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  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  . Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... let MIT use a forklift to remove it. This is one of those cases when ... was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  to a really nice dinner with the fellows (mostly professors) of the ... a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings ... a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  i was in a bad place and was desperately freelancing to make as much ... exercise my creativity in the way i want to instead of throwing a stream ... to run to a class and then an advising appointment. and then i have to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  On IAP A time for P E R S O N A L P R O J…

  

  . "A novel way to write songs", I described it as! Then I started writing ... my partner to Jojo and we've been watching part 3 together. A quality ... . Regardless, I'm going to work on a little Megaman demo project. I highly

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • December 27, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Family Weekend 2014 family weekend 2014, day 1 and how I had fun

  

  .01 lab to finish a 14.02 pset due Monday morning, and an 8.02 exam also on ... waaahmbulence for a bit, I got straight to work. I traded away sleep hours for ... with *DELICIOUS* clam chowder at a *REALLY NICE* place, I had to leave my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack Study Break MIT is home to some very dedicated gamers.

  

  friends seem to be coping pretty well. In fact, a few students apparently ... the rest of us with a few games and toys to play with over the next few ... Building. Intrigued, I wandered over and began to notice a few strange shapes

  • by Paul B. '11
  • December 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Passing Out ...of classes. Or in class. We'll see.

  

  we understood that cheating is bad and to bring a certain type of ... 18.02, 18.022, 18.023, 18.024, or 18.02A. If you want to review, you ... classes you're allowed to take. If you have a 5 on both, you can get 9 units

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’m Teaching This Fall spoiler alert: a social history of the internet

  

  description: There is often a tendency to consider technical systems as 'purely ... alternative pasts, and still may have alternative futures.   To give you a ... , pp. 21-35, 67-71 (2008) Gillespie, "Engineering A Principle: 'End-to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Chomsky and Infinities illustrated highlights of an MIT October (part 1)

  

  YAY November!!! First off, a huge WELCOME to the EA applicants! You ... until December. A girnomous WELCOME also to the RA applicants! Your ... to me by the Admissions Office through the Shadow a Student Program

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 5, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  to a scanner, though; sorry about that. Without further ado: 7.012 Introduction to Biology - Day 1   // When Lander says that he is a mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Magic Of fluorescent cells and robots

  

  ! Another person I would like to give a shout-out is Katie Bodner ’15 (whom I ... design her experiments and now she is a pro! Good job to all my baby bears (I am so proud!) A note to freshmen entering this fall: When you are

  • by Linh V. '13
  • August 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT women Rockin' the two X chromosomes at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

  

  there enough air for everybody to breathe?" Just as I've never noticed a ... school in a small-to-medium-sized town in Ohio, and although I had my share ... why a girl would be interested in majoring in science. I'm going to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The mail, and more

  

  with. As a result, I got to know her incredibly well instead of him. She ... better than the professor, though offered to write me a rec. My question is ... is best to mail supplemental music/art/etc. to us on a CD. I'm told

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2019 everything from autobiographies to magic the gathering blog posts

  

  that I’m applying to liberal arts colleges, so WHY does she ask a ... !” Educated (100k words). We had to do a book review for the class, and I chose ... it deserves all the hype it’s gotten. Tyler stood to go. “There’s a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  January is “supposed” to be an off-month for MIT students - a break ... obligated to continue. Sometimes I feel like I’m slowly devolving into a ... awesome because they’re accessible to anyone and are a bite-sized, low

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Underground An ode to the MIT tunnels

  

  MIT Tunnels. Back then, it was tunnels with a capital "T" because to my ... deplane and inquired as to whether or not I had a winter coat to go over the ... a few times to avoid snowy weather, mostly because I still have yet to

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  symmetry, and sketching a horse to show what saddle points look like ... a seminar (so it was the only seminar to offer food).It was good to ... top of everything else. Those extra 6 units were quite a bit to add

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  past midnight. These days, my Fridays tend to be a bit more low-key. In ... Annie team mentions their goal is to “be a center for community.” I think ... around us: to our right, a slightly awkward pair (perhaps on a first date

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  everywhere, from algorithms to superconducting circuits. What is duality? As a ... attempting to define it, here’s a concrete example. Suppose you draw two points on a sheet of paper. If you want to connect those two points

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024