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  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... ’t trace back to the specific moment that I fell in love with science fair ... bullseye in mind. I want you to imagine then, an overzealous freshman

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Hacks

  Practice Safe Hacking No, there are no LEDs

  

  Hacking at MIT is steeped in tradition and still occurs to this day. Hackers deploying any hack always subscribe to a strict code of ethics. This ... . # Always leave things as you found them, or better. # Leave no permanent

  • by Snively '11
  • April 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cambridge Traditions and 5 Course Meals

  

  a chance to chat with students and professors in our major about ... so we had to explain it to him), Formula 1, and other life in Cambridge ... Here in Cambridge, all new students must go through a matriculation

  • by Cambridge
  • October 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iDoor Opening your boyfriend's dorm room door? There's an app for that.

  

  open and close his door. Whether you believe him or not, I have to admit ... submitted the video to Hack A Day. (In response to whoever commented, "that ... Almost a year ago, I met a kid who tried to convince me to come back

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  note="in fact, I started this blog to avoid reading it! but it has now ... ’t start out this week expecting to be in this position, but here we are ... only periodically read a page or three. To be clear, the problem is not

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 4 Finishing Exams and The Future!

  

  Octopus, Apocalypse or Iron Man, we were always left in awe. In this piece ... question. New York Apartments To Finally Be Hospitable Having lived in the ... too far off and maybe I'll be able to afford it in my lifetime. Quantum

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  fair chunk of the grade to participating in various forms – whether it ... Engineering), or analyzing memoirs and student essays in 21W.022 (Writing Autobiography), or giving several presentations to a classroom full of your peers

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... -person local, in-person far away, in-person fly-to-CA-on-short-notice), and type ... pleasant surprise. Plus, I volunteered to be a lab assistant in 2.00b: Toy

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  to me in a situation like this-- whether I knew the lyrics or not, my ... 've been stuck in a lift We've been trying to reach you, Thom This is the ... they might need to succeed while they’re there. In short, you get to

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre ... month or two later that I had secured a spot in my first choice dorm. Room ... different floors of the dorm and talk to upperclassmen about living in that

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Yay CPW! I'm just trying to see how many blog entries we can get in the RSS…

  

  getting to meet a lot of you, but it was exhausting- I lived in the Burton ... about all of the things that needed to be done in the next x hours) and ... CPW is finally over, which basically means I'm back to sleeping again

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s all about the numbers… Jump back into the basements for the first of two entries early this week on…

  

  'll ask "8.01 or 8.012?". As a celebration of MIT's devotion to numbers ... over to 66, descend the stairs (as detailed in the last entry), and ... Here at MIT, just about everything is referred to by its number. To

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  , and at a quarter to five, the mailman came to post the letters. Sadly, I missed the photo of the postman coming to take away the letters. We have ... than 500 students are on the waitlist. More than 8,000 students, or 80

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Crocheting With the Firehose Gauge your stitches, gauge your life

  

  store in Cambridge?[/annotation] To whom will I bestow crocheted gifts ... .[/annotation] In the end, I think there is more to crochet than stitches. It's a ... reality, I carried the same hook size from high school, but in comparison to

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 13, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  Admissions Ben) was awesome enough to send a link to my blog in to the ... too! Or maybe you could convince some security gaurds beforehand to turn ... would turn hackers in, unless they really hated one of them or something

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  apply in the first place – don't tell Ben or Nance; it'll go to their ... less than stellar. I sat in my assigned seat at a table next to Jennifer ... birthday and all. If you have a free moment or two, take some time to look

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  , as my big sister used to say (her boyfriend was in the Marines). But my ... before, because I remember trying to play Assassin's Creed in ninth grade ... get in to, like video games, but I doubt that I will, because even if I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in ... treadmill looks like.) This is the Porter Room. Back in the day it used to be ... dance and theater groups) will request to use the space for practices or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i ... need something to snap me out of this stupor. --- working in boston ... other, miscellaneous things to worry about but combine them together, and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another Toy Story Turns out toy design isn't all play, but that doesn't mean it's not fun!

  

  again, I would in a heartbeat. [Photo credit to Sherry '15!] 2.00b ... with some exciting stories! As you may or may not recall, I mentioned ... Llama to make what we like to call: The Equalizer. -Cue awesome sound

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 25, 2012