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  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  Facebook is somewhat infamous on the college software developer scene for its ‘hackathons’. What exactly is a hackathon? “At Facebook, we believe that every engineer has a great idea within…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  fifth floors of the east building and used the 12 ovens to parallelize the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Perkus Nonacademia MIT will give you more than just an engineering degree.

  

  I’m chugging into my 3rd year here at MIT blogging, studying, and being smashed. And everytime I cross the threshold of a jet, settle into my seat and begrudgingly turn…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  Webster’s dictionary has two entries for the word smashing when used as an adjective: smash¬∑ing Pronunciation: Ààsma-shi≈ãFunction: adjective Date: 18251 : that smashes : crushing; a smashing defeat 2 :…

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to look over your application and advice about breathing. My older younger brother is your age. I am fully aware of how much you’re…

  

  Oh man, it has been a while and a half since I’ve blogged. However, this is not important, and you guys can probably stand to wait another week before I…

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The leftmost station on your dial WMBR = awesome campus radio

  

  answer review questions for a paper before my 1 PM 9.12 lecture. Because I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  Chemistry (now 5), IV Practical Geology and Mining (now… 12?), V Building and ... branched off from Civil Engineering. XII is Geology (still 12). XIII is ... now M11 Calculus and M12 Calculus. Other subjects include E40 English, G

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  less stressful and more fun. It only took me about a week of 1-2 hours of ... to teach 7-12th graders about anything their hearts desire. Our amazing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  From the other side of grad school Trust me, I'm a doctor

  

  otherwise know about or visit. By teaching astronomy for 7-12 year olds, I met ... got to meet and work with a group of K-12 public-school teachers. So

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  does enough. Imagine putting 12 artists ... -business-person-that-works-for-the-ring-manufacturing-company named Jeff (pssst @ Jeff, Ring Comm 2020 loves you too!!). Then add our 12

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  My dorm room’s 24-year history meet 16 former residents of my room

  

  remember, but Amanda did; it was Nathan P. '15. Nathan gave me Ben Y. '12 ... Alex D. '12, which was a delightful coincidence. I'd seen his name from ... 's currently working on a video game. Spring 2009 to Spring 2012: Ben Y. '12

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 19, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  some warmth on a cold decisiony day "there have been times that I thought I couldn't last for long / but now…

  

  Saturday at 12.15 pm.) Last year, this was me -- and funnily enough, although

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  will show how improvised my cooking is. Chop 12 slices bacon finely

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  the month, starting with my first round on January 12th and the next few

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SO META Being an MIT admissions blogger

  

  I'm sitting at the kitchen table in my London flat; my sister Lisa (MIT '17!!) is sitting to my right, underlining passages from her AP US History textbook The American Pageant, and my friend Davie ('12) is sitting

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 29, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  if I wanted to (including what would have been 12th grade). I was

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  16 for the 16’s 16 Guidelines to Making the Most of your CPW

  

  a reason to learn about Interphase! 12. Go to the activity and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Being “qualified” for MIT Let me show you how it's done.

  

  -to-face with Davie '12, a French House friend. He waved. I waved. He said that I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  MIT has a lot of resources that could have made my freshman year a lot easier that I just didn’t find out about until much later. I’ve been thinking about…

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011