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  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  their team walked anywhere- they danced. They were so much fun to be ... Team 97 was wearing "tangerine" and once even referred to it as "that ... to see ya around at CPW, Laura. I wonder how much of a chance I'll have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bicycle Race More things happen, and I pretend that I've read your comments.

  

  actually better for the environmeny. Why, you ask? Well, you need oxygen to ... Zoroastrian poet Farrokh Bulsara once said, "I want to ride my bicycle, I want ... 's in the student center, it's not much of a problem to run out to Star

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Some questions that I've received from prospectives.

  

  't offered at my school. Does that eliminate my chances of being accepted to ... fascinating stuff, definitely preferable to my summer spent burning through ... to me? Does it accurately reflect me? Does it convey everything

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1

  

  that tennis takes a lot of time and i wont have much time to work on ... see the various dorms and what life is like in them. Does he have to ... students' flights to CPW based on financial needs. How do we find out if MIT

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A The ones that passed the "lmgtfy" test

  

  surprise yourself by how much you're able to take on. That said, if you ... of rigor and pace. I also need a lot of reinforcement to grasp a ... . So much so that acceptance is really down to luck, and whether you can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so you turn to chewing on college applications. Perhaps you’re like how I was—not-thinking about MIT decisions, much like how a child does not

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I may have been accepted to MIT, but I'm getting darned good at failing at other things!

  

  "Body Battery" - it's basically a measure of how much energy you have at ... damage on the dumpster fires. But sales were down and they needed to roll ... from our floor lounge to the homepage of the admissions website and got

  • by Snively '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  find yourself here next winter, and in need of some ways to stay warm or ... that number isn't actually that high by comparison to the coastal cities ... will melt, whereas in Burlington it never does, so towards the end of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  DOFMH A sick day from work, where "sick" means "I wanted a day off"

  

  reminded me that I needed to come pick up my cute new cheerleading t ... for snickerdoodles at LaVerde's, and they needed to get baked -- I find ... grade teacher) used to encourage me to occasionally take a DOFMH -- day

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you & i will always be back then time is an illusion that helps things make sense

  

  reminding me a bit too much of our relationship. I only then started to pick ... cannot change into what we need them to be. Sometimes people are just, as ... Flame Kingdom. Despite her fire powers that seem to burn Finn, Finn is

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Energy Forum Come drink from the solar-paneled firehose. ("Enjoy that metaphor, by the way, because your grandchildren…

  

  President Hockfield formed the Energy Research Council to "assess the scope of MIT energy research, explore how to best match MIT expertise with global needs and produce a plan for a cohesive initiative to tackle the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  open their hearts the way Ben does, the world would be a much better ... test ever could. Of course you need good scores and good grades to get ... 'm getting kindof hairy, much to the chagrin of my wife. There's a story behind

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer of Learning Because MIT classes don't spend too much time on hacking into computer systems

  

  "Nat, to hack you need to understand systems better than the sys ... could offer and it's been so much more. There have been three aspects to ... quality assurance and it's been wonderful to get back to coding. Burning the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Oh, sweet freedom? One girl's tale of how to (try and) fend for herself in college. Tire swing…

  

  need others to help them. Having to fend for myself for the last two ... told the House Manager that the branch needed to be cut down and the ... as I can. After all, I did apply to MIT once. Oh, wait. That was what

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  on 006. But I don't need to. I'm satisfied with how much I'm learning ... trying to figure it out and then, once I'd gone to office hours and been ... 't live in a vacuum, and it's stressful to waste energy and time on

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  , you need to learn how to fall flat on your face. Despite the best ... figure out what's wrong and take steps to fix the problem, but much of the ... need to learn how to do is fail, but not let failure get you down. You

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  a set amount of energy or money that you can use to play your cards ... it what the deck needs right now? Does it work well with the cards you ... . Similarly, you only have a limited amount of energy to spend when it comes to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Overcommit Responsibly sidequesting like a pro

  

  ’t be able to do much. When your MP and HP drop below a certain threshold ... skill points in this category, but as much as I hate to admit it, I have ... of the regular quests have time limits, you’ll likely need to get an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  and they’re going to better places lessons learned from a hard summer

  

  needed nothing from them at all, and I had let it get to me a bit too much ... loudly. "Why?" I asked. "Why does this happen to me?" And in these moments ... seems to follow? I can't keep my fucking mouth shut for once in my life

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  Play Music served my needs and was super easy to use, all of my friends ... One way to kill procrastination is to find out how much time you spend on everything you do. Use this app to track your day and see how much

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015