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• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... quizbowl is that you form teams of 4-5 people, and two teams sit in a room and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  I have simultaneously done nothing and everything this IAP. After an exciting ten day family vacation in Japan and Hong Kong (highlights include: that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  April, and we just finished [redacted] and [redacted] [redacted] [redacted]. My roommate and I have been making plans for renovating our room (more ... prepositions), and mixed with a few people that are really really good at doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be considered morning. Summer is a time for pools, Pokemon, and playing in no ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Ch-ch-ch-ch-changes Time may change me, but I can't trace time..

  

  , which is even later than MIT - Friday, 2:30 PM to 5:30 PM - and so while most everyone else had packed their suitcases and stored their boxes and ... out of the dorm and into a fraternity for the summer and have gone

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 28, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips over and you get showered with psets and tests and remember why you were there in the first place. My bucket sort of exploded last Saturday - and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I?TFP

  

  'd also suggested that we start early, but I had tests on Monday and Wednesday that I'd had to tool for, and I had already spent nearly four hours ... optimistic and cheerful. I always do 004 projects in the lab so that I can get

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  and give some more information so that when 2021 rolls around we can look back and be like "ohhh wowww you did so much" or like "ohhh god cami ... gym four times a week I started going to the gym when I came to MIT and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  SCIENCE! I'm bad at it, sometimes

  

  +/- 1 years old and decided to make a space-themed board game. Here's a sample tile that my sister and I have since rediscovered. I've also ... a science museum and saw some NASA signs in the space section and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  , or something. I'm not very far from "the real world," as they say, and ... graduate. And I HATE it. Why? Because I have NO CLUE what I'm going to do ... against textbooks about thermodynamics and control systems, and I don't even

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in return. i see someone stressed, upset, and feel the urge to comfort them. “are you doing ok?” “yeah” and they are clearly not ok. i don’t want to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  making dumplings jiaozi / guotie / gyoza /

  

  DOUGH: clean your counter and wash your dishes wash your hands ... (more fun with music and friends) keeping adding water and kneading until all the flour is incorporated and the dough is smooth and elastic

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  around the U.S. and it's entrepreneurs, will be premiering next year. I ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do something different. We want to take over the medium of reality TV and use it

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s happening with the Digital Currency Initiative developing blockchain technologies here at MIT

  

  managed to raise $500k in funding and a ton of faculty sponsors to ... , and we look forward to including collaborations with leading experts ... White House ​advisor for ​mobile and ​data ​innovation. He will work with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 28, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  EECS student Michael McGraw teaches STEM concepts in Regensburg, Germany As part of the Global Teaching Labs program, student Michael McGraw taught Physics, Biology and…

  

  -cranked generators, and a few other circuitry elements. The purpose of this lesson was to learn about power distribution and to gain a sense of the how the ... , centrifuges, and some mostly harmless chemicals. After that, we participated in

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  prefrosh, current MIT students, and MIT Alumni. The one closest to me was ... person...and to stuff my face with the alumni's homemade desserts! It was held at one of the alum's house and started with a typical question and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  really like frozen yogurt, and at home the first nearby frozen yogurt place was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt ... far away.  That is, it is about a mile and a half down Massachusetts

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Seeing The Dalai Lama In which I join the press (for a bit) and listen to His Holiness

  

  laureate, a spiritual leader, and one of the foremost advocates for peace and compassion, but because he has an uncommon way of both disarming and inspiring ... Center for Ethics and Transformative Values. Within 10 minutes of

  • by Emad T. '14
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  for admissions officers and current students to share their stories. It's also a place for y'all to carry on a conversation with us and amongst ... , email, your comment, and a captcha. It then populates the big long list of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  quickly. Case in point: in the past two and a half years, I've learned the ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about work, psets, and consistently staying up till 4 am or 5 am. (4) It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012