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...week later, MIT president Susan Hockfield released a formal letter outlining the university’s future financial plans. The letter stated that although MIT must make changes, the impact would be softened by three buffers—a balanced budget, the relate stability of endowment payments, and cash reserves...
There is only one Game tradition that I will truly miss if it is absent this weekend: the MIT hack. The concept has always amused me—MIT nerds feeling left out by the ceremony of self-importance and athletic exclusivity upriver, and resolving to crash the party. The pranks have been elaborate and crazy interruptions to football games that have not, typically, been of the highest quality—and I’ve appreciated them since I was too young to stay awake through all four quarters of play...
...claims fly in the face of some of the most basic and established beliefs in the fields of psychology and linguistics. The author even targets some of the biggest names in these fields—many of them right here at Harvard—like MIT Professor Noam Chomsky, Harvard Psychology professors Steven Pinker and Marc D. Hauser, and rising Linguistics star Andrew I. Nevins. Nevins, an assistant professor in the Linguistics department has come out most strongly against Everett’s arguments, co-writing a paper refuting the validity of almost every point Everett makes about the extraordinary...
...interest in the subject matter, Harvard students can face organizational challenges to pursuing new media academically. J. D. Connor ’92, the concentration advisor for the VES Department, explains that often when students are interested in multimedia design, “they’ve gone to MIT, which has a really robust media studies program,” whereas “Harvard tends not to have a lot of that.” Though the VES concentration’s film/video track allows students to study a variety of new media concepts such as animation...
...this area. As the Resident Multimedia Specialist at the Denver Theatre Company in Denver, Colo., Miller continues to work within the medium and suggests that the best way for students to pursue new media is through personal projects or to look outside of Harvard, potentially cross-registering at MIT...