Dev photographed party trucks on Albany Street near MIT last night.
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By adamg - 5/18/14 - 8:08 pm
You never know what you'll find for sale at the MIT Flea. Today, Turlach MacDonagh found this 1964 Gemini capsule, available for just $65,000.
Copyright Turlach MacDonagh. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 5/13/14 - 8:27 am
The Tech reports the ban applies even to frats in Cambridge as the Interfraternity Council tries to get Boston to lift what is essentially a ban on all parties at MIT dorms on account of that student falling four stories through a skylight at an illegal roof-deck party. The council kinda needs to try to get the ban lifted by September, when the frats hold their annual rush week.
By adamg - 4/20/14 - 4:40 pm
Turlach MacDonagh went to the MIT Flea today and spotted these stripped brass horns.
Copyright Turlach MacDonagh. Posted in the Universal Hub pool on Flickr.
By adamg - 4/17/14 - 7:53 am
The Tech reports both its national fraternity and MIT have suspended Delta Upsilon, based at 526 Beacon St. in the Back Bay, for "inappropriate behavior during unsanctioned events" over January break.
No word if a horse in the dean's office was involved.
Bonus fun fact: Animal House producer Ivan Reitman belonged to a Delta Upsilon chapter at McMaster University.
By adamg - 4/12/14 - 12:10 am
Chris Snyder watched Tetris being played on MIT's Green Building.
The building was first transformed into a Tetris board in 2012.
By adamg - 3/19/14 - 9:36 am
"People are intimidated by me."
"Why do you intimidate people?"
"It’s the media, man. People put you into these little compartments in their brains and then they think they know you. ‘Oh, ok. A six-foot-two 350-pound humanoid made from military-grade titanium alloy. Probably out to annihilate all of humanity. Better get away from HIM.’
No one’s willing to risk challenging their first impressions, let alone consider that I might prefer not to be referred to using traditional male gender pronouns."
By adamg - 2/15/14 - 10:55 pm
MIT President L. Rafael Reif says he and MIT are standing behind students threatened by New Jersey with legal action if they don't turn over detailed information about a "proof of concept" project involving the online currency Bitcoin.
By adamg - 1/28/14 - 1:22 pm
Officials from MIT and the Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity at 487 Comm. Ave. assured the Boston Licensing Board today there'll be no repeat of the September plunge that saw a new pledge fall through a skylight and wind up on the ground with remarkably few injuries.
By adamg - 12/23/13 - 9:52 am
State Police report that some MIT students were having fun with a 1,000-lb. remote-controlled boat in the Mystic River in Somerville last night. But all good things come to an end and the kids tried using a Ford Ranger to haul the boat out of the water. Instead, State Police say, the boat pulled the pickup into the river. State Police now advise:
If you are trying to pull out a boat from the Mystic River, be sure your truck can handle the pull!
By adamg - 12/6/13 - 7:20 am
The Tech reports on an outbreak of gastroenteritis on campus; officials are not sure if it's norovirus.
By adamg - 11/1/13 - 7:31 am
The Tech reports MIT and its fraternities are working with architects to develop applications for assembly permits for frats on this side of the river.
The Boston Inspectional Services Department requires that assembly limits are calculated based on the emergency exit capabilities of each residence. Currently, however, Boston [Fraternity, Sorority and Independent Living Group] residences have assembly limits calculated by the old system that was based on square footage. The Boston Inspectional Services Department wants to verify that all assembly limits meet the present standards and reflect the safe capacities of FSILG residences.
By adamg - 10/23/13 - 6:44 am
The Globe reports Boston officials have banned big gatherings at MIT Greek houses, mainly due to that kid falling through a skylight at one fraternity.
By adamg - 9/16/13 - 9:31 am
MIT is reporting a gas leak at Building 48, Main and Albany streets this morning.
Stephanie E reports:
All of Kendall smells... I'm on a bus and it's overpowering.
By adamg - 8/23/13 - 12:00 pm
MIT Police are on the hunt for a woman they say defrauded an MIT student twice with the old could-you-cash-this routine:
By adamg - 8/14/13 - 2:52 pm
In the 1990s, an MIT team experimented with large tubes with the air sucked out as a potential way to speed trains between here, there and everywhere. Last year, the BBC talked to now retired professor Ernst G. Frankel about the proposed "vactrains," which could cut travel from Boston to New York down to 40 minutes:
By adamg - 7/19/13 - 9:20 am
MIT wants to be added as a defendant in a journalist's legal effort to gain access to the Secret Service's files on the late Aaron Swartz. The reporter, Wired's Kevin Poulsen, writes MIT wants to block the Secret Service from releasing the names of any MIT staffers who helped the feds investigate and bring charges against Swartz for downloading large numbers of documents via an MIT network.
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