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  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... was rather impressive. How did hackers manage to get a 600 pound

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... groceries. I go to chain restaurants with parking lots. Sometimes after I get ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  latter late, I get to live in my undergraduate dorm for two extra semesters ... lab I most wanted to work in and least expected to take me, the lab ... lot of trouble sitting still at work. I like to get up and get tea and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  qualifications, but I was scared I wouldn't be able to get a job at all. So despite ... wanted to get paid, then offer me less than that—I accepted the offer ... Near the start of the pandemic, I decided not to come back to MIT

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Fuji: Not Your Grandma’s Mountain I guess if we're being honest here there were actually a lot of grandmas climbing…

  

  stopped to get some of the best hot chocolate I have ever had in my life ... Station that we were literally standing in line to get to the top of the ... my underwear, and ready to throw in the really, really wet towel I was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life etc “fine,” “nice,” “good," "quiet"

  

  had slept) to go back to my room in East Campus and I don't know, listen ... how many unread emails I had in my inbox, decide to skip my HASS class, make coffee, try to get into a productive mindset. Think about blogging

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  in browser or download the app to your computer. It's free, and you can ... of pre-made templates for you to copy and use as your own! In this ... representation of information is a lot easier to take in quickly for me than just

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  .027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel to and from a foreign city over spring break, when students meet with ... , highlighting differences in city design and planning between the two locales

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my fall meetings this Sunday in Plainview, NY. Yesterday, I went fishing ... ahead of me in school, was working on her college essay on the bus to a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  for my photography seminar. I have 24/7 access to the darkroom in the ... contrast was pretty tricky to get right, but I'm pretty happy with how it ... Javascript to do neat 2-D animations in web browsers. Now, I'll preface this

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  friends. The important word to understand in that sentence is ‘celebrating ... didn’t end up being that nerdy, and it was cut in nice, sensible, easy-to ... to take classes in anything a teacher wants to teach. I still don

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Where are we going?

  

  hall gets a single vote in HouseComm). Eventually, Conor '07 (of 2nd West ... to make sure that EC gets a good housemaster, because we want EC to ... . And the students also figure that they're going to be gone in a few

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of work compared to freshman year; sadly, this heavier workload is coupled

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged ... I did get to spend the other half pondering my project and customizing

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Public service announcement One stereotype that I just won't accept.

  

  fastest (and most fun) way to get through problem sets is to do them in a ... high school (duh), and most people had to fight to get the opportunities ... everybody could get a 100% or something, so people take it upon themselves to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... me in my ignorance, it would be a major fashion faux pas to wear this ... East, on the wall next to her: And here she is again, getting fed an

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  that time of year… ...when every day feels like 48 hours instead of 24. When's summer?

  

  the strength to capitalize properly no more (nor the energy to invest in ... fill in where you're used to hearing cars, or horns, or construction. It ... cannot get here fast enough. My brain is very fried. There's only a couple

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  , though I could write an entire post in Japanese if I wanted to. Maybe I will later, but today’s not that day. I just wanted to share this ... more convenient in a classroom on campus? Well sometimes I have to leave

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nerdin’ Out algorithms are too cool

  

  up this Thursday ( O.O ahh ), and in the process of studying for it, I've realized how much I love it. <3 Every algorithm we've learned in the class is so incredibly relevant to daily life. (warning: i'm about to

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2012