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  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... autonomous mode for our robot was a pain in the ass. It was all about ... small bump in the mat changed the whole trajectory of the bot. And then we

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  to now and forever

  

  in my senior year after my other friend group split. Ethan, who has ... my apartment. It was bizarre in a way because there was a part of it ... bed one bath apartment in San Francisco. Taking him around the city and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  . Filipino food is not really known for its healthiness -- we douse food in oil ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I ... and have been in front of a computer since the age of 3 and never, ever

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  until Fall 2022. i am currently living in East Campus, but i spent the ... Bombers. it was a tumultuous and fulfilling experience in spite of numerous ... 're interested in. finding new friends who mesh with our community aside, as a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions & Answers a daily blog prompt compilation

  

  them. In the meantime, I did an Instagram Live for MIT Admissions with ... a significant amount of sitting in coffee shops (rip) and studying for ... efforts. Where are you in this exact very moment? Take a picture. Tell us

  • by Alex M. '21
  • May 14, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland the day GDPR was implemented, and in one of my classes we discussed the ... community. With privacy becoming increasingly more consequential in our day

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  just another manic wednesday yes, i am absolutely stealing from joon

  

  this image is small, if you look in the bottom left corner you'll see a ... dream in which i miss[annotation note="i'm leaving in eight days, next ... light comes in bright blue around the edges of my windowshade, and my room

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Finding my place at MIT It's an ongoing process

  

  . College was a chance to both remake myself in a friendlier mold and to build up the friend circle I never had in high school. What I didn't realize ... high school community. As a result, I didn't fit in with the other people

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 2, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one ... ’t threaten your own chance of success, they enhance it. In many cases, what may seem like a skill that is impossible to acquire in fact came from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  EDIT: Petey mentioned in the comments that we should make a blogger ... my life before coming to college and pursuing my interests in a ... of my friends started a family plan in second semester that I hopped on

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  There’s this idea that every moment in your life, every experience you go through adds to your being in some way or form. You essentially ... experiences deserve equal recognition in who we become, some just color you more

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  When I introduce myself in new groups, a lot of times I bring that up how I inline skate, or rollerblade. Even after three years of being in ... me moving 5 ft forward in the East Campus courtyard, scared out of my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  In middle school, my first foray into robotics was with the FIRST Lego League. That was the first time I remember being in a school ... -ever Cherry Creek High School robotics team when we started in 2013. That's me

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  to have things sort of figured out in my mind, so I can say something ... , and in the last few months, I feel like I’ve lost my way more than I ... unusually light—probably because the variety in my classes (algorithms

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional Figure Skating Championships in Indian Trail, North Carolina, the qualifier for the US Championships in ... . Can't really take it while I'm skating in North Carolina? Here's a

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  This is where my decisions have taken me perspectives from grad school

  

  “Einen Faden in die Hand nehmen, der in jedem Fall, unter allen ... take in one’s hand a thread which continues always and through all ... solved for, I could plan my future by laying these decisions out in front

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 15, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  about environmental sustainability. In that post, I wrote:   This is ... background or training in judging people, I have been judging people for some ... able to transfer my experience judging people in admissions to judging

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  “Where art thou, O Higgs?” *insert shimmering transition into the past here*

  

  'll be trying to atone throughout April. In the meanwhile, here's a story ... dining-discuss@ were still fresh in the minds of undergraduates[1], yolo ... exciting time in the world of particle physics. A week or so before, I had

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 7, 2015
• Blog / How to MIT

  Dormire et Laborare Sleeping and Working at the Institvte

  

  this year in affiliation with MIT’s Course 8 (Physics) department! Though ... is loosely stated as such: “For every student sitting in a library ... , so I'm not actually publishing a paper. In all seriousness, in the past

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 28, 2015