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  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  they accepted some walk-ins on the day of. I didn't have a team but I ... nothing. We sped through documentation and thought up of new things on the ... finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting ... extended a beanstalk. On it, hung Jack, all packed and ready for adventure

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  , I’ve never used it on manual. But observing the effects of exposure ... curious about all those settings on my camera -- and the meaning of ... This semester I’m taking Intro to Photography. For the first half of

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  Art & Science in Paris

  

   inspired by the possibilities for the future of accessible drinking water and centered on a sculpture by the architect Ciro Najle. This internship ... September, and refocus my energy on a different topic. I helped curate an

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Stress Management @ The MITstitvte What's a student to do when school gets rough?

  

  A couple of days before a physics test, my friend Chacha'14 posted on Facebook asking how to deal with stress, and got a massive influx of suggestions. This is by no means a complete enumeration of activities that MIT

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A follow-up

  

  "not admitted" thread on Ben's blog, this school is not a bastion of ... , Caltech sucks!" statement on here. :) I hope those of you who came to CPW ... You've now had a chance to post lots of questions. Now it's my turn

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , I put on my rings, along with those of my friends, Anna, Shaye, and ... Here is my delayed entry on Ring Delivery!!! (To learn about the ring ... kidding about that one...sort of.) Actually, receiving my ring made me feel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Notes A quick update.

  

  holidays. Over the last few days, we've been trying to catch up on all the tasks we put off during Selection. For me, this meant lots of returning email and phone calls. On Monday, I finally returned a call I had been

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  how we can use those traces to understand the history of life on Earth ... the EAPS Undergrad Lounge on the 8th floor of the Green Building ... .003,[/annotation] and [annotation note="Geobiology: History of Life on Earth"]12

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  applying sideways, beyond admissions a rendition of Petey's hit blog

  

  collection of thoughts on the internet for a student figuring out how to make ... that would determine the entire course of my life. I thought that if the odds of me getting in panned out, and in some wild reality I actually

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two New Kittens hundreds of pictures.

  

  voicemail on my way out of some indie movie in the middle of summer, "Wah wah ... . Rolls upon rolls of film have been burned on these two, but I'll spare you. Just a couple here. On the drive up to MIT: In bexley: Some of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... row, has sort of worn down on my self esteem over the years. But this is ... lecture ON THE DAY of my interview when they asked about caches

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  lots of cool things happening here on campus too! Like: Classes Many of ... and Emma! oops sorry i’m writing this instead of working on the website ... a lot of them on my schedule. One of them, I guess, is a waltz class

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  post detailing how and why I went on leave from MIT, in honor of my three-year anniversary of going on leave (November 1!) A six-page autobiographical comic ... stuck a lot of the art I’d picked up at conventions on the above my bed

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

   EVLA time, and 4 free hours of VLBA time: that's free time on two of the most ... -rank score" of 5.74, and an explanation that this is on a scale of 0 ... the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  our hands on each other’s shoulders, sat in the lap of the person to our ... group of American college students come along and play ultimate Frisbee ... the start of one of the most curious experiences I have probably ever

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... 10 people who commented on one of my recent entries about writing notes ... the scrambled contents of my brain on the margins of the pages of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  one sleeps in them. Instead, everyone sleeps on the third floor of the ... in Cadlab, one of the MIT Lab spaces on campus. If you can call it a ... :30 - Lunch at Chipotle Unfortunately, there isn’t a lot of food on campus

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  After talking to my friends during the first week of senior year and ... 've realized I may be one of the few people who regularly has days off. This was ... 're lucky, all the classes that you want to take might fall on the same two or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Putz and Tetazoo are friends!! field notes from a faraway land

  

   one flight of stairs ok maybe that's a lie, i used to live on stickmen (which is ... . Instead of calling [annotation note="on tetazoo, one would call stabsies to ... raid siren on the night of someone's birthday"]air raid siren

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 21, 2022