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• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  or create new accounts. It actually turns out that none of these tasks ... There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my

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

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  at the expense of putting something else off until later. Being in my ... I'm writing this blog post sitting on my bed in my room at home in ... months. As this week comes to a close, so does MIT's week of finals. This

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  being aware of who you are for the wrong reason, at least you can avoid ... 2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the ... virtues of procrastination, as long as you meet the deadline, it really

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  media we’ve been into recently musicals, food videos, memes, and misc.

  

  our urops. We recently found out, from one of our supervisors, that we actually cannot blog about our project until the end of the semester because ... list of all the stuff. We figured that some of ya'll might find this

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Speaking of mu…

  

  I love MIT, because starting a sentence with "Speaking of mu..." doesn't get you looked at funny. A quick rundown of tonight's activities ... scrimmage at 10pm. Should be a good day. Opening up a big can of worms: so, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  /O Brush is a project by Kimiko Ryokai in the Tangible Media Group at the Media Lab. Her site describes the invention: I/O Brush is a new drawing ... touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Class Projects

  I DON’T NEED YOU ANYMORE. the making of my final video project

  

  [annotation note="A set of clips that contains at least one vidoe track and one ... nostalgic enough song to go at the end of the documentary for the closing ... shit at MIT. Seeing as I didn't end up as a pure engineering major, my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  Hi guys, Here's another look at blizzard weekend on campus. Sadly (I ... !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... both at the ideas I have for revisions and the original quality of the ... cover in Reno, as well as the sense that it was immediately at the foot of

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 3 Independent Video Games, X-Men, and Interstellar

  

  Neutrality, and Complexity Theory   Humble Bundle/Boston Festival of ... " website, is going back and redoing two weeks of bundles, allowing us to ... it's a good time to stock up on cheap games! The Boston Festival of

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 18, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  Quarantine and Social Life trying to maintain some connection

  

  Admittedly, I’m not the best at keeping up with people. I’m pretty ... aspect of life has been stripped away owing to miss Rona. During the online ... conversations, but most, if not all, of the interactions I end up having brought

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 26, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  their goodbyes, she said something along the lines of: "at least we get a ... lists of ivy league schools they were interviewing at and how busy they ... best use of my time at MIT? Was I a failure? I was bringing myself down

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  pairs of earrings at the same time. Never again would I have to choose ... I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done ... get a haircut. A lady at Walmart cut my hair boy-cut short and then my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I’ve Missed About Home My top six.

  

  by volumes of different people at all hours of the day. What can I say ... you think of the brand-new stubble, courtesy of No Shave November. That ... 'burbs at the base of a mountain. Or wild turkeys. Actually, I almost got

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  actually located at the central location through which all of the cables are ... people of relatively equal weight going down at the same time was not a ... One of the things that I find most interesting about MIT, but hardest

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  time though, we ended up on the MBTA theme (at the strong behest of one ... participants each). Incomplete list of fun behind-the-scenes moments: At least two instances of the participants trying to scare the zombies (at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I DECLARE BANKRUPTCY!! and also my major and also indecision

  

  --take a subject with a name, learn a bunch of new operations and ways to do ... , because part of it feels "useless"? Which is a common dilemma at a strongly ... "]realize[/annotation] that I am not foaming at the mouth at the idea of having a job, that if

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 20, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  168 Hours and how to spend them

  

  -so-prevalent commodification of time at the institute. As a student, time is wealth, time is ... . It’s a new class, so it’s kind of disorganized, but I’ve generally ... like, you know, processing things for at least a few of the 167 hours in

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • March 21, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  the last slice of free pizza at that random finance club meeting. In ... left at the end of the day. As delicious and high quality as what you ... of thousands of people apply each year — mealplans are costly, dining

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022