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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  Having a brother who's eleven years younger than you has its perks: 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was ... feel bad about it (actually, a lot of people my age do that...) 3. You

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come Together What do you believe in?

  

  the hypothesis "wanting something doesn't make it real", we find one ... beginning. There exists a popular webcomic called xkcd. Its creator: Randall Munroe. Generally the comic is true to its tagline. It's nerdy, it's cute

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 9, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Honse. Nnnyeeeeeeiiiiiigghhhghhhghhhhhh!!!!! 🐎

  

  don't translate well into hot glass – long faces, spindly limbs, and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 26, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Update Some news & notes for the Class of 2011.

  

  once you've decided to come and made your travel arrangements. As long as

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Thirteen Theses on Wide Tim In a world which really is topsy-turvy, the true is a moment of the false.

  

  its own general unity, as a pseudo-world apart, an object of mere ... society it is specifically the sector which concentrates all gazing and all consciousness. Due to the very fact that this sector is separate, it is the common

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  water on my laptop. it died instantly; the technicians at the [annotation ... Cambridge"]Microcenter[/annotation] took one look at it and told me not to bother fixing it since my motherboard is a goner. it took about six

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  like “I didn’t know poetry could do that”. It isn’t quite the same experience, reading it online, but still. An absolutely stunning, incisive ... extraordinarily dense interview. I didn’t get through all of it, and I don’t think I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  LAST! It's the end of the world as we know it!

  

  physics goes online today (err…technically it’s already been online since ... at the thing. From for blog Whoa, yea it's big. In fact it ... engine room where they feed it babies, or so I assume. Ok but seriously

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 10, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Quarrying Around Ice skating in an underground tunnel

  

  adventure with the MIT Caving Club. I really enjoyed it, and I wanted to ... go and signed up for the trip. It was an annual trip that the Boston ... hike uphill in the snow, and it was absolutely beautiful. There was snow

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 21, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Everyday I’m Trufflin’ But not really since it takes 4 hours

  

  , It's A Party. For those people taking 2 classes, UROPing, and working, It's A Pain. For Chris M. '12, It's Amazing Pterodactyl. For me, I think it's in between a party and a pain. Maybe something like a picnic

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorms The closest I'll get to an entry about the different dorms

  

  dorms because unless you've lived there, you can't describe it. Sure, I ... . This isn't to say I won't tell you if you ask, but I'll avoid typing it ... stored the file away figuring it would be useful for something one day

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really ... systems administration for high-reliability systems. But...don't take it from me. Take it from Ted Ts'o '90. Ted is an active kernel hacker who

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week In Review An end-of-year freshman advising event, and my friend's 6.115 final project.

  

  : It's Director of Financial Aid Daniel Barkowitz, holding up some fondue ... and Academic Programming. It was about $50/person! (There were three types of fondue -- this one had cheddar in it, and there was another that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Almost Famous You probably think this entry is about me.

  

  of The Tech since the marathon, so of course they decided to cover it ... one... ...and although it's a bit unflattering, I still think it's ultimately better for society that they put a picture with me in it on the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 21, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  remember the sailing, you might have been thinking, “Hmm, it sounds like Kate really wants to talk more about this, but also knows that it would be ... , awkwardly.” Okay, maybe it’s a little plausible that you’d be thinking exactly

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  [Guest Post] GetSimmons! Writing is hard, so here's a video game instead

  

  How to play: Use your arrow keys to move the tiles. When two tiles with ... is not intended to be a ranking (boo), but is instead based on how many

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing the MIT Application Essays Hurgh. I know.

  

  you want to study?" essay 5:17 The "how do you improve the lives of ... former Associate Director of Admissions https://mitadmissions.org/blogs/entry/how

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 28, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  Ever wonder what a deep fried McChicken would taste like? How about deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... attest to just how terrifying delicious re-deep-frying deep-fried food is

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two quick items from the web Anthropology of War and Peace, and a ton of snow at Chi Phi.

  

  whether war is intrinsic to human nature, what causes war, how particular cultural experiences of war differ, and how war has affected American culture

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  First Blogiversary One year ago today, "McGann's Factors" began.

  

  . Over the past year, I've learned a lot about blogging and how to best ... criticism, or any other helpful comments about how I can be a better blogger

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 5, 2005