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• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  . Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and ... to an MIT Quizbowl team practice at CPW and had a ton of fun, so I was ... . Here's a bunch of pics I took at 8 am: [carousel image1="39703" image2

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

  Tour/Hack/Math Three things that happen a lot at MIT

  

  , listening intently. At this point we get to Lobby 7, home of the big ... at the great dome. This is the part of the tour when the tour guide ... to go start calling you guys at the telethon. 5 hours of phone calls

  • by Snively '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  On psets and projects and why "midterm season" is all the time

  

  . The midterms happen at the end of a month. The final is only called a final because it's at the end of the semester, it's not "cumulative" in ... . Exams thus happen at around the end of every "month". These tend to line

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  ideas based on study of the past), 疑心暗鬼 gishinanki ('jumping at shadows ... [annotation note="i'm going on an alarming number of flights this summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American ... approaching, these catastrophes have left many of our prospective students in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Vlogging, Tweets, and a Riddle The sum of three cats is a dog. Explain.

  

  -picture of the day-to-day at MIT, something I was very curious about as a ... math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing Document Deadline Extended to Wednesday

  

  email a scanned PDF of the missing document to admissions [at] mit [dot ... Based on a high volume of document submissions generated by my previous post, we are now extending the deadline for submission of missing

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Share Your CPW With Us! I can haz guest blogs?

  

  happens every year). Starting from meeting a couple dozen of you at the iHouse International Feast on Thursday, it had been a rollercoaster ride of a weekend ... from :P one of the best things about CPW is meeting you all who come from

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 11, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Studying For Finals Study study study study study

  

  This is it, finals are in two days. One of the things that scared me most about MIT were MIT Finals. I've already been through one round of ... average final grade of 17%) and am about to be thrown into another. Finals

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  Most of my weeks at MIT have been crazy and cool and full of interesting things about which I can't wait to blog. The rest of the weeks ... second floor, near the M-Z section of "Current Periodicals" so I can treat

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Study Break!

  

  tours of all the different dorms and being so confused about this study break thing. All of the dorms were like "oh we go on these awesome trips ... everything else guys. I wondered why everyone was so proud of their study

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  Harvard Square. Weywey and I ate at Penang, on the second floor of the ... ), CSC (Chinese Students Club), and ATS (Association of Taiwanese Students). There were tons of activities at this event, and unfortunately I got

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  't worry about it. Shaye: Really? Wouldn't Bryan be mad at us? Yuan: Shouldn't we be telling these people about Battle of the Bands? Shaye: yeah! BATTLE OF THE BANDS!!!!! It's gonna be awesome! W00000T!!! It's gonna

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Classes of Semesters Past, Present, and Future since you asked.

  

  5.12 Organic Chemistry I (one of the best classes I have taken at MIT ... , Tom Stoppard and his contemporaries. One of my favorite classes at MIT ... In the comments section of my last post, Confused Frosh asked: "Can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2013
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With BJ Novak, opened by Barack Obama You may have heard of BJ Novak from his role as Ryan Howard on NBC'S…

  

  at one of the top engineering schools in the country, or that the guy ... several hours out of their incredibly valuable time at the Massachu- okay, I ... champagne and toasting the class at his final lecture of every fall semester

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT (Turbo)Votes making voting easier by/for MIT students

  

  ) immediately below.   Last September, at the height of election fervor, I ... make voter registration a more seamless part of life at MIT.   ... tl;dr: As of this fall, any member of the MIT community can use Turbo

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  merry christmas from MIT and my newsfeed a snapshot of holiday cheer from cambridge to new zealand

  

  kicking back at my bench space--newly unwrapped box of pipette tips in hand ... remind me of great diversity of past and futures which intersect at MIT ... % of annual time) where we go to class, typically weekends and days off

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • December 25, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Not so FAST heading to MIT on Saturday for some FAST Thinking

  

  At the end of my first week in my new job, I attended a gala ... all in when I looked over at another large silver tray arranged with ... circling that piece of chocolate? Very MIT cool and quirky. The 150

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Blog Action Day Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense?

  

  the great style and culture I see at MIT. Did any of you find other ... (published on November 14, 2004), Matt takes a minute at the end of each blog ... Did you ever get the feeling that the Internet is full of nonsense

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard) educated my freshman advising seminar a ... recently. 1. Steven Levitt (author of Freakonomics and MIT PhD) came to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2006