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Blog / Admissions
International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…
things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... ; on the most recent list, we're third, supplying $8,628,074 in aid to ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and -
Blog / Academics & Research
Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte
made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... companies from tiny startups to Microsoft had brought in, to the Tesla coil ... not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having -
Blog / Classes
Screaming on a page (kinda) about 6.009 Please excuse what's about to follow
basically made my code recite back to me EXACTLY what it was doing in scripts ... .009. I want to be back at MIT and swing on the rope swing in the East ... spent on a little blue couch, waking up early, leaving my physical form to -
Blog / Events
LeaderShape 2012 Six unforgettable days.
Massachusetts, allowing students the opportunity to fully engage in the leadership ... What do Chancellor Grimson, The Salvation Army, and I have in common ... takes place over IAP. Participants will be asked to wrestle with such -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Above MIT The sky's the limit.
takeoff is a good place to start with a disclaimer: my father was in control ... frequents these blogs! * The word "prospective" doesn't distribute to parents ... really, don't plan out your child's future that far in advance, dude. Wait -
Blog / Extracurriculars
MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…
were holding five hostages in an abandoned prison, and they were to ... and my buddy. We were then searched and told to wait in a nice warm bus ... outnumbered 4 to 1. However, in the end, they couldn't hold the position. We -
Blog / Academics & Research
The First Ending it's the last day of classes and I am having some feelings.
my total time in college is coming to an end. I suppose this is ... maturation. You only need to sit in a poetry class, people-watch at a few ... team in 16.00 (Introduction to Aerospace Engineering) building a blimp -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"
inside of the building in an effort to preserve the years of artwork ... Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... Last Friday night at around 2 am I finally got around to visiting the -
Blog / Academics & Research
The Magic of Those Ivory Keys (Guest Blog!) Part 2 of 3 of "Why I Declared a Humanities Major at MIT" series!
times when I felt pressure from my parents to practice piano. In the ... did you decide to major in music? Jenn: I decided to double major ... /ensemble/piano accompanying, and giving a solo recital in the spring. In order to audition for -
Blog / Challenges
MIT and Slavery a developing history, and a live webcast
, meeting in the MIT archives. In December, the students presented to me what ... to the community: To the members of the MIT community, At MIT, we ... , we must attend to some newly uncovered facts from our past. A -
Blog / Life after MIT
O hai A reintroduction
. I got a JOB here, people! In Admissions. Me. An adult thing. Here! The ... position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!
’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... in snow, thick white snow that looked like they would be so much fun to ... -dance communication-thingy/self-procreation/photosynthesis ritual to call in the alien -
Blog / Events
Doggy Birthday Meet Simmons Hall's smallest - and furriest - new resident, who just turned 8.
Maseeh and Burton Conner, to have one on the premises. In honor of ... for Tai Shan, the giant panda born at the National Zoo in 2005, whom a ... residents, she's not here to take classes or do any research. Primarily -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat
thesis proposal about to be turned in. Reese what are you doing that is ... Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... minute. Either the ounce of fluff in its jaws was somehow dulling its -
Blog / MIT Life
Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.
masterpiece of breathlessly-paced storytelling, trying to scan in every color-saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest ... .: Drowning in tired while clinging to last shreds of willpower to floss -
Blog / Miscellaneous
Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…
, Jeff has in the past used Ksplice to keep this server up, which many ... developed this as his master's thesis, and today released the system to the ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when -
Blog / MIT Life
Snow lovers, unite! The sky is falling...
. Every major road seems to be jammed. My friend said that in the 20 minutes ... , And if we’ve no place to go, Let it snow, let is snow, let is snow! The ... , he said that “it’s always warm in the library.” He was right! Even -
Blog / MIT Life
The Wall A Lack of Color
I decided to come back here a little early to go see an AMAZING concert and spend New Years in a place that I wasn't allergic to. (No ... I'm in my room in Senior House (which, before you ask, is not just -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
Atomic Friends a comic
in handwritten script to make the comic feel more journaled ... going into the electron to depict energy going in and another squiggly ... as he talks to Cami, softness in his eyes, a slight smile as he talks