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  Hardk0re: The Twinned Rise of East Campus and the Hacking Ethos (Guest Entry by Danny Ben-David ’15) How’d that get on the roof?!

  

  of multifaceted culture as well. In a given campus tour, time is split ... ’ passions in mind. What those leaders could not have possibly foreseen was the ... constructing dormitories on a site in Brookline, “for the purpose of bringing men

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Applying to College vs. Applying to Jobs yes you heard me, the application process NEVER ENDS

  

  picky in terms of what companies i'm willing to work for, and also have ... , I have a fairly high success rate in terms of the amount of second ... colleges in a very similar way - I only applied to places that I [annotation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 6, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Stove-Cook Your Oatmeal and Never Look Back To not-admitted applicants and anyone who knows anything about fuses.

  

  Oatmeal cooked on the stove is so good. I wouldn’t know this, but a few days ago a fuse broke and all the outlets in our kitchen stopped ... off in a film on their own after you soak them, and cleaning is easy

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket protector, nerdy engineer…” wherein Neil Armstrong's legacy kicks off a year of Unified Engineering, and I reflect on…

  

  out to fulfill what I could. I found a UROP in the Space Systems Lab and ... The quote, in full: "I am, and ever will be, a white socks, pocket ... maybe a dog ironically named Kitty. 6. If I wanted to, I was in a good

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Move Fast And Break Things just make sure you have a net positive of unbreaks

  

  . You'll understand what I mean if you ever become course 6. In the ... for its 'hackathons'. What exactly is a hackathon? "At Facebook, we ... spend a night cranking away on it." In other words, organized, unpaid

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 25, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Classes, by the Group Chats and their potential replacement, Interstellar!

  

  much between chats. I was a lot more active in some chats than others ... felt about the class. For example, I had a ton of negative reacts in 6 ... , share resources, ask questions (and post memes) in a forum, and keep track

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 27, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Why I wasn’t sad to leave MIT On shedding.

  

  required a lot of trial and error. In order to figure out what could go overboard and what had to stay, I switched research areas a number of times ... to know there. I didn’t have a “group of friends” in college the same

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , in true form, what the term "bleary-eyed" really means. Mind you, I was ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... side, this meant that in addition to the ~12 hours a day I already spend

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hilbert’s Third Problem (A Story of Threes) Holy mathematics, Batman! Math at MIT, and why we need calculus to define volume.

  

  , geometry, analysis, combinatorics, and graph theory. Together these cover a lot of what we learn in course ... entirely by the students: in my experience so far, after a few starter ... -depth explorations of the topics of our final presentations. In 18.304, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women’s Soccer Talking to the 2009 NEWMAC Champs after they returned from the NCAA National Championship Tournament

  

  that I didn't even know what the rules were for a lot of the sports I was ... of sporting events, some of which I had never seen before. I saw ... at MIT. Liz is a senior, majoring in Mechanical Engineering (course 2

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 25, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  [joint post] a guide to mit gyms big brains, big gains 😤

  

  ’t necessarily a con–I feel like the gym’s vibes are very conducive to locking in ... gym when I was in a time crunch or when we were snowed in. During summer ... Center[/annotation] have limited hours, those looking to squeeze in a quick

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Christianity at MIT An intro to Cru!

  

  example, I forget what the motivator was, but me and a few friends who all ... :18-22? Crazy!), and it has been a game changer to have people I can grow in faith ... , because I know I wondered Students in Cru attend a number of churches in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall Pancakes, LN2 ice cream, board games, game theory, math, raves, staying up entirely too late,…

  

  Three years ago I was in the room I’m still in now, and just like ... inhabits the streets of Cambridge in the morning, and I spent it wandering ... RHOP Random House of Pancakes: I'm a delicious warm pancake smothered

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Early History of International Students at MIT studying the people MIT made, and the people who made MIT

  

  below was published in The Tech less than a month before Nicolas’ death ... after its first classes were held in a storage warehouse. By 1895, 39 from ... in 15 students at MIT came from a foreign country, possibly the highest

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  This Blog Post is a Bad Idea Not blogging for several months... that was also a Bad Idea.

  

  like wings, I do not like spicy. A one-pound plate of wings was placed in ... I knew there was going to be a problem when I was one of only two girls sitting at the table. Sarah R., '14, and I sat next to each other in

  • by Kate R. '14
  • January 27, 2011
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  An Entry About Snow ...Even though we don't have any

  

  quite as much as I love DUSP. But still, it's a lot). So when I found out that a snowboarding PE course existed over IAP, I jumped at the chance to ... feet. I had never snowboarded before and the last time I skiied was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 11, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Fireside Chat with President Sally Kornbluth get to know our president!

  

  friends, and political drama TV shows? I didn’t know any of this.  In fact ... wood panels lined the walls, a grand desk stood proudly in front of a ... recognize her face and her title, but what is the President of MIT like on a

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 13, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  'm in my third year here at MIT, and I've grown up a lot. One of ... me in the reject pile! I want my applications graded with a red pen and ... one week and a year since the 2022s got in or didn't; two years and a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Colorful a response to “how’s MIT?”

  

  . We hadn’t talked at all before that; all he knew was that I was a ... name. Malingap is talking about what I’m interested in and feeling ... the plant life in the area. What I remember most about the trip, though

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Class of 2020 Ring Premiere! from two perspectives

  

  , I was actually able to look around at the people in the room. What I ... below). What I heard was the sound of a middle school cafeteria x10. I ... details in the Joke Bezel that I didn't quite catch but here is a picture of

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2018