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  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... proceeded to listen to them. A lot. I'm glad I did, because it's one of the ... my classmates. Granted, by now we've all listened to Dropkick Murphys

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Summer

  my summer! a belated blog

  

  ’t struggling to hold my water pitcher when it was full. The thought of getting up ... transportation by myself was to get to a local university for my summer internship ... the closest I ever got to be consistent. I also made an effort to eat

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • October 18, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  [by Elise Ruan '14] Dear prefrosh (and prospies), By the time you get to MIT, you’ll have had about eighteen years (or less for ... and effort to. But at the same time, you’ve always wanted to

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  rethinking perfectionism god i just want to get things done

  

  procrastinate. Which isn’t to say that the videos aren’t effective or useful ... , so they avoid doing it to avoid the inevitable disappointment. This ... project I've been working on for the past two ish years and want to try to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 8, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  On Friendship how my beliefs have changed over the years

  

  get to choose. My relatives are spread out across the world and the love ... school, they would not match it to me. For the most part, I didn’t really talk to anyone outside of the people I knew from different

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • November 2, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 1

  

  sent to the wrong address, does the entire application get discarded? If ... achievement. Finally today, we'd love to get more of your comments about the MIT ... has been much easier to take Harvard classes in the Spring term, when

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 7, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  You’re doing it wrong Some constructive advice from the Director for filling out the application

  

  directions is impressive, we are not actually impressed by the inability to ... someone might actually want to accomplish by complaining about the ... 2023 is now live. While some have jumped at the chance to scope out the

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  SNOW SNOW SNOW! And other festivities.

  

  card to Boston Tea Stop (the closest bubble tea shop from MIT - in ... , freshman generally have to take two Physics courses to fulfill the Physics ... -choice concept questions scattered in the lecture slides to the instructor

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 3, 2007
• Blog / Events

  I Feel Cool Welcome to MIT, Mr. Gates!

  

  today! And thanks to the MIT Admissions Office, I got a ticket to see him :) (Thank you, Dave!!) He was scheduled to speak at 11:30 a.m., but the doors ... . Ranjeetha '13 and I managed to snag some pretty awesome seats, just behind the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions Updates Online & postal decisions, matching Pell Grants, and reading continues.

  

  strongly encourage you to use the verification functionality at decisions ... password, because if you don't know it when you go to check on the 18th, there will be no way to find out. As for the postal mailing, we still do

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  decided it was time to bring my casual bike ride form of training to the next level by joining the MIT Cycling Club for one of the Best Ideas Ever ... -collegiate-ness. If that's not the best idea ever, I don't know what is. It's meant to

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Residential Life

  The River Freezes Over and other nifty things about being on campus

  

  placed at exactly the distance it takes for your body to warm up, so that ... our dorms except to eat, use the bathroom, and exercise alone outside ... 've come to recognize my podmates by their eyes and foreheads, despite having

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  End of term

  

  these, including the last 3.091 lecture (described here by Kevin), all of ... Jones. For me, I was happy to partake in the Lab for Chocolate Science ... this stuff up. Now, just as many of you are getting to take a vacation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  semester, I sent an e-mail to Helen Lee saying I didn’t get into the class ... , so I have to grope at people for help (get your mind out of the gutter ... just too big and I’d never get the hang of it. A year since I left my

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

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  cynical about the political activity of people my age by the time I came to ... : the students (black and white) who allowed Martin Luther King, Jr., to ... Friedan to put feminism on the map, and so forth. They were real activists

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Combining the Arts and the Sciences Some of the best science writing is happening at MIT. Find out how to get…

  

  (many) graduation requirements is to get a “concentration” in the ... . Last Thursday, I attended a Science Journalism panel sponsored by the MIT ... science journalist. I went there just to get a feel for what a career in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  the first posts by our first-year bloggers. There’s a common theme: MIT ... despite everything, it’s hardest to leave. So what’s the third year like ... human oncogene—a gene that causes normal cells to form tumors—and the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  friendship by reducing her life to a sinusoidal function. Proof of Why Katelyn Has a Headache: 1. By Christian teaching, sloth is one of the seven ... periodic function, so sleep is a periodic function also (as evidenced by the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2016 Ring Delivery! MY RING IS SO PRETTY!

  

  Last night, MIT sophomores dressed in black-tie attire flocked to the ... rings to show to the world on our beautiful 2016 hands! LOOK AT MY PRETTY ... , and afterwards a bunch of us went to Bova's Bakery to get Cannoli

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 25, 2014