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  FIRST Robotics and Alumna-hood I miss my team.

  

  , took a look, and said "ah, it happens." I remember tasking myself with ... told me about the stereotypes they used to have of us: rich kids with no ... competitions in order to get into MIT!) I remember standing on the field with the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Campus visit, revisited In which I dissect the campus tour/ info session and forget to clean up afterward

  

  student that I would spend the night with. She reminded me of Helena Lam ... met up with Mace. It was still relatively early by MIT standards, so we ... then she walked with me to 6-120, where a Physics class was in progress

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 14, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’ve got questions, I’ve got answers I know an atomic particle's speed, AND position!!

  

  watch to stay in touch with current events, because MIT is like an entire world to itself, it's easy to lose touch with the real world if you're not ... if you don't like the food you cook yourself, take it up with the chef

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Everything You Ever Wanted to Know All your wishes have been magically granted.

  

  to those with a “stronger” profile, which would make the very possible sting of rejection even harsher. Second, even if I applied this year, with ... trying to do something important with a deadline, like apply to college

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  -Day competition when in grade 8 or 9? I'm unfamiliar with your system, but I ... won't learn. What's the point of taking classes to get them over with ... just don't want to be like that. Nobody wants to be friends with that. I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions Dec 2006 This is a big one!

  

  ) with a 3.5 gpa (including several B's in math/science), (b) without ... computer related, non-academic violation), or (d) a + b + c + with a passion ... from anyone you think might be able to provide us with additional

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  class with him, and he liked me because I helped other students in the ... , professors are so happy to hold office hours and talk with students about ... some pizza with friends, though. :) Especially because with my group of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  ,” where the final goal is to spin the motors that power the car with our ... , so I spend most of my time helping with assembly. I help make the wiring harnesses, assemble the boxes, and do full integration tests with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  what’s in the box? why is spring cleaning a common phrase but not fall cleaning hmm

  

  few days ago and then fell asleep. and then got caught up with making ... of the tenses in this paragraph so just bear with me a little ... to occupy myself with.  my friend Espen S. ‘27 invents a lot of games

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 1, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  as I wrote a blog post named fun., with 6 distinct songs. The runners-up are Cheats and Munimuni, both with 3 songs. There's 5 songs that are ... Mandarin, and 1 has no lyrics. The post with the most songs is

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  ="something about notion just really does not vibe with me, unfortunately ... , borne back ceaselessly into the past." Just as with sleep schedules, I do ... energy or inspiration to [annotation note="in comparison with the previous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  Steinmeyer (the lecturer) thinks would be cool for us to experiment with. And ... Python, with much more readable code to boot. [caption id ... would, but that’s the standard experience when working with hardware

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unsolicited review of the whitney biennial (not really a review just stuff I liked)

  

  , with a different overarching theme each time. It’s known for 1) focusing ... collectives, with many of them working in video, installation, and sculpture. It ... ="alignnone" width="768"] “[Her seascapes] reflect Yamaguchi’s experimentation with

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • March 25, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  -or-the-egg thing with whether the word chanty or chantyman (person who leads the ... instead just "maritime music" that often gets associated with shanties ... of pi, and the highest score was my friend Nina O., ‘27 with

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  We Stan Matt Parker i'll try not to mention the parker square

  

  looked like. So I ate my mathematical-vegetables and went on with my life ... mathematician with a PhD is sitting in their office "researching" how to solve the ... paper with a square on it. Notice how it takes two lines to "form a corner

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  , because the class started with about ten people on the first day, then ... part) due to my own creation. I have actively scouted for classes with good evaluations and ones with material that sounds interesting to me

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  Springs, WY with a total population of six people as of the 2020 census.    Around 4:13 am, we had gotten to 25% of the world population with 798 ... had planned to work with Holden M. ’25 from 9 till 11. Luckily, as I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  all recorded a thirty-second video with a self-introduction. professor ... that i was bad at taking videos of myself with my phone. 10:55. 6.UAT ... to find something in common with someone else, the person i talked to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  E classes, and something at Harvard, and something to do with writing.]   ... positive feedback loop. I will come out of this semester with a lot more ... even with that balance I wouldn’t have enough time, between all the other

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  from classes with a [annotation note="i ate so much fruit. soooo much ... finals. It is good to finally be able to socialize with people without it ... different timbre. We talk about family and our relationships with our parents

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021