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• 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 [Editor's note in 2017: This post contains outdated contact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 / 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 / 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
• FAQ / First-year application

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• 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
• 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
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action A summary of this year's early action admissions process.

  

  students in the middle, about three quarters of the applicants, were deferred to regular action for further consideration. I am often asked why MIT's admit rate for early action is so low in comparison to the admit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Etiquette Workshop: The Keys to Painless Networking Jodi Smith taught the UPOPers the keys to painless networking!

  

  program which teaches sophomores about leadership and work-place dynamics, I ... I thought I would share: 1. At a networking event, always wear a ... say "My name is Joe, and I have three dogs," while that line might be

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  More quick answers Finaid questions, etc.

  

  . ------------------------------------- What if I don't meet today's deadline? All admitted students who apply ... bottom line is, get your financial aid materials in as soon as possible ... . ------------------------------------- When will decisions be posted online and sent out in the mail? When we

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Scenes From Admissions, Round Two What's going on in this picture?! Another installment of our new little game.

  

  Occasionally I'll show you a picture and give you some clues to see if you can figure out what's going on in the scene. Welcome to Round ... 's taking with an upside-down pen So - what's going on in this picture? As

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  inevitably care for me in my old age to play music that I actually like.   ... whole phase in October where I listened to Cab Calloway's version of "St ... My personal judgment of the blogger: this is all stuff I listened to in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  ’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching ... can afford to print their logo in the middle of each square between ... the errors creep in. You can physically feel splices when running the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the schools I want to get into. I was in your spot once, and I'm there once

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  in my key and walking out the door. I knew it was coming, of course, ever since I moved in. And in the last few weeks my mind had been ... ,[annotation note="I will not comment on our method of getting in"]we had no problems

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022