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• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  up using their own explosives to "detonate it," deem it inert, and then let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when ... Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  ) can score an online reservation for Jean-Georges and expect to be served ... curtailed because I'd rather use my tongue to smother every last molecule of ... then winning the lottery. Don't ask me to describe it any further than

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• FAQ / First-year application

  I’m a non-traditional applicant. How do I apply?

  /recommendations from your employers, mentors and training situations can provide useful ... There are many applicants to MIT from many types of backgrounds, and while we consider them all in their context, we need to know some common
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  A few of you are starting to receive your decisions. To those of you who were admitted, CONGRATS. You completely deserve it and you should be very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recycle, Reuse, (Map) Reduce? Jackpot, baby!

  

  awkwardly inline. As fun as it is to play outside, the time-honored sport of ... functional furniture, cat food, used clothing and computers straight to the ... Some people[1] say that you need to seriously rethink your life when

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 10, 2011
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  , or you want to learn more about it, you can read more here. Waiting can be tough because it feels like there's nothing that you can do, but—if you look beyond the thing you're waiting for—it can also be full of

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  class every student has to take"]GIR[/annotation], and it is (from the ... .006 - Introduction to Algorithms 6.006 was my earliest class, so my attendance for it ... result I can't say I'm very proud of everything I made (some of it still

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cows, Cheese, and Myristic Acid, Oh My! (Almost) everything I learned about fat (and educational videos), I learned from 7.S390.

  

  used next to its happier twin:   Some Notes All that pizza is from Za ... Biology, 7.S390, through the summer@future program, which allowed me to live ... 390, and learn how to make educational materials, including educational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 19, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... be really great and that it was going to be out in theaters sometime ... As you can see, the area in Lobby 7 that was normally cut off due to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions To Be Posted Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET

  

  your MyMIT password, you may use our automated system to reset it. Simply ... enough to tell you, as the title says, we will be releasing Early Action decisions online next Saturday, 12/15/18, at 12:15 PM ET.  To check your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  to not drop it. I worked on the problem set due that week with some ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I ... hardest class this semester. It was just the only one I could’ve afforded to

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  course, live in the Milky Way, although it's hopeless to try and see that ... to immediately re-open it to e-mail my mom, sprinted outside to tell ... Guth." Is it ever appropriate to address A Famous Person by first name

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Six Recent Life-Changing Thoughts on Food There's six lessons (and a recipe) somewhere in there.

  

  average stuck-in-grad-school grad student, as it so happens. I've come to ... in the friendliest sense of the phrase. His trip to Whole Foods ended ... pungent mushrooms, like a million thimble-sized cans of tomato paste, tempeh

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  can see it next here. ... Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a ... perfectly positioned to shine through the narrow opening between the heel

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  dropping it off the Green Building (it's supposed to be able to be dropped ... I'll have to find out whether he's allowed to post it on the internet ... I took the red-eye from LAX to Boston -- the flight leaves LA at 9

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  used it to draw or just generally fuck around on the internet. I don ... and what it means to me, kind of like those old Tumblr ask games. And if ... . Paul, so it checked out. I didn’t really listen to their music until this

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  other little things around the house. It felt nice to be depended on ... ="101988" /] Grandma can’t go down the stairs, but we were more than happy to hang out ... Featuring my sister's drawings cuz she's awesome.   I went to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  What is the MIT QuestBridge Supplement?

  Our MIT QuestBridge Supplement is a way for us to gather some ... MIT will be contacted directly about how to access the MIT QuestBridge Supplement. If you are a QuestBridge Finalist that did not rank MIT, you can
• Blog / About Decisions

  A letter for you (yes, you)

  

  of the world (though it may feel like it tomorrow). I'd like you to think of it as an invitation. For some, it will be an invitation to see how MIT can play a further role in your story. For others, it will be an

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • March 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  it was all a joke. Mr. Lazar decided to attend Cornell University this ... difficult it is to get into top colleges, weird, funny, poignant, and even ... shattered." The son turned to his father and said, "Dad, it's your dream, not

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006