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Did MIT invent hacking?
creativity, cleverness, and difficulty of execution.
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FAQ / Transfer
Does MIT offer transfer credit?
your academic record doesn't appear to merit credit in a certain subject ... (course and degree catalog). The bulletin provides a comprehensive -
FAQ / Transfer
What does MIT consider for transfer admission?
, competitive applicants typically have a 3.5 GPA or above, and mostly As in math ... institution. We select students who we believe are a good match and who we feel -
Blog / Events
Random Hall REX! Residence Exploration events at Random Hall. Your orientation booklet is WRONG. :D
dissolved into the real world forever, the night air bites with a cold we ... if you fit in. Below is a list of events happening at Random this ... pancakes pancakes pancakes pancakes pancakes pancakes. Wow, pancakes is a -
Blog / Miscellaneous
On Flying ranting and venting
I fly a lot. Fact: aside from April and July, I’ve flown every month ... . From Fact 3, I can tell you that SFO has pretty great food, IAD has a ... two days prior, when I flew back from San Francisco to Boston for just a -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes
We watch a lot of cooking content. We really like making food ... Ghibli movies and Ratatouille), and of course, eating it. During a normal semester, we don't have time to make any recipes we watch, so when we watch a -
Blog / People & Identities
[Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t
out to his family. Here's his story. A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... fine clay particles of my life, and suspended them into a cloudy mess. It -
Blog / Advice
CPW Advice 2k19 come party wildly and/or play wii and/or perceive wonders and/or...
all of campus puts on a bazillion fun events for them!) I wanted to ... was a way to decide where I wanted to go for undergrad. I hadn't com ... afterwards. My parents didn't come with me; they stuck me on a plane by myself -
Blog / Academics & Research
Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo
started, I went to Amsterdam and Vienna with my brother and aunt. It was a last hurrah, my final journey into the world as a child. I took this ... , college in a week, "1979" on repeat forever and ever A photo posted by -
Blog / Academics & Research
Online Learning Ecology in The United Kingdom An xTalk on Amazing Programs and FREE Resources
without regard for identity, income, or location. Ever dreamed of getting a ... enter a university, much less a Masters program? No worries! Now you can enroll into a university of 190,000 learners from all over the world, at -
Blog / Events
REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck
through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful ... leader for a group of twelve freshmen (GO Purple 48! You know who you are ... more chances to experience a dorm's culture and style before choosing a -
Blog / Travel
clownazoo part 2 this post is two years late
In case you have not seen part 1, I posted it near the end of my freshman year. I am now going into my senior year. I think I may have procrastinated a little bit. In total, we ended up spending around 9 hours on -
Blog / Academics & Research
TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!
This summer, I started a new [annotation note="Undergraduate Research ... Survey Satellite, or TESS, which is a NASA/MIT-led satellite that monitors ... an exoplanet orbits a star and passes in front, it causes the light -
Blog / MIT Life
growing over time continuing to become myself
readers, there might still be just one person, or one in a hundred, for whom ... trying to juggle a million things, I never have as much time to sit and ... to notice. This IAP I've realized that, continuing on a theme from my -
Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English
Applying Sideways (in Chinese) 橫向申請 / 横向申请
Almost 11 years ago, I wrote a blog post called Applying Sideways ... been an admissions officer for a single cycle."]attempt[/annotation] to ... , which makes me feel bad about how long ago, but the pandemic crowded a lot -
Blog / Residential Life
I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon
It's no secret that I am a) living in New Vassar and b) despise it. I'm unsure whether this is a symptom of the pandemic or a symptom of the dorm ... and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a -
Blog / How to Human
Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school
"]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... get into MIT, but really had no idea what it was like. I looked to a college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched -
Blog / Academics & Research
For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey
’t good a week ago. Come to think of it, it wasn't necessarily amazing two ... ago, [annotation note = "It feels like we did this a year ago..."]that's when I sat down[/annotation] with two chemical engineering students and a -
Blog / Events
East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west
around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat ... ! (Grill and chill and build on the booklet): Every REX, East Campus has a ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going -
Blog / Challenges
it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.
anxiety. In Infinite Jest, which I’ve been reading with a group ... feel happiness or pleasure. It is described as a type of numbness, a numb feeling where a person loses the ability to even understand what happiness