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  Hacking A performance art that lets students remind the teachers who's smarter.

  

  should make a point of getting on that train.* I get asked about hacking at MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all. There are times when I get asked, out of the blue, what made me decide to

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Reading aka inhaling all the books i can before school starts

  

  some of the side characters, and I would have read both books in three ... things other than science, technology, or engineering”, and I would like ... partners in crime, my enemies, my friends. I had a wild imagination as a kid

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  150 years of MIT course catalogs the mit history you want to know

  

  insights into the kind of MIT history you won't read in history books. I ... catalog was published” and “today” means “today, in 2021”. I won't be ... or so would be in class, so around 230 hours of lectures. Meanwhile

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 15, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  On identity f(x) = x

  

  to have a tumblr blog back in 2015 or 2016, and I would always write ... I know so many people in MIT only on the surface-level. Sure, I can ... ’s in, but before that conversation, I viewed him as just that—someone who

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to decide which classes to take amazing classes and how to pick them

  

  things in a class without being officially in it; I've heard stories of ... in advance, here's considerations on picking classes and schedules ... and second semesters. See also: Cami's post. I have no clue and I need

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating The Tunnels…Of Freshman Academics You didn't actually expect me to write about hacking on the internet, did you?

  

  whatever you want. And get used to it. I want to double major in 6 and 2 and ... lot easier that I just didn't find out about until much later. I've been ... system, for a while, but after querying the 2015s, I discovered, to my

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 16, 2011
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I Miss the South Musings on a secret Instagram account

  

  that are relatively unprocessed. I would be doing readers a disservice to lie and say that was me. In real life, I am an opinionated, fast ... in my reservedness is a rare and mythical thing. Most of the time I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2022
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  MIT Is My Home Looking back and saying goodbye

  

  things I would do if I could do MIT all over again. In my four years at ... college in Colorado, I still would have felt that displacement of "home ... been able to take a photo with truly everyone in it ^^; And of course, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 13, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m not an imposter… I’m going to be featured on the MIT News homepage

  

  —metaphorically. Readings in my philosophy classes that I would have spent hours pouring over ... how you compare to anyone else directly. I remember in high school, after every exam, people would be sharing point scores. I would keep a

  • by ana~
  • October 29, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I Chose MIT On deciding where to go, now that you're in

  

  in your decision and prepared to give yourself to it fully. I think ... years. At Penn State I was at least a year younger than everyone in my classes, and thanks to AP credits I could graduate in two and a half years

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 29, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Thank you for reading A rigorous study of 26-year-olds (n=1) showed that getting older is positively correlated to the…

  

  confidence in my writing, and allowed me so many opportunities that I would ... about as long as I was in college, which is an incredibly weird feeling ... themselves (and are all probably making way more money than I do, since I'm in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advice you’ve heard before and a story you haven’t you can just skip to the pictures if you want to, I wont be offended.

  

  mandatory-attendance HASS class. The advantages? I got to sleep in later. I got to "save time" that would otherwise have been spent in class. I got ... roared in wintry fury outside. I got to brag about not going to class and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 2, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Guest Entry: Christina Bognet Supplemental materials to help you through the next few days.

  

  wonderfully exhilarating all at the same time. There would be hopeful, "I'm getting in! I'm getting in!" moments, followed by, "they'll never take me ... rational in convincing myself that things would turn out okay, at the end of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 8, 2006
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered ... structures is farther up my alley than telling you what’s in them. I’m sure ... in-depth look at Boston’s bridges, I’m sorry, but you’re in the wrong

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Confusion, by the Numbers my high school experience, via a google doc and some python

  

  felt in class. If I was bored, I would mess around with colors and ... , Ward Melville. In my three years there, I changed intellectually and emotionally in ways I couldn't have predicted. I spent this past summer

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • November 24, 2018
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All I Ever Really Needed to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (and at MIT)

  

  [Disclaimer: Not my last post! I've still got one more in me after ... faced with presenting a defense of all the ways I had changed in the last ... do grown up things in the grown up world. What did I learn at MIT? (We

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 24, 2013
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  I’m Still Standing after all this time at MIT

  

  would’ve been our Senior Week. In the fall, I’ll be over at Harvard to ... tl;dr I made a music video to commemorate graduation happening in a ... ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qo9elE7Ij-c One night, in the middle of my time away from MIT, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  We’ve been there, too. It feels like the calm before the storm. Please don't forget to breathe.

  

  that scale in years: the bottom of my gut would drop out, I'd hallow out ... would sink in and make my skin crawl. I had had enough panic attacks by ... submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  [Group Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Survivors three bloggers face the horrors of public transit

  

  excuse is that I forgot to sign up in the previous years. But that isn ... would make me change my mind. I’m also not that good at solving puzzles, especially when I’m under pressure. Getting jumpscared in front of friends is

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  either. I was in a holding pattern: the first six weeks of a semester would ... to get help, I don’t know how my story would have ended. In the event ... after a summer where I exercised regularly, sometimes jogging in the sun

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015