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  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  . You get judged not only on how many points your robot scores during the ... your process – the teamwork, intentions, and values that you bring to it ... only based on how many points you scored, but by how well your team

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

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  you have to actively stand around and make sure you don’t burn your food ... the ingredients clearly depends on the size of your rice cooker, so take ... ’s frustrating to hear “listen to your gut” and “use your best judgment” in a

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  How Are You? because it's not just a simple question

  

  these people we ask one quick question as we hustle on in our lives. In ... sense? Same. I want to hear about how you're afraid of growing up. I want to hear about the spontaneous adventure you took today. You’re worried

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 19, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Reading Commences The applications are in, and now we're reading them.

  

  progresses, but I did want to take a quick break to at least give you all an ... Things are starting to get quite busy! Now that the Early Action ... 's what a stack of application folders looked like on my table yesterday

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  immediately to your left, and go-go curry straight ahead. all around are tv ... curry and donkatsu fills your nose and you smile. are you going to get donkatsu today? nope. you've decided to give all the ramen places you're

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  research. I miss going to college websites and reading through all of their ... the few that actually gets to go to school here. I remember that on one ... listened to while I applied to college. I miss being Wasted on the Senate

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  hungrily gaze upon the little pieces on the screen as they hop from square to ... dedicated myself to the black and white pieces on the board and learned the ... tears and my nose a horrid, stark red. "You seem to put on a brave face a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Post-engagement, pre-Bahamas An exciting week!

  

  of! Going on vaca Adam and I are going to the Bahamas tomorrow and ... Jamaica with Rose '05 and Swapna '05), and I can't wait to lie on the beach ... 'll be able to find more people to join your pset group. Comparatively

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Pigeonholing boxes = semesters, pigeons = classes

  

  exactly the right outlet to contemplate on my experiences here. I sit down, go to docs.new (the most useful website shortcut frankly), and put ... to help prevent burnout and introduces some variation in your life

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 13, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Exodus from Cambridge in which MIT evicts us due to the COVID-19 pandemic

  

  New cases in MA: 13 On March 9, Princeton made an announcement ... 10 new cases a day. To me, COVID-19 still felt like a far-off threat. Tuesday, March 10 The Announcement New cases in MA: 51 On March 10, I had

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  . -- There are murals on the walls! You can paint on your own walls and ... stuff, impostor syndrome is fairly likely to cross your mind in East ... 's put it this way: far from the nicest facilities on campus. -- Your

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Have Your Cake & Drop Date Too The Baker House Piano Drop, and the Spring Weekend Concert.

  

  's pretty exciting to have an awesome concert a minute from your dorm ... classes can be added to your schedule in the first 5 weeks of the term, and can be dropped from your schedule up to 10 weeks into term. A tradition

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  -winded sentences, making sure to use one of the 32 new grammar strategies we had ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain ... characters, brushed up on Japanese geography, and drilled myself on the grammar

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  geographic traits to New Orleans, Venice. A quick Google news search produced a ... " O.C. on September 28th). My visit to Orlando, by the numbers ... to make sure she takes advantage of her new school's resources. ''I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  “what if I get rejected” for everyone nervous about admissions decisions

  

  look back on wherever you've been, your dream will be going back to what ... fail to see, but the incessant reassurance from everyone I know "that you're ... drive 20 minutes to a coffee shop on the CSU campus. We sat outside

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 13, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  My First Visit I... got lost on the tour, actually...

  

  . A brave few will not even be able to visit until they set foot on ... asked if I could wait for them, so I kept watch on our tour as it quickly ... I realize that some of my readers may not have had the opportunity to

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  your mind and body. We’re actually recommended to wear long sleeve shirts ... how to collect the glass from the furnace on a pipe or punty (long rod ... decided to make a snowman. This is the end result: I know what you’re

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “This is not a smoking gun for superfluidity. This is a cannon.” Physics Breakthrough at MIT

  

  among physicists: They have become the first to create a new type of ... So today at work, I had a little "free time" so I decided to peruse some of my favorite websites for news and updates, but I have this

  • by Bryan
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  :34pm. And the next one on our way back to the airport. Buzz. Your ... impersonation of an impersonation of a person. I knew that I was on the way to New ... , in fact they're putting you on DL2133) is D95 you're arriving to D10

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Course 18 thoughts on being a (pure) math major

  

  enough time to practice enough, depending on what the rest of your schedule ... what classes to take and when because it depends so much on your personal ... wanted, and I have definitely changed my mind on this front and come to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • March 11, 2017