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Blog / MISTI
Last train to Koblenz If I get back by 7:30, I don't need a reservation.
DID YOU KNOW? GERMANY EDITION According to one of my labmates, authorities have set up a row of big-screen projectors in Berlin spanning an ... , to my untrained chemical engineering eyes, simply miracles of urban -
Blog / Academics & Research
Back to work
CPW was a lot of fun, and it was great meeting so many of you in ... guys got to see some of the nice weather we have hidden around here ... grumbling for part of them because of having to wake up at 7am. ;-) April 21 -
Blog / Academics & Research
UPOP Program and a look at Jay Dweck (‘77) UPOP is a one-week seminar that teaches leadership and work-place dynamics to sophomores studying engineering…
goal of this program is to teach leadership and work-place dynamics to ... Teaching Assistant (TA) who is in industry/research, to complete a series of ... , conversations with TAs, and guest speakers, with the intention of finding a super -
Blog / Events
I’m still here. Promise.
-credit class that meets twice a week for an hour and spend the rest of my time ... meets for 9 hours a day 4 days of the week. That sounds like a plan!" Well anyway, I just got 11 hours of sleep last night, so I finally feel -
Blog / MIT Life
I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…
) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my dorm and my family helped me carry all my crates of junk up to my room. Speaking of my room, it got changed. Several times. I was originally supposed -
Blog / Challenges
am i boring or just overstimulated?
with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of ... prepared me for, but a social one. Why does the "endless" amount of resources ... can take in college as an extension of being young, fairly detached from -
Blog / Challenges
how not to be a mathematician on taking time & not running away
By the end of my freshman year, I was convinced that I had not learned anything in my classes at MIT. By the end of my sophomore year, the ... part in terms of math academics, I had fallen to believe something -
Blog / Academics & Research
How Hard is MIT? A quantitative analysis
results even refer to? And don’t even get me started on the lack of units. I shudder as I think of all the unsuspecting high-school students making ... change. Thanks to MIT’s Department of Materials Science and Engineering -
Blog / Events
science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!
loved it. Science bowl, for those of you who haven’t heard of it, is a ... can, [annotation note='speaking of buzzing in, RIP to Alex Trebek, who ... school and lost touch with science bowl. Fast forward to the end of -
Blog / People & Identities
OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe
, being physically, mentally and financially protected from the realities of what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... bought by the blood, sweat and tears of the black men and women that came -
Blog / How to Human
finding direction reasonable goal-setting? who is she?
i'm the kind of person who is very motivated by the prospect of ... any of the goals i set. i was HYPED about starting a bullet journal a ... of these goals and meticulously drew out a chart listing each habit and -
Blog / Challenges
Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !
writing a blog post about quizbowl, somebody said, "What's quizbowl?" So of ... the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room -
Blog / Challenges
The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…
In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be ... psychiatrists, when you hear terrible news, you go through 5 stages of grief ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach
One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza -
Blog / Events
What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up
If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked -
Blog / Community Projects
Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!
I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on ... , witnessed a giant CRT TV implode, gone to Six Flags of New England, won a -
Blog / Study Abroad
The Seven Supervisors A Buzzfeed Style Look At Supervisors
One of the academic differences between MIT and Cambridge is that instead of having recitations they have supervisions . A supervision consists of 1-3 students and a supervisor that is either a graduate student -
Blog / Academics & Research
Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!
people you're in awe of, people you follow on Twitter, people you hold as ... and the fabulous glamorous divas of popular culture. Got it? Now ... of their new music, t-shirts, posters, bracelets, branded water bottles -
Blog / Admissions
The Parent’s Guide to CPW ...it's not just for Prefrosh!!
're getting ready to welcome the prefrosh and their parents to four days of events on our campus and we're thrilled that so many of you will be here to enjoy the weekend with us. Each one of us in the Admissions Office has a
