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  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  tend to suck. Like, not just your average suck. They tend to really suck ... doing nothing else. But of course that's never how it works. Last ... ). The Watchmakers worked in the Watchmaker Zone, and to help them test

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  [Guest Post] Why did I come to MIT? by River A. ‘26

  

  freshman fall.  And now? I am not on the team anymore, and I have no idea ... hear it all the time from MIT alumni (I work as a techcaller yipee ... exploring, it means you do not develop a professional expertise straight away

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  what I did this summer unoriginal title, original experiences!

  

  -- you may not be surprised to hear -- that being an MIT student gives you far less time than working a 9-to-5 job. We tend to say this to each ... night and get some exercise, much less work through my Personal Issues TM

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 24, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  thinking about the branching paths we choose to take (or not), or how our new ... universe [annotation note="IN 👏🏻 THIS 👏🏻 HOUSE 👏🏻 WE 👏🏻 DO 👏🏻 NOT ... played a similarly important role, proposed that we work on an emoji

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  working two UROPs! Am I not doing enough? Maybe I should add a cla—' Stop ... per term is your own choice, and you should work where you're happy and ... get relative to my peers onto whether or not I'm taking full advantage

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Note of Hope for Freshmen at Career Fair Yes, freshmen can find jobs!

  

  bottles, pens, phone card-holders, and enough T-shirts to not have to do ... advice is NOT TRUE. Freshmen can and do find interesting, relevant summer ... someone will want to hire you! This is my friend Angela. She worked at EA

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Life After: A Collage living the MIT dream

  

  finally An Old Person, relatively speaking. Work As mentioned in my graduation entry, I work at Bluefin Labs, a startup of roughly 20 engineers and ... interns for the summer, I was all like, “yay! I will not be the least

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  2015, Danny always has his hands full with class work and outside ... unsolicited advice/storytelling. If that’s not your cup of tea, maybe this will ... kicked around the idea of working on some sort of entry until about a week

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Coming Soon! In which I briefly account for my I-haven't-been-blogging-so-much-recently shenanigans

  

  's working on a thesis right now, but the pre-finals frenzy (read: cramming ... into these past few weeks - and that's not even including classes, which ... other events.I'm not one to spoil a surprise, but I'll be covering about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Arts Party 2010! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Now that I'm about to graduate, it's time for some fun…

  

  PORTAL: MIT has an Arts Communication Council which has been working ... festival, there's even an class you can take to work on one of F ... painting murals (on canvas, not the walls)...I'm going to be helping with

  • by ARTalk
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let’s Get Down to Business 'Tis the eve of a new semester.

  

  (*cough* 8.01 *cough*) - not that I have anything against gyroscopes. They ... regarding any independent work I'm doing in the lab. One of my floormates now ... fantastic benefit to working in my lab because when I'm done with my work, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 1, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  Mind and Hand My first CNC project

  

  parts in SolidWorks, import them into a program called "MasterCAM," and then load them onto the mills/lathes. Then the tool does all the work for ... mill. We designed our paper weights in SolidWorks first, the easiest way

  • by Snively '11
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  and chairs, but they didn't look very comfortable. Lucky for me, I work ... 're reading right now) so I know about secret (not so secret) admissions secrets ... blankets, and not a lot of stereotypical MIT. 3) Thursday night. TONS of

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  is all about working hard, finishing problem sets, writing code, curing ... misconception not only because of all the prospectives students I've talked to ... . Just maybe not the same way that anyone else parties. Of course, not

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  . Of course not, I responded. You see, there's this program called MISTI ... , like how MISTI flew me over to Paris, how the research lab I was working ... excited as I was. Ok, maybe not. That would have been pretty hard. I left

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Just a little advice…

  

  ): "Laura?! The Laura? Awesome!" and not "ummmm... who?" So do me and yourself ... 're able to see the bigger picture and realize that it's not the end of the ... this will give you a little inspiration as you work on supplementing your

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 31, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] A day in my life! by Callie T. '26

  

  totally lost in that class for weeks. The current plan is to work on it with ... will not cut it for today. It’s a pretty quick meal, and I run into a few ... :30 — I try watching the physics lecture again. Doesn’t work the second time

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how i feel about ai-generated art from an artist's perspective

  

  people can just enter these trivial prompts and then pass this work off on ... work, I wouldn’t mind—I’d be amused, more than anything else. Of course, this is only my reaction, and certainly other creatives might not feel

  • by Rona W. '23
  • June 11, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... ?" "Isn't Black Lives Matter just a hate group? Shouldn't we be working to ... ?" I am sure these are a question everyone has seen at least once, if not

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  dont want to write ah

  

  the past month, not here nor in my personal notes. i want to say that i've been busy, but that's not true. i haven't been busy much at all. let ... loathing again, after not having played the game in almost a decade. one of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 11, 2023