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• 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 / 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 / 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

  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 / 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 / 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
• 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 / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• 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 / 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 / Extracurriculars

  The Late-Night Juggler In which I spend about twenty minutes trying to transcribe the Mass Ave cross signal…

  

  soul. His dedication goes far enough that he prefers to go by his stage ... night until probably 4:30, didn't get to bed until six in the morning ... Note: The following is adapted from an article I wrote for CMS.350

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 3, 2014
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  room). Now get off my back, Mom. Uh, I mean.. now on to our regularly ... I blogged Ring Premiere and it would just seem unfair, wrong even, to ... . From now on, I'll have to stop promising to come back regularly - you

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  enough to cripple the living. I took a gamble by thinking death metal could ... article: Kill Zombies With Your Rock Band Drums The wait to use your Rock ... Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  comes out of the Human Dynamics Group, run by Prof. Sandy Pentland ... patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Notes From The UK [by Mirat Shah '08] Currently in Cambridge, it is 50 degrees F and not only…

  

  . However, I am glad to be getting a taste of both because I do now have a ... 'll get to do all year. As a side note, AFM is incredible because it lets ... together last term. We get along great now (or know how to fake it with

  • by Cambridge
  • March 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  opportunities for me to get my work in one of these. I argued that even something ... idea, and we’ll be making plans in the next few weeks to get it done ... step is when things get technical; last Friday, we were asked to compile

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011