brown has been chosen to become the 41st Republican in the...
“there’s a girl outside of neilson smoking two cigarettes at once. leave it...”
– ariel, my beloved (smithie) friend
I went skiing for the first time today.
Julia, a sophomore on my floor, also happens to be an almost certified ski instructor. At the beginning of today she kindly asked “do you want the kids’ version or the semi-adult version?” Well the clear winner there is, of course, kids’. Not only did she explain the body parts of a ski, help us buckle up, and let us borrow about half her skiing wardrobe, she also in a...
Sad
Dear NS I am writing you because the Literature Faculty, under fiscal pressure, is not after all going to offer a subject called 21L486/211L286 [Modern lDrama]. I had agreed to teach it IF it were going to be offered; now it isn’t, although you preregistered for it. If I can help you find another subject to take, don’t hesitate to ask. I will be teaching for instance 21L420 [with a...
No. More. Grad. Apps.
Hallelujah.
Evaluation of Time-of-Day Influences on Simulated...
Title of a paper being presented at this week’s Transportation Research Board conference. Sounds dirty, doesn’t it?
Sitting in Mariposa over a cornmuffin and capuccino talking passionately about everything turns out to be exhausting.
Now about that grad school app…
I just found the first black professor in my field of this entire time looking at grad school stuff. Huh.
Genetically engineered monopoly: seeds →
From a world you probably don’t usually think about:
Ulrich remembers the days before genetically modified seeds upended the industry. Critics of the big agriculture biotech company Monsanto say its popular Roundup Ready technology is to blame for that. Roundup Ready is a line of gene-modified seeds that inoculate plants against a herbicide, Roundup, also made by Monsanto, that kills...
The professor I like at UT Austin may or may not... →
“Regards Joe (which you should feel free to call me)”
– I think I just graduated to being a person instead of a student. :D
“Hey you with the cool glasses, come talk to me! Come on, I’ve got the...”
– The best attempt yet in my four years at MIT by someone at 77 Mass Ave
Someone please explain
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Hey MIT! This one-time event, blending science, music, and Noam Chomsky, promises to be a night that is not to be missed. (Professor Chomsky has even turned down an international speaking gig in order to attend along with his friends and family.) The concert will feature songs on Chomsky’s words as well as pieces dedicated to him and other famous scientists, composed by...
Sometimes it's worth it to read your Spam...
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No Pants No Problem: Public Transportation →
I have a license!
They seem to have ignored the large stamped “Do not forward” label on the envelope containing my over-21 New York State drivers license and it is now in Vancouver.
Score for not having to learn how to drive again.
I have 18 followers and only follow 11
Is that a dangerous tumblr social imbalance?