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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 ... Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun ... , humor and a high regard for hackers and hacking. He explains that hacks

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a ... today, I'm not going to post anything about New York. So don't ruin it for everyone else, okay? Trust me, I'll know!

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  wrote my mom a poem for Mother's Day and I only made a phone call. She ... deleting this dud of a post because I had left it unpublished for a month ... below an A or a B in your life. And though I know nothing I can say will

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  snapshot diary 2.0 an image a day keeps the psets (and workday) away

  

  too pixelated for my liking, so I got a credit from customer service for ... and mess around for a bit though. I wanted to treat myself to buying ... horror. Being perceived for what I willingly post online is a weird feeling

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  I got this postcard from my dad a few weeks ago. It's funny how when ... gems as, "Can I use your conditioner for my face?", "I cook with MY ... in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  “i can only draw stick figures” musings on learning to draw

  

  , where I tried to explain a [annotation note='double-reverse 4-bar linkage ... for it through a Google form (FYI: most MIT classes you can just register for, no questions asked). Gosh, I essentially wrote a love letter to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • June 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  madam I want to ask a question Can we register now for MIT 2008 class?? I ... blogging for more than a year is I can steal some content that I wrote last ... For those of you new to the blog: a Questions Omnibus is a post where

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  . ^ 1, 3, 8 for the J-Lab miracle. Monday Nov 5: I got a letter from my ... . Thursday Nov 1: I learned from Alan Guth that “you don’t have to have a ... nurse's comment made it a 10. Sunday Nov 4: I wore pajamas for literally

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  adolescence. 2017 is a revolutionary year for me. It's almost eerie how I can ... -cringey commentary from present-day me. Friday was the {last} time I took a school ... school year. I mean who needs a binder and plastic dividers when you can

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  credits required for graduation. Being a tech school, the balls representing ... possible, especially because at MIT it is a required class for all mechanical ... strategy to choose (should I go for the humanities balls? should I make use

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  ://dfa.mit.edu/stream/ ************************************************************************************* DONE. Hey guys, thanks a ton for helping. It was an intense push there towards the end. I'm not sure if you could sense it from where you were, but ... , Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bubbles and UROPs OK, so we're going to follow up on this white water rapids question, because I…

  

  into MIT, and if I do, I need a place to buy inexpensive yet quality home ... (but really, who doesn't want to work for this guy?), you can always be a ... the main page for each department you can usually find a research page

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  aerospace. From the start, I knew that MIT had a strong culture of computer ... The following is a guest post by Sam U. '16   When I applied ... I decided to stick with aerospace after testing a range of majors, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing ... probably should take a break from it, the day may come when I'm Stockholm ... return some day, and although it won't be for a few years, I hope that it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  student's obligations year-round."]for a while.[/annotation] and when i was ... yourself a little treat so you can get through the day" is a common phrase i ... help from other people--and actively asking for that help. when you're a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales From The Nance Effect Road Show My travel to the land of Boomer--Sooners, Miners. Wild Cats, Sun Devils and Rattlesnakes

  

  Meetings for the better part of September. Here is a quick update of what I ... Even as I write this I am en-route from the border town of El Paso, TX to Boston, MA. As the old joke goes: "I just flew in from El Paso

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 29, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Stressful Times in my opinion, the best advice, ever.

  

  I'm going to confess something. A bit more than two years ago,  I ... well I needed to do on the next exam to get an A in the class. I thought ... sleepy tomorrow, or should I divide it between days and trust that I'll be

  • by Ana V. '15
  • December 11, 2012
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  ’s an online game where every character has a little avatar and can act ... bad yet. Shuli: Alan and I grabbed a [annotation note="Alan: from 2 AM ... [/annotation] at 6 am, I saw a message tagging me in the Discord, from just a few

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  . #1) Graduate. #2) Paint a mural for The Borderline @ MIT. I got to ... proportions ended up different from the draft. Color I haven't painted a mural ... design, but I didn't want to commit to it for a whole painting. I only

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  Fluid Dynamics for this paper, which I can understand embarrassingly well ... rest I can only describe via hearsay, but you can extrapolate from the ... ideas. I've created a Plexiglas writing pad so that I can stay underwater

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005