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• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  deconstructs the psychological nature of hacking, and gets to the inner zen of hacking and what it really reflects about MIT. If you're looking for an unusual but relevant introduction to MIT, I highly recommend this video on

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  while they’re there. In short, you get to build a strong foundation in ... to rely on throughout your time at MIT. I couldn't recommend it enough ... exams in order to get a grade I could achieve with a nontrivial amount of

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  physical DVDs to your house. The Higgs boson and gravitational waves were a ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by apologizing for being late, and whom am I to reject tradition? So let me first

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  about my UROPs this summer and all the time I get to spend with my friends ... I moved to Cambridge for the summer!! I'm living near Central Square ... remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  in at a pathetic and embarrassing two (not counting the two days we get ... not, well that's what I'm going to blame it on. At any rate, the past ... streaks to feel my immune system start throwing it's hands up and shut down

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Nerd Love Beauty and the Science!

  

  to get kids interested science by working on fun projects.   Can ... voicecracks and so forth. However, I am happy to say this is quite false. True ... my forehead allow my friends to play connect-the-dots on the go, and my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  programs MIT sponsors that try to get high school students interested in ... up to near 50/50 like startup-school Olin College has, but I'm afraid ... ." Melissa's concerns are reasonable. According to statistics from the Society

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  , I’ve been thinking a lot about the people I didn’t get to properly say goodbye to. Friends that I couldn’t get a hold of before leaving campus ... guessed, I did not get to say goodbye to any of them. In fact, I didn’t even

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Discover Exercise and Wellness FPOP a wholesome college experience

  

  can't get into an FPOP, what can I get into an MIT?” I figured DEW was worth trying anyway: best to get comfortable on campus before the orientation stampede. And I didn't want to miss any MIT opportunities (helped

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 21, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  finish is good enough to qualify for Nationals in Iowa, so the team gets ... and wilderness to get to the next best cheering spot, it would have been ... students are assigned to lead activities during the Engineering Leadership

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  .S. When I first read the title of your post, I thought you were going to ... you get the state police, who redirect it to Cambridge, who dispatches from who only knows where. You need to call the MIT PD to get the campus

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  question: "a year from now, how intact do you want your emotions to be ... no one to mention it to. Only then does it get lonely. "n ... early and on time, do your work for long hours, and hope to win the favor

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  us. And so, MIT tries to get as many researchers as possible to come to ... turns, but managed to get back in time within the last hour. At the end ... (Daniel and Ben) getting worked like hounds to finish an IC (integrated

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... We understand that it's difficult for international students to apply to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications
• Blog / Events

  A Splash of color! and a bigger splash of water.

  

  't recommend taking it as a program to pad your MIT application (something I get ... 's incredibly soothing to have something moving and alive in your room at all ... the questions I have to answer upon returning to active duty is: where

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Boston’s college mascots, placed into a Tree of Life a project that nobody asked for

  

  evolutionarily related to each other? Of course not. If you said yes, then you're ... finicky when I only have Google to get my source material from. Different ... &ab_channel=JonBois At first, I was just going to copy Jon's idea

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 18, 2023
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  ’s journey with Henk Rogers to get the game out of Soviet Russia. One of the ... would’ve been like 7 or 8 back then. But then we get to classic Tetris ... I could never get anywhere close to his scores. He eventually quit the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A Great Hunger an artisanal take on my quarter life crisis

  

  the Iron Man expectation. Are you allowed to make mistakes if you’re an ... to live the rest of your life proving you deserved it?  I think now ... ’s a way to balance solving your 'little hunger' with leaving a door open

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  India, and getting lunch with a friend in Tokyo along the way. I got to ... clear to me as of late is that I’m pretty used to getting what I want in ... aftermath. I did, however, get into the other school I applied to: the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  'd you get your band name?" "Is that your real first name?" "Can you text ... still get death threats often So their meaning starts to soften and on the ... getting to hang out with them. in that respect, it is less fun, but more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021