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• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of ... , a 2003 book on hacking published by The MIT Press. Little is known ... MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks. Long a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo Birthday Happy birthday, Ting Ting!

  

  submit entirely to ESG, you don't have to. It's a good way to get to know a ... 450), but it's definitely an awesome community to be a part of and a ... mainstream classes in an entire semester? 0. You get a lot more comfortable

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 14, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  [guest post] hindsight in 2020 — about life after mit rejections, situated knowledges, and ultimately getting closer to the asymptote…

  

  who are seeking to make a decision about your MIT future by May 1, and ... the only uc she gets into is davis — “i don’t want to go to a fucking ... who didn't get into MIT but went on to thrive elsewhere (like this, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  [ hard mode ] i'm on hard mode and i'm just a noob

  

  actually work on a blog post now, so I've decided to recap my past three ... in a tissue and is a rare occurrence that sometimes has to be ... heel was probably a bruise because I could rotate my foot with little to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  by engaging in a chess match there. However, he has sought political asylum in Iceland. I was just about to get some sleep last night--I had to ... -winning composer John Harbison. I remember one time, a book was recommended to me on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big ... while. i was working on reducing data to get light curves of Alinda, a ... together and input to a script which runs them automatically. So, you can let

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  tinged with a deceptive dearth of day to day drudgery (how do you get a ... subsequently danced a jig while waiting to be swept away to MIT, then envisioned ... kind of means a lot to me. Not necessarily the literal institution; the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Sensations On Having Feelings

  

  illumination created by a single open window in a darkened apartment complex. The ... ’t have the words to explain it, but this poem has such a power to evoke ... . Boston is a shower of sparkles that perpetually feels as if it ought to

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 9, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  a new venture to encourage students to learn about new machines ... .091 Introduction to Solid-State Chemistry, a Chemistry GIR (General Institute Requirement), as inspired by a 6-year old's birthday party. Thomas Kochan

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  The Week of Weeks 9/19-9/23: Libraries, MISTI, and Career Weeks. In other news, 9/26-9/30 hangs its head in shame.

  

  get to eat dinner with former MIT students who now work at companies where you want to work SWE (Society of Women Engineers) Banquet -- you get ... In addition to being Libraries Week and MISTI (MIT International

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  fostering a strong awareness of diverse cultures. And by diverse I mean both ... 'm listlessly thinking to ask her about the force on a dipole due to the gradient ... . Hypothesis: The older I get, the closer I come to rivaling Professor Sadoway

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by ... going to come home with half a novel written, this time.   June 4th ... wore all the time in high school, and a dress with a cut similar to one I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Decisions, Decisions decisions!

  

  give it to you in the form of a short poem I found recently by Piet Hein ... choosing the job to which they had assigned a higher probability.  Isn ... ’re hampered by not having any, the best way to solve the dilemma, you

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • April 26, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... they're getting married, it's just a funny story.)(Which, uh, wasn ... 're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope My reflections on the death of Amaud Arbery

  

  may still be at home toasting a couple of cold beers to the fact that ... to the assisted learning classes for disturbing the class by “asking ... , and part of me feels this is how someone wants things to be. Just… get

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 8, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  Blown Back to Oz the close of the 2014 Design/Build/Fly competition: day 4.

  

  had one more mission to fly and we wanted to re-fly a mission as well in order to score a little higher. We were on the clock--the weather ... assignment was to carry a two-pound payload (distributed between four blocks

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... 'm too disoriented to figure out when that was), I dreamt about a certain ... fire alarm in the middle of a deep sleep. Right. Back to what I was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  Thanks to a continuation of computer problems, I was without a ... more blog posts during IAP, I said I'd get around to it once I returned ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  cost-neutral meaning I got a stipend (to eat and live), flights covered ... Tbilisi, Georgia, and 1 to Tokyo, Japan. This upcoming summer, I’m doing a ... went to a rather STEM-heavy school like MIT. I think I took enough

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  ’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... a topic in mind to guide the conversation, I just wanted to see what ... need to get better at conclusions"]that's it.[/annotation] Asia ’21

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020