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  Commence the Commencing! and congratulations to the Class of 2014

  

  Commencement will be webcast starting at 8 AM ET, with color commentary by our ... prefrosh to unbelievably intelligent and compassionate adults. Most of my ... graduating today as well before heading to different corners of the planet to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  , overtaken by an art installation open common space spanning 3rd to 5th ... Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... didn't stick around to find out. Upon reaching said class, our teacher

  • 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…

  

  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

  

  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 of all such mutations, which would be freely available to researchers

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

  What’s in an MIT Student’s Bag A sneak peek into what we carry

  

  common nowadays, but I think they are fun, so I wanted to bring them back ... as us, and I want to represent them, even if only in small ways. (Note: Unfortunately, I am not immune to the allure of selection bias, so the MIT that is

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the ... second floor of the student center. This exhibit was put together by ... . '17, Sabrina M. '19, and Anna B.), which was officially closed to

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have already completed. Procrastination can definitely be justified by that bonus ... “committed to reducing stress and facilitating student social activities while

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  ’s relationship, and who are we to erase a woman’s agency by assuming she must be ... sported a brass-colored bob that I can now admit was ill-suited to my skin ... university I attended, but he clarified he wanted to know where I was from. “I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  , for example, the sipb.mit.edu cell, run by the SIPB. This allows SIPB to ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  comforting. i've started to work by the river/at random places across campus ... after experiencing this tumultuous year, it's strange to be having a ... atm. exploring the Cambridge/Boston area by foot — something i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  , Euripedes - thousands of poems - Aristotle's own library brought to Egypt by ... can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by ... of the Old English epic Beowulf, and in this class you will learn to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  another day of summer ♬ ba-ba-da-ba da-ba-da-ba ♬

  

  Sloan lab that I stumbled upon during a desperate mid-April I need-to-get ... to help... Eventually, I get back to work. I have to fill out a weekly ... walk to Star Market to get a pint of ice cream and end up with two pints

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  of trying to get student rush tickets for Wicked (the untold story of ... my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I THINK it’s time for a guest blog! WARNING: There will be shameless promotion of MIT TechFair’s THINK competition in this post.

  

  * For me, it was really awesome getting the chance to work in a lab and to ... This post comes to you from my friend Iris Xu, '14, a longtime friend who's gotten pretty involved with MIT THINK. She asked me to let her

  • by Kate R. '14
  • December 7, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Sometimes we have fun Pictures, pictures, pictures

  

  ! It's not everday you get to meet a blogger My favorite A Phi lady ... miss being here just the same. There was so much I wanted to tell you ... silly to go back and try to write posts about that stuff now, so this post

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship I'm a finalist for a blogging scholarship - now I need your help voting.

  

  college. I happen to fit both of those descriptions, so I (who happened to ... later) scrambled to borrow a laptop and sent in an application. And - I ... , it's the response from you guys. Getting your comments and immediate

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 8, 2007
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  Course 7A. 7A is basically the same as Course 7, except you get to choose a ... years can take to gain the skills necessary to get a bio UROP without ... last week when I was trying to get my [annotation note="On my way! to a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Not Admitted Early

  

  pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it’s ok…you can get up and immediately continue on…” - Guts (actually Kentaro Miura) There were so many wonderful applicants to MIT this year

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017