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  DME SoccerBot Championships 2006 (Or, How Does Justin Timberlake Live With Himself?) All we are saying is give Pluto a chance.

  

  , Discover Mechanical Engineering was amazing. I would honestly say that you ... Orientation hits. Also, I learned how to work a lathe, use a bandsaw at an angle ... robot before, so I thought it would be a good time to start (because of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  aware of how you act in certain situations and reflect on whether or not ... and how you might want to fill them in while planning your activities ... brainstorming, I’m partial to lying on the carpet in my living room floor with a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  professor friends talks about how they’ve been working to improve diversity in ... focus on the class because you feel BURNOUT. you think about how you somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I’m officially a junior (scary!) I figure I've earned some confidence in my

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i’m doing typing in a comfort style for a change

  

  about the work i had to do - i was too busy thinking about how painful this was and how i wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy. missing out on ... it done in time, but that left me no time to give a good go at 6.006. i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  that re-visit to make sure that MIT would make me happy if I got in and ... also knew getting in would be an uphill climb. Oh, and first I had to go ... ’ve struggled to earn B’s here!—I can’t see how those 250 words would have hurt my

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  next 17 years, I would basically be pulling things from <a href="http ... /www/oldmb/history.html">here</a> and rearranging the words in an attempt to avoid blatant plagiarism. I ... the amazing Bill '07. He's on the left in this picture. I'm next on the

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  rancher. This distresses me. I own no cattle.) Tucked away in the American ... prototypes (a.k.a. parents). I was in attendance to take pictures of food- I ... great export: How accessible is campus dining? In my realm of discussion

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  first week class reflections i am home

  

  in session and i have...an assortment of feelings. i guess my last post ... with pessimism either. i took physics c mechanics in high school and did ... glance. oh, how i was so wrong. i worked with my friend aiden who is also

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 11, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Just 41 Pictures I Took in 2017 Yultide Day 2

  

  22, I went to see My Little Pony: the Movie in theatres at 10:30pm on a Friday night. I was one of two people in the audience. In my defense, I saw it so I could tell my 7-year old sister about it. Also in my defense

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , Microsoft Kinect doesn't work well for people in black clothing!), I loved the ... —all in under five minutes per activity! I loved the experience. If only ... science electives—I think that would be wonderful. MIT Libraries Digital

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  capabilities. If you're new to how MIT shows off your grades, then I should tell ... washing machines and ridiculous gyroscopes in 8.01, I felt pretty certain ... that this time around, the problems I'd have to solve would involve

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  in search of lost time a cruft joint post with CJ Q. '23

  

  to say goodbye to MIT in the way I would’ve liked. I finished my master ... , or the day before? When I think about endings, I think about how, in ... programming languages. I live in Seattle now, where I work on power management

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  head down, marching on highlights of spring semester

  

  lose skill in this case but I will be out of practice. It would feel like ... in the middle of the day. I was fleshing out ideas I would use again ... . I’m listening to SJ Tucker on my headphones that only play in the left

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  The Bad Week, or How To Lose Sleep and Alienate People I'm giving out life advice today. I know you didn't ask for it, but I'm…

  

  weeks. I find that it really comes and goes in cycles, and this year it ... mostly incoherent emails. I will have been in several meetings, broken a ... thing or two I've picked up on how to deal with these weeks. One might

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 3, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  could have a contest, how much cultural enrichment can you get for free in ... buys food (Which is what you need in order to live. You’ll find that ... dinner in Boston but mostly I’m a TechCash guy. I wonder if that has

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  like you in that kind of way ;)” vibe. In my mind I would not be happier ... of the core aspects that caused me to work hard in high school. I would ... , looked it dead in its pale, white, papery face and said, “I will defeat you

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  campus. ACF or Asian Christian Fellowship, how I ended up in that club as ... what's going on both in my life and in MIT at general! (and one day I ... what my first year here was like. In the video I skipped explaining a few

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  live in Cambridge, MA, how do I come to terms with the fact that I will ... In a conversation I was having with my good buddy, Quinton, today ... , but I found that happy medium between breaking into a sweat in my all

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  ? Improbable. Graduation came and went and in just three months I would be ... ways life would be better if I could just find a cozy nook in the past to ... learned how to always be thinking ahead to what I would need to complete my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015