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• Blog / Hacks

  Where the Sun Shines, There Hack They MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks.

  

  MIT is known for many things, including its legendary hacks. Long a ... MIT World. Keyser is also the author of a brilliant essay in Nightwork, a 2003 book on hacking published by The MIT Press. Little is known

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back From Paternity Leave I'm back! A few words on the Harvard Admissions Institute and such.

  

  Howdy folks, First of all, thanks so much for the phenomenal advice ... networking/social periods, and a few other things thrown in. (Check out the schedule!) Needless to say, it's pretty awesome. Tonight is our one night off

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  (un)Empty Nest Welcome Back!

  

  ’s a great opportunity for you, it does make things much quieter on the old homestead. It’s not a complete “Night of the Comet” (or “28 Days ... on campus! * On second thought, that second one is probably a bad idea

  • by Dave McOwen
  • August 26, 2010
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do homeschooled students apply?

  MIT has a long history of admitting homeschooled students and these students have been successful and vibrant members of our community. We don't have separate requirements for homeschooled applicants. Homeschooled
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  , making this blog post about how, indeed, our double is one of two on the ... room that housed such a success? us in a big mess t b h this is nothing ... is equip with live music performances, a dance floor, and tons of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  (For those who don't know/can't figure out, "Camberville" is a ... 's. "Okay," I figured, "this is a walk I've made before, so it should be ... think the lesson here is to be careful about how you time your travels

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  to build a (taste of) home ft. some topologically challenged zongzi

  

  ]which, to be fair to her, is probably a better English description of zongzi ... a key theme among them is a) boats and b) rice balls. Some stories say ... to make zongzi. There is a proper way -- the kind seen in every youtube

  • by Alice L. '24
  • June 24, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... being a cheerleader, and how it had taught me responsibility. (Reading ... away from the White House. Rose, who is a fantastic cook, cooked awesome

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fitting In Fitting in at MIT

  

  students, people from home, and the like is: "How do you feel like you fit in at MIT?" This is a question that often times arises surrounding the ... now, we're not going there. What I do want to focus on is how in an

  • by Bryan
  • May 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So How Does It Feel? Now all you have to do is wait.

  

  pushed submit. A week before the EA deadline. It felt good. But then, I found a spelling mistake. And nearly died of panic. After receiving ... prospects. There were nearly a dozen people applying from my school alone, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  part, which is a lesson I feel like I am always learning. I haven't been ... lists so much is that they are perfect for dumping all of your thoughts ... 's writing style. idk if this is a hot take"]The City We Became[/annotation] by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s like I go to class or something. Or whatever.

  

  , he looks like a really nice person. His face is the most indicative of ... (Advanced DV Lab), which is a continuation of the making ... between you and me is about 10^-7 newtons. Let's be friends!" Okay, no

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 2, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Central Square Dance Party You can even play the videos and dance along to them. It'll be like you…

  

  packed, just in a different way. (Which is maybe perhaps why my blogging ... also work a lot so we can go home occasionally, which is why this is ... 've been on for the past two months.*) A couple weekends ago the city of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 12, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  this is a lot of big talk for someone who has barely spent 24 hours here ... was sweetly setting the table for a proper Spanish meal when they ... in the upstairs restroom.” Suddenly, I heard a storm of footsteps up

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Better ways to get around campus as in "better" i mean "objectively worse"

  

  that just walking to Next is the faster option. I have a skateboard, but ... transportation, and this is a problem. Alternative evolutions of the bicycle ... walking is going to prolong your ankle sprain? Try arms! Give your legs a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  the words is irrelevant. Don't let the cyrillic stop you. Have a ... wonderful! Classes have started! REX happened! Politics is happening! Blogging is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Reliving the good ol’ days Tombs, Smurfs, and Halloween

  

  's birthday, and I honestly had not had that much fun in a very long time. 5-WITS is the brainchild of a MIT course 2 alumnus, and it's basically an ... did take a lot of pictures from the event, there is one that I think

  • by Bryan
  • November 3, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... question, is a feeling that I know all too well. Investing my precious t into these problems only to find a nonresult is heartbreaking, to put it mildly

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Leaving a Mark Painting a mural and turning my rat

  

  'd always said I wanted to paint a mural on Tetazoo, and I'd had my eye on this image for a while -- I'm a huge knitter, and this was my desktop ... 's painted on for a while, too: earlier in my senior year I'd stripped a off

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  danceAP IAP: wonderful. sore muscles: not

  

  —in the month-long lull that is IAP, there isn’t much to talk about besides ... , a grueling three hours of class so early in the morning is difficult ... content is fascinating. we have a significant amount of reading to do for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 26, 2020