Many hacks at MIT celebrate something: the 100th anniversary of this, the debut of that, the screening of this, the inauguration of that, etc ... celebrate the release of the new Harry Potter book:
One of my favorite
the impossible, with the help of numerous people including Erin K. '16 ... restart the making of) a women of the east side calendar, a calendar that dates back about eight years created for the purpose of showing off some
shadows peeling off like blue paint. In the sleep-killing luminosity of a laptop display I searched for comfort amidst the suburban silence of post-midnight residential Cambridge and instead found a page of half-finished notes wrung from
coming soon.
I'll let you know that part of today's challenge involved me eating an entire box of cookies and a bag of sun chips.
Needless to say, I'm never eating either of those again.
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There were a record number of applications for Early Action this year, which unfortunately means that we had to turn down a great number of incredible students. For those of you who fall into this category, this is an
You know what's awesome about dorms? There's a lot of people in them.
A lot of people who use iTunes.
What happens when you have a lot of people using iTunes on the same WiFi network? Shared libraries!
So many
of Boston's air pollution. Soaked in a brew of life-shortening chemicals, I wrestled down the nightmare-inducing plethora of health concerns ... , choking on flying needles of acid precipitation, battled onwards across the
Courtesy of the prospective Class of 2013, I am amused and happy to present eight applicants' humble homage to the MIT admissions website:
mymit.info
And, of course, where would be without a little help from
No, I'm not talking Clark Kent here.
I'm talking about the speed of ... me you don't know! (gasps)
It's the WORLD YEAR OF PHYSICS!
Actually, I only discovered this little snippet of information yesterday while
In honor of my trip to the OC, Ben made this for me:
And the link of the day: The Art of Problem Solving (more on this next entry)
A longer update soon...
to meet all of you!
But before we get to that, the rest of the day...
Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read
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It's the goal of every incoming student at MIT to get their own Brass Rat—MIT's version of a class ring. The phrase "Brass Rat" is derived from the alleged resemblance of the brass beaver featured on the ring to