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  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  , which is both challenging for the perpetrators and amusing to the MIT ... MIT hacking culture. (If the term sounds unfamiliar, make sure to check out this very useful post by Snively ‘11 or this breathtaking one by

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  justify getting more, especially when there's no chance of me working for ... important takeaway for any prefrosh reading this is to please not worry about ... throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  straight into a delirious, dripping dream. Having recovered enough by now to ... by virtue of its lack of barbecue pits (not to mention a courtyard in ... cookies for her professors, which to me seems like baking a batch of tenure

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  not more, important than doing the same for innovators, I wanted to ... letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn ... . Most people around campus know Glenn, by sight if not always by name, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot #1 Short summary of a long week.

  

  for a breathless noontime hour and ran. Terminal windows dissolved into ... associated with touching water that had once belonged to the Charles River and ... heroically toward MIT. Simultaneously bewildered and inspired by the aerobic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  won't be long now until we get to meet you in the Class of 2030 Discord or at CPW, and we’ll have some additional, cylindrical information for you soon. I know somewhere in the future there's adventure waits for me

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  “What the hell is water?” Thinking about and understanding your own context…

  

  getting applicants to share information and insights about their lives in ... In his 2005 commencement address to the graduates and assembled ... are these two young fish swimming along and they happen to meet an older

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • August 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  saltines for a meal, hoping to recreate Chicken in a Biskit to slowly ... room for the things that are important to you. Pay attention to the ... time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline November 1 is the Early Action deadline.

  

  , for the pieces that come via snail mail, we have to open the envelopes ... send your entire case to the admissions staff for review. At peak times ... considered for early action decisions if you send them to us via the normal

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 1, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  for admitted, waitlisted, and not admitted students. Answers to ... MIT Regular Action admissions decisions for the Class of 2023 are now ... ; You can log in using the same username and password that you use to log

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  after living here for three years). She took me to the Maisonette, then ... cake was enjoyed by all. Afterwards, Sophie '14 led me to her room ... Baroque concept of a keyboard piece (represented by the suite) to a single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  shaped to remind the consumer of a child's arms folded in prayer. 6 days ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a statement of purpose for grad school, or a practice GRE essay, or one of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and implementing capable lovable hand turkeys. For those unfamiliar with the concept ... . "They're for my friends at... uh...nevermind"). 2.) Gather friends and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ups and downs and extras

  

  for EA will be extended to accommodate things. Also, Grommit (where ... Last night after work and before the Red Sox game, I went out to ... CourseWare) kept a minute-by-minute log of the excitement in Boston from her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 28, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 Numbers

  

  % international citizens. Many thanks to the International Students Association for ... ...)." This left a few people quite intrigued. For example, Laura commented ... highest overall yield (the percentage of admitted students who decide to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 31, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  managers for the show which meant she also had to be at the lighting booth for a couple of the showings but we got to watch it together on opening ... somehow managed to kill it very quickly by either overwatering or

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Class of 2020 Wait List Decisions We're sending out wait list decisions today.

  

  , we've been waiting for all our admitted students to submit their final decisions so we could figure out whether or not we could go to our ... admitted students choosing to enroll at MIT (also known in admissions

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Musings on Graduate School Starting to think about graduate school...

  

  about the BE MEng is that I get to see what life as a grad student is like ... While Mollie has pretty much sent off all her applications for graduate school, I've just started to ponder what life is going to be like in

  • by Bryan
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  time!!) to make starter holes for the constellation lines. That brought ... 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

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Places I Became Human Hey guys, I think I'm back :)

  

  satisfaction as I watched the evidence of my old self reduce to ashes. For a ... decided to slump back to my room in defeat. I sat down in my desk chair for ... conversations, I’d forgotten to let myself feel anything. I was shocked by how

  • by Powers '23
  • November 21, 2019