It's currently 1:11 AM, four hours and forty-nine minutes before I'm slated to leave for my first year of college at MIT. I've been wandering around my house for the past half-hour or so, gathering all the final electronics, toiletries, and other miscellania that eluded other attempts at packing from this past week. Amidst this, I think the fact has finally hit me: I'm about to leave what's been my home for the past eighteen years for something... well, mostly unknown.
There's all of the traditional uncertainties about leaving house and home and family that come with this, and fears of new situations to be sure, but right now I want to think about a different view of this critical point: the chance for self-improvement.
Sunday, August 18, 2013
Friday, August 2, 2013
Tube-Hack: Da Vinci Catapult
Every year, MIT traditionally sends acceptance letters in special silver-cardboard "tubes".
A cornerstone of MIT culture is the "hacking" ideology: taking everyday objects, places, and situations and creatively transforming them into something new, surprising, and often funny.
Bring these two together, and you have a tradition on its own: the first hacks by the freshman class are on the very tubes in which they learned of their admission.
A cornerstone of MIT culture is the "hacking" ideology: taking everyday objects, places, and situations and creatively transforming them into something new, surprising, and often funny.
Bring these two together, and you have a tradition on its own: the first hacks by the freshman class are on the very tubes in which they learned of their admission.
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