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  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  , so when I saw Jebby with a bunch of people on her first day at work, I ... there was always someone new at the fire jams. I brought a pair of poi ... British stole everyone’s stuff (tbf, it was quite cool to look at). One of

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  . I spent most of my CPW at East Campus, because I was convinced I would ... chocolate at La Verde’s on the last day of CPW. I encourage you to do the same ... . Coincidentally, 17 also happens to be the number of prefrosh living at Random for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Washlava! A Sentiment Analysis quantifying laundry feels, based on MIT Confessions

  

  reacts) The only bright side I can think of right now is that at least I ... 't looking great for Washlava at this point. vii. Examination of compound scores Next I wanted to get more granular and look at the distribution of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 27, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  ? the you is directed at certain people in my life and instead of writing ... eating at me for a couple of days now and what better to rid yourself of ... were going to be my maid of honor at my wedding, i thought we'd go on

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  , at least superficially, that what I was doing was kind of insane ... . Not out of writers’ block--I truly always want to write, but mostly ... energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Recap of the 2.009 Final Presentations rough, tough, messy!

  

  definitely see why 2.009 was one of the most famous classes at MIT. Although I ... . If you want a summary of what 2.009 is about, Chris made a post. 140 ... ." Each presentation was seven minutes long followed by four minutes of Q

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • December 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT OpenLabWare: an interdisciplinary collaboration A day in the life of MIT research... on the Internet. A story of how…

  

  -picture view would be difficult. Luckily, that sort of thing is easy at MIT. I ... admissions site at the end of the Fall '05 semester, and learned about some ... . Even at that early stage, I could really tell he had all of his ducks in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s trending?: My Computer Vision final project Where trendy styles = adding styling to trend lines

  

  some amount of noise at each point. Originally, we just used straight ... The last couple weeks of my fall semester were almost entirely ... ! For those of you who aren’t familiar, Computer Vision is the study of

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  me at least, to think about the idea of this being a part of some story ... the end of the semester (or at least the end of some arc I can’t see yet ... year of settling into whatever “role” I play at MIT. For instance, since

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] How to Revise a Paper in 5 Easy Steps Claire H. '20's urop experience TM

  

  out of the stud at 6am after pulling an all nighter during finals week ... supervisor a quick email: At exactly 9am the first day of Week 4, I dashed ... the skin of my teeth and sent my supervisor the final changes at 3:53pm

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • December 9, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goodbye goodbye goodbye what's in store for me?

  

  surgeon, but also good at all of these things too: she’s basically the ... After four years here at MIT, I am finally graduating. I have a lot of mixed feelings on graduating. On one hand, I'm nervous. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  make at least one good group of friends. This is not easy. Peoples ... 't feel like I have any idea of what's going on at MIT, but the fact is that I do ... happen is set at a bare minimum of two months. That being said, there are

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  arrival) Backpack At least 2 two-liter water bottles full of water One ... One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... with large groups of people. Examples that I’ve thus far experienced have

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  out as Business Lead and eventually was elected captain at the turn of ... Hi all! You may have encountered Arcturus, the robo-boat team, at the ... the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  they’re nailing it. At the center of the room is a large table, with most ... Friday nights are great. Assuming you’re not in one of those classes that has assignments [annotation note="truly the worst"]due Friday at

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

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

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November Rule. in a pretty egregious way, at that⁠—it was a [annotation note="exactly 2 years ago to this day. i am the master of eerie timing"]month into

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

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  information about the rewarding experience of being a cadet here at MIT.  So ... .   Here at MIT we host ROTC programs for three branches of the military ... Training, which is 2 weeks of boot-camp style training. You get yelled at a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Home, not just a Haus fighting the good fight

  

  aware of my own mortality, at the very real prospect of being gone in an ... stresses of MIT. There are no more PSETs I must frantically worry about ... winter-me. I’m on the train heading into the depths of New York City, about

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 12, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  first met while judging Battle of the Bands at CPW 2010. Today, at 3:54 PM ET, the kickstarter for Ministry of Supply, the business apparel ... receive far beyond our initial goal of $30k - raising at this writing over

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  'm still one of the "young guys" at the office. But yet the undergraduates ... hamburgers. Don't be afraid of coaching. You may be very good at what you do ... the British, you may have heard fireworks and smelled the smoke of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011