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• Blog / Hacks

  Lost, Hosed & Confused I got hacked today.

  

  happened to me today. After my 24.900 lecture this morning, I decided to take a brief nap in the student lounge off of the Infinite Corridor. When I ... You know how in Saturday morning cartoons, there's usually some guy

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  that I need to put in this work now for when I apply to schools this ... . This is high school. --- Four years later at MIT, and here I am, in the ... . I'm sitting in classes, taking notes, doing homework. This is most of

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  before. In fact, I know the guy who made it, so it made for a great story to tell everybody in the floor lounge while we ate our Chinese food. I ... The floor on which I live, Conner 2, has a large TV. A large broken

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  studying here reminds me that I'm pretty fortunate to have had the ... down in your work day in and day out. Of course, CPW brings out the best in a lot of people: facilities pays extra attention to make sure things

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  . In an attempt to alleviate confusion, I sat down with my colleague Mc ... tried to make the distinction. One way to think of it would be this ... about putting an award in the "wrong" section, as there really is no best

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Guest Entry: Leadership @ MIT You can become a leader on the MIT campus. Here's how...

  

  , especially in a world where leadership, interpersonal, and management skills are required for competitive higher positions in all organizations. President Hockfield says in her inaugural speech, “With our expertise in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  pink/I want you to see me in a crowd[/caption] 4. And you hate it now ... post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... guitar. This has become a pretty intense hobby in the past few months

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Look at these pictures I drew in class from my lecture notes this semester

  

  [caption id="attachment_83529" align="aligncenter" width="550"] belugas actually don't have dorsal fins but uhhhh who cares[/caption] [caption id="attachment_83530" align="aligncenter" width="768"] i found out

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 15, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  running out of time the woes of every single graduating student

  

  to New York City with me. there's also the fact that I'll be in Africa this summer; I'm interning in Cape Town through MISTI, which is both ... rid of my belongings, which felt odd since I've collected so much in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 27, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone here loves to use formulas as much as possible, and in every scenario ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Jump into a new comfort zone!

  

  continuing work in research and achieving a doctorate in my field. I hope to ... keep in touch with the friends and contacts that I made abroad. MISTI ... internship with Max Planck Institute MIT-Germany Program 2011 I worked for

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 19, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  a spare pair of underwear packed discreetly in my back pocket, I ... line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common, but more EXTREME! You even see a bunch of people swimming in it all the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The second-best picture we took in Paris This entry is dedicated to Regis Philbin.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? I. M. Pei, who graduated from the MIT school of architecture in 1940, designed the glass pyramids in front of the Louvre. "Agh, I'm so tired." "Guys! We can get a great picture with the pyramid. Get in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  notes I take in a typical week of classes.  2.086- Numerical Computation ... before every lecture (1.5 hrs MW), so I opt to listen in and annotate those ... , at least in my experience thus far. I hope these notes were

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  *waves goodbye* Homeward bound

  

  in, I always thought of MIT graduates as geniuses. These people went to MIT and graduated, ergo, genius. By this standard, in two years I need ... That's it ladies and gents, sophomore year is over for yours truly. I

  • by Snively '11
  • May 19, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Bookends and every time / i leave this place / i'm terrified, terrified

  

  Five years ago I wore a barong and sablay. In my high school ... , I talk about Diana's Baths, a series of waterfalls in North Conway ... . I had my first day of classes in MIT. There's this saying I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 2, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Season Taking things into my own hands.

  

  , hastily labeled "Ideas for Later". And in this box I keep, surprise, ideas ... down. Then I'll throw it in the box, and whenever I get antsy about ... these projects. So that's exactly what I'm doing! My friends in Oregon

  • by Chris M. '12
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  The blogs are back in town

  

  Today in IAP individual events (I might go check out the Man Vehicle ... nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing something. ... week with a three-digit (in degrees Fahrenheit) fever, but still he

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 6, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I defer my enrollment?

  If you're admitted to MIT, you may defer enrollment for one or two years. After confirming your intent to enroll in MIT's first-year class ... at MIT to enroll in courses at another college or university.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  class I took last semester. Reading the literature and interviewing people for this paper taught me a lot about a subject that is central in many people’s lives but about which I knew almost nothing when I started, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012