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• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  since I was interested in learning more about how to administer AFS, I ... 'm modifying... Anyway, I can't really say much more, because where's the fun in ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  preparing it. Tonight I was walking back from the T along the street where the food trucks are usually parked when I began wondering where the food ... listening to "Pop Goes The Weasel" play over and over again? And so I came up

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  , you want to know the skinny on how to get into MIT. The more I try to ... from Fountainhead or Jugghead. The "Every Important Lesson I Learned in ... same goes with movies. Yes, Cool Hand Luke is steeped in allegory and I

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  or so. Inside Johnson, I was struck by how many people in the Class of 2014 didn't look familiar at all, as well as how much affection I felt ... audience. I counted how many names in the booklet I recognized: about 17% of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  power through the final in the morning before crashing (I don't know anyone that does that). I can't really tell you how to best learn everything tonight because I don't know you or how you best study. But I can

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  professor a couple weeks in advance to be like, "hey dude, i don't think i can ... to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... , "please love yourself," and i'm like, "well, i'm in it already and i feel

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Blackjack Team, opens Friday in movie theaters across America. In case you haven't seen the trailer or the commercials, you can watch it here: To celebrate the movie release, I am declaring this weekend to be

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  intentional change, those of which I’m currently facing in my own life.  I ... ’s important to see the people you look up to engage in self-compassion. I know a ... something, but only if I feel inclined to. In the meantime, I’ll be eating

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  feel like I’ve lived so much in such a short span of time, which makes ... less than five days. I screamed in anguish with my friends on [annotation ... could change our lives. It’s crazy how quickly people can come together

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  complain about how her hall's TV only plays in Spanish. I myself found MIT's imperfections when I moved into Next House (not to mention that you can't switch ... better than I can. Here's an email he sent out to Next Forum, our mailing

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... -challenged person (read: I can still get lost with Google Maps), I wouldn't trust ... importantly, in one piece. I immediately crashed when I got back. Snow is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  There’s a Story in Which My Eyes Shut Am I changed enough?

  

  in September. I asked her how MIT felt. For the first time, I didn ... August. I was sitting in Killian Court alone. The sun was sharp ... river was blinding. At this moment, you could've told me I was anywhere in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 25, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what ... back where I started - at the check-in counters. Turns out that my gate ... ! Me: I...yesss? I...I guess so? (I guess I have DNA in all parts of me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  thing I can think of is Taipei, after spending a month in Hong Kong, but ... cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share of fun this ... , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit ... for me, sure. I know how necessary they are. But I was really scared to get the shot because I’ve had really bad experiences with injections in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  campus courtyard covered in snow. i've forgotten how beautiful it was ... . since moving in to simmons, i went on a subway trip with alan, which was ... i didn't know. with everyone gone, it felt closer to how i felt when i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  understand MIT and how much the course taught you, I need you to answer the ... -core temperature (you can tell I'm enjoying my biology class). If one of these ... I've been very excited about coming to MIT, and those moments in which

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  The Story of Tonight (more like 730 nights ago)

  

  week. The mini prep and plate replications I have to do in lab tomorrow ... then, in that very moment, that I had zero clue as to what to expect. I  had never listened to the Hamilton soundtrack in its entirety. I knew as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  mechanical engineering class. So while I can't really provide a success ... about to work with in 2.009 -- the people I know will be big value-adds to ... means owning and really understanding your part, while keeping in mind how

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing is difficult みんな、がんばってね!

  

  Writing is difficult. It's the last day in July.* I find it very easy ... of the tardy-writing-mountain** I keep purposefully shrouded in the ... the other. Therefore, I apologize in advance for the scattered nature of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • July 31, 2015