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• Blog / Challenges

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  the ~personal experience~, but basically, the whole big concept of ... team can answer and the other team gets to hear the rest of the question. Quizbowl at the high school level comes in a lot of different formats, and

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

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  Green stopped in the middle of lecture at 11:22 to administer it, and it ... if you still had a pulse." I still don't think anybody got all of the ... to me an article that he found while perusing the most recent issue of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  magnetic disk, in spite of the fact that flash memory is distinctly unlike a magnetic disk. Here's the description of the problem: http://web.mit.edu/6 ... storage space, the read and write performance, or the ability of the

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... ’s smoked barbecue brisket, or the smell of fresh mulch in spring. Some of my ... light up their stash of fireworks smuggled across the South Carolina

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 1: Hartford Part 1 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  first leg of the trip, left Boston. (Note to self: pack the night before ... 're the director of a math/science academy? I know the spelling's not a ... my uncle (who is the GHAMAS math guru) of his entire linear algebra

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Year 2 at Hogwarts Holy Hell, I'm a sophomore

  

  -food tornado of Orientation and the pre-psets era. A year since every building ... just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my ... answer: my e-mail. I’m not even kidding. That’s the highlight of my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... my attention was the high ceiling and two League of Legends posters on ... general rituals of the clan in 5W. I am to expect four-legged beasts roaming

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Hacks

  mit.wikipedia.org The best dang hack there ever was [citation needed]

  

  of geeky wit. This, for instance, hung from the ceiling of Lobby 7: I was actually kind of ashamed when I didn't recognize the iconic globe ... -styled notification at the end of the Infinite, I challenged myself to find as many

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 20, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pre-Orientation Begins Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest!

  

  Pre-Orientation and a mini-contest! This week, the MIT Class of 2010 ... begins on Sunday, but for half of the class, they are already getting to ... meeting the entire 1,000+ person freshman class. Here are a few of the FPOP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what makes fear worth it musical theater and anxiety

  

  didn’t fully grasp the concept of musical theater until college. Hamilton ... plot from these songs; being ignorant of the fact that they were actually ... sense of immersion? The lights, sound, and set design tend to be more

  • by Kai V. '25
  • February 27, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  For some schools, the biggest events of the year are rambunctious ... , though, nothing beats the energy and celebration of the 2.009 Prototype Launch – the biggest party of the year. Equipped with enough fanfare to

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  t-shirt. Photos of Paterno, the football team, and Beaver Stadium, signed, framed, and displayed outside the store. A post-it note on one of ... minute later. The photo was of Beaver Stadium, filled to capacity during a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s in a name? Is “geek” now chic? Are we happy with the word “nerd”?

  

  conversation. Around the time of the Oscars a few months back, I was prowling ... . But the ensuing string of comments didn’t agree with me at all. Her own ... had gone through somewhat of a transformation lately, with the likes of

  • by Kris Guay
  • July 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  're awaiting finals, admissions decisions, or just the general end of the world ... responsible for the bad quality on half of these pictures. Blame the tech, not ... turning off all overhead lighting in favor of string lights in the halls

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  had today and failing pretty miserably. So, for the sake of my sanity, I ... hold, I kind of dropped it. Maybe the exhaustion kickstarted my creative ... all of last week's craziness, watching the sun rise with toast in one

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  cooling off it snowed? snew?

  

  seems to go right. Frustration is a part of the human experience and a reminder that you care about some things, regardless of how much you say you ... Sometimes it's easy to get frustrated with the world. There's too

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 1, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Donate for Eric and Ann Whalley Please give to support the parents of a 2010 alumni, both victims of the bombing,…

  

  to support the parents of a 2010 alum, who were both victims of the ... that may never happen. My heart is broken for Boston and the victims of ... a photo of his dad in the news reports of the bombing but had heard

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to Senior Haus, version 2.0 More pictures!

  

  of Hanna, Dorota, and Jake, all fellow frosh. Here are some from the ... lounge Some of the Haus frosh hanging out in one of our suites: In the stairwell opening into the third floor, there's a mural of our banner with our

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007 play by play It slices and it dices.

  

  Her name is Betsy, and she got me to the finals of 2.007. This ... yelled my name out as the winner. The finals are tomorrow. 64 -> 32 -> 16 -> 8 -> 4 -> 2 -> winner. More pictures of some of

  • by Bryan
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bernanke to speak at Commencement!

  

  by President Bush to succeed Alan Greenspan as Chairman of the Federal ... history of the MIT Department of Economics and its graduates. MIT ... MIT just announced that Ben Bernanke '79 is going to be the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 14, 2005