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

  

  ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... 's no social pressure to talk in the UK. You can just vibe with the group ... fingertip, it soon came back to bite me in the behind when I realized I had to

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

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  athletes who want to be recruited is to get in contact with the coaching ... court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... my freshman year, we finished 15th in the country, which is the highest

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  are in most contexts taboo. The New York Times once hailed it as ... . Originally premiered in 1996, The Vagina Monologues remains perhaps the most ... Teaching Assistants The final shout-out in this post goes to my awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  “You are capable of more than you know.” Reflections from six MIT transfer students

  

  the Olympic Games and earn medals, or to serve the nation in the U ... were you, and what were you up to? Gaurab: I lived most of my life in ... engineering exam. I thought I would go to a school in India for the longest time

  • by Jeremy W.
  • January 13, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Narrative of Discovery Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson…

  

  Most people would be hard pressed to tell a story that has both James Watson and Richard Nixon in it, but at MIT, anything is possible. The MIT ... Watson. Zebrafish and Cancer: What's the Connection? is a rich narrative

  • by Laurie Everett
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Spotted: A Brass Rat in the Wild? Is this an alumnus hacking McDonald's, or McDonald's hacking MIT? I can't tell

  

  attend MIT and decide to wear the ring in the ad? Is this deep-level nerd-in ... most famously, as Matt once blogged, in the case of Tony Stark '87. This is the first rat I've seen in a commercial, though. And it leaves me

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  mailing lists, there is a catch in that you have to write a color at the end ... sororities with horror movies, so it's nice to see them in a different, MUCH ... the most confusing, funny, or [annotation note="anything is an adjective

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  post is NOT, in fact, about aliens: Bell's "noise" turned out to mark the ... . One day, to us on Earth, is defined as the time it takes for the Sun to ... in orbit around the Sun, which causes the Sun to take four minutes

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  wasn't going to make it very far. So I called in and talked to the dean ... 's in part due to my winning combination of Pepto Bismol chased down by ... and Bring It On. Most of the dorms have free movies you can rent from

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with ... discipline when it comes to sleep. But the story is always, "I didn't go to ... . I've been sitting in bed trying to read notes for 6.867--the class I

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  [Guest Post] On Food and Cooking at MIT, La Vita Nuova a selection of dishes, part 3

  

  understand a person and to craft meals specifically tailored for them is, in my ... uncannily rich in food metaphors, with perhaps the most famous example being ... doing all he could to get her to eat the thing burning in his hands, which

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 7, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  “Picture yourself as a stereotypical male” and other ways to improve your test scores

  

  There is empirical evidence to support the idea that males have a ... -geared tests have significantly shrunk in the past few decades, which is ... participate in a series of tests “to measure the ability to put oneself in

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How many engineers does it take to change a light bulb? If you asked somebody what 'for' was for, what would it be?

  

  generally happy in the media lab: Har, har. Anyway, back to the matter at ... to learn to fly and is looking at taking pilot lessons over the summer ... Answer to the subtext: Meta-phor! Also, a clue to the answer to the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • May 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  6.5 Years Post-Graduation, I’m a Beading Artist a twisty path

  

  the most non-linear path I could find on Canva): Somewhere in there ... . In the fall of 2024, no longer able to produce thoroughly researched ... , though, was art. And I loved it! In the midst of so much leaving my list of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  More On The Interview… You don't need to take up the crumhorn to look "different."

  

  , anyway. The interview is simply a way for you to tell us in person. Some ... point of these meetings is for us to learn about the things that interest ... in that regard. To that end, there is no expectation that you should

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  finish is good enough to qualify for Nationals in Iowa, so the team gets ... line of the guys' race, which at that moment has to be the most ... our last race of the season" or "first time at Regionals" to "this is my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  exists in and around MIT knows that there’s always so much pressure to be ... Short Stories just for me. I want to write more in the future, and it turns out the best way to write is to, I don't know, just write? So this

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  at MIT. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I got to learn about ... about the goblin that loved pickles so much, he forgot to stop Hanukkah ... blogging for the past year and I hope it continues to be so in the future

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkeys and babies But no baby turkeys.

  

  square one. :) The thing that keeps coming back to me, though, is that I ... lately is going to make some monumental difference upon where I end up in ... Dora the Explorer is coming to town, or something, but if that's true I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To RFID or not to RFID? That's not really the question, but it's kind of a cool title, no?

  

  savvy (like me), here's the wikipedia article on RFID). One of which is ... Bulthaup in 2001, the year he graduated from MIT with a Bachelor's and Master ... of RFID. You should read the article, because it does a much better job

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • August 20, 2009