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• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Half-Century of Hacking MIT's original hackers are still alive and well, right on campus and just a short…

  

  think of nefarious nerds tapping away at Internet terminals, fueled by ... that hacking indeed originated at MIT, where computing and cleverness go ... Nickel Plate." Anybody at MIT can join right in, even freshmen, and get

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Letting the days go by Fish finders, the Apprentice, and techie fashion.

  

  device that probes under water, looking for spots with plenty of catchable ... ocean directly under the boat. Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute ... what extent do you feel that the classes you took at MIT contributed to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students ... finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... Friday, January 14, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  seemed to rotate too quickly for the speed they were traveling at (that was ... was trying to create a benchmark for evaluating AI-generated videos, and ... Jetson Orin Nano, which Professor Han had demo-ed at the start of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis

  

  ="aligncenter" width="768"] Figure 1 – Mohs hardness scale for some common materials [2 ... ” opening in July) to measure their Vickers hardnesses. To correct for human error, I took three measurements for each sample using the indenter and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  the drama), he decided to leave off continuing at MIT for grad school ... - that's 21F.704, 7.02, and 5.12 for all ye eager beavers) this week ... last 40 hours because of studying for the test). Sigh. Any hints on how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  rather than reading all the entries at smashbros.com some for the ... at a Spanish tapas bar. I for one was shocked to discover that tapas ... 'm done with! Which is both good and bad. For one thing, it means I won

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  floor is arranged into suites of 4-10 people each. This means that for a ... the former second-best Goldeneye player in the world if it weren't for a random fire alarm at Burton-Conner. (I WAS SO EXCITED) Long long ago, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  studied Engineering at the University of Havana before coming to the US in ... Engineering lab at Havana's Universidad de Villanueva and become the Department ... Corp, making textile inventions like a faulty needle sensor for knitting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  Okay, I must really be starved for questions if I'm now answering ... at MIT. The way it works is, there are a few dorms with dining halls. I ... hall", not "the dining hall", because if you have a plan at one of these

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  It's almost May. For those of us who are not on the waitlist ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us ... introduce yourselves! We met lots of folks at CPW who were regular readers but

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  spending 12 hours facing off with my own incompetence at work. ok computer ... item: i am so, so bad at remembering finance terms--need to start taking notes. most are easy to intuit but difficult to remember and retrieve at

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  studying for quizbowl. I think it is good to have at least one area of your ... The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  was taking British Airways. I pretty much bummed around at the gate for ... dollars for pounds back at Heathrow, so I bought a chicken/bacon/leek pasty ... groceries. Curious, he stood and peered at me for a few moments. I nodded and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  their course. Almost everyone will live at their college for the duration ... you spend the year at. This is not a very good deal for MIT students ... (oddly) comforting to note that tuition for international students at

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  prices surprised me at first — in Tucson you can find sturdy bikes for ... look for in future cities I live in. biking [caption id="attachment_77488 ... .[/caption] In Copenhagen, Denmark, everybody bikes. A guide for a MISTI walking

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Ask me anything about portfolios Go ahead—don’t be shy!

  

  Room account using a different email address for each account. Note: at the time ... significant enough to merit a platform of its own. For those students, our ... portfolio make reasonable sense to be reviewed by faculty and staff experts at

  • by Jeremy W.
  • October 26, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Healthy Eating Craze It is not difficult to be a vegetarian here at MIT

  

  . Pie will seem large and poofy. Let sit for at least ten minutes to cool ... eating.  I have been a vegetarian for about four years and I've had a fairly weak immune system for what seems like forever, but it had never

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  enforcing a hard cutoff at the deadline for this year's early action; no need ... contact you and perhaps do an interview at a later date. For all applicants ... date for documents to show up in the tracking system -- this means there

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  town for the ceremonies, turned to me with their eyebrows raised six ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a ... make for the future, and a lot of those decisions involve advising. When

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008