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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pick My Halloween Costume! Mm, crowdsourcing.

  

  ! Prospective MIT students and blog readers of the world, your mission (if you choose to accept it) is to pick my Halloween costume. Voting will last ... things on my closet that I could use as costumes (blame the Assassins

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Class of 2010: Wondering Where Everyone Is Living? Find orientation housemates/roommates.

  

  ! If anyone wants to add themselves, his email address is on the page. The address is: https ... database of housing info for at least half (so far) of the class of 2010, so

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 9, 2006
• FAQ / Life and culture

  What is Battlecode?

  intelligence. Student teams aim to write the best player program for the ... The 6.9610 Battlecode programming competition is a unique challenge ... that will help you develop your skills, amaze your future employers (our
• Blog / Events

  And It’s Over! The end of the madness

  

  Congratulations to the Evil Midnight Bombers What Bomb at Midnight. They found the Mystery Hunt Coin at 8:28 PM tonight. They're a great team of MIT alums; lots of really smart people. They actually won the hunt 2

  • by Evan B. '10
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  vibe check i'm basically living at MIT again

  

  remote UROPs/jobs for the summer and it's nice to be in a space where we ... working on my own terms. Also, being able to watch Avatar: The Last ... incredible. Just having the ability to be present in the city I love alongside

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  the office computer and watched the replay of the crash. I started to feel sick, and a need to be normal somehow. I pulled out my supplies and started working as we listened to the news, now live-streaming from the blue

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Gotta Catch ‘Em All! A DUCT TAPE COW!!!

  

  . However, I did not wear a duck tape tuxedo to my prom. Maybe I'll go to the ... 'm not completely sold on the idea, but I did see this cow, and the artist ... selected the schools I applied to

  • by Bryan
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Fireside Chat with John Maeda Thoughts from former MIT graduate and professor and RISD President

  

  We were so lucky to have the UA Alumni Affairs Committee invite John ... part of the Course 4 department that I'm planning to tackle on as well ... at Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) -- back to campus to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 25, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  An Awesome Autobiography in rage comic form

  

  have learned now in my advanced age. On the same day, in a very different part of the Internet - though culturally close and easily accessible via a tesseract - an 86 year old man posted his autobiography to reddit in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2011
• FAQ / First-year application

  Does MIT have any age limits?

  , the more creative you'll have to be in submitting supportive ... from high school for a while, we would expect to see the results of your ... /employers and other supportive materials that would assist us in getting to know
• Blog / MIT Life

  making the most of things we threw our annual rager in, uh, Minecraft

  

  ), would have been yesterday had the events of the past couple of months not ... into, that [annotation note="last year, some alumni from the 70s not only ... window. All of this (except the fireworks) is pretty true to what we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 20, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Global warming? ...or just a weather anomaly?

  

  ’ve always wanted to learn, hang out with friends, or do research in the lab ... of the warm spell by being outside as much as possible. I saw a group ... being a very walkable city, and it’s even more runable! It’s no sweat to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  here. Some of you may feel happy to be deferred. Some of you may feel ... If your decision was deferred, then we will reconsider your ... to name; that's okay, too. We have posted more information on next

  • by Decisions
  • December 17, 2022
• 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…

  

  over to 66, descend the stairs (as detailed in the last entry), and ... to any member of the MIT community via a Web page) reveals that this ... Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  still have four glorious days of summer break left, so I will continue to ... along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at ... is also the kind of song that makes you want to go back to the 90's

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  followers. 3.) Trace the outline of your hand (preferably the hand you do not use to trace with) on construction paper. 4.) Cut along the lines. 5 ... we do not have a dining hall. By the end of this entry you won't want a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  During the summer, you get to do fun things you can't pull off during ... large amount of smoke coming from behind one of the buildings. Not sure of ... to the Stata Center that we didn't know. But instead, we found two lawn

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What MIT Grads Do With Their Free Time Want to see the fireworks up close? Simply turn an old car into a boat…

  

  spent the last month converting a 1967 Chevy Bel Air into a boat - the idea being to get as close as possible to the fireworks on the 4th of ... - complete with photos. I am sad to report that the story doesn't have the

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  T Minus One. BRASS RAT BRASS RAT BRASS RAT.

  

  of 12 people chosen at the end of freshman year to represent the class ... first). There's an extensive entry on Wikipedia; I would link to all the ... be the start of our sophomore spring semester... That said, these

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 11, 2010