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  ATHack A day well spent helping others

  

  One of the amazing things about going to a techy school like MIT is ... work on developing a solution to the same challenge. This past weekend ... Hackathon (or ATHack for short). The goal of ATHack was to pair teams of MIT

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2015
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  A Different Voice some words about MIT, by someone who's not me

  

  we’re a strange bunch. the news articles ascribe to us an almost mythical legitimacy–we’re those kids. the ones that grow up to be new ... this. procrastination is like hard drugs–comforting, if only for the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Institute of Smashing What do you think MIT and a garbage compactor have in common?

  

  guarantee one thing:   You're going to be crushed   Now before ... 's only pay attention to the dominant traits. For students who are brilliantly talented, the very asset that got you in will be the biggest and

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2010
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Bumps, slumps, trips, and … Breaking out of a slump, now with more Cleveland!

  

  enjoyed them much more if I'd addressed the underlying problem leading me to ... 's kick the old crutches to the curb as well (overabundant ellipses and ... to the blogs, so I don't feel bad. Life away from MIT is great; the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 13, 2014
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  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 2 The median of an introductory trilogy

  

  visions in my head of what “the return” would be like. A chance to be ... food. Not wanting a fight this morning, I ran to the kitchen, and dug ... hanging around quivering in fear and hoping not to be left behind. It was

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 16, 2013
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  SHASS Hack feminist hacktivism

  

  all of SHASS together. -the hackers The hack is to be preserved in the ... recreating it to better reflect the diverse departments and people of SHASS ... centering the Department of Economics, this display chooses to center one of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 4, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The joys of web development or: how i learned to stop worrying and love the web

  

  , I've written things in JavaScript and TypeScript, to the point that ... experiences, so I'd love to hear your thoughts. 1. The project I hated [caption ... participants. My actual job was to work on the app used to collect data. It

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 9, 2022
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  sibling dynamics at MIT yes lmao Nisha and I are related

  

  Be Named came to the realization that Nisha and I are, indeed, sisters ... ; Well, it turns out that looking like twins, being from the same small ... ="aligncenter" width="454"] PROOF![/caption] To be fair, we’re completely different. I

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 20, 2020
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  An MIT wedding Paper airplanes instead of rice and a reception at a science museum... what's not to…

  

  the best man, and Carl '07, who introduced us to each other, was another ... foldability and distance. The planes were a little bit pointy, I'm not going to ... be having our reception. Our first dance was to "Everything I Do" by

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i made furry art for Caltech i have art powers and choose to use them for chaos

  

  some design inspiration from that. Since I didn’t want Harvard to be the ... thought, maybe it’s missing something. What happened to the other colleges? There surely has to be some foil to show how deeply enamored we are with

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 6, 2023
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  I put on my robe and graduation hat It's sortof hard to believe it's time for this already.

  

  similar pics here.) All the graduates-to-be congregated in the Johnson ... seemed to be their professors. Photo Credit: William Yee The ceremony ... for graduation. Classes were over, and the most stressful thing I had to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • June 7, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  sea glass turbulent waves in these parts

  

  the time of publishing this blog since i like to let my writing marinate a bit before throwing it out there for the internet to judge ... fire, to avoid burning out before the semester has even started. It

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 5, 2022
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  Grown Up Well, not quite.

  

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 26, 2012
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  Units of Measure A simple question with a lot of cool answers

  

  desire to get other celebrities to answer the question - "If your last ... culture of Conner 2 during my stay there. To the best of my knowledge there were only two rules regarding the units of measure. Celebrities get to

  • by Snively '11
  • January 7, 2017
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  MIT grads, 10 years later What is the MIT Class of 2000 doing, 10 years after graduating?

  

  ), which I compiled and sent out to the class. Realizing what a resource I ... This past weekend was the 10-year reunion for the MIT Class of 2000 -- my MIT class. It was fun to see so many of my classmates and hear about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every now and then, my mind = blown. Thanks, Science!

  

  at the idea of doodling a science-question post. I still plan on getting around to that. But in the midst of my magnet research, I stumbled ... offending hardcore geneticists out there, or if I breezed over some of the

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 11, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  how to change policies at mit [joint post with Rona W.] our CUP of tea

  

  (supposedly equal to 12 hours of work, although the average tends to be closer ... ’s student government). After being selected by the committee, we each spoke to ... love the added flexibility of being able to attend lectures at any time

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 28, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Life is like a Game Elaborate metaphors from an amateur comic artist

  

  all the references... including a couple cheesy direct nods to MIT ... artists I like, and hoping for the best. So I might try to include a mini ... struggles. For some reason (mostly the fact that I'm a media dork at heart), a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 7, 2013
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  Bad Ideas Weekend 2019 good times

  

  . We are here to celebrate the ideas that are borne of this insanity ... [annotation note="Anyone with a bad idea can apply to receive the resources and ... brains to the limit. Here is my experience at six of them! I. 2^n cookies

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 3, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, by the Calories free food is everywhere

  

  received a notification. We sprinted together down the hallway to 10 ... , I was lucky – if I hadn’t happened to stay late in a classroom near 10 ... one semester. The definition of midterm has also changed to include free

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • October 7, 2018