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• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  , which was scheduled to leave at 9:30AM. My head was full of questions ...  hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure ... – like, 5AM late – talking to students on Saturday night of CPW. When I

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Think YOUR research is crazy? Why doesn't spaghetti break in half? There is an answer, because someone has dedicated their…

  

  University of Denmark). Investigates the significance of wet underwear and ... of the 20 Craziest Scientific Researches. Some of the Craziest ... Organization) It calculated the number of photographs you must take to (almost

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... feel the strength of each personality taking up space in the conference ... talking to dozens of high schoolers about ridiculous survival scenarios

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  of major in the comments. If you offer to bring me cookies at CPW, I ... for about two weeks at the beginning of this year until MIT was like ... (COUGHMITCOUGH), which, I mean, is a kind of a big deal and will in fact influence

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Psycho kitten, que’st-ce que c’est? Settling a long-standing question in the midst of finals week.

  

  big screen in our floor lounge. Anyway, thanks to the apparent lack of finals in the department of urban studies and planning, she's exploring new ... , at least it's not as bad as the freshmen on the floor who, thanks to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... year was my first year as coordinator, and in the spirit of trying new ... of a virtual world. But with this new format, gone were the “head

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Schnitzer Prize Winners! [by Ken Haggerty '11] Buildings with eyes, a drum for the people, and a house…

  

  recipients' art as part of the annual exhibit of Schnitzer Prize winners at the ... graduate student at the MIT Media Lab and is a part of an art collective ... displayed at a bunch of venues, including the famous Ars Electronica. When it

  • by ARTalk
  • May 24, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  Both days last weekend I got up at ungodly-early hours (read: 7:30am ... for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  movies watched way too late at night. In the absence of doing these things ... huge deal for New Englanders growing up, and I'd like to be a part of it ... income to spend at a really nice tattoo parlor. What is the tattoo of, you

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Attention local high school students interested science and engineering! Have you heard about BeaverDash?

  

  each year at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). No previous ... to invite new friends from all over the world onto our campus. But in ... of Women Engineers would like to invite local high school students to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  4 Jack Bauer, eat your heart out.

  

  . 10:49 -- Shouts of "Oreos at front desk?" abound from down the hallway ... . Lucky that I did, because the thing was FREAKING COVERED WITH A COLONY OF ... took it back to the bathroom to wash it off. 10:12 -- There's a bag of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  I'm taking advantage of the Starbucks wireless network, at the Westin ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... it does when I look at town lights out of the airplane at night and try

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  day of 5.12 (organic chemistry) our professor offered a free t-shirt to ... 'm actually officially no longer a freshman (woo!). The amount of things I have to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  the next day I could do it no more. Spurts of productivity came at ... the possibility of failure. So I made an appointment at Student Support ... . Every part of my body abhorred that idea. I could not, at the dawn of a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Documents Due Monday important information to make your application complete

  

  posted last week, we have been working through our buckets and buckets of mail since the New Year. However, as of tonight, we have finished processing all mail, hand-checked all filing cabinets, scoured all of our faxes

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 26, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A couple of hacks from a couple of hacks CPW tends to bring out the best work from the esoteric pranksters

  

  weather machine, and invigorated with the excitement of a new batch of nerds ... Another CPW has come and gone, and with it the throes of prefrosh ... for me, seeing all you guys excited to be here and the prospect of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Fall Semester random happenings, senior year edition

  

  new collaborations will lead to new technologies in the fields of the ... , sophomore year at MIT, my phone started talking to me in the middle of a ... of our hall members, we (the 21+) went to an adult dance party at a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 30, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer ... ’t help but feel a small bit of envy. At the time, it seemed to be ... at MIT. It’s not as if all of my friends are doing something, because

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  gets what, who ends up on top at the end of the day. I've been listening ... would smile and laugh a bit. I'd stare at the corner of the screen where I ... succeed, at the expense of never being able to fail. So this break, my goal

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  major from Bombay who dreams of one day studying at a prestigious ... at MIT has a cell phone, so bringing one of your own would definitely ... leading an line of boats at the beach of a desert island. It's nighttime

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006