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

  

  that have happened at MIT. In a nut shell, a hack is an addition to the ... is left as an exercise for the interested reader. Inevitable question ... MIT a lot, which is natural; I talk about it in my biography after all

  • by Snively '11
  • June 7, 2008
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  A Few of my Favorite Things (Counting Blessings) Maybe the most sentimental blog post I’ve written.

  

  I’m home in Pennsylvania for three weeks, for the second time this ... . Getting an email and it’s a comment on a blog post. Writing alone in a ... and State College have both become home, though in very different ways

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 6, 2013
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The Muti Water Project ...is finished!!!

  

  lasting water source for a town, Muti, in my father's home province, Kafa ... and lower into the ground. As an example, in natural disaster scenarios ... ’s sort of like voltage potential rings). The map is also shaded for an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  anatomy of a freshman year 🦴🧠🩸🖐️🫀 my first year at mit, told through the body

  

  through in that class. i think 8.022 for me was what a lot of new students ... neglecting for the first 18 years of my life. in my freshman spring, i took 21 ... activities:  [annotation note="a club that shows films in a lecture hall for

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 9, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Bleary-eyed Some thoughts and reflections on this year's admission cycle - particularly for those not admitted.

  

  , and even more at MIT as an undergrad (many for studying/academic reasons ... sleep every 30 hours or so for a week. In other words, I've had my fair ... day, just a couple weeks ago, after having been in committee for 4 days

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 16, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mind and hand

  

  is Latin for "Mind and hand". Now, in most cases, a school motto isn't particularly meaningful. It's a slogan that sounds cute. In the case of MIT, I ... . It reflects something I consider to be an important component of MIT

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HNY from NYC for IAP, 2016 time passes so quickly, help

  

  Happy 2016! (By the way: 2016 = 2^5*3^2*7, in case you need the ... .) After finals, my brother and I flew home and stayed there for about two ... live in deep suburbia, the sort of place whose main assets are relative

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dormspam-the-game (Part 3) parting remarks from no-longer-anonymous gamemasters

  

  of things in life happen); we just had an idea and ran with it. Our ... [/annotation] in funding and we applied for it. If you really want to examine the ... design For dormspam-the-game, we ran 5 separate games. In this section, we

  • by Phi A. '21
  • October 6, 2020
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  tell you about my life after MIT.  But in order for me to properly tell ... ;   In September 2011 I started studying for a Master of Public ... .  (She's awesome.)  In the summer of 2012 I got an internship at a startup

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Cozy Hobbit Times, Cozy Hobbit Food

  

  teaspoon each (or to taste). Boil for an hour or until the leaves are of ... fat. Then you dump it all in a pot and boil it for a while, then you ... In 2015 I got to experience a longtime dream of mine, finally finding

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Steady-state Equilibrium Featuring screaming as stress relief

  

  teach you to think about computation, and in the same way, MIT is not an ... -- THREE WEEKS AGO -- Thursday night, while debugging an Arithmetic Logic Unit for a 6.004 lab, after registers and stack pointers and opcodes

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Super Blood Moon Eclipse bonnie tyler would be proud

  

  , too.” These are the words that echo in my head when I remember last ... it’s called in scary scientific terms), is a rare case in which a ... , really). In layman’s terms, it’s just a really huge moon that gets eclipsed

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what work is bite-sized senior spring

  

  for me, but not in the conventional sense. i'm insanely comfortable working a lot, working hard, working with my head in a book, working late at ... fall in the next few weeks. i've spent the past few years as an

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • February 10, 2018
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  The end of a chapter

  

  most beautiful places to visit in England for a reason! The charming town ... participate in a research project during term time. For me, such direct ... I learn in class, but also fuels my enthusiasm for science

  • by Linh V. '13
  • July 8, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  submitted in time for the EA deadline. Somehow, I managed to distract myself ... supposed to have an Educational Counselor interview for another college. I ... that. For the first time in a while, I was facing a stressful situation

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • December 12, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Defying That Sinking Feeling On learning to swim and envisioning success

  

  'm talking about an opportunity for personal growth. It's the big selling ... On my application for MIT, I made it a point to mention that I couldn't swim. Not because I wanted to come off as that kid who had done well in

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 29, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  nREXt and other bad acronyms a SCUFFY post

  

  recruit volunteers. It's Thursday, March 5th. I'm in a meeting for ... of our thoughts in a post-mortem, and leave it for the next CPW ... which I attended in 2018 and was a counselor for in 2019. Along with a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 18, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  in for a grad school paper. And he gave me what I am pretty sure was ... was either a) in a subject I felt I was bad at or b) on an assignment I ... bad grade in an area of my strength on an assignment I'd thought I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Feeling Many Feelings :) and :( and everything in between about decisions

  

  , in order for connection to happen, we have to allow ourselves to be ... dollar for every time my mother told me to lower my voice, I could probably ... told me to chill and “be cool” in selection committee – I told her that

  • by Jessica Ch'ng
  • March 16, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  meets strict nutritional guidelines for sodium and sugar established in ... provides for MIT students, whether they live in a cook-for-yourself community, off-campus in an FSILG or independent housing, or even if they just want

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021