Saw this Friday night.
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free wifi on a bus ain’t so great when theres nowhere to charge my laptop :x
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Dear First West of East Campus residents,
Why does it take so long to throw pumpkins off a building? You never start at 11:59 and if it’s anything more than just one pumpkin it takes about 5 minutes. Seriously? What’s so hard about throwing pumpkins off a roof? How long have you been doing the pumpkin drop? If it’s so hard to lift the pumpkins and push them off a ledge why haven’t you made a conveyor belt or catapult or something? I appreciate the pumpkin drop but you guys do an apparently crappy job. I think you can do better. East Campus designs and builds a roller coaster for rush every year and has to deal with unforseen problems in the implementations of it. Yet every year it’s awesome. You do the same thing every year and every year it sucks. Correct me if I’m wrong in my assumption that throwing pumpkins off a roof is easy.
— Jennifer Buz ’10 in her letter to the editor. I wonder if 1W will respond. XD
Today's Letters to the Editor
made me l-o-l. Jenny’s assessment of Pumpkin Drop is apt. The grad student ranting about how the Tech treated the subject of sex mostly confused me. Has she ever got any?
want this sooo badddd
Not going to class on Friday..
I’m going over to Harvard tomorrow for their Graduate School of Design’s Open House (their Urban Planning program is within the GSD.) I haven’t felt too keen on applying to Harvard so far, so this’ll be a good opportunity for me to see whether their program is actually a good fit for me or not.
9:00 - 9:30 Registration
9:30 - 9:45 Opening Remarks – Dean Mohsen Mostafavi
9:45 - 10:45 Student Work Presentations
11:00 - 12:00 Program Overviews/Faculty Presentations
12:00 – 1:00 Lunch with current students and faculty
1:00 - 2:00 Current Student Panel Discussions
2:00 - 4:00 Tours of Gund Hall
2:00 - 4:00 Studio Reviews, faculty office hours, visit students at their desks
4:00 - 5:30 GSD Faculty Panel Discussion
6:00 Beer and Dogs (a weekly student-sponsored social event)
And being the dumbass I am of course I schedule an important phone call at 2. I’m okay with missing some of the Open House action but it’ll be such a pain to try to find a quiet spot to chat/shlep back to campus. :/
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Chart of the Day: “Explicit Support for Same-Sex Marriage by State and Age” (pdf) by Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Created using data collected for a joint paper on gay rights.
Prof. Lax breaks it down:
Seven states cross the 50% mark overall as of our current estimates, but the generation gap is huge. If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.
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Chart of the Day: “Explicit Support for Same-Sex Marriage by State and Age” (pdf) by Jeff Lax and Justin Phillips of the Department of Political Science at Columbia University. Created using data collected for a joint paper on gay rights.
Prof. Lax breaks it down:
Seven states cross the 50% mark overall as of our current estimates, but the generation gap is huge. If policy were set by state-by-state majorities of those 65 or older, none would allow same-sex marriage. If policy were set by those under 30, only 12 states would not allow-same-sex marriage.
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Reblogged from The Daily What
Reblogged from I Love Charts
i just saw my male TA accidentally go into the ladie's bathroom
he noticed before it was too late and was like whoops. nonetheless, my life is complete. ^_^
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Clever Idea of the Day: Kevin @ The Imaginary Zebra came up with a nifty idea to help reduce road rage: Install “Thanks” and “Sorry” light boxes in his car that can be switched on as necessary (e.g., when unintentionally cutting someone off, when someone lets him cut in front of them, etc.)
If you ask me, this feature should come standard.
Plenty of process shots here.
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Clever Idea of the Day: Kevin @ The Imaginary Zebra came up with a nifty idea to help reduce road rage: Install “Thanks” and “Sorry” light boxes in his car that can be switched on as necessary (e.g., when unintentionally cutting someone off, when someone lets him cut in front of them, etc.)
If you ask me, this feature should come standard.
Plenty of process shots here.
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nifty
Reblogged from The Daily What
I'm not very opinionated, but..
What’s the point of going to a school like MIT, where everyone’s extraordinary and smarter than average, if you are so unwilling to learn from the perspectives and talents of your fellow students/your TAs? This probably isn’t applicable to every major, so I’m just talking arts here - if you can’t even look at your classmate’s work and talk to people about your projects to get advice and inspiration because that just kills your boner, and if you’re not the least bit interested in improving and think no one around you has anything of value to add to your education, then why’re you here? Stop wasting our fucking time.
Happy Halloween. Now go visit the kindly brain slug planet. Please do not wear a helmet.
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