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• FAQ / Life and culture

  Did MIT invent hacking?

  creativity, cleverness, and difficulty of execution. A 1958 prank in which the ... American Heritage Dictionary and is included as a unit of measure in Google ... distinguishes itself not only for its seriousness of purpose but also for its
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  [annotation note='including writing one on the blogs last semester!']I adore,[/annotation]and ... (and sestinas in particular), and, now, we are starting on the blogs ... Alan: Hi! You have words— Fatima: and we want your words— Alan: for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dancing Days Nerd love, as the summer evening grows.

  

  some of my more outgoing classmates get their freaks on, then get sternly ... 'm on the dance floor all night, injuring the rest of the party guests with my patent lack of coordination and personal boundaries. So, last

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  worked with decks of cards to match 4 Reyes (Kings) and 4 Reinas (Queens) while trying to maximize the happiness of the matches based on the ... of the girls working on this problem: Livin The Dream with Gale

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  locations around Cambridge and Boston to complete the majority of my work. I ... . I normally come here on Friday after I do some of my UROP. I will go ... a lot of my calculus and physics here because of the table space. I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Nance Nance Revolution! (+ My CPW Recap) New art and new memories.

  

  Education) and Wes Harris (Department Head of Aero/Astro) - lit the crowd on ... , Marie, Daniel, Muhammad and Ryan (just to name a very few of you). For ... , Tamales, and of course Enchiladas. As a way of welcoming you, 200+ of my

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  named Sylvester and pretends to be Stephen Hawking on weekends ... begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a ... list once she noticed that I was an undergrad, a woman, and sort of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually ... a series of applications, and today I feel that going through so many applications, and having had all sorts of replies from them- yes, no, maybe

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Because Racecar Guest post by Kevin C. '17 on the MIT Formula SAE team!

  

  friends and I traveled to Europe for a different sort of attraction: single ... -level design competition that challenges teams of students to build and race open ... US competition in Lincoln, NE each June. I’ve worked on five of our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 2, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just Dance! Dance = Awesome.

  

  for all the teams. MIT Natya is one of several dance teams on campus; I ... activity that compresses all of my pent-up frustration and energy and ... when performing on stage and even easier to forget that the audience is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  61 Things to Love About Boston Give or take a few.

  

  in, from my lab-mates, from my friends...and so on. Maybe it's not as ... in Cambridge and doesn't actually live there, I'm sort of detached from ... A lot of the day-to-day communication at MIT happens, not through

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cute! an MIT mood meter – Are you smiling today?

  

  Infinite and tracking the intensity of smiles passing by. Students walking ... , and Technology (FAST) and is one of four mood meters installed by the ... faces. SO CUTE. The green and yellow faces are kind of haunted

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 16, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Packing incoherent thoughts from move-out week

  

  student.  I’m sitting on the floor of my dorm room, surrounded by boxes ... off, my friends and I were squished together in the front of a U ... friends and I realized that the few extra dollars spent on getting a PODS

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the ... than usual. I am holding pallets of bright green, yellow, and purple ... , and green (the fraternity’s colors) tick marks and labels appeared on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Learning Time! I walk you through a physics/dynamics problem.

  

  uniform rim of mass M and six thin uniform spokes mass m, is released from ... involves the moment of inertia and omega (angular velocity (what we ... . This involves finding the moment of inertia for the rim and adding the

  • by Snively '11
  • October 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Distractions Don't stress out!

  

  distraction, right? TVtropes One of the most addicting and hilarious sites I ... could take your mind off of things for a while? Just in time, the blogs shall provide. This list is not intended to be comprehensive by any means

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  pushing allows you to keep an eye on both the cart and the direction of ... : the second is to stand in front of the cart and pull it such that it ... adjust? what if the road your cart travels on is irregular and uneven? if

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  of a novel culture, history, and politic, based on Sam's previous ... academic year is completed, and as such, it's also the time of year that MIT ... contributions to MIT life, culture, and academics. In the realm of arts@mit, this

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Together. thoughts on today's tragedy.

  

  ice cream, Tetris hacks, and a campus-wide show of unity to welcome ... rate in the triple digits.  The wailing of sirens and the steady chop ... tweeted, and posted on Facebook, spreading the warnings to avoid public

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 16, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Issel Lim: IBD Research Issel Lim has been trying to create an effective mouse model for ulcerative colitis, a…

  

  (IBD), which causes inflammation of the digestion tract and leads to ... weren't bad enough, IBD increases the risk of developing colon cancer and ... researchers are focusing on hereditary and environmental risk factors. Senior

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 27, 2005