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• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of ... be without a ringleader? But the pinnacle of the display was the ... hacking history, and destined to be one of the classics people talk about

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Supposedly Fun Thing That I’ll Probably Do Again On July 4th, I reenacted The Old Man and the Sea, minus the old man…

  

  legs to be amputated by radioactive flesh-eating eels in the Charles ... , which side is the front?), I decided to be extra careful and attached four ... . Matt Ritter turned out to be the Pete Sampras of paddleball*, which would

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 7, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Every August a million small moments

  

  T - it hits. The memories always come flooding back. I remember being ... This is the third rush to happen since I graduated MIT. And most of the time, MIT is not at the forefront of my mind. I've got code to write

  • by Piper '13
  • August 30, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  California, Here I Come… I begin my Fall Travel by heading to the West Coast

  

  , answer questions and just generally be helpful. One of the ECs, Gregg ... and what being an EC means to them. So, I’ve spent the last several ... the next ten days I’ll be in Sacramento, San Francisco, Lafayette, and

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  and 2 labs will do that). So...I thought I'd take the easy way out, by ... about the Therac-25, the X Windows System, multi-threading, and a couple ... NAND flash device. The controller sits between the filesystem and the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  some way, maybe, those words are the parts of me i had decided to be ... in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the trenches of memorizing speeches and monologues and poems (but mostly the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  rural winter, city winter haven't shoveled snow here once

  

  that I am at MIT, I have found that winter in Boston may be the same ... months, while sending warm thoughts to the calves being born in twenty ... statement, and the sharp crack of ice breaking in the horse trough signals the

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • February 26, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing ... I was not seated on a jury today at the Middlesex Superior Court, so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  can't very well talk about the ENTIRE INTERNET because you'd be here for the rest of your life, which for a lot of people, is perfectly ... I go to college. Yay! Here's the thing about college, every single

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  friends and said I'd be living in the Bay, but in my infinite naivete I ... Manila, lived three years in Boston, and am now spending the summer in San ... right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  , dear. Me: ... Woman: Be careful. Me: ... Man: This is the road right here ... speeding tickets. The what? Woman: You have fun now! But BE CAREFUL! Wait ... about the fact that they were being sprayed with mud from the wheels. Not

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  through Buildings 56, 16, 8, 10, and 3, and emerge from the basement of ... , I will once again enter our hallowed underground passageways -- this ... -year classes. :-) Here are the contenders: 6-001 room 6-001, Building 6

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Neuroscience classes

  

  electrochemistry. There's a lot about the different types of ion channels. You will ... . You write MATLAB simulations and programs that will test the orientation ... 9 and course 7). Most of her course 9 classes have been of the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  of of United Airline’s weight limit— it was the perfect day for all of the escalators in Catalonia to be down. Certainly— I decided as I rode ... received the Whatsapp message- “Sorry to bother, but I think I may be trapped

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Events

  The Boston Festival of Indie Games In which I geek out on campus with a bunch of gamers

  

  feedback, rather than being insanely protective of the project Throw some ... staying true to the original feeling that inspired you After being filled ... Boston Festival of Indie Games! The 2nd annual convention hosted here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 16, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Jalapeño Bacon Mac and Cheese for the Homeless starting a campaign larger than myself

  

  many other people were willing to do the same. About a month ago, while ... , the outpouring of responses from high school and college students alike ... the daily struggle of MIT, I wanted to take time out of my day to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dies Irae Quantus tremor est futurus!

  

  the galaxy!" Obi-Wan: "May the Force be with you!" Darth Vader: "You ... fly with me anytime!" Only the last one of those is even close to being ... John Harbison is teaching the undergraduate class 21M.304: Writing in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  Chi members dive into the task with what can only be described as frat ... After two long years, it’s time. It’s dark and raining slightly, the only light on the Harvard Bridge coming from the streetlights and the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  tangent] She was supposed to be a Dodgers fan, hence the blue hat and shirt ... Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list. #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  as the “heart of Europe,” but should also be celebrated for ... internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012