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The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?
Day, the MIT I/S Department (now IS&T) hired student developers to ... , debug, and generally try to break the technologies they were developing, I/S -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Application Cycle Your MIT application is just the beginning
, many of us are receiving job and graduate school offers. It’s with a bit ... big, BIG thank you to everyone who responded so positively to Matt’s -
Blog / Admissions
Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…
's and 5's on all tests. I'll pause here to add that I frequently saw -
Blog / Admissions
Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…
likely to be young and male. In the 1990s, the average MIT student was both ... understandable; but in the early 1990s an even higher percentage of the students at -
Blog / How to Human
at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure
, Sarah S. ’24 and I meet in front of McCormick to head to South Station to ... helping us is extremely nice. The peach boba is almost like a slush. It’s ... clothes for the Banquet tomorrow with Sarah’s cute little iron. It is really -
Blog / Academics & Research
on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school
, and it’s not entirely negative it’s just... I feel so directionless ... paths than I was. It’s interesting, really. At MIT, I'm not friends with ... real. There are future scientists at MIT, of course, there are plenty, it’s -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?
Map this year (2010's was pretty standard and 2009's had Building 6 ... . Random: Grace: So we joked in meetings that we would put 201 1's on the ... there are like 2 1's in the diploma (reflected from each other) and 1's in -
Blog / Admissions
Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.
directly answer Anon1's question: if you do rush your scores to us, we will ... Calc BC takers received 5's, while approx. 8% of IB exam takers received 7's. Furthermore, IB courses include Internal Assessment (experimental -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!
have never seen before, amidst staring at my reflection for 21 years. it’s ... . It’s the closing of your throat, raw and rough with your screams and cries. The saliva that pools in the back seems to drown you. It’s your -
Blog / Academics & Research
a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver
good handwriting. Let’s hope you stay for the trip :) Now, as ... design I’ve been wanting to take way before even applying to MIT. Since it’s ... , so it’s solidified having an econ concentration as a nope for me. Now -
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Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions
has several residents who were not 18 entering MIT. One of our 2018s is ... ? Confession: no. At first, MIT was my #1. When I first moved to the U.S., the ... answers to the question: one, it depends on your major(s)/minor(s -
Blog / Admissions
Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.
's personal library at eleven, which drives us toward the discipline(s) we ... school(s) with the earlier deadline(s). You might have a later epiphany ... thing that gets you into the school(s) with the later deadline(s). To -
Blog / How to Human
Trail Notes
. Still standing, but in all ways that matter, gone. “But it’s not their ... small if it’s necessary for survival, and who know that anything worth ... all that is around me, even while it is abundant. Especially while it’s -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
“i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw
largely because it’s hard to mess up “abstract,” if not impossible. It was ... just rush by K: it’s a visual romanticization of life C: It makes sense ... take on. massage therapy Similarly, I was also reminded of my mother’s -
Blog / Challenges
lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!
for a semester. The ‘25s are really nice, and I got to spend time ... Winter” and “Red” and also “All the World’s Sunlight” MIT Monologues ... for future stories into my time at school. 2023, let’s go! -
Blog / Challenges
dealing with loss it ain't easy
to best approach this. with my friends' advice, I spoke with S^3 for ... their late policy. with S^3's help, I got a few extra days for a 'family -
Blog / Announcements
Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors
, [annotation note='There might be a few banana plants hidden in there...s/o to ... the humans who make it up — continue(s) to evolve too. But I hope that ... 's Covid team(s) to make sure we can do so safely and smoothly. When we begin -
Blog / How to Human
The Quest Continues and into the open world i go
if the 2021s will actually get a graduation ceremony though. It’s cliche, but it doesn’t really feel like it’s been 3.5 years since I entered -
Blog / Classes
Things I enjoyed reading in 2020 if you read even one of these i will be happy
, when I was a kid. I learned to fight because that’s what we do. I was ... values and other organizations it’s less clear: will ESP continue to fight ... the brain’s inability to process an overwhelming event than by the event