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• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Wisdom of Khan revealed the MIT secret

  

  working at a startup in San Francisco when the announcement came out in 2001 ... Khan '98, perhaps best known as the founder of Khan Academy. There is ... honor to be here at MIT. Not only did I spend some of the best years of my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This code of ethics is: # Be subtle. Don't leave evidence that you were there ... saying when it will be returned. # Brute force is the last resort of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  So, usually I stay away from College Confidential, as it has a way of making me despair of the state of humanity on the rare occasions that I do ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last Saturday. Saturday (sans Sam): a run around Central Park a walk way down 5th ... tour of Columbus Circle a jaunt into the Time-Warner Center (where we ran

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: It’s Coming Home (by it, I mean me) guest post by Rukia. H '21

  

  *written by Rukia H. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of Summer ... past month, which is strange considering none of the teams I support ... knows that if you sit me in front of a TV and give me a game to watch, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  what happens when i don't. The week before my freshman year of college ... picture lying in my aunt's bed, listening to my favorite song of all time ... the same song and suddenly felt overwhelmed by awareness of all the ways

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  technologies. This January, teams comprising a total of 35 students are working ... working with la Fundacion San Alonso Rodriguez, an NGO  that provides ... Nina writing to you from the computer room of the Fundacion, the NGO we

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  together"]mega-director’s[/annotation] dinner while I was in San Francisco ... How do you raise hundreds of thousands of dollars, design the merch that defines half of campus fashion, build software that powers

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventures in Math Conversations in the world of math.

  

  sit down with Richard Rusczyk and Dave Patrick PhD '97, two of the folks behind The Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The fantastic AoPS offerings ... forum (merged with MathLinks) for discussions of math and math problems

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  moving out i'm leaving for a bit

  

  footsteps, from the stairwell on the other side of the north wall. The door ... hug, sometimes to tool in the comfort of silent company. I spent many ... chatter of sixteen Toons; afternoons working on group projects; evenings of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • July 12, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  (Danny here—a friend of mine reached out yesterday and asked if I ... follows, sans attribution as per their request.) Hi everyone! This guest ... peers. We wanted to share a snippet of our experiences and reach out to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  36 Units of Class To make room for 12 units of Life

  

  graduation day. We’d open our diploma folders, read our degrees, and be like ... and don’t have time to (since it’s kind of long), the gist is we were ... stuff (by switching to CMS). At the end of that post, we concluded that

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 13, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Onto the next world! a stupidly long metaphor

  

  metaphor. California feels like the first world of many on this long, long ... In this past semester, the definition of "home" changed a lot for me ... we mellowed a lot over the course of college. "I like this Cami," my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 24, 2019
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  currently hold an undergraduate degree. Students who have already completed a bachelor's degree may not apply to MIT for a second degree in a new field. To pursue graduate study at MIT, you need to apply to one of our
• Blog / Athletics

  The Swim Test Saga Four laps (and zero displacement) closer to graduation

  

  : ??? Uh oh. Visions of watching your friends receive their diplomas while ... You're a first-semester senior and this is what Section 2 of your Undergraduate Degree Audit looks like: This is a very lonely situation, because

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Promise of Ending ...is labor and sharing and loving.

  

  History Channel that was trying to determine the precise location of Sodom ... , when I logged into WebSIS, I took special notice of a link that had been ... later, I had produced this image, a "diploma mock-up -- for illustrative

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Tour Goin' each and every place with the mic in their hand.

  

  , L.A., San Fran, St. John -Award Tour, Midnight Marauders, A Tribe

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A fortnight of Boston summer +1 for using the word "fortnight" outside of an SAT or literature class

  

  identify their school and degree (red means PhD, or doctorate of philosophy ... .05 (biochemistry) final. This was my only test of finals week, so I spent every ... it got to the point that, by reading the first sentence of a practice

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 23, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  [annotation note="He was flying out of San Diego, so his flight arrived 2 hours ... A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music in Springtime and MIT [by Ken Haggerty '11] Music at MIT can be both beautifully melodic and destructive, and…

  

  cloudless and the temperature was 73 degrees Fahrenheit. I had only two ... beautiful spring day... ...when pushed off the roof of a 7-story dormitory ... harsh. It was certainly entertaining, and the fake-out was funny, but they

  • by ARTalk
  • April 25, 2008