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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  basement. The first few years of the ’93 dormitory and East Campus as a whole ... night in December of 1924, just a few months after the first students ... first mentioned the Dorm Goblin in February of 1925, describing the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Pretender a message to both you and me.

  

  another soul for sale, oh well The page is out of print, we are not ... drove up to MIT for the first time. I had signed up for the Shadow a ... listened to a small playlist of songs I had thrown together for the ride. As

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to trick yourself into thinking that you’re writing a report The most productive procrastination technique revealed at last!

  

  was the first technical communications class I took at MIT, and it has ... amazing strategy I’ve had the pleasure of discovering via 20.109 this ... procrastination, but work of the utmost and immediate importance. It may seem

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • May 17, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Acceptance Why getting into MIT meant to so much to me

  

  top of the first page. The first paper sat within a mangled page ... full, but the amount of writing per page was twice that of a normal sheet ... protecting covering. The paper itself looked much like the pages of the

  • by Ben O. '19
  • March 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6.08: Intro to EECS via Interconnected Embedded Systems aka: the class that convinced me i belong at mit

  

  backpack items and give the backpack an rfid scanner to keep track of ... first initial proposal. We didn't actually include all of the things ... all the things I had to implement so I could keep track of it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  A Half-Century Retrospective Revisiting the MIT Application from the 1972–1973 admissions cycle

  

  Design Services—this copy of the 1973 application to MIT is a 30-page ... , Peter Hughes Richardson, that greets the applicant on the first page ... engineering and science—still the dominant “majors” here. The discussion of the

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 21, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Your last first day and your final final exam

  

  the end of orientation week, the student groups put on a show. The first ... precious few opportunities to extend the lifespan of their club. To the first ... in the first place, confronted with a dizzying array of choices. "The

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [joint post] we visited every station on the MBTA and the Logan Airport Rental Car Center

  

  , finish the bottom half of the Red Line first, do Silver Line 4/5, do the ... . The page writes that Mick Jagger said he’s a fan of the bear! Woah. Hey ... ="59025" /] Alan: This was the end of the Orange Line, and therefore also the first

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 29, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking the L On "failure" at a place like MIT.

  

  .100L. You have to decide this switch by the end of the very first week ... 's the same amount of work, with only 5 Psets for the whole semester! Once ... make up excuses like that I didn't know the syntax of MITx, but the short

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  Conti gave us on one of the first days of class, regarding tardiness. The ... technique used to reproduce the layout of colonies on one petri plate on a ... the agar. You wrap a piece of cloth around a cylindrical block and mash

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Meta Yultide Finale Yultide Day 6

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... the greatness of SHASS in other posts. Last semester, the awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  . “It’s a remember things thing.” It keeps track of recipes, finances, the ... students with all variety of these and more. I've had all three. My first ... of my MacBook Pro scraping against a doorframe when I miscalculate the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  least at first. Getting into the upper echelons of socioeconomic success ... of you who were will know what I’m talking about. The universes within ... games as my preferred form of media, but I still enjoy the thrill of being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  trying to trim the tree of possible paths an Aristotelean inquiry

  

  translation but does not capture the whole of the phrase ... to Aristotle and the field of virtue ethics as a whole, and much of the ... particularly tragic because some of the quotes are from that text (quoted in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 3, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  the whole student body knows. The cancellation of CPW is not very high ... ='more accurately, an incomplete FAQ page leaks on the evening of July 5th; for a more ... is in the first place—is it the continuity of dorm culture, or is it to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  whole thing has a couple of parts: a class component the summer before ... major I should be able to take the “hard” track of two different math ... "][/annotation] One of the first assignments I got from the group was to note down every

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  first semester: one CI-H/HW at least half of the science GIRs ... strategy. For the first week of classes, you're allowed to add classes as ... the 2015 HASS requirements. So, uh, whoops. By way of apology, I'll do

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  ).  One of the first pages on our website, the FAQs page, helped us find our ... actually one of the first people I met at CPW. He struck me as somewhat ... Gamemasters~ for the fun of it. We then set up our first form game, [annotation

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last First Day Some musings from my last first day of classes

  

  ’t control, everything. In 6.832: Underactuated Robotics, the whole purpose of ... I wrote this on my first day of classes this past Tuesday, and ... lecture at 11, so I rush to get ready at 9:45, going through the motions of

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 8, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  wrestling with my ego it takes so much energy to drop a class

  

  I like the idea of working on this blog far more than the idea of ... somewhat.  It’s Friday as I edit this blog, the 19th of March, Add Date. If ... ] but part of me is just thinking again of the pattern of how you can be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 20, 2021