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• Blog / Hacks

  Cannon Hack The famous tale of the Caltech Cannon Hack.

  

  only contracted to move the cannon here for CPW, and we respect the speed ... hacking history comes to a close. I, for one, was quite impressed with the ... invites you to the official sendoff of the Caltech cannon. Our company has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... Cambridge, you get a supervisor for every class. You usually share this person ... once you finish, you don't have to look at it again until you study for

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  getting serious and deciding what to keep.  It also means unearthing things ... about.  Free t-shirts seem to be for everything at MIT; classes ... had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  A question for you… No seriously I have a question

  

  limited understanding of it, so I'll have to ask some Course 6-ers for help ... to understand? I'm going to try to doodle explain it the best I can (I'll explain why later) in a blog post. Some categories to think about

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Advice from Graduating Seniors to incoming freshmen

  

  Focus on getting educated. Learn to talk. models for thinking . Use your ... your breaking point, and learn how to make time for yourself in order to ... gain from getting to know as many people as possible. I also quickly grew

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Waiting Game hit submit time to quit

  

  really hope to God that I get the yes. After rapidly typing up an essay, I ... auditioned for my choir's winter concert solo. I went out with friends to the ... really to speak. They could feel the sheer nervousness just radiating off

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new Suction Tube for Reverse Axial Withdrawal, or STRAW. It's a clear send-up of ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... , which will take a lot more thought and I will get to at a later date ... . Kim asked if it's possible or easy to get a single as a freshman at MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Minesweeper Monday Episode One: Quantum of Solace Emulator

  

  Hello everyone and welcome to episode one of Minesweeper Monday, a bit that I might never do again! In this episode I talk about Coffee and Radio and Movies and try for far too long to get an emulator of a game to

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas with the McGanns

  

  from my house (according to Yahoo! Maps) is the famous Big Duck, which always gets all gussied up for the holidays. It's great to be able to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 24, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  details to your imagination, for now at least). The picture was taken from ... air-insulated Van de Graaff generator (donated to the Museum by MIT ... everyone likes the panoramic photos! This picture was taken by Daniel '10

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room ... -down, I want dinners together, and parties at midnight; I want things to get ... I don't want the summer to end. I don't want to pack the rice cooker

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  able to update my blog this summer! I feel so guilty for my prolonged ... of water, basically waiting for some major accident to happen. I don ... I can get my hands on. I've been known to walk down an aisle of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what are we to do? we are not helpless in the face of injustice.

  

  talked at the table. we talked about how to build community and care for ... email from the president, three days ago: i decided to go. i ... who is only here for the summer, who talked about how shocked he was at

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 13, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  back and looked at the stars, listening to the cars hiss by underneath his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... night. At first I attributed it to the loudspeakers that blast rock and

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Iron Mask what i learned from MF DOOM

  

  from him over the last 17 years. For those of you trying to figure out ... stayed true to what he believed, created a brand-new lane, and was ready to ... I knew what I was going to write about next. I was ready. I even had

  • by kellen manning
  • January 2, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Snow(y) Day The kind of day when tea or cocoa helps in reading applications.

  

  accomplished, and by all that you aspire to do as your lives progress. For all of ... hope you all can hear us. The idea is for everyone to take a break from Tooling, to come out and join their fellow slugs for a hot mug of cocoa

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  today, say, I got up at 5:30am to start studying for my 8.06 midterm tomorrow, but, writing a response to Robert Creeley's "A Wicker Basket" just ... loneliness that really speaks to me, or the refuge of an old friend, even for

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  It’s May 2nd. Have you replied to your colleges yet? The music has stopped -- the last dance is over.

  

  process, picking and choosing which colleges they want to apply to. For ... admission offers to. (If you think waiting for a handful of college decisions ... 't responded to yet, do that too! P.P.S. For those on the waitlist, we haven

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 2, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many ... the FIRST regional. But then Adelaide came by and informed me that it is GORGEOUS outside, and I am a sucker for warm weather. Winter is nice

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006