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• Blog / Hacks

  This was meant to be written a week and a half ago

  

  sculpture that lives in the East Campus courtyard. We tried really hard to get ... . Because it was 6:45 in the morning. And I'd gone to bed sort of later than I ... the cannon, leaving a cute toy one in its place. We weren't supposed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  that we weren’t smart enough for/didn’t have enough time to cover in 6 ... , except now we get to use FPGAs that are more than 10x as powerful as the ... -grown cucumbers to lecturers sometimes). Overall, I’m having a great time in this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... bridge, and I’m starting to apply for jobs and work in tech and do those ... , who was the one to fix all the things in the house (from computers to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my ... .[/annotation] So imagine me flabbergasted when I learn that in addition to all the ... of 11 to get points. Varsity Athletics: A year of competition is 4

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Stop and Smell the Seasons Before it's winter and your nose is so numb you can't smell anything.

  

  effervescence of autumn in just one day. Photo credits to Elisa '17. Thanks for ... pumpkin patch, breathing in the smell of falling leaves and listening to the ... . Despite the rampant snacking, our bags were filled to the brim in no time

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  forbidden gatorade cell media looks tasty...

  

  get really angry and stop growing when we put them in 50% heavy water ... taste of alcohol. Is this safe??: 0/10 Probably not -- in addition to the ... ethanol sometimes has a small amount of methanol mixed in specifically to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  the white carpet, so we got to sink into the clean softness, get ... one wants to waste the precious A/B/C/No Record grading). They are, in ... reasons, which I’ll reveal in another post. 11.125 will get a bullet point

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Day at Stanford University wait, what?

  

  break, I decided to visit some of my Stanford friends and spend a day in ... . Stanford...is not like MIT. Where to start? Stanford is sunny and spacious ... , rectangular. Instead of drowning in camera-armed Chinese tourists you should

  • by Allan K. '17
  • June 3, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  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 / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in ... 're registered for classes, and the emails begin to pour in! It's all very exciting ... that each September I seemed to get acclimatized more quickly: the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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

  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