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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tweet, tweet plus: swarming, oil spill cleanup robots and virus-made, clothing-embedded batteries

  

  coming across all these really cool stories of MIT in the news that I ... this that makes me so proud (and in awe) to be associated with MIT ... !), I'm looking forward to yet another interesting year. In my plans for

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  Later” for those sadly uneducated in the ways of cheesy ‘80s movies ... several thousand prospective students in our Info Sessions. Still, the campus doesn’t vibrate with the same lightning-in-a-bottle energy. All

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for those Not Admitted

  With a record number of applications, this year was once again the most competitive ever for MIT admissions. Admitting less than 1 in 10 applicants from our amazing applicant pool means that we had to turn away many

  • by Admin
  • March 14, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snacks on a Plane And other minor horrors of leaving MIT for the first time in a year.

  

  ? Interestingly*, I haven't gotten out of MIT recently. (In nearly one year, to be astrophysically precise.) *In fact, this fact is not factually interesting at all ... teaching assistants. (In case you had an exceptionally well-englished TA, you

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 20, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don ... three midterm tests in three of my classes, and an essay due in my fourth ... a long weekend in which to get away from MIT! (Something that all you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Come Visit! I promise we'll be nice.

  

  roommates (Jeanne '13) discovered that she'd be hosting a prefrosh. In quick ... was suitably impressed by our vanilla-scented plug-in air freshener). And then we played host! In the course of 24 hours, our visitor got a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I hurt myself again And again and again and again.

  

  on one (1) set of steps in front of Senior Haus and nearly hitting myself in the face on the railing, skidding across six (6) feet of ice-covered sidewalk and falling flat on my butt in front of a group of construction

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regular Action Deadline Extended to January 3 We have extended the RA deadline. Happy Holidays!

  

  button, or stamp that mail! The closer you send in your application to the ... Application Tracking. It can take 3 weeks for items to appear in Application ... are not in a American-style school or you will not have any midyear

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 3, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy New Year! And so two thousand nine begins...

  

  Happy new year everyone! I'm hanging out at my sister and brother-in-law's new house, enjoying the snow and festivities. (By the way, for those who always seem surprised when they find out, Michigan is on the EASTERN time

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is ... by virtue of its lack of barbecue pits (not to mention a courtyard in ... in certain not-unheard-of “special occasions”. Random Hall has roughly

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.

  

  quote I used in my personal blog was "One of my favorite items is a ... computer in your area of responsibility). IP Address: 18.247.6.191 Hostname ... to this message when you have completed the above steps, and explain in

  • by Snively '11
  • August 28, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  , I was involved in student government, MURJ, Assassins' Guild, Medlinks ... commitments - in addition to blogging. Not to mention I had just joined a ... semester than in the fall. And it's not because I was less involved in

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Building 56 It's really boring. You may not even want to bother reading it.

  

  (buildings people care about) but nothing in 56 really other than that. As a freshman you may have a class or two in 56. I had my HASS class there and a ... in 56 as well. Here's a shot of the hallway from the other end. That

  • by Snively '11
  • June 30, 2008
• 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 ... 's what Ted says in ZDNet's article: Top kernel developer and Linux ... ’o. “Users in the carrier grade linux space have been clamoring for this for a

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

  Susan Hockfield’s Private Concert La la la la la la la laaaaaaa!!!!

  

  Yes, we are this cool. We perform our drinking song, in capes, for our president. Also, last year, the Marching Band was a bit more destructive. As you can see, Alex (a prefrosh then, an '11 now) decided to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh Wow KABOOM!

  

  in that class, this pset will take ~forever. I need to finish it before ... I meet my prefrosh Chris '12 for CPW! In theory, by this point in time ... until 6. After UROP I am entrenched in CPW stuff for the rest of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 8, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Eye Of The Storm Reflections in the brief moment between the last hours of selection committee and the release…

  

  Hi all, I am here in the office preparing the blogs for the post ... the same time. In the last two months - days, nights, weekends, whenever - I can't remember a time in which I was alone here. I hope that all of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Whew! A brief interlude before I go back to studying.

  

  . After my abysmal performance in ICE back in the fall, I decided to put my ... around in his daddy's shoes pretending to be a grown up. Now I feel like I ... interest in physics, even if you don't plan on majoring in course 8. At the

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vacation = Relaxation, right? What I do over vacation...

  

  Apparently this is not the case in England. They do things ... to students in, say China, it’s a big change from MIT where our ... -3 week period in the Easter term (there are 3 terms: Michaelmas, Lent, and

  • by Cambridge
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...

  

  , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even ... . Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... shovel the sidewalks (that is, if you live in the dorms. As Gwen '08

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 13, 2007