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• Blog / MIT Life

  Three MIT students win Rhodes Scholarships In case you're wondering, yes, that's a lot of Rhodes Scholarships.

  

  have won the 2009 Rhodes Scholarships. The Rhodes Scholarship, described ... 's count to 43 Rhodes Scholars. Below, find the "official" biographies of ... . Caroline’s research uses MRI imaging to investigate the area of the brain

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 22, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... -ins exhibit one's pride in having found a location. Most hackers aren't proud of

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  (Guest Post) esolangs oh man

  

  months"]6.009[/annotation] you have to write an [annotation note ... LOLCODE-to-Python interpreter (when I'm motivated to do so/not hosed), and ... /memory) and has 8 commands:  + adds 1 to the memory at the current position

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hello, Seattle i am a mountaineer...

  

  mid-sixties and seventies most of the time with gentle sea breezes. It's like San Francisco, but not as cold--not to mention more hipster and ... , from buildings under construction to a Ferris wheel on the pier. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 14, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lip Sync & Toons Real singers and fake singers ...sort of like Jessica and Ashleey Simpson. (~17 pictures)

  

  divided the lecture hall in half and told us it was time for audience ... weekend, I went to Alpha Chi Omega (AXO)'s Lip Sync -- their annual ... COMPETITION! The emcees asked the audience for "rubix cube people" to unscramble

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Hackapult Sieges The Dome

  

  . One of the lovely things about my office is that I have a window under ... river to — past the giant catapult.    Yes, there was a hack - a hackapult, to be more precise. According to the IHTFP Hack Gallery: In an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2015
• Blog / Residential Life

  A Place happy thoughts on East Campus

  

  come to love EC. This time? I barely left. There was hair dyeing, which I ... read the old blogs, the ones before my time (even those written by people ... Campus, which I can grasp for but never quite reach.  I’m trying to reach

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Christmas in February Shiny new toys MIT gave me this semester

  

  never quite materialized, I still got to experience Christmas in February ... with the time but I had a busy Wednesday okay"]today[/annotation], I ... work with at MIT these days. There's a lot to unpack here. (Indeed, I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  Jeremy R. '16 with a link to a new McDonald's commercial for their new ... , doing real engineer stuff." Jeremy instructed me to look a bit after a minute into the video. I generally listen to Jeremy, so I did. That's when

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  RA Selection Day 2

  

  nation to take the step of fusing molecular and cellular bioscience with engineering to create a new biological engineering discipline. Many other ... ) programs aimed at applying engineering to medicine, and there are biological

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  Brothers of MIT Sigma Chi retreat to Maine from Thursday -> Sunday ... if you think we're dead wrong on the calculation, or if you have any ideas for how to approximate better. Now that the math is out of the way

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  .  Last time, they were going crazy for bacon as certain people attempted to ... Ever wanted to sculpt a masterpiece out of butter?  Make a city out ... from across campus joined together to work on the worst possible ideas

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Econ Prof Wins Nobel Prize (with video) A pretty exciting week as Peter Diamond PhD '63 is the latest MIT professor to…

  

  Robert Solow) and 9 alumni (including Diamond and Merton) who have won the Nobel Prize in Economics (more have won for Medicine, Physics, and Chemistry). MIT held a press conference to announce Prof. Diamond's win. Here

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  The Great Dome, Marriage Equality, and a Proud Hack Better yet, all three in one picture!

  

  For those of you who didn't notice, the Supreme Court of the United States voted to legalize same-sex marriage yesterday. MIT noticed. The ... is visible from Boston across the river. MIT hackers have long used the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • June 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Year of the Origami Dog A beautiful folded-paper version of Evie the dog.

  

  enthusiasts. We have an active origami club, OrigaMIT. It is currently run by ... February 21). I expect to see some nice entries; I'll post them when the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 9, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post ... way, will be a six-letter word. Good luck, have fun, don't cheat, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  clownazoo tetazoans in the wild

  

  • by Anika H. '26
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  In Memory of Sean Collier a memorial, to a member of our family

  

  structure to mark the passage of time. In contrast, point lights set into the ... Today, MIT dedicated a memorial to Officer Sean Collier, who was ... , and part of the MIT family. It is not the first memorial dedicated to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 29, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  Experimental Chocolate Truffle-Making, Introduction to Special Relativity, Old ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to ... 12, at 12 noon in Lobby 7 (the "main entrance" to MIT). It will last

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  . Basically 2.001 teaches you the stuff you need to know to figure out that ... problem to someone else suddenly makes the solution clear). Rick is in 6 ... saying that I have successfully written, among other things, a program that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006