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• Blog / Challenges

  MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast

  

  -research course, to be called “MIT and Slavery.” Led by Professor Wilder and MIT ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Exciting potential UROP: the cancer genome

  

  Great front page article in today's New York Times on the proposed ... Genome Project, which mapped the human genetic blueprint. It would seek to ... mutations that give rise to cancer or sustain it. Proponents say a databank

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  March Questions Omnibus 1

  

  chances of getting into MIT?? and if so, then by how much?" I'm sure your ... , but during Campus Preview Weekend, I do get to put a lot of faces with ... 'd also like to know how many Indian students on average get admitted into

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Unpacking Surprises to sum up 4 years at MIT

  

  to six schools. By the middle of February, I’d gotten into two. By the ... hair out trying to figure out which program to go to. By the middle of ... of, that you can stand by and own up to. 2. Follow up -- it’s not that

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 7, 2013
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  opposite direction to get to Colón, which is the way I need to go to get home ... paused. I was pretty sure that I should have made it to Colón by then ... your enjoyment- there are 8 clips compiled together. According to Google

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  join the group by learning how to push yourself and produce good work ... lab or get a paper published in a top journal. I have to admit this ... you get very used to working together and helping other people think

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  like Willow by the end of the semester, but I'll definitely try to get ... way possible for me to take a quantum engineering class and get over my ... much like being visited by a fae.) It was too late to add the class at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  until then, I'll be trying to get as much experience as I can continuing ... about to begin. I'm taking the following classes: 7.013 - Introductory ... to Psychology 21W.755 - Writing and Reading Short Stories 9.URG

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  've personally found myself a lot less inclined to go out and get a quick coffee ... A couple months ago, I wrote about how to make money at MIT. Much to ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2011 Brass Rat! Can I turn this in in lieu of my blank lab report for tomorrow?

  

  sophomore blogger will get to blog Ring Premiere! So I must admit, I didn ... sustenance, followed by bouts of drowsiness and flatulence. (note to self: I ... and get to wear them for 3 extra months before we do!) Either Snively

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 9, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Love, organically Mitra and I feel it in our fingers and feel it in our tosylates.

  

  trying to make me call them by their first names--one of my friend's moms ... software Picasa, unsurprisingly affiliated with Google? At the request of ... tomorrow for your integration by parts-ing pleasure. Right now I have a story

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  't get into Harvard supposed to get into Minerva? Even the most cynical ... the child of a well-to-do family in Beijing, by offering them a great ... prestigious private school I was in love with. I didn't get in. I went to a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  grateful that i get the chance to do this, though! every dance i’m in is a ... 's therapeutic and fun and satisfying since you get to EAT the food you make!! i ... —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Miscellania I'm (b)ready to go back to MIT al(b)ready.

  

  association of any sort, but thanks to ATS, I'm now Taiwanese by association ... nary a mine since bidding goodbye to the tender age of microwaved pizza ... prototyped during the Vietnam War to sharpen the reflexes of future army

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  free, MIT-sponsored flight from Lufthansa. Get to Philadelphia at 4:20 PM ... , they would get a lot of money. No, really. This man had been teaching ... 'll be on the internet in Germany, unless I succumb to temptation and go to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1226150-1,00.html Yet another article de-emphasizing the ... and made the school more attractive to both topflight professors and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  what to expect when you get to MIT. Floatillas, Liquid Nitrogen, and peak ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... to get it into a series like this: The odds of winning immediately are

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  -formulated opinion articles, and no shortage of reporters willing to cover just about ... close to a win-win situation as you can get without opening a jar of peanut butter- you get to tutor underprivileged kids, do AIDS and cancer

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my year in music, volume 3 i am starting to feel very old

  

  music as much, which is sad. i'll try to get back on that. God of War by ... Predatory Wasp of the Palisades is Out To Get Us by Sufjan Stevens: this ... soundcloud. whenever we get to do that :( 2019 radio - ...songs i listened to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • May 8, 2020