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• Blog / Hacks

  Giving Laura an assist

  

  hacking is exploring the hidden ins and outs of computer systems and networks. Michael said: "Hacking per se doesn't get you in trouble -- being ... policy is that all hacks, even if not in illegal areas, are unauthorized

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  than I've seen run for any position in East Campus. We talked about ... about us and the halls could vote (in EC, there are ten halls, and each hall gets a single vote in HouseComm). Eventually, Conor '07 (of 2nd West

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Classes Online (...and a bit about a fall class, too.)

  

  , tools, and applications in bioengineering and a survey of the bioengineering activities in current engineering disciplines at MIT. Gives students ... biotechnology. Introduces concepts in bioengineering and biology and emphasizes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab ... -to-moderately sized department in the School of Science. There are usually about 30

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Avoiding moonlight on an empty stomach Late-night snack cravings lead me underground on meandering routes to Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  forgot dinner and are in fact pining for a cold drink, hot sandwich, or ... route -- can you find the buildings?) Ready? Let's go! In that door ... ) with helpful sustenance in the form of frozen novelties. Yes, folks

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 11, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Advising Folders! Lots of fun discoveries about advising and such. Also, how I managed to confuse MIT…

  

  you meet with them every once in awhile to make sure things are going OK ... students in a kind of mini-class on some random, fun topic. (You get a few ... will count.... And speaking of AP scores...those are also posted in the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  of offering ''universal access to human knowledge," and, in pursuit of that, in a small white wooden building that once served the base as a ... library in 1996, for the simple reason that ''nobody else seemed to be doing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... -- on how engaged they are in a conversation. The article also touches on ... technology at a bar in Cambridge where a group of singles were "speed

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  “That is NOT an ice cream flavor.” wasabi + ginger + ice cream = disaster

  

  at Loews in Boston Common. All summer, they are having free ... The Patriot which is a movie I have yet to see in it's entirety ... in mind, there are adventurous ice cream flavors that I feel do work

  • by Bryan
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  others my age – but it has been present in all aspects of my life ever ... continued to travel frequently, even working in South Korea for a year and ... airport terminal). During one of those adventures, at a restaurant in Rome

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Events

  4 comfort songs for your first day shake those jitters!!!

  

  lots of emotions for day 1 of my freshman year. Thoughts ran like mad in ... accompany excitement. When I'm wrapped up in feelings, I turn to two things ... ceiling, breathing in and out. Moments of sitting reclined in my rolling

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 3, 2024
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  in more than 700 events over ~3.14 days—everything from How to Build an ... .” Months before we get to showtime in April, the opening/closing show team ... spaces that can support such a large audience. Typically, we plan months in

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  available in the application portal. To check your decision, login to the ... offered early admission to 661. Though they are all different in their own ... want to make the most informed decision we can in Regular Action

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  Marianne and Connell. There’s a sentence in this story I keep coming back to ... the role writing plays in my own life: Yes, that you travel inside of. I ... mimesis as the action that the poem has, in reality, on the reader…I think a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  False Precision ...and the advent of the cherry pie scale

  

  Very early on in my Admissions career I happened to take a slice from ... 10. There were a number of things that went through my mind in that ... question, “What scale do you use?” In truth I didn’t use another scale, and

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • April 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... semester goes on sometimes the TA for the next recitation comes in and does ... beanbag in the sun :( we hate sun it burns[/caption] 4. banana lounge is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I (don’t) want the summer to end me writing poetry? what a concept

  

  neat and cram them in my suitcase. I don't want to leave MacGregor and spend days in my room, sitting alone in nice weather; don't want to have ... the summer to end. I want to move to Floorpi and sleep in my new room

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2021
• Blog / Announcements

  A reminder that there is no advantage to applying Early Action to MIT As always, you should apply when you feel ready

  

  delays and disruptions from the ongoing pandemic.  In the last few weeks ... applicants who want to put their proverbial best foot forward in our ... I have stated this in this short blog post, but there is a lot going

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that ... backend for our app. We ended up crashing in the hackers’ lounge for only a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow

  

  FRACK was wrong with my code. I wrote in so many print statements; I basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts a mile long. But still, for 15 hours, I was stuck in the exact. Same

  • by Powers '23
  • April 12, 2020