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  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  ago I landed in Austin, Texas to start an internship at Lumension (they ... hacking tools to make a guide for sales engineers but what I found was a 10 week introduction to the software security world. What that meant is

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  place is in this gigundous planet we call home that I never would have ... realize that our country of racial diversity is a minority in a world full ... 't remember me, I'm a '10 graduate who once spent three months working in Tokyo

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  conversations with people is definitely something that I'll need to work on in the ... amazing people, and remember that I wasn't alone in this very male ... affirmation that other people cared as deeply about these issues as I do

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  , which always has a way of making me feel important… In any case, MIT is ... engineering, but I thought that today I’d focus on a great idea by MIT Medical ... !) There are two things about this program that I think make it a good idea

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  . Walking through campus itself is an experience that I appreciated a lot when ... trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  what to pack for the dorms but non-extensive so pls don't blame me if u forget ur toothbrush

  

  regulation is good enough that I never found myself in need A storage ottoman ... the qualification that I've lived three years (going on a fourth) in ... . It's also worth noting that I road-tripped, so I was able to bring a

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually ... allowed to say that on here?) I do, however, care whether YOU win or lose ... . Or if you've been dreaming about doing nothing at all, do that! (But I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... melt it and join the glass that I have. It is not my job to do the ... that although I haven't done a lot of glassblowing, it's played a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... cybersecurity tech at an accident law firm. I told her that it got me through a ... shops and how I exist within them. I was at the moto fest with a white

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tomorrow is MacVicar day! Tomorrow is MacVicar day. See poster presentations by MIT students who have made an impact…

  

  I got an email today about the MacVicar Day event this week that showcases student research in our labs here on campus and in the field worldwide. It should be an exciting celebration of student achievements in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art Keeps Me Sane At MIT [by Danbee Kim '09] The beautiful irony is that the analytical, obsessive, and perfectionist mindset…

  

  when I say that doing art is what keeps me sane at MIT. The beautiful ... show, with performances February 1-9. That's how I got seduced by ... juggle in our lounge in order to take a break from a grueling pset. What is

  • by ARTalk
  • January 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  couple extracurriculars, and a job. That's a lot. How do you balance all of ... First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years ... , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  The Art of Trying New Things V.2

  

  the class who is very, very comfortable in Adobe Premiere Pro. I have a ... Spinning Arts is a club on campus that teaches students how to spin things ... know is that I think I feel a lot less...angry than I have been. I think

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 2, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  In January, I came back to campus for IAP and got to do a healthcare ... in almost a year and how the time in between made me realize that my ... completely outside of my skillset -- this is how I ended up learning C

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many ... hobbies this semester, but found that I wasn't able to do that for a variety ... myself that I do cool shit and I'm smart. I took some hard classes in the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  new people. I am hoping to do this more. If you're in a dorm that isn ... mean learn to optimize. Is it worth an all nighter to turn in a pset that ... Hell, but you all bond in that mutual suffering." I can't tell you how

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... families during our time here in Germany, and I can't begin to say how ... sleep loss. I seriously hope nighttime train travel is not a part of my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Letter to CPW Prefrosh let the onslaught of CPW-related posts continue

  

  in London, so decided to make a trip out of it. Unfortunately, I'm not ... sister Lisa sat in on my classes - they got a crash course on galaxy ... a science essay, and impact crater formation. Lisa is here early for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  hello, again it me

  

  Interesting Work I Do As An MIT Student, and also a lot of the work I've been up ... . Outside of that class, though, I didn't do--and still haven't been doing ... it that way before. but i guess it's what i'm doing.) I observed that

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 23, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... practical skills portion. Excited to have gotten that far in the process, I ... 't work out. So that I wouldn't have a completely useless summer, I sent

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009