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  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  need to go to a regional event and see for yourself. FIRST might just be ... ). What FIRST does is help inspire students to pursue careers in engineering ... 've got to offer. So what does FIRST have to do with this Kelly Clarkson

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  decided to go with the good old standby: duct tape. Of course, once I ... out what, and how much, to buy. I don't know about you, but I never did ... need to remember. (I solve this problem by buying anything and everything

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  to look at the his house, studio, and study. This gave us so much ... interesting to me because I was always curious how much material choice and ... us to really understand how the design needed to change to best engage

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  ’m gonna get this done so early! I’m going to put so much time and energy in ... to go to my public library (along with everyone else in town who needed ... extracurricular. After March 14th, things didn't get much better. I was going to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  Boston to Frankfurt, and then Frankfurt to Almaty, the cultural and educational (but not political) capital of Kazakhstan, en route to the 27th ... IOI convenes delegations of students from all over the world to compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus, Part 2

  

  decisions from colleges, but I don't think a few months is too much to ask for ... closely to your desired major will suffice? Also, how long does it take to ... 're beginning to think ahead about college, but there's no need to have such

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

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  'm also UROPing (I do need to pay for housing), but that's less interesting ... what you set them to be by opening an associated valve, much like a ... downstream. So you need to control the whole system together, at a higher level

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  changed SO much since then. at MIT, you don't really get time to read unless ... ; Self-Care disclaimer: i need to do this myself this time is rough for ... rooms. most public places are shut down, so there's nowhere to go anyway

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sneak peek at the new admissions and SFS sites what we've been working on all summer

  

  , and good places to host MITAdmissions Labs content once it's built. Like ... once you have the chance to use them. And let me know if you have any ... leading a project to redesign the new sfs.mit.edu and mitadmissions

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Cake-offs, chariot races, and salsa dancing

  

  up of 27 fraternities and 5 sororities (with one more coming to campus ... together is during “Greek Week,’ which was held this year from April 27 to ... contributed to the team”s point total: Sunday: - Cake and pie baking contest

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 12, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  [joint post] the MIT picture scavenger hunt or, how to drive yourself insane by looking at floorplans

  

  the [annotation note="CJ: I feel the need to make the ‘wow, café with an ... was circled too, so that was confirmation. That meant we needed to go ... other way we know how to write a joint post. Alan: …ok. So, anyways, what

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  least one of us knew left and right--students going to London, Iceland, Geneva. It seems everyone on campus was trying to get away from the Institute for a bit if they could, some of us at least to the refuge of sleep

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  wanted to skate, I needed to do it early before work, ubering to the ... qualify for the US Championships in January, I needed to fully commit. I needed to get back in shape. With the desire to end my career on a better

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Building the Yearbook [by Ken Haggerty '11] An inside look at Technique 2010 (shhh!!!)

  

  what needed to get done, who was doing each task, who wasn't doing each ... . Most importantly, we needed each other to stay sane and focused and happy ... as much as necessary to work on the book. The book is divided into

  • by ARTalk
  • March 29, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  said that she wanted to write up a little entry about how GEL prepared ... 's Spectrum newsletter that goes out to "friends and supporters" of MIT. I agree ... closer to finishing than I was a few hours earlier. On his way through the

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  ADMIT ME PLZ? filling out the app. for some reason it's a lot easier this time

  

  "Don't give other people essays that you won't be willing to write yourself." -A wise person ---- "When you are not actually applying to ... Manhattan Chinatown. Things haven't changed that much, right? :) I actually

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  choosing the abridged version

  

  that much of the world yet. how am i supposed to know how much i actually ... doesn’t necessarily provide much value to other people). this isn ... to push the world in, and once i thought about it in those terms i

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  stretch to meet the lens. I once saw a woman squint a Saturn, and without ... . Knowing that I needed to get in touch with someone named "Ricky" (I didn ... (does anyone actually know what an Irish Pub is?) to teach Carl about

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  11 / senior spring almost there

  

  outside and soak in some much-needed vitamin d just one more exam ... to set the mood: episodes - mishegas here are some photos I ... semester rainy, cold days made it more bearable to hole up in the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Polymer Police Using spectroscopy to prove my mom wrong (except she was right and I was actually…

  

  little arguing I could do to change her mind. Clearly, I needed a ... (right) does not have. This dip is due to an oxygen-hydrogen bond ... Yesterday, my mom had some “silk” scarves shipped to me so I could

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 16, 2025