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  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Planet, we look at three large hackathons of the fall season. Hackathons are a plenty at MIT all throughout the year, but the weekend of Oct 3 ... You're flipping through the TV channels, bored out of your mind

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... spam. Seasons of spam Seasons of spam Ten thousand thirty-two hundred ... thousand thirty-two hundred eighty semi-hours How do you measure the life of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  I'll remember to look at (like on the wall, or in my pocket most of ... double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tale of the Midnight Tool! Simulcast in 1337 for our viewers at home!

  

  fact. But what makes it so hard? it's just maths right? Sort of. Here at ... pth derivative of x^p is p!, thus, the p+q derivative is 0, because at p ... As some of you may have noticed, the world didn't end on Wednesday

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted ... dinner at Uno's afterward. And here I am at 4:30 AM writing this post, but

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  several pieces of paper. This really hurt my brain at first. It took awhile ... . It was a fear of being wrong that came at the price of making progress ... left before Demo Day, frustrated and tired of staring at code, we banged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The swing of things MIT happenings.

  

  projects are all happening at once, and lots of people are pretty hosed ... students. The unveiling of the Brass Rat (at an event called Ring Premiere ... It’s mid-October, which means that life at MIT is crazy right now

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Impressions of a Harvard Class I’m taking Irish Folklore and a writing seminar on fairy tales!

  

  greater proportion of their lives to the arts. This makes sense, because at ... , that number was somewhat higher, at least 5 out of fourteen — nearly ... As they said in the old, more hardkore days of MIT, you all might

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  in which these quotes were said (and I am the genesis of at least a few ... Some of you may recall Shuli's whiteboard post, and upon this whiteboard were a number of (SFW) out of context quotes. Well, as it happens

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Mechanics of Blogging How do I do it?

  

  you drag over all those colored boxes at the top of your screen and look at all of the options that drop down, we get to choose from those. We ... seen a new post appear at the bottom of the main page, the date hadn

  • by Snively '11
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Flavor of Love As a wise woman once said, "Free is my favorite flavor."

  

  to name me Ishmael, but somebody managed to talk her out of that one ... that it's such an important part of MIT undergrad culture that the site ... -mail list, which is really cool (although half of the messages are like, LOTS

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Busy times

  

  busy for students, too, as today was the third day of classes at MIT. Two ... each other, and both are taking one of my top-5 favorite classes at MIT ... For those of you hoping for an Admissions status update, here goes

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First day of school The first day of school

  

  Remember what the first day of school was like in elementary school? At least for me, I would be so excited that I could barely sleep the ... new school year, I saw V for Vendetta last night at the LSC (MIT's very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Nibble of Music

  

  's South Asian Cultural Show (a huge event in Kresge Auditorium) at MIT; of ... at home, as I'll do today. I really do enjoy reading your applications ... coherence of an album keeps me focused. But yesterday, in honor of Daniel

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  a huge part of the undergrad tradition at MIT. Getting your "brass rat ... As a lot of you probably know, the MIT class ring is a little more than a simple piece of jewlery. First of all, it's huge. Like, as rings

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  my hottest STEM takes actively starting internet wars

  

  and opinions indefinitely. I offer you the following takes with limited ... 'm five. 90% of things I'm learning very much can be explained in simple ... "let's show this to other people--it makes a lot of sense"? I'm not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • July 28, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... using the wrong lures and jigs. Nevertheless, I had a lot of fun. It made ... their MIT application. In my three years of reading applications, I can

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  chronicle of a snowstorm foretold only a week late ;-;

  

  inches. — “major winter storm to deliver 1-2 feet of snow across new ... be around 0.90 inches, corresponding to a snowfall of around 14 inches (assuming the temperature remains in the 20s), with an additional 5 inches of

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • February 4, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Howdy From The Middle Of RA Selection It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought…

  

  It's Sunday at lunchtime and we have a bit of a break, so I thought I ... kickoff meeting. By 1PM the committee was looking at its first applications ... I arrived at 8:30AM on Saturday morning, the Infinite looked like this

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Admitted Student Gatherings we want to meet you!

  

  Hi! I’m Katie Kelley, one of the Admissions Counselors here at MIT ... Enjoy a sunny Sunday afternoon at the home of an MIT Alum in Phoenix. Tuesday Enjoy one of two meetings held in the greater DC Metro Area at the

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 21, 2012