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• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  note="ice cream is so meh why wouldn't you eat a cookie instead ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk ... a foundational part of human nature, and their significance is

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  graduated, this is the type of post-college wisdom I might share from time to ... find that this is even more so the case for people whose parents had ... my own profession, robotics. What is Robotics? ‘Robot’ is, when

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  The Festival of Learning is an annual event organized by the MIT ... the first Festival here. This post is the third of a series of three ... " here (Prof. Flowers is the co-founder of the FIRST Robotics Competition

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  -done list! Expected — Weather This is the one that everyone from [insert ... 'm going to school in Boston remark on how cold it is, but the most jarring ... reference, here’s some [annotation note="even the weather app is like ‘‘it

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  , in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... convince ourselves that not making the effort to socialize is our best bet ... tell) are pretty friendly. House 4 certainly is! They were very open and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  score is high and you are a good writer so you will probably be fine.” Man ... some of it is helpful. Read this first. Okay. Here we go. My essays ... remains under your control is your essays. What’s important in an essay

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 2 With guest appearances by NJ Representative Rush Holt and MA Senator Elizabeth Warren

  

  Part 1 here. *     *     * Rush Holt is in the room, but most ... speech. And now that the Congressman is physically in the room, the ... Rush Holt is standing. Well, actually, I walk up to Rep Holt’s staffer

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  are fabulous, and 2) My little sister is in concert choir Whenever I ... pain). I think about how everyone on the stage is an extremely ... is a biological engineer or a chemist or a physicist, I think about how

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  work (he went on to UCSF after MIT and is now a practicing cardiologist ... 't MIT prepare students well in the science curriculum? The answer is yes ... America. At MIT, Dr. Lee said, the focus of science is to teach you to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  PREMISES 1. This is an OPINION post. Not a suggestion post. I'm not ... that live in a small dorm but is part of a fraternity, so I don't know ... life and fraternal life is so different that I don't think it would be

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  official description of the class is: 6.270 is a hands-on, learn ... the students is to design a machine that will be able to navigate its ... round begins, there is no human intervention (in 2.007 the machines are

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  know what its other more sensitive areas are. This entry is all question ... better and ready to apply to MIT now? BananAPPEAL quandries: 1) Is MIT a place for academic masochists? 2) What's your major, and how is the work

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  'll see when you walk into Burton-Conner is the front desk. The desk is ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... the game and TV rooms. (More on those later.) The laundry room is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  Well, the moment is finally here. My last first day at (virtual) MIT ... into the cringefest that is my writing from senior year of high school ... . It’s a real heartbreak. But as they say, there is something good in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  The start of spring is an important time — not because summer is drawing near, not because the temperature is heating up, and not even ... you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My 2023 Libby Wrapped I have a problem with audiobooks

  

  Wrapped is unfortunately a little underwhelming, since I use Spotify for < ... (and that person was 4th) 💀 Music is also not my preferred medium of ... . And before you ask, no! This blog is not sponsored by Audible. In fact

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 3, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  cw: gore ?  # The void is calling to you. You speak to the machines ... cut look clean.  One piece you cut is fine and smooth, but the next has ... — which is usually sweltering but right now is simply warm. The taciturn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  stairs. The air that encompasses the staircase is hot and inky, and so I ... how it is cornered against a baseball field, where the local children ... domesticity. For matrimony. For a car that is safe and reliable. For a sidewalk

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Last Lap and hoping to finish strong

  

  ="going through the archives, it looks like I missed sophomore fall, which is fine ... "] yes, my friday is completely empty. please clap[/caption] CMS.701 (Current Debates in Media): This is the capstone class for the CMS major

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 12, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  ="everything except writing Haikyuu! fanfiction, that is"]high school hobbies ... spend a lot of my day living in my own head, which is another high school ... productive. nearly everything i do is intentional—when i read or dance or draw

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020