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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  Kerberos and AFS. Kerberos, named after the three-headed dog guard of Hades ... sets of users and servers. The normal realm here on campus is the ATHENA ... cells and realms, there's the lesser known Zone Cell, made up of three

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  been a streaking blur of energy and spontaneity: starting classes at the ... equally mature acts of closure and resolution. Then I left the city I grew ... : the first week of orientation is (almost) dedicated to REX, or Residence

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  , appealed to the journalist side of me). And that's why I'm really, really ... (cats courtesy of my friend Alison) The cats are simultaneously dark and ... slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hilarity with Jeremy "Hi!" *awkward silence*

  

  -long "recitation," where he clarifies and expands upon some of the concepts we were ... . Last Tuesday, on the first day of classes, Jeremy walked into the ... best clothes on the first day of class." Upon hearing this, I instantly

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my test scores?

  evaluated alongside other components of the application such as curriculum, grades, and other examinations. Test scores are not the single factor that ... our Tests and scores page.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.270 What's a 6.270?

  

  all of the code is stored and run from. At the beginning of IAP we were ... during IAP. Not Mindstorms, but just tons and tons of LEGOs, sensors, and a "HappyBoard." ($1,500 worth of LEGOs, sensors, and HappyBoard). To avoid

  • by Snively '11
  • January 31, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  their rooms and in the libraries and delve into deep bouts of sadness ... finals week.  My hall has a lot of really awesome traditions, and the ... form of food that we still call pasta, like chili) for the whole hall

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Emergency Morale Booster Night! One of my favorite e-mails of all time

  

  SYCAMORE GROWWWWW????" Q of P - I was the first one there, as anyone who ... hour. And voilà! Sanity restored, in the depths of a stormy week. ... of Those Times of the semester) the French House social chair, Emma '14

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  and the train! After we reached the top of Massachusetts, I finally ... ladies around the ages of my mom and aunts, that were taking their mom out ... token of the ride that just added to the journey. Arrival and Walking

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogging About Blogging CAPTAIN FAFSA!

  

  website is interesting and raises the number of applicants, and how Web 2 ... (more specifically, Matt McGann and Ben Jones) were two of the speakers ... you! Let me get the quick-and-dirty out of the way now because I have

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life as an Artist things I discovered about myself as it relates to the artsy stuff I have in…

  

  that promotes urban-style hip-hop dance. They dance and compete in the ... MIT and the Boston-area to perform. This event, iLL Vibes, is one of my ...   Let me begin by telling you the actual title of this blog

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  Here For The Food" and was reminded that the three modes of heat transfer ... exploded in the oven. Luckily, we took a page from the book of "lifestylist ... students. While I could survive on Anna's Taqueria and get all the major food

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  as difficult as I thought it would be. The first week went fine, and we got assigned the first of 7 biweekly problem sets, and I completed it ... about how I wanted more of the proof and verification for all these

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The first step ...is admitting you need help.

  

  the dorms and living groups at MIT consist of people from all four years ... a world where they were the BEST and always got A's and never had to ask anybody for help. As you might imagine, sticking 1000 of the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 8, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Thing I Love About MIT… Is how easy it was to use an assignment to pick up a cool internship.

  

  ). The term-long project (and ~40% of our grade) was to write a detailed ... Engineering”. I uploaded a copy of the 16-page plan here if you want to take a ... (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). And it’s AWESOME. Significantly less

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • January 5, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  8.021 and my favorite moments the class that taught me to love physics

  

  people who failed and really struggled with the normal version of E ... live lectures, and the office hours are really well run! But most of all ... it was, for a pset) and for the rest of the class, he immediately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 17, 2020
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  Bunker. The first night the three of us moved into our new place, I insisted we come up with a name. The three of us-Sathwik, Rohan, and I ... . The shower temperature was fickle, and we only had one copy of the keys

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  great the first semester and did average around that second semester. so ... institution. the university that is on the lips and minds of so many people ... assortment of extracurriculars and interests under my belt, but i think the way

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Is it a video? two assignments from two classes

  

  something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous ... "]short[/annotation] video content. We went over some of the classic composition and editing rules, but most of the focus was on creating your own work and critiquing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 11, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  (currently 1 GB), ability to access MIT-only secure web pages, and, of course ... on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the coolest parts of the NBM is the Athena Account Coupon. The coupon will allow

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005