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Blog / Hacks
Removing a hack This is too cool
great dome, and a peek at what the dome looks like up close. I'm not aware ... . Thanks Schmiedl, let me know how to get invitations like this! -
Blog / Hacks
Hacks and meta-hacks
. MIT "hacking war". I remember eating dinner in the 4th West diner at two ... A few nights ago, I was walking down the Infinite Corridor with two of my hall's freshmen, when one of them noticed something odd in the -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.
quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... challenging semester yet. As a double major in Course 6-7 and 9, I'm taking the ... 't actually come in contact with since my senior year of high school. I'm going -
Blog / Personal Travel
[Guest Post] The Southbound Train by Kylee C. '23
’s historically played a massive role in the growth and development of this land. I ... shadow I grew up in. It’s a truly lively city with a lot of diversity and ... This is a guest blog post by my dear friend (and first person I ever -
Blog / About Decisions
As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.
up with decisions; apologies in advance!] Okay, it's 11pm and I haven ... I thought I'd take a tiny break to post a little something. I've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Square Root Day Your daily dose of nerd humor.
Did any of you notice today was a square root day? I didn't, until I ... ." This is part of why I love MIT - people here actually appreciate this kind of joke. (In related news, Pi Day is only eleven days away. Get -
Blog / Admissions
New Server As of this afternoon, mitadmissions.org is living on a new (and much faster) server.
(and much faster) server. You'll probably notice better performance in page rendering right away; commenting is still slower than I'd like, but a forthcoming software patch should (hopefully) fix that. I think the -
Blog / MIT Life
McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.
was her prefrosh! I’m also Melis’ little sister in our sorority, Alpha ... another of the wonderful living groups at MIT. I live in McCormick Hall, MIT ... Cormick. This is my room just after I moved in. It doesn’t really look like -
Blog / Admissions
Glimpses Of My Messy World I know, I know - all of you are concerned with your Early Action status,…
a far better job than I could of keeping the masses in the know about ... -programming. Behold in Awesome Wonderment the pace from which I execute MIT Admissions ... staples I've learned to look before I sit: Finally, in picture 3 you can -
Blog / Admissions
Selection
for the purpose) is very quiet, but in 2 hours it will be abuzz: selection of the Class of 2009 begins today at 1:00pm Eastern Standard Time. I've even worn a tie (*gasp*) for the occasion! I'm excited but also nervous -
Blog / MIT Life
Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things
Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never ... see it. That said, there's one in New York in September, and I think ... On Friday I flew out to California to visit my friend Greg. Greg is -
Blog / MIT Life
Nightswimming
clearest water I've ever been in (I could read my watch with my arm under ... obvious reasons, such not wanting to get in trouble for indecency, I didn ... One of the many things I love about my community, by which I mean 5th -
Blog / About Decisions
Class of 2017 By The Numbers with apologies to iron maiden
contributed by MIT Institutional Research to the Common Data Set (i.e. what powers the US News & World Report and other rankings systems). Now, I've blogged before about how the dangers of reading too much into admissions -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Becoming a Princess the making of a Halloween costume [+many pictures of ponies]
, and Walter Sobchak from The Big Lebowski. In any case, I decided to ... over a button-up Oxford shirt tucked in neatly, so I did admittedly feel ... ? Maybe I'll get in touch with my cosplayer friends from high school and see -
Blog / Personal Travel
a most beautiful camping trip it's always good to get back to nature <3
ones, where my iPhone really can't quite hack it. The nature up in the ... , headed out for our annual camping trip in seven rental cars, with trunks ... set up our tents in the dark (read: with difficulty) on Friday night -
Blog / Hacks
Nice Try, Caltech Hacks > Pranks :D
yes, that's my math pset in the background - the math pset that I ought ... essentially live at Hayden Library, one of the few places on campus in which I ... Hack at MIT I managed to snag one of the fake papers that, as the -
Blog / Life after MIT
Disappearing (or life goes on) .
I feel like I owe it to those (few?) who've followed me closely these last few years to come back and say a quick and proper good bye. I ... finish them up in a timely fashion, and now it's just way too late to go -
Blog / Miscellaneous
The best Metro station ever The Metro does it best.
Last week, I used DC's subway/underground train system, called the Metro, to get downtown. While I was waiting around the Medical Center station, which is located next to the NIH and my house, I saw this -
Blog / About Decisions
Themed Online Distractors (for EA Decision Day) to the 2020 MIT Protofrosh
're probably nervous, which is normal. No one is certain they'll get in. That's a fact. I hope you can find the best environment to await and process the ... the admissions decision. That's a fact also. In the publishing industry