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  Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.

  

  Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology.  I had intended to get a ... was paid to launch bottle rockets in Killian Court :D  Our first order of business was actually taking a retreat to a glorious little cabin in

  • by Piper '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Rats ! Foiled Again !

  

  conversation in Bangla. I’ll never get to know him. I periodically deeply regret ... three a cappella groups, and was lucky to get into two, but I ended up ... pathologically prone to seeing too much good in people. I’ve been burned many times

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  We met an alumnus from the Class of 1952 and fixed a window, and went bouldering.

  

  hands. From outside, I could see how the latch had to be adjusted in order ... until I found a way to get back into the hallway. After receiving ... came hurtling in our direction and, huffing and puffing, managed to spit

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 16, 2014
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  hello seattle i'm on the west coast!!

  

  plane to get from one point in the country to another."][/annotation] the ... 't comparing how foriegn it felt from my hometown in long island, new york, but ... different mindset compared to three weeks ago. then, i was still in MIT mode

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Our favoirte applicaiton spellnig errers If this title bothers you - or more importantly, if it doesn't - you should…

  

  's perfect). But when there get to be a lot of errors, we start to question how ... applications. Last year, it was 17,909 to be exact. And we don't just see them once - there is an iterative process in which many applications are seen

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Class-tastic

  

  In somewhat sharp contrast to previous terms, I'm taking only three ... , just to give you an idea how a few of my friends and I are spending our ... of time to work at the lab -- I'm scheduled for 16 hours per week this

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Four years, four summers The stuff I've been up to every summer at MIT.

  

  that I didn't get to see during term. (It's not that I have no time to ... didn't get to see it all year. And usually during the school year, Adam and I go out on Friday nights, so I don't get to see Monk. But during

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I GOT TWENTY DOLLARS IN MY POCKET (because I got a press pass to SpringFest 2013, of course. photos inside!)

  

  As Matt wrote earlier, today was SpringFest 2013!  Or, to put it in ... !  Probably to the chagrin of the cops in charge of security.  But they didn ... awesome violinist (Rebecca Zeller) who had to switch bows after each song

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bryan Owens: Developing bioreactors An interview with fellow blogger, Bryan Owens, to find out more about his awesome UROP…

  

  was symmetrical in order to reduce the need for aligning multiple parts ... redesigning the device. "We were having a really hard time getting fluid to flow ... so good that it squirted me in the eye," he says. He loves talking to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Throwback I'm gonna throw this out there. If you don't like it, you can throw it…

  

  say it was kind of a weird time in my life - I'd just moved to a new ... sometimes forget to wear pants in the hallway. (But then again, who doesn ... -course-meal by myself, and so in a throwback to that first original dinner party

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... . After we toured, we were put in random order from 1-136 and allowed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  get to by car and that were more woodsy. We’re more of a “cute cabin in ... our food stops and border control in-between, it took us 15 hours to get ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  schedule around, and get ready for the semester to actually start, all in the ... 5 on AP Calculus BC in high school, so I was expecting to get credit ... decent background in calculus, I would be able to get through it quickly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  there is no time left musings on death and the future

  

  to a friend about how, if i knew i’d live a long and healthy life in a ... think one other reason that might not be as easy to discern is a change in ... learned about jack and picture yourself in his shoes and think about how

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • March 22, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  Set Theory and other Shenanigans *Literal* Set theory

  

  Find a Set: Set is a visual card game. "Sets" in Set consist of 3 ... symbols There is exactly one set in that board of 20 cards. Find it before ... card deck that just lives on the lounge table, waiting to catch the eye

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  ; they reflect decisions made by people in power about what and how ... discrimination seem normal and fair. she talked about how she went to law school ... experience in the BlackLivesMatter movement; how the media portrayed protestors

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A recipe for disaster Behind the scenes of the "giant pie" video

  

  . Then we noticed a problem. We had made it in 2 parts to be bolted ... . We sat for a good 15 minutes trying to figure out how to stabilize it ... keeping the heat in. Next was to make the crust dough and freeze it so we

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • March 11, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Decisions

  

  you again get a choice: where do you want to go? Remember that no matter ... We've come to the time of year when many of you readers will find out whether you've been admitted to MIT or not. I want to express to you all my

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My schedule .

  

  lol, it's good to be a senior. 3:30am MANDATORY EDIT: In all ... thing you learn at MIT is how to manage a heavy courseload. The last thing you learn at MIT is how to manage without. I believe this. If you're a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • February 16, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  One for sorrow, two for joy Never surrender your dreams.

  

  insight into how you all might be feeling right now - how, to be perfectly ... your friends, on your professors, on the random people you sit next to in ... generally hanging out with friends. On the other hand, I didn't get much

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 14, 2008