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  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  reliable data storage. The Zone Cell is not for reliable data storage. (in ... actually started trying to hack the Zone Cell in earnest. The first part is ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  .."]Radiohead,[/annotation] no in between. you're the type of person who tends to isolate yourself ... the worst sleep schedule known to man...it's definitely time for you to ... ideals, and are likely in the [annotation note="undergraduate association

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 1 Yay, power tools! A look at places to find them around campus.

  

  measured the speed of sound in various gases. This is Adelaide '09 (my lab ... materials: Otherwise, the Hobby Shop is pretty typical, and has most of ... to machine with other methods) but I was surprised to find one in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  aunties that lived in the area tried to take us clothes shopping, and with ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... , bringing just a few clothes for the week, we brought 8 suitcases in total

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  liable to become a zombie, so the citizens wear gas masks and live in ... don’t think so -- I’d like to think this is just something in the writer ... is developed in twists and turns that feel true to the characters. I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  Education Laboratory, is the most recent project to come out of the MIT ... programming skills to succeed in the field. The CodeSeal team is currently in ... be astounded by the opportunities in education at MIT. The Institute is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... the world in which she lives. Student type 2 - we'll call him Mills - is the type of student who is defined by the world in which he lives. Lets

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  there lots of CNCs? Is it okay to use the shop in the wee hours of the ... this in the most honest, sincere way possible. I'm not trying to be rude ... -Cv=R. So IF the log of the pressures is related to the ideal gas constant

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This doesn’t suck It's not particularly great, either. But you could go to Germany!

  

  was nice, and the jacket in that material was also pretty hot. But Heidi KIum said she would buy every piece in Uli's collection, and some of them ... those prints mightily in the warm weather of Saint-Tropez. Then again

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  pretty much correspond to every time of day I have. Sometimes, the premade ... brings to mind my hall’s Walcott Lounge (one of two lounges in the East ... a special dance to The Bad Touch, and Don’t Stop Believin’ is the last

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  welding spiels metal hot glue gun go brrr

  

  there for an extra second to allow for postflow, which is the inert gas ... far away would cause the gas to bubble up in the weld, forming what ... . In order to learn how to use the makerspace equipment or learn a new

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 9, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  I asked people at MIT what they were doing for Pi Day 2025 something is rising... 3/14/25 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  the "nerd culture" that MIT is known for, but it’s also tradition to ... blood in the sky. From the Man in the Moon, to the embittered savant ... minimize harm to the rest of the Solar System. The trolley is traveling at 1

  • by Jebby B. '25
  • March 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thinking Positive Sophomore year was kind of awful. But there were happy things! I'll focus on the…

  

  can be fun, but it is hard to find a way to balance everything. The good ... got a Pretty Camera I'M SO HAPPY! I finally saved up enough to buy the ... easier way to put that. I wrote about my first semester in my post called

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  time in between classes to buy groceries and go back to the dorm. If you ... ’s much easier to carry groceries on your back than in your arms. When ... can save time and money in the grocery store. Know how much food costs

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... Foundation fellow Ted Ts’o said the Ksplice software is much needed by ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  in advance of the deadline. Most people's problems at the deadline ... provided answers to some additional FAQs: Deadlines The deadline is ... ) come in after the January 1 deadline. We are much more understanding of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  least six blog entries in the past month or so, I haven't had a chance to ... numbers meant more to me than all others. One of the most common questions ... answer is always the same, "I could tell you my score - but to tell you the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  over five days in Italy. This is mostly thanks to Ling's brilliant idea ... tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... 's Square, the lowest point of Venice. According to a poster we saw nearby

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  comes to worst, buy it from the Coop or Quantum Books, which are the main bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... ! That's CRAZY! If you're going to be taking the General Institute

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The summer begins…

  

  Now that I've completed the FEE, it's time for the math diagnostic. I've got my freshman advising application in, as well as my MIT ID card photo and housing lottery preferences. With most of this behind me, it feels

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 15, 2005