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• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first couple of months in New England, somebody told me I had a Southern accent ... ". I promise I'm not making this up. In the South, "coke" isn't just a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Whatever, this week rocks MIT students gripe a lot about homework. It's not all they do though, thank god.

  

  'M IN IT FIND ME (you won't be able to, so here, I'll just tell you: I ... I have nothing but analysis left to do for the last Junior Lab experiment for the rest of the week. I went to the gym today, I'll probably go

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Lost Art of Hand-Lettering Lives at MIT hidden in plain sight

  

  month, Glenn passed at the age of 78. You can read his obituary in The ... Silva. He's painted my name at least five times since I've been here as we ... not more, important than doing the same for innovators, I wanted to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Sabrosura! ...yeah so some variation of deliciousness/tastefulness

  

  adjectives that show you how cool this event was! And the BEST part is, I got to dress up for it!! (Me in my new red dress con mi novio; Photo Credits: Joy Ekuta, ‘13) I can’t wait until next year!

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 13, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  He Zigs, He Zags MIT's new video podcast.

  

  , sports, and the occasional hack." I hosted Episode 4, check it out! Hosting is harder than it looks! I have a newfound respect for Jon Stewart ... scripted. You can also check out the first three episodes: Episode 3 has

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Updates CPW, admitted students parties, the "telethon," and financial aid.

  

  registering for Campus Preview Weekend is tomorrow (Tuesday). I really hope you can make it! CPW registration is available from your MyMIT portal, in ... pictures and reviews to me; I hope to post some here. Finally, if you have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  honestly, does the distinction even matter? When I was in my late teens ... at my interests in mathematics. But I'm not a teenager anymore, and I ... wouldn't carry out the rest of my career in the same manner. I want to work

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  to college - I played solo in coffeehouses, as half of an acoustic duo in auditoriums, as part of a band in various bars & clubs. I sang ... When I got my first guitar at age 3, I immediately began dreaming of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  outside. He flew in late last night (way after Raphael and I went to sleep ... volunteering (teaching English I think?) They told us about volunteering in ... Feyi are playing pool but I declined in order to record my adventures

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Early Action Updates Some helpful tips for those working on their EA apps.

  

  contact your interviewer ASAP in case your EC can still accommodate you. An ... , so that you can track your documents. I know that the Midyear ... [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Not Farewell After All Hello again!

  

  In my last entry, way back in June 2013, I painstakingly bid good ... : “Farewell, MIT blogosphere”). But I’m back!! Just in time to join other ... of medical school and absolutely loved it. In the past, I’ve had a lot

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.

  

  for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... appointments who live in dorms alongside undergrads or grad students. (Maseeh, Ashdown, and iHouse also have Residential Scholars.) When Shannon came to

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Infinite] Quarter Mile quarters + packing tape + sore knees == help cure MS

  

  they can turn a dollar bill into four quarters? Truly, we live in the ... Wikipedia, is when: On several days each year, the sun sets in alignment with ... Newgrange and Maeshowe in that the sunlight passes through the mass of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 4, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  cool system that I think some of you might like. Ksplice is system for ... loaded, can be used to immediately patch vulnerabilities or introduce new ... , Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

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

  

  part of MIT folklore, hacks can tell much about MIT's culture and ... of the interdisciplinary nature of MIT. In 2005 MIT Professor Emeritus Samuel Jay Keyser gave a talk on the history of hacks. In Where the Sun

  • by Laurie Everett
  • August 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Scheduling Conflict Which class should I take? (Results from the previous poll posted.)

  

  offered during overlapping time slots -- which one should I take? Don ... Department in fall, 2006: The Challenge of World Poverty. The class is intended for students interested in the challenge posed by massive and persistent

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... weekend, but as long as you understand that coming in to the weekend, I ... Preview Weekend (CPW), I figured it would be worthwhile to spend a little

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Twenty thousand paper cuts and twenty thousand leaves

  

  , which was weird in the sense that I had to actually get up from bed to ... claimed it arrived when it, in fact, had not. I checked my mailbox, I asked ... HackerRank tests, which I did in one sitting. The next week, I got two more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 13, 2020
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Evaluate your MIT Student Experience Dear {{FIRST_NAME}}, Every four years, MIT surveys all undergraduate students about vario...

  

  [annotation note="this email came on monday, and i had time to kill (which is rare) so i sat down and filled out this incredibly long survey ... aspects of their academic and student life. The survey is essential in

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 27, 2019