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

  

  -B class here in New York and will be testing in May. I think it's so cool ... Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... . There are over 1,000 high school teams nationwide that compete in FIRST

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

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  , enough about the opioid crisis. in january i was looking for new biology ... think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... acknowledge often enough in portrayals of addicts because it is extremely

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other schools in ... , which are then modeled on our runway. Trashion was founded in 2011, is an ... teaches in STS.   Trashion Show 2015 Promo Video from MIT UA on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic ... good or not. Because for good food, new friends, subsidized ski trips ... also a lot more annoying in the beginning because it felt like I was

  • by Anika H. '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my ... Vegas! (my hometown)']a place that never sleeps.[/annotation] Even in the ... acknowledge all of the hard work I’ve put in? God. In high school, it felt like

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  more and innumerable times more; and there will be nothing new in it, but ... i. in the business world, a unicorn is a startup with a valuation of ... as a rough estimate of a company’s expected value in the distant future

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... interests in college because I would have more time since I wouldn’t be in class all day. Isn’t innocence so [annotation note= " *cries in psets and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  a close friend. In this post, I'll describe how I made the decision to ... next 51 weeks. Motivation and Rationale I've discussed briefly in some ... nearly six months in a household I had long since outgrown. The next few

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... representative, right? Sure, nothing new there. Some folks prefer to put their

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

  A Conference Where Everyone Was Younger Than Me I'm talking highschool Thiel Fellows, 30 under 30 winners, and Shark Tank participants

  

  's in New York City. We gotta go!" Later that night, one of our mutual ... either also in college or a recent graduate working on their startup. Even ... who were interning in NYC. They didn't have a couch, I literally just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Walk around the blogs Think of it as summer reading.

  

  . I don't know about you, but I think that's a lot to take in all at ... hacking, the near-infinite research opportunities, MIT's mission in the ... (especially if you're new to the site - hi, new people!). So I've spent the past

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 13, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  Apply to WISE! It would be WISE of you to do so

  

  , another living group in New House, that same night. Daymé says the kitchen ... ambassador. WISE stands for Weekend Immersion in Science & Engineering, and it’s MIT’s fly-in program where rising high school seniors learn about

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 13, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  My MIT Essay Revisions college essay things

  

  was so shit, but regardless! I started writing my essays in early ... personality points, etc. 1. Create a list of everything you want to include in ... : bioengineering nonprofit organization equality in STEM and social justice

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 22, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  SHE CAMPUS ON MY PREVIEW TIL I WEEKEND!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! my freshman cpw post turned east campus love letter

  

  masse in Cambridge, and the prefrosh excitement around me was so palpable ... ’t participate in it, but it’ll always be there if you want your social life to be ... getting caught up in something else, so I’m glad I got to see what it was

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  of their relatives in China, a way to share the holiday with other people. We would fill all the rooms in the house, and everybody would eat ... would always be written in this mishmash of Chinese and English: dishes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Minerva Delusion the political economy of an educational scam

  

  Update on 6/26/2018: in the years since this post has been written ... compelling: there are more smart students in the world than there are seats in ... masses yearning to learn. In support of his subversive educational

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  The sixth in a series... With less than a week until the May 1st ... 's up with my financial aid? You or someone in your family should call the ... dot edu. You haven't answered by question in any of the past few

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  30 questions with my roommates! I had writer's block so I forced my roommates to make content for me

  

  . Last thing you were excited about Fatima> i was in New York for a ... similar lifestyles, so we grew close pretty quickly. We chill in Next House ... bottles in the closet have two small potted plants called Sandwich and

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting ... ~. In a way, it feels like a dream come true because I’m finally getting ... that the layers could represent time and differences could show change in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  During quarantine, I enrolled in The Science of Well-Being, a free ... used Coursera a lot in high school to take various Data Science ... ! In this post, I briefly summarize each week of course material and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020