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• Blog / Hacks

  Hacks and meta-hacks

  

  friend had noticed was that several of the buildings had tiny stickers on ... -group, and the team working on the hack often included members of such groups ... " on Harvard logo in place of whatever Harvard's motto is Date: Campus

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  , even non-humans aspire to grace the halls of the 'tvte. No word on where ...   Most of my entries center around things I've learned or ... through the 4 years of masochistic glory that is MIT. This is not one of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  manufactured some beautiful molds on the mill and lathe. Dave, one of the ... a mold. The warm plastic is then sucked down on top of the mold to ... of the body mold. Lots of flash (the excess plastic on the side), but

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  a couple of people that my “new semester resolution” is to be a bit ... The other day I was talking to someone new, and he asked me what year ... after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  a season of secondhand joy on mudita and vicarious delight

  

  hey. it's christmas season in mit. i was never a big fan of christmas ... so happens that christmas coincides with the end of the fall semester, which is the second-best time of the semester. mit has several a capella

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  we made things and want to show them to you 2.009: an iconic mech-e senior capstone class!

  

  rest of the semester. It was tough: missing out on presenting tonight ... Kanokwan, you can bet she’s a Thai woman born on a Monday! There are a few of ... of 3.5 years of hard work in our 2.009 Product Engineering Process

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 9, 2024
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the ... ;     On the morning of commencement, I too addressed something to the Class of 2015 as well, with a post on the wall of the class

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Events

  17 Days "Hey baby, I motion for an one-on-one unmoderated caucus!"

  

  consuming more than 1000 pages of primary text on international terrorism on ... working this hard the first half of this week. I was leaving on a MUN ... and best wishes! :) On November 7, I received an email. To be honest, I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 12, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  break with my parents and my favorite sister (she’s kind of my only sister, but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk, the room empty, and my roommates still gone. The glare of my laptop

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  esteem,” he adds. I am so excited to be a part of this new program at MIT ... University in 2000 as a project of Hillel at Stanford; since then, it has ... Huang and Vivian Tang, works under the supervision of Camp Kesem National

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  ZOMG CPW! The greatest shopping list ever.

  

  . You just can't top the experience of spending that much money on ice ... : 7 cartons of ice cream* 3 jars of fudge 3 jars of caramel 3 cans of whipped cream 2 jars of sprinkles 2 jars of cherries 3 boxes of brownie mix

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW is for Parents too…really!! ...a helpful guide for parents (I hope

  

  students are welcome to attend either of these programs on the hows, whys and ... Parent Welcome on Thursday night at 7:30 pm. Stu Schmill, Dean of ... Barker Engineering Library. It's one of my favorite rooms on the campus

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  . A lot of doors. And a lot of them with letters on them, like this one:   What you probably don't know is that, since 1994, all of the letters on all of these doors have been hand-lettered by one man, Glenn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  on one of our psets, which refers to "Professor Alan Guth," father of ... indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8 ... problems that involve infinitely stacked carts, people running at 80% of the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  class--which in turn raised the quality of the whole experience on campus ... focused on the wrong things. Being the daughter of two architects, I looked ... expression on the studentsТƒф faces. Did they seem happy? What sort of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Visiting MIT this summer (part 1) It is now high season for visiting colleges. I plan to do a series of…

  

  entries on how to visit MIT and Boston this summer. For those of you who ... colleges from one base. Most of the major universities are on subway lines ... that aren't on the tour, and, of course, some friendly advice. We can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 21, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  A Beautiful Day

  

  stay out of the way. But on the other hand, I'm pretty excited to chat ... along the Charles River. Lots of people running along the river (doing a "bridge circuit"), and lots of sailboats in today's gusting wind. It made me

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Is campus safe?

  MIT has its own police department on campus to ensure the safety and well-being of the entire MIT community. "The MIT Police mission is to deliver total quality service to all the members of our community. We focus
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus According to Joel '10 from New House, we eat your babies.

  

  over the next couple of days. Moving on to rooms: I've been living in a ... corner of a wall. I know. Neha '10 wants me to write "ON PURPOSE" in ... Some of you asked for pictures of a Senior House dorm room, and I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 15, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain the context of my grades/scores, and/or provide additional information?

  On the application, there are designated spaces to provide additional context on how the pandemic or other circumstances may have disrupted your coursework, access to testing, and extracurricular activities. If you feel it