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  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys admins, networks better than the IT department and operating systems better than the people who wrote them" - Dan T. '85 (my boss) I chuckled and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  , tests, med school interviews, extracurriculars, and more. By the time ... Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I finally read the last book in the Eragon series! Yeah...I haven't really

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , I'm awake before the sun has risen fully: I'm living at UPenn this ... , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at ... something at the Merck cafeteria (the latter happens way too often, sigh - one

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spring Break Good times all around.

  

  This past week was, hands down, the best spring break of my college ... and arrive safely in the ever-humid city of Houston, Texas. Enter: sleep, food, an absence of psets, and the realization that my younger

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sigma ChIgloo MIT Fraternity brothers engineer a 10 foot igloo while relaxing in Maine

  

  roommate Mike '13 and I did a quick calculation. Approximating the igloo we ... the construction.         If the density of ... quick internet query and are not 100% sure about), then the igloo weighs

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • March 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  MIT IreneCam tracking the storm - here and on the web.

  

  I've decamped from the Boston area northwards to New Hampshire for the weekend. My house in the suburbs of Cambridge, while high enough to ... , hang out with my brothers, and try to ride out the worst of it. But

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  It's Sunday, and the beginning of the second full week of June ... sleep. (I nearly slept again after that, but hey, it was also 1 in the ... 'm practically living the Bruno Mars life right now, only I'm working toward a

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maker Faire 2011 cool people who make cool things

  

  one of my hometown crew from back in NH, but he now lives out in the bay ... Earth Solar. I've been out to Palo Alto / San Mateo in the past, but never had the opportunity to visit Greg, so this past weekend was my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 23, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Women’s Initiative A bit about my classes - and why girls are awesome

  

  everything except enough time. I'm taking the following classes this semester: 7.05 - General Biochemistry - In the last two classes, we learned that ... participation, and the remaining 5% on some in-class assignment that is supposedly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 8, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so ... to run because they looked pretty coming through the finish line. After

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  It’s Almost Here! The sun? Orientation? Only time will tell.

  

  I think the last time I saw the sun was Saturday. In a strange turn ... , unrelenting rain, and chilly temps since the weekend. Welcome back to Boston…or is it Seattle? Anyway, grab your umbrella just in case. While the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 26, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where I’ve Been All this time ...

  

  For the past month or so, architecture studio has been holding me ... studio and not come out…till the wee hours of the morning. I think I recall ... 77 Mass. Ave. See the red circle? That’s where my studio is

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art-related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Always Moving Forward: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston MIT has the nation's leading running back in Division III football?!? And he's a Computer…

  

  I thought you might enjoy the below blog by Professor Patrick Henry ... 's permission. Below that, I have also reprinted the USA Today article that Prof ... Henry Winston ’65, SM ’67, PhD ’70 I went to the last football game of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  After I finish my M.Eng (Master's of Engineering) thesis in the spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real world. So, I've begun to search for the perfect job to excite, challenge

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Still Going… haha... yeah. It's not over for all of us.

  

  May 8th was when the senior thesis was due. But there's an unofficial actual deadline for the senior thesis that I am now desperately trying to ... from you and the due date was last Friday. You can have an extension

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fresh Food! Here at last!

  

  likely you'll be at the mercy of whatever treats the school gives you ... fruit in the form of a campus produce stand that will open for business beginning Tuesday, March 31. The MIT Market will sell fruits and vegetables

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • March 31, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish ... Russia in the qualifying rounds of the Eurocup, they taught us Americans all the important insults they thought we needed to know. But let's see

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  Oh, hey, the weekend's here. Awesome. In other news, the last full ... the last problem sets I will ever do as a freshman, which is a pretty awesome feeling. All that's left to finish up this semester is the final

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  Believe it or not, one of the most enjoyable experiences of my MIT ... , planners - all the inventions that, artificial constructs though they may be ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008