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• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  enough, sitting in the lobby . . . Students of MIT and CPW prefrosh, I am happy to announce that, in case of zombie invasion, we will have a ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA and How to Extract It Messy, slimy, colorful science from a class I taught for Spark.

  

  Covert Operations in Deep Cover and The Game Mechanics of Pokémon. There ... interested in the nucleus of the cell, which encloses the DNA. Your DNA is a ... , your DNA is identical in every cell of your body. It contains all the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 31, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A Blog Entry About Transition This blog entry is about transition. The act of passing from one state or place…

  

  transition. And in one sentence, I've completely ruined your hope of being ... for majors, in terms of FOOD - but it's still happening for me; I ... piece of parchment lodged in the mouth of a dazzling, sparkling horse of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 2, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freebieasy Because "Freebie" is already an entry title.

  

  my classes. You can ask my mother - I was super mopey the day before I ... the real world in front of the whole class even though you were totally ... . And also, in case you missed it last time - I'm doing a Q&A video

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 (7:17 AM) Sorry for the delay in updating but the rest of the day has ... faster than we can solve them ... bummer. Alright, I'm gonna get started on

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mid-January Updates The latest from Cambridge.

  

  , and you are looking to send us an update, I would recommend doing so in ... hope you can start to relax. I'm still getting some really stressed out ... . Lots of reading to be done! If you are a regular action applicant, please

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2007
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  during the spring term of their freshman year. I'm a fairly decisive person ... more unsure about majoring in 6-9. Wasn't really sure why I was feeling that way, since the obvious option is to major in something I liked to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest Post: Rush & Recruitment 2012 Evan and Denzil weigh in on this hectic week

  

  Chair of the Interfraternity Council, asked if I wouldn't mind sharing ... see each sorority with open and objective eyes. I can confidently say ... came to mind when the topic was broached were of the insanity shown in

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Birds Are Real, and So Is Quantum Physics Monkey see, monkey believe

  

  I believe in quantum physics now. The past few weeks have changed ... experiments in 6.2410 (Quantum Systems Engineering Lab) – a class I’m taking ... “classical” (non-quantum) limits. Most of the experiments in 6.2410 use

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  Logs." I love hilariously ridiculous spoof movies in which you can see ... (songs, for example, are the main element of a musical, or in the other ... interpretation of The Great Gatsby in which Gatsby is a seahorse when asked if

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [live blog] BLUEPRINT 2025 by the Blueprint Team // come see what we're baking!

  

  it reminds me of why I do hackmit in the first place <3 [caption id ... goooooood MORNING YALL 🌞🌞🌞 ...is what i told my team at 6:30am in ... HAPPENING!! anyway. i'm the director of blueprint, so i am a little busy, but

  • by Janet G. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  We are reinstating our SAT/ACT requirement for future admissions cycles in order to help us continue to build a diverse and talented MIT

  

  wherever we can, and think of the tests as a bridge for reasons I described ... educational trajectory, can do well in the kind of hard math and science tests ... below —  and in a separate conversation with MIT News today —  I

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Judd Logan is my homeboy He's amazing, so amazing

  

  Institute of Technology offered a similar deal. So in less than a month Logan ... home have, as a resident of the Cattaraugus Indian Reservation. "I don ... , according to the U.S Census Bureau, 42% of people his age and younger live in

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  about how much i miss MIT. i spent junior fall in a very weird state of ... always be someone there at all hours of the night and that when i was in my ... for the fall semester. i decided to do this for a lot of different

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect ... in to the weekend, I think you can learn a lot. That being said, CPW is ... probably won't see much in the way of tooling, of students working on problem

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  memories," he says. "I've been in these rooms hundreds of times, but I can ... of MIT in the game Minecraft. And given how dedicated, ambitious, and ... success. In a span of a few weeks, a group of around 300 people spent over a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Summary

  

  Today was the last day of 2.670. I had wanted to make a really cool ... engines: To see a video of my engine running, click here! I didn't get it to run in time for the speed competition, but afterwards I worked on it

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Obama’s Visiting MIT! Does that mean he gets an advantage in the admissions process?

  

  You may recall back in March of this year there were a couple blog ... Friday! Pretty exciting stuff. Regardless of your political views, I think ... that you might be interested in learning more about MIT. Of course, the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  widely seen as Nobel-caliber. So, coming off of that disappointment, I ... with the assistance of special catalyst molecules. Metathesis can be ... daily in the chemical industry, mainly in the development of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Growing Up bringing it back to 2007

  

  one thing now, you will be alive in 2016 -- breathing that sigh of relief, I see ;) You see, I wanted to drop in and, you know, tell you a ... you that in the world that I come from -- and you'll get to experience

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 20, 2016