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• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  When I brought up at a blogger meeting that I was thinking about ... . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and people have some strong opinions about what's good and what's bad; at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  storage is by renting a storage space at U-Haul for the summer and then renting a truck at the beginning and ends of the school year to transport ... things. Yida and I moved out together at the beginning of the summer and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  My first hackathon ever was last year at TechCrunch Disrupt in New ... secure. It turns out that Sia actually started at HackMIT 2013. Hack ... leave. Miraculously, I made the cut. At the opening ceremony, we heard

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the over-achievers or 6 for the eventually sleep-deprived). Well, at least we ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  subjects, but economics at MIT is different from AP Macro, and disciplines like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help ... . Greene GSL offers language instruction courses at a variety of levels to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  residential areas, stopping at every block to let out tired adults. It’s a ... for different parts of the world, at least for the beginning of the ... instructors at MIT respect every student’s input, never claim to have the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP ... . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a ... beauty you can mope dreamily at, but would rather not step into, because

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  ideas and being really, astoundingly good at the whole art thing. She ... at Kingston-Ulster Airport, we could see patches of blue sky through ... Channel. (After a bit of Googling, I learned that he made the trip at an

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  each other. At the time, Facebook was pretty basic and wasn't even open ... state. Most prefrosh didn't have smartphones (which were quite limited at ... at CPW, and many of us ended up staying in touch throughout our time at

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  I graduated My brass rat is upside-down and my dorm room is bare

  

  Track by 8:15am. I was at Johnson at 8, only to find a line stretching ... 2014 didn't look familiar at all, as well as how much affection I felt ... nauseous all morning but forced two blueberry muffins down anyway. At some

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2013…The Parent Experience!

  

  best way for them to figure out if they are comfortable and at home on ... live with current students and their life at MIT is somewhat different ... comments in viewing my dorm when I was a student at MIT but for me it was the

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  girl at arm’s length, so that the symbol he drew on the board sits ... the theoretical physicists by the chalk handprints on their slacks.) At ... standing a foot away, grinning at me. Frank Wilczek was grinning at me. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Adventure’s Out There….. in Boston! Summer shenanigans at MIT

  

  it so many times that it's just losing meaning at this point...) Last ... 's really good at helping you find out about yourself in that way. After all ... 'll never look at a rainbow the same way! Eating around Boston! Because I was

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • July 20, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Systems and Light [by Miren Bamforth '15] Even MIT's art scene is a little nerdy.

  

  and two other ARTalk bloggers in 21M.A12 (Arts at MIT), I would like to ... different facets of art here at MIT, followed by some casual chitchat about ... onlookers into the piece. I found myself staring intently at the soft light

  • by ARTalk
  • October 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In which brains are awesome Neener neener neener.

  

  , having never taken advantage of the "hey kids, look at my schedule!" post ... so much) So, let's take a look at the schedule of a first ... . (Please send any hypotheses you may have to keri-lee at mit dot edu. I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  flights of stairs from the subway, then looked at my map and declared, "I ... next to me and was like, "Got a drink?" At that time I knew it was time ... wakarimasuka?" She didn't know where it was exactly, but she looked at the map

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... unacceptably tragic, especially at an institution where “sleep is like currency ... . Other news: I have at this point exhausted the bloggability of not being

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tasty water, the Charles River, and other things that are not synonymous First post!

  

  nature. I stashed the water in my assigned kitchen cabinet back at Random ... is probably the least fascinating thing I have done at MIT. I've gone ... ), slept in a 3-foot long storage container at the Boston Museum, watched

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... , building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at ... have other things to do. I was sceptical at first and slightly

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  examiners, who are an anonymous group who set the questions to be examined at ... paradise to most MIT students, staring at a 17 question Analysis problem set ... high burn-out rate during the 13 week semester at MIT is not nearly as

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008