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  A Castle, a Jack, and a Beanstalk hacking culture @ MIT

  

  community (and sometimes even the rest of the world!).” On the sunny Saturday of Family Weekend 2014, a castle appeared on the skybridge connecting ... History of MIT Pranks and Hacks  Hacking the Admissions Tube  The

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 18, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  happened, but the bottom line is that now math kind of freaks me out a little ... calc ahead of time was a pretty big deal. The first day of calc was spent reveiwing the slope of a line. (Did you ever notice how every math class ever

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  where I’d be bombarded with art from the most unlikely of places ... the huge amount of art we have on campus, and some things I never ... . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of ... to. Keep in mind, there are about 50 people in my section of the class, so some of the processes have been streamlined for time efficiency

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  After two weeks of pure torture (that's what MIT is in the end, don ... course, I did nothing of the sort. (That's in the true MIT spirit as well ... semester. On the flip side, most of the Conner 2 freshmen are in that class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  a perhaps disturbing amount of time talking about what the women and ... by sleep deprivation. So we decided to take the ambiguity out of it ... , you can apply it to the magnitude of abstraction you take in a subject

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Why I haven’t posted in forever In picture form, no less.

  

  minutes ago and writing the first 2 lines of this entry, I remembered another one. But I've run out of actual lines on the sheet, and had to ... going insane. Unfortunately, one of the "fun" items has the description

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy ... information can be found on the UROP Guidelines website. For a list of ... held by the Library of Congress, (b) explore issues of copyright

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  One of the groups we are a part of is Arts Scholars. This is a group ... sort of art. The group hosts various art-related speakers, outings, and ... the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  Instead of doing an overview of the classes I’m taking this semester ... implementation of curriculum, addressing the needs of a diversity of students ... assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Prof. Manolis Kellis: Combining computer science with biology An interview with Manolis Kellis, Assistant Professor of Computer Science, who was honored as one…

  

  , outlook for the future of genomics, and pressures of living up to the hype ... Consortium, led by Tim Berners-Lee (father of the Web). It sounded interesting so he tagged along and got chosen for one of the positions. He wrote a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Answer is Yes Tips for navigating your first month here with a Greek life emphasis

  

  of the Charles River versus a trip to New Hampshire to try indoor ... of the neatest peer groups in the world. So many of my fondest memories ... fraternity. Going greek has been one of the best decisions of my life. And

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on ... Vehicle Team, and the Solar Decathlon (read more in the Spring 2007 issue of ... got national recognition when they won the grand prize of $25,000 in the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... the fall: a cambridge housemate bubble and a stack of online classes. i ... difficulties of that.) the sheer number of permutations of problems i could run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... ! My favorite part was when we went to the very top of the Prudential ... -picking: And enjoy views like this: Part III: Fall Semester One of the most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  17 Ridiculously Useful Tips Every Blogger Should Know i am the entire circus

  

  to write good blog posts; you only need to have the appearance of ... table of contents, which tells your readers what the sections of your post ... idea of section Three?" you can reply with "I intended for the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  up something that wasn’t a p-set or a study paper, a consequence of the past three weeks sapping so much time. The barrage of classes, problem ... curling the final integral sign onto the last problem of a p-set or after

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Better than a Ryan Cabrera poster Want a Warhol in your dorm room?

  

  of the Student Loan Art Collection at MIT's List Visual Arts Center ... ) to borrow for the entire academic year one of nearly 350 noted pieces of artwork from MIT's collection. Artists represented in the collection

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  -food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building ... just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my ... answer: my e-mail. I’m not even kidding. That’s the highlight of my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Augmented Reality in Action one step before holograms

  

  following augmented reality and virtual reality closely since the beginning of ... first time. Above is a short demo of me using the Meta 2. On the computer ... different parts. There was also a demo of the human brain and a gesture

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 26, 2017