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  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  battling traffic caused by the likes of Barack Obama and Ron Paul, I arrived ... Last night, after a day of reading the first batch of regular action ... hundreds of invited guests include sponsors, mentors, and coaches. Among the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  is over, you can walk out of the ring with your head held high and know that you're a stronger person for it. Ok, enough of that. This post is actually about how I spent my Saturday. I was invited by several of my

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second… Fifth Week?

  

  preparatory reading of You Just Don't Understand by Deborah Tannen. It sounds ... probably a good indicator of how busy one can get at MIT if he or she tries ... fate of the MIT Class of 2010 is (more or less) set in stone. You

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor quotes The spurious wisdom and even more spurious wit of MIT professors.

  

  used to keep track of the funny and/or ridiculous things our group of ... adapted it, and now I have a detailed record of the funny and idiotic things that my MIT professors have said. Actually, some of the things are more

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT References

  

  blog about some MIT references. First up, the book Freakonomics by ... News Office reports, "Acemoglu is the fifth member of the present ... , "Number of Nobel prize winners among current and former members of the MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 25, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Beard, The Name, The Response, and EC Why does it say E.Jones on my door when I am B.Jones, and why is…

  

  'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind ... 've gone by "Ben" my whole life, that actually comes from my middle name - my ... cooler to capitalize on the dual "E.Jones" thing instead of having "E

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Long-Overdue Responses Questions answered.

  

  - on both sides of the equation. I apologize to those of you who think ... " will get something out of it. Others won't, no matter what I say here. That makes me sad, but I can live with it, thanks to the rest of you

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 20, 2004
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Hello, my name is Taylor. I’m still alive, although my lack of communication may have indicated otherwise. It’s been a couple of months now since ... thought but nary a blog. My solution has been to throw all of my random

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  ; two pairs of jeans; just enough socks, shirts, and underwear to get by ... I passed by smelled amazing. 10 pm, at the bar of my hostel I ... , with talks by many engineers in my field. One of them drafted the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  , either by studying for math competitions, or by watching a lot of math ... of writing in one collective voice, as we have done for our past blogs ... 's also how most of our conversations for the past two weeks have started

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements for every major. Most of this was out of curiosity and [annotation note="I've never gone through with any of my plans, I just love making them. My

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Hacks

  Hack to the Future all futures have a past, and all pasts have alternative futures

  

  , October 21st, 2015, I walked into Lobby 7, and was greeted by a hack; a hack ... history is to realize that futures are products of their pasts. And one ... ; Thanks, Doc. (all gifs by papertownsy on tumblr)

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  cpw at pika a continuing experiment in cooperative campus-previewing

  

  to finish off the weekend. If you're a prefrosh, come by! If you're not a prefrosh, come by! The schedule can be found here. This is all about pika. This is all about food at pika. This is a picture of pika

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 15, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Wait List Confirmation Form If you're on the wait list, we sent you an email last week.

  

  complete the form and submit it by April 25, 2014. In the meantime, be sure to enroll in another college/university by May 1 (even if it means ... students we will be able to admit to the Class of 2018. If you have any

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  NSBE MUSE Colloquium my first video

  

  Last week, I attended the MUSE Colloquium hosted by MIT’s NSBE ... Mtingwa, kicked off the event by sharing a bit about his research in physics. I made a little video of the event. Here are the highlights. Enjoy

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Registration – Important! If you're planning to attend CPW, please read this entry whether you've already registered or…

  

  MIT account and confirm that your registration was recorded by the system ... , however, then your registration was not received by MIT. This has happened to a few students who didn't register using one of the recommended

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 31, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Overnight Program: Now Taking Requests Plus... a fun mitadmissions.org milestone!

  

  requests. There are a variety of details on this page, but here's a quick ... students Please note: host-matching is done by people, not by a computer (it

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... ), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous ... you are planning to apply to one of these programs, don't procrastinate

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How do you know when you’ve chosen the right major?

  

  Sometimes I get so engaged by a project that I forget to eat ... Student Center and then trudged off to the basement of Building 35. Along ... rectangular aluminum blanks into a pair of finely detailed molds and then

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 17, 2014