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• Blog / Community Projects

  [Guest Post] Because Racecar, Friendships, and Family By Monica C. '25: "What I’ve learned about being an engineer, friend, and teammate by…

  

  from the design stage to two annual competitions in May and June, where ... time on the team, requiring us to learn how to build a custom gearbox ... "]EECS[/annotation] department, I’ve noticed that it’s easy to get funneled into one specific kind

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates 2013 things that are happening

  

  , and several thousand people are in the process of applying to MIT. The ... arriving in our inboxes recently. How should my teachers prepare and submit ... MIT. You can always check how your essays look in the PDF preview, which is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  corresponding arrows reach the top of the screen; you get points based on how well ... gameplay i learned how to keep myself centered on the pads without looking at ... the machine), how to time my footsteps more precisely (by relying less

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  a non-stop grind to get everything finished in time for competition ... Arcturus — how are you introducing it to incoming frosh? Audrey:  Arcturus ... school year, we competed in RoboBoat 2022, and we’re excited to take on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  MIT Calling Yo Snively - I lied. There are actually 2 admits in Oregon BESIDES you -…

  

  just wondering if you had any questions or would like to get the ... time to prepare a list of questions either. So just in case you'd like to ... this evening, but just in case you didn't get a call from me specifically

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  inconvenience. By about 11:30pm, I finally get to the other hotel, check in, and ... 't believe how much has happened in just the last 3 days, from Detroit, to ... how it looks, I found it to be very fun and interesting to drive. 10

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... 't live without my fridge in Next. You might be able to get a used one, I ... you're going to be living in Burton Conner, MacGregor, or anywhere else

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  academic struggles zig-zagging in a world of straight lines

  

  -grade teacher told us all to “divide your page in half.” The other students made ... GPA in high school to be admitted into MIT (as well as some other ... obituaries. I don’t really know how to narrativize it, but I imagine many

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  ’t want to be sucked in to big and long-term lows. Whenever I cry or get ... ’s wrong?” “I’m not in a good mood,” she said. She didn’t need to say why ... emotions do in fact fluctuate with the state of the world, which I want to be

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  The Starving Student’s Guide to Cooking For Yourself it's easy to ditch that meal plan and save loads of money.

  

  In my last post, I mentioned that I came to MIT never having cooked ... food.  Rice takes longer and is harder to get right on the stovetop ... scrambling them in the pan.  This results in a nice fluffy egg (props to Gordon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... to me and plays football, I'll be sure to check. =) In my entry about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  inflammations in your system. Thank goodness I asked her how to eat this, because ... that MISTI is one mens et manus answer to the "study broad" buzz word in ... , so we get to manage our time for work, travel, leisure. (At the moment

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to ... that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  72 Hours Later… I have the "morning-after" syndrome.

  

  next few days. But I just want to say something. In a word, you guys are ... , MI, SC, GA, TX, MO, WA (just to name a few) and getting to know your passions in high school, from research (I don't know how many ISEF and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  in baker. i take the elevator down to the dining hall to get meals, and then i take it back up and eat in my room. i walk to the z center to get tested every once in a while; it takes around twenty minutes to walk, get

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... to your living community"]GRA[/annotation], a PhD student in Course 4 ... chemistry and the recitations they had to attend or TA. pika gets much louder

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Of Orange Juice and Animal Hats. How the Flintstones failed me.

  

  , and once caught a cold in 90 degree weather. I’m still not sure how that ... ’t called in a week. I’ve been kind of hosed. Mom: Are you sick again? You ... juice in a week and a half. I haven’t really slept in a while. Mom: Sleep

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Your Friendly Neighborhood Dream-Destroyer "How Could You Work There?"

  of as. So, I thought it'd be helpful to tell you all a bit about how I got to MIT and answer "how I could possibly work here." If we rewind to when I was in high school (a much simpler time when Tyra Banks was

  • by DJ Rock
  • May 30, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  then and now a reflection on the very bad

  

  blinked. Processed. Blinked again. I get to just not come to school in the ... school. Funny how things change. In the end, I ultimately chose not to go ... didn't know how to respond. My mom pulled me out of school after that

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 5, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  how to submit their latest grades.]     Hi Everyone, The ... (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed ... , since you only get to submit this form ONCE, this causes problems. So what

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013