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  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... engineering project. Important words to live by, and with that I'll wish ... . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a

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

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  11/6 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions answered or ... Friday 11/6/20 from 4-5pm EST! Tune in to get your burning questions ... immensely. Reading journal papers definitely took some time to get used to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  dresses up nice and goes out to dinner. I'm sure this list will get longer ... all - and hopefully, you all find similar things to do around your own ... perfect 100% of the time. (3) It's easy to feel sad and miserable about

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  exact, but it just never seemed to work out.  By the time I had to choose ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me ... million ways to solve the same problem, and your imagination and creativity

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial Aid Tracking Portlet Now Available You should now see it in your MyMIT account.

  

  'm getting a bunch of comments in response to this post with financial-aid-specific questions and unfortunately I'm not equipped to answer them - please send them ... the financial aid tracking portlet in your MyMIT account. If you have

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  The sun always seems to hover near eye level. It gets a bit ... , get about 8-9 hours of sleep every night, even at MIT. But you're ... get 3-4 example papers per class that are like problem sets. You're

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  action or get involved and have an impact on what you want to change. I ... about often in order to function and go about your daily life, the way ... have to deal with in your whole life. Imagine that it is summer and you’re

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  to move out. For Next House, residents that weren't graduating had to check out by noon on May 21st. Conveniently, this was the day after my final exam in psychology. Even more conveniently, my room had a lot to

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  in the pursuit of knowledge want to see a MacArthur Genius dancing to gangnam style?

  

  to find out (the answer to that last question, by the way, is no ... . --------------------------------------------- One of the questions I get asked most often by high schoolers is whether ... .  But primary sources are so hard to find, right?  Right? Michael

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 19, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  train of thought on feeling deeply

  

  large swathes of time to feel and think deeply at MIT. When you’re in a ... , manufactured to be tough and sturdy and to have your tensions and compressions ... and getting to witness the vibrant art, poetry, and theater scenes of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Open House Well, come on in y'all!

  

  . Flashback to 2004: a few weeks before high school started, I moved from Texas to California, and during a typical afternoon drive with my dad, we saw ... pulled over “just to have a quick look” while the open house was going on

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of questions. First: no, you're not in trouble if your materials haven' ... get an email, and I'll post another entry so you can have any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  [annotation note="It's important to note how I am defining dimension here. By dimension, I refer to the number of independent directions on your space. The ... dimensions. For instance, the Earth is locally homeomorphic to R^2, by which I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  year for freshman hall rush, I decided to beautify my room by letting the ... could get to Tangled without breaking copyright laws. Image also features ... . Picked up a new hobby recently to go with my Hulu/Netflix/YouTube. I wrote

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Deferred? Shameless thievery from a colleague's blog topic (sorry Matt).

  

  you respond to me, be sure to read the post by Dean Marilee Jones on the ... that receiving the news that you are deferred has to be disappointing (to say the least) to all of you. Please take heart in knowing that you

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • December 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  total eclipse of the cruft

  

  of others, I traveled to northern New England to see the total solar eclipse on April 8th. I had happened to see the total eclipse in 2017 in ... the sun getting eaten by the moon like a cookie through eclipse glasses

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Blogger Pets some serotonin for your noggin

  

  boy because swims in his own poop water and then likes to get too excited when you walk by his tank and splashes water in your face. he’s also affectionately called a stupid boy because he tries to eat your fingers through the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 13, 2021
• FAQ / Transfer

  Am I eligible to apply for transfer admission?

  equivalents to estimate your eligibility. Eligibility will be assessed by the ... year. Successful transfer students come to MIT from many backgrounds ... non-traditional pathways.  Unfortunately, we are very limited to how
• Blog / Challenges

  art and work i really struggled with titling this one

  

  - watch the first two episodes to get a sense of what each character is like ... patience to watch the office in its entirety but was able to get through the ... something not directly connected to your message, and as a result you cannot

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 27, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  [Guest Post] One Year Later Some things changed, some things didn’t

  

  came out to my mom and my dad. Since then, things have settled into a new ... . After months of scheming and plotting how to get the words -- lodged ... else to do. I felt so desperate to get the words out, yet so gut

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 11, 2019