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• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  Baroque concept of a keyboard piece (represented by the suite) to a single ... notifications up the wazoo. 7:13pm - My Floor I went out to lunch at a Japanese ... knocked on my door to give me "a tour of French House" (because I need one

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  materials. Now MIT is trying to implement technology in a way that works best ... sponsored by the Office of Digital Learning to highlight and address these ... inspiring other learners was welcome to participate. It was a hackathon of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  now, the real stuff A common concern voiced about applying to ... 's going to be difficult for a given student to stand out among his or her peers, and she/he won't get into a good grad program. This is also usually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  semester wrap-up snaps and snippets

  

  square.   i volunteered in a door-to-door get ... from mit. even when you're not on leave. i went to a documentary play ... talking to strangers. i also ate lots of granola bars.   i spent a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 29, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  , to say the least, extremely cool. Our evening began with a walk ... takes a lot less AC to cool the servers, and the whole place becomes a lot ... ...connections. We also walked by this massive...thing: This is a giant box which

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Great Glass Pumpkin Patch and a bonus video of a cat chasing a spider.

  

  followed by a one-day sale the next day, to benefit the lab and its ... created by a team of about six artists. In this blog post, I want to convey ... ). This October, I bought several pumpkins I keep vowing to bake, a few from

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  entrusted us to level set and record using a massive set of equipment ... , overtaken by an art installation open common space spanning 3rd to 5th ... hall dedicated to meat. I also think I have a food addiction; I just want

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really ... automatically patching a Linux kernel without reboots. Jeff Arnold '07, MEng '08

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Events

  5 days until Mystery Hunt

  

  a few more of my favorite puzzles of yore. But now, I must get back to ... "Restistance is Fuschia"... Getting close to solving another puzzle (maybe "X ... short, Mystery Hunt is a weekend long competition at MIT where students

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 9, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Deferred Applicants Q & A Have a question about your MIT EA deferral? Read on...

  

  working hard!) as well as a text box for any other updates you'd like to ... application. The Midyear Updates form is a simple text box, similar to an essay ... application was already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Batman Picks a Username learn from him.

  

  Trouble thinking up a good Kerberos username? Take some hints from Batman.

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A major problem is not a major problem Why the text next to my picture is lying to you.

  

  all-nighter over a HASS paper, decide to major in Mechanical Engineering ... to department open-houses, and declare a major in Physics. Putting the ... as an intended Physics major with a Music minor, switched to Electrical

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  EHS training Yeah, I'm excited to finally have a UROP. This was my ... most of the time, but the bright spot is that I get to see cool people at ... -ed service fraternity. It's a lot of fun. I have to go to the meetings, even if

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  schedule, or the work that needs to get done, but it does mean I never have a ... back to my room after a long day of being outside with friends. It's not ... the most convenient timings. Never before a call I have to be on or a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  mandrill" with a long cylindrical prong to get a perfect circle. Once that ... get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like ... webpages to list them all. You rank a shortlist and right before school

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Happy Holidays! Pictures from our recent holiday party.

  

  wonderful holiday vacations, and here's to a great 2007! I'll leave you with ... LImelight. (I challenge any other admissions office to a Karaoke competition ... Happy holidays from the admissions office! I'll be leaving in a bit

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 21, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Little Snails SciFi movie marathons rock my socks!

  

  brought by the giant Traags to the Traags' home planet, where they are kept ... by the Skekses starts his dangerous journey to find the missing shard ... to extinction. The story revolves around a bizarre group of neighbours

  • by Bryan
  • January 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  We are the people in your neighborhood… On MIT's diversity

  

  's edition of TechTalk, a newspaper published by the MIT News Office. Why ... you the details of how challenging it was to produce a documentary on a ... it reminds me a lot of my family. If I were to list off every

  • by Bryan
  • September 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  Skating place at a Vermont quarry, I immediately responded that I wanted to ... Grotto has to the Freedlyville Quarry. The quarry entrance was about a mile ... adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The Great Snowball Fight of 2013 fame. glory. snow. killian court.

  

  of the movie was a little joke by Pixar. And I refuse to bow to the ... of snow on MIT: What better way to celebrate than with a giant ... West Campus tried to take it down: and this is a very exhausted me

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 9, 2013