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  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  cite the FIRST robotics competition as one of many excellent and ... participated in FIRST, last year I had the good fortune of experiencing FIRST through the eyes of my daughter, who was on a FIRST Lego League (FLL) team

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily ... else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead ... one of those traits is speaking without words. You’ve all heard the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  stumble across a page that will crash their browser. Various forms of anger ... vengeance - spamming the owner of the guilty site - to acceptance - writing a ... of the hard drive, not freezing the entire thing. Poor Patrick the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Knitting and Playing Tetris Through the End of the World guest post by Salma Islam

  

  the main thing that has helped through the ends of my world. Whether it ... unknown in the ether of my mind, has somehow always soothed me. As if, as ... spritely age of 11. I looked through the catalog of extracurriculars

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • April 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Meaning of August It's time for classes, moving, colorful dorm rooms, and new bloggers.

  

  now. The one unfortunate part of August is packing and moving. Although all of the dorms at MIT remain open for summer residents, my floor was ... you want to paint and he always says yes. Then at the end of the year

  • by Evan B. '10
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Challenge of Public Health Sometimes science and engineering only come so far.

  

  reform. On July first of this year, the State of California caved in to ... with MIT, so be forewarned. =D Since the middle of June, I have been ... even one protest in front of the state Capitol in Sacramento. Truthfully

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 4, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  crumbles a little bit more, but then everything gets kind of settled in the ... add water, you're compromising the thickness of the sorbet and just ... bit that the crumbles of fruit are going to melt before they emulsify

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The Class of 2018 Graduates from MIT

  

  Today, the Class of 2018 graduates from MIT.       ... exceptional. The admitted Class of 2018 includes mathematicians and marksmen and ... holding in common the highest caliber of character, conscientiousness, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  the runaround a star-studded event twenty years in the making.

  

  first secret is revealed So over the course of the day on Monday, a ... night is when one of the more interesting parts of the celebration began ... done first. bryan: you're in charge. if the work isn't done, you're the

  • by Bryan
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  with picking the best possible version of myself to become - deciding on ... during school, though of course all the details have changed i still ... computers - though these days, instead of reading all the papers and writing

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 2 Neither zumba, nor yoga.

  

  she had managed to teach the group all of those routines in the first ... before the hour. On Wednesday, I had every intention of going to zumba, but two thirds of the way there I realized that I had forgotten to print

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 16, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  socially aware hacking, part 2 this time, it's personal ((last time it was also personal))

  

  th. There's a very, very fancy portrait of David Koch in the first ... companies which are, uh, potentially accelerating the doom of our species not ... different kind of portrait. I have a few pictures below; the best ones are by

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... whole year of junior lab data analysis on Athena computers. Including 3 ... with the computing power of 100 Tiny Dells, maybe even 1000, all black

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Regarding The Tech Article Some clarifications.

  

  number of international applicants admitted to 10 percent of the total number of admits, this year the number of early international admits doubled, decreasing the number of spaces remaining for international

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  of the show came towards the end of the first day during a virtual ... , the conference’s content focused on the untold truths of Social ... make a difference." One of the great things about being at one of the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  Hackers don't waste any time hacking CPW this year. It's the first ... you ever been walking down the hall and caught a whiff of rotting flesh? Maybe heard the sounds of a shuffling creature behind you, limping and

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  trousers rolled. So today, the twentieth of the first calendar month of this ... It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  pieces. On the first day of the IAP class, I stared at it and clanked it ... In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The middle of the semester I'm kinda over this workload

  

  . This was the first semester where I’ve felt like a load of mid ... everyone headed out for the break. There were a lot of preliminary project ... philosopher of the négritude movement in Africa. I had a preliminary report of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  honor of presenting the paper, of which she is the first author ... I have always been proud of the fact that there is a star and a minor ... result of a $54 check to the International Star Registry. Rather, Emily has

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005