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Earlier today, FIRST — an international youth organization dedicated to science education and best known for its eponymous robotics competition — announced that its cofounder, MIT Professor Woodie Flowers, had died after medical complications. He was 75, and one of the finest men I have ever known. Read More

I’m currently on a six hour flight back to my sunny, warm, and comforting hometown of Los Angeles, California (well, not quite. I live slightly outside of that: Norwalk, California.) I’m really excited to be heading home, seeing as I haven’t seen my family since August and my flight home… Read More

Since today is National Coming Out Day, my friend wrote about coming out to his family. Here’s his story.   A little over one year ago, I came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new, but also somewhat into an old,… Read More

Before I got to MIT, I had never really made anything. I saw something on the admissions website about a Maker Portfolio and got nervous because I had nothing to put in one of those and thought that maybe they only admit the people who submit one because those… Read More

the time is nigh for a “what is ankita doing this semester?!?!” post because honestly, i stare at a full Google Calendar every day, half reassuring myself that i’m Doing Things and half stressing myself out even more, but sometimes i don’t even know where my time goes. Read More

I’ve been a little M.I.A. from campus and the blogs lately, and that’s because I’ve been on the road for several weeks! Every year, admissions officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to inform students about the opportunities and resources available at our institutions, while also… Read More