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  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the ... ="aligncenter" width="300"] Arcturus’ first ASV. Ship Happens, at RoboBoat 2022.[/caption ... student or not!) feel free to send me an email at [email protected]! [caption id

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  called it — and I thought, why not? We met on Sundays at 10 pm for me in ... creature at the end."]form[/annotation], others more complex, such as ‘write down lines at a specific place, as they come to you, and from that craft

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Friday Night, Off-Campus Style come along on our evening of fish and wine

  

  that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at ... met up at 7pm at a place called Dear Annie, located just off the Red ... they’re nailing it. At the center of the room is a large table, with most

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of why I chose to come back to MIT. Wandering around campus late at ... up with joy and relief. At the first chance for audience participation ... I can be good at it when I have the right environment to help me

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  processing in which I visit home and take time to think

  

  and I have no regrets"]bathtub.[/annotation] Laying there, staring at ... just how exhausted I was, from just over a month of being at college. It ... together and it’s just too much, all at once. Not only am I keeping up with

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  school projects aka why i havent been writing in the last few weeks

  

  theory classes at mit. it assumes the ability to read knowledge as well as ... classes i’ve taken at mit - at the beginning of the semester i wrote code on ... -designed grading scheme of any assignment i’ve seen at mit, in the sense that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 12, 2021
• Blog / Public Statements

  Asking for letters of recommendation (during a pandemic) tl;dr: mostly the same as during normal times, but clarifying some points of anxiety

  

  as a student and/or community member." At MIT, we do have strong ... simply explain it. You also don't have to do this at all —  this is just something you can do if you feel at all worried or anxious about what we might

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is ... high schooler with limited experiences and no clue how to handle life at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  the last twenty days burning out before the semester even starts

  

  only virtual REX at Next House, not to mention the UROP I was working on at the same time, or the summer camp I was running. This year, I ... presentation on Friday, and I generally felt okay at the end of the week. I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  isn’t to say that I haven’t made friends, not at all. I’ve made a couple ... . The main problem, I think, is that Zoom fatigue is real. Staring at a ... classes, emailing professors, doing random errands, the last thing I want at

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

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  post about how I’ve been managing is coming at some point, but that point might be after the end of the semester']managing everything[/annotation]at ... impressive to myself and who I am as a person at this particular moment

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Events

  science bowl we ran! a competition! virtually!

  

  , my middle school science teacher started a team at my school, and I ... (I was more of a math person at that point), dragged in my physics ... “practice”. (Science Bowl to this day continues at my high school, and

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • November 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Exhaustion Guess who's not ready to go to grad school after all

  

  am really tired of school. I feel like when people at MIT say this ... from other people. But at school, when those are really the only types of ... disheartening, when it happens at school, a place where you're supposed to be

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  each game [annotation note="Happening next week, Friday August 21 at 7 ... miss MIT[/caption] My Performance I chose to hide at MIT Medical and seek at Briggs Field. I placed [annotation note="It seemed unlikely

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  Several classes I've taken at MIT use a platform called gradescope ... essentially the same content. It was annoying at first, but became funny as it ... suffice as an explanation. I think I should receive at least partial credit

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  summer in boston that summertime, summertime, uh, gladness

  

  ="564"] the North End is lovely at night[/caption] i've also checked out ... comforting. i've started to work by the river/at random places across campus ... down for a whole month while at home, but i'm currently living with at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking at the news every day really takes a lot out of you. So here's some of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  quick thoughts to keep up my new years resolution

  

  have decided that taking five classes at MIT on top of a UROP and ... spend time with friends. 2. I'm continuing my UROP at the MIT Education ... Melat (another UROP) was something I wasn't quite ready to give up yet. At

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 2, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  really great during your first few months at MIT; I really enjoyed building an identity and confidence that didn’t depend on my grades. At the same time though, it’s kind of crazy how a student who was pretty much at the

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  : they have history written right on them! Take a look at those dates, baby ... Doppler shift in the frequencies of hydrogen emission spectra at various ... .) at those points. -EME, or Earth-Moon-Earth communication. Bouncing

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020