Thesis: S.M., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Humanities, February 2008. / Vita. / Includes bibliographical references (page 21). / by Anna E. Strachan. / S.M.

Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Humanities. Thesis. 1968. B.S. / Bibliography: leaves 66-67. / B.S.

Thesis (S.B.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1995. / "June, 1995." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 67-69). / by Rebecca Dawn Kaplan. / S.B.

Thesis (S.B. in Humanities and Engineering)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 2000. / "June 2000." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 90-91). / This thesis examines the men who served in the Fifteenth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry during the American Civil War. The regiment was formed in Worcester, Massachusetts in the summer of 1861 and served with the United States until the summer of 1864. The Fifteenth served with the Second Corps of Army of the Potomac in the eastern theater of operations and participated in nearly every major engagement during its tenure. The thesis uses the regimental muster rolls, census data, and other primary and secondary sources to analyze the men who served in the Fifteenth. It divides the men into three distinct groups: those that originally joined the regiment during its formation in 1861, those that volunteered to join of the regiment after casualties and disease had depleted its ranks, and those that were drafted into service with the regiment. The thesis seeks to show that these three groups of men differed from each other in terms of age, occupational class, and residency. The original men of the regiment where almost exclusively from the communities of Worcester County, Massachusetts and reflected the age and occupational classes of the region. As the war progressed, however, the men who joined the regiment grew less representative of the area as more men were from other communities and states. Finally, the thesis seeks to show that the Fifteenth was a hard-fighting veteran unit that was typical of the Second Corps and the Union Army and as such represents the types of experiences had by the common soldiers of that war. The fact that the draft provided an inadequate number of men to fill the ranks of the regiment and that fewer men from the regiment died of disease than from battle presents interesting deviations from the accepted common knowledge of the experiences of the war. / by Jaie Richard Pizzetti. / S.B.in Humanities and Engineering

Thesis (S.B. in Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2006. / In the December of my Senior year, my old piano teacher died. Old not in the sense of age, because he was really quite young (in general, but specifically to die), but in the sense that I took lessons from him when I was a kid and young adult (how I despise that term), and hadn't spoken with him, at least not at length, in years. Standing at his wake-only the second I'd been to in my life and the first that was more than a small room of silent people and the acrid smell of lilies-I found myself, awkwardly, taking notes. The colors of the wall, the kids running around, the food, the music, the speeches-I knew I would write a poem about it there was so much to communicate about the experience of finding Tim, learning from him, and then losing him. Too much irony and beauty, tragedy and honesty. Too much love and loss. So I took notes on a piece of paper with lyrics to "Hallelujah" on it, borrowing a pen from my high school best friend. The paper sat next to my computer for a couple of weeks, and then it sat in a pile of papers on my desk for a few more. Then a pile of papers and magazines and readings on my floor, by my desk. Then a mass of rubbage on the floor, in the corner of my room. Then covered over by clothing and other unfinished business. And though I literally buried the physical evidence, the words on the paper swarmed through my head, never coalescing into an image, a poem. Though my original thoughts were on the paper, the true words never came to me. Despite my notes, despite my unceasing emotion, I couldn't find a way to express what it all meant to me. I tried. Many times in thought, and four times on paper. Four distinct poems came out-all with repeated elements that signal to me what I find most extraordinary in the experience. Yet I was not able to sit back and say, "This is it. This is my poem for Tim. This does him justice, does me justice." I think, sometimes, the words exist in a puddle, but cannot be gathered together. And pressures such as a deadline of, say, a thesis, force us to make something of the muck. But when it comes down to it, even after writing my 4th poem on this same experience, the words just aren't there. Sometimes they just don't come together. This doesn't mean that they won't ever, and it doesn't mean that what I've written is without value.., it just means that I'm not ready to write the poem that I literally ache to get out of me. The good news is that with each attempt I find something new. With my latest (the fourth attempt), a villanelle, I found that more than the color of the walls at the wake or the kids running around the mourners, I am struck by the shear gravity of loss-what it means to unexpectedly lose someone you never thought about losing. What it means to have nothing but a memory of someone. Whether that's what I was ready to discover, or whether the strict form of the villanelle forced me to, I do not know. But I do know that, despite losing the richness of details, there is something very moving, at least to me, about the villanelle's surface-layer simplicity. Perhaps this is my signal that Tim's death meant something more symbolic to me than literal. I'm still not sure. But I am sure that I would like to share this process with you... the process, for me, of figuring out the world and my place in it, via the process of recording my experiences through poetry ... / by Jessica Olivia Young. / S.B.in Writing

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1965. / MIT Institute Archives copy bound with: Abrams, Arnold R. The introduction of chemical warfare into the First World War. (1965). / "June, 1965." / Includes bibliographical references (leaves [72]-75). / by Allan Bob Isbitz. / B.S.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 45). / by Loyda Rodríguez. / B.S.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 48-51). / by Alfred H. Eaton. / B.S.

Thesis (B.S.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, 1988. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 78-79). / by Seth Nathaniel Brown. / B.S.

Thesis (S.B. in Expository Writing)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Humanities, Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies, 2006. / Includes bibliographical references and index. / Preventable medical complications are afflicting a growing number of Americans. Meanwhile, the field of healthcare has been slow to uptake information technology. This thesis reviews existing literature in order to produce recommendations on how to use information technology to reduce the cost and increase the quality of healthcare in the United States. Current findings and statistics from academic and governmental sources are cited in order to illustrate the present state of the healthcare system. Changes in the healthcare model are advocated on an individual, corporate, and government level. It is proposed that improvements can be made through the metrication of personal health statistics, the use of electronic medical records, and the conversion of American healthcare into a market-based system with widely accessible quality ratings. These recommendations are targeted to voters and policymakers interested in improving the American healthcare system. / by Adam C. Powell. / S.B.in Expository Writing