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  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... this year's competition, "Aim High.") Bonus points are awarded for robots that are parked on a small ramp at the end of the match. Teams get 6 jam

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  . Saturday 9:00 a.m. For breakfast I eat cereal and drink jasmine tea. Then I ... feeling pretty stressed and mentally out of it for a few weeks so I’m hoping ... cold plunges a habit for the serotonin boost that followed. When we get

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  simultaneously begging for mercy, I had to intervene at times for the sake of my ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of ... California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Questbridge College Admissions Conference A guest post from Louis Lamia '14, an MIT Quest Scholar.

  

  Some of you may look at my last post and wonder, "what's happened to ... . Anyways, the conference I attended was being held at Yale, and there I ran ... applying through QuestBridge not too long ago. He was volunteering at the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  going absolutely wild at frat parties let's get things straight: while i was at MIT, i never sought out frat parties. partying on my floor ... have bangers playing at all times, and there's so much space to dance

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  7 Rings actually just one but ya know

  

  rat, the ring design and what happens at ring delivery, I'm going to ... adventure here at MIT.  Looking back at it all now, a lot has happened in the ... , knowing at least something is an accomplishment. The Extreme Silver Nothing

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our new video And yeah we’re kind of jazzed about it

  

  summer with a new design and streamlined navigation, we also made room for ... tuned. But for this video, it was our goal to give prospective students a feel for our campus and what it looks like,  full of awesome buildings

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Oh The Things I’ve Seen Warning: Hold on to your socks

  

  Company One Troupe (live at the Boston Center for the Arts) Performances ... Sister, Sister Movies: Alex Haley’s ROOTS For Colored Girls Booty Call Takers The Town Angels & Demons The Godfather Death at a Funeral The

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • February 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  ..and Here We Go Again! [by Ken Haggerty '11] ARTalk is back!

  

  -related that goes on at MIT, from building large-format cameras to LARPing (for ... for snacks. Art gives us MIT students a reason NOT to do schoolwork, and ... with light and optics. I teach photography classes at the Student Art

  • by ARTalk
  • February 5, 2010
• Blog / Community Projects

  A “World Record Attempt” We can do it!

  

  to campus as a freshman, for almost more reasons than I can count. My ... 'll experience at MIT, seriously. You'll be rushing around, meeting tons of new ... organization and student-run activities, which is probably for the better, seeing

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Things that are hard. Though not as hard as this.

  

  quarterback for the Detroit Lions, though I was eventually was forced to give ... to laugh when people get really mad at me. I’ve wanted to go to MIT ... ’m at this school. That, and I have trouble waking up to alarms. So this

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist News Within the next week, we plan to admit approximately 35 students from the waitlist.

  

  For the third consecutive year, we will admit students from our ... around during the waitlist period; you will lose your deposit at the other ... people on the waitlist at this point, so we will notify hundreds of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  , and along the way stopped at three different bookstores looking for ... , covered goods market. There, we bought cloth for skirts/sarongs (15 ... finding them, we did have a good time looking at the math, history, English

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Mollie Burgoon A look at some of MIT's graduating students.

  

  Sciences PhD program at Harvard Favorite class you took at MIT: 7.31 (Current ... , who's going to be a Nobel laureate, taught 7.31. Favorite professor at ... , seeing your friends for the first time after the summer, and helping a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Shaye Storm: Studying Extrasolar Planets Shaye Storm spent his summer working at the MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory where he studied…

  

  Staying up all night while staring up at the stars, eating loads of ... 's summer UROP at Jim Elliott's MIT Planetary Astronomy Laboratory. As most ... would meet at the lab and if the sky was clear, they would drive up to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Undergraduate Research Journal: Get your work published! MIT's Undergraduate Research Journal, a student-run journal that publishes articles about research going on at…

  

  Journal (MURJ) is looking for submissions (due October 10th) for our Fall ... research going on at MIT and around the world. We publish four types of research: 1. News: Summaries of breakthroughs at MIT and beyond. -Some MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finally, a free minute

  

  always try to put too much on my plate at once: I was working full-time at ... helping with Macgregor rush and in-house rush for my entry. Somehow I got ... madly in love with me. Or something like that. At the moment, I'm pretty

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  at the wedding: software engineer/Kenjitsu instructor/author, Medical Doctor (resident), engineer for Sony Consumer Electronics, medical school ... for Exxon-Mobil, city planner, chemistry PhD student, and, oh yeah

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every Piece of Media I Consumed in My First Week of Class that was relevant to my studies, i guess

  

  some extra raps for inspiration, particularly looking at female rappers ... different media forms for my assignments! Here's everything I've consumed this ... . For this, we were assigned to listen to Hi My Name Is by Eminem, What

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 13, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  regrets about college and the pandemic

  

  look for the true source, or at least i wasn’t able to get anywhere ... online for over a year i’d have spent more time at in-person club meetings ... tv shows about jobs and work, and so on. for better or worse, our

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 30, 2021