 Fandom in student groups
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Jessica J. Pourian CONTRIBUTING EDITOR Fandoms come in all shapes and sizes, and MIT has a smattering of several groups dedicated to different aspects of pop culture. The Tech sat with a few groups on campus to examine where fandoms fit in at the Institute. Not all groups we wished to interview were available for comment.”
Fandoms, the Internet, and Harry Potter
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Deena Wang ASSOCIATE CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR Flourish M. Klink, a lecturer in MIT’s Comparative Media Studies (CMS) program, has built a life around fandoms. After running her own Harry Potter fansite and being on staff at Fanfiction.net, at age 13, Klink co-founded the Harry Potter fanfiction website FictionAlley with nine others. FictionAlley was “incorporated as an educational non-profit with the mission of helping people learn to write through fanfiction,” said Klink, and it was one of the first fanfiction forums on the Internet that made writing improvement a site-wide mission.”
Professor Interviews
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Kali Xu CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR Favorite TV show?”
Tastes at MIT
By Kali Xu
Campus Life Editor
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Kali Xu CAMPUS LIFE EDITOR If you could meet one fictional character, who would it be?”
Time to pretend
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Jessica J. Pourian CONTRIBUTING EDITOR 30 percent of MIT students who responded to The Tech’s survey (427 people) have dressed up as a character from Harry Potter, Firefly, Star Trek, Star Wars, or Lord of the Rings. While many of this number are very likely casual fans who threw on a Gryffindor scarf to see the premiere of The Deathly Hallows, hidden within this statistic is a number of devoted MIT students who take costumes to the next level — cosplayers.”
Editor's Note
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“It’s difficult to separate the concept of nerdiness from MIT. The Coop sells stickers that say Nerd Pride, our mascot is the beaver (nature’s engineer), and Conan O’Brien pokes fun at MIT’s nerdiness on his Twitter.”
NEWMAC All-Conference
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Phil Hess DAPER STAFF A league-leading 61 athletes represented MIT on the 2013 New England Women’s and Men’s Athletic Conference (NEWMAC) Spring Academic All-Conference Team. The Engineers finished the year with a conference-high 146 selections, followed by WPI with 101.”
Men’s track places 8th in NEWMACs
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Charlotte Brackett DAPER STAFF MIT Men’s Track and Field wrapped up competition at the New England Outdoor Championships with an eighth place finish with 36.50 points on Saturday. The Engineers finished just ahead of New Hampshire, with 35 points. Southern Connecticut State came in first place with 159 points.”
GUEST COLUMN:
A silver bullet for dorm overcrowding
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“By Saul Wilson This coming fall, due to the closure of Bexley Hall, on-campus housing will be particularly tight. Dormitories have already been told that they will likely be subject to overcrowding, with doubles turned into triples and quads.”
CORRECTIONS
by The Tech - MIT's Student NewspaperMay 14, 2013“A caption in the May 7, 2013 issue misidentified the subject. The caption should read “Salih J. Wakil describes his path in biological research in his Lifetime Achievement acceptance speech at the 2013 MIT Arab Students Organization Science and Technology Achievement Awards banquet.”” | News Topics
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