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  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a ... people cheering each other on, competition is as close as you get to a STEM ... -game (where a special end game is setup in the last few seconds for extra points

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Some Time in New York City I'm not much of a man by the light of day, but by night I'm…

  

  pay $26 for a ride--after all, you can just get upperclassmen to to tell ... out of your dorm and take the T down to South Station, you can get on a ... ." Seriously, what is wrong with you? Anyway, we were in a huge gigantic hurry to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  community went to Six Flags". You don't stop being a Child of Florey (another name for a 5th East-er, if you couldn't figure that out) because of ... place had a lot of them. There was a thin blue tube called Cannonball

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... you don't see above is that we are facing a couple, hidden from view ... because there was a fake statue of David like 100 feet away. There is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  promise you: the excitement never wears off! Even after a day full of ... spending two-thirds of my summer in the unfamiliar chaos of a foreign country ... . Apparently “Gravity is a failed theory that has been disproven”. Stay woke. Worked a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  First Day of Classes! Today, the MIT Class of 2014 begins.

  

  , tried out for a cappella groups, played sports, and more. The formal welcome to the class is the Freshman Convocation, where the freshman class ... Today is the first day of the Fall Semester at MIT, and thus is the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  A sporting chance

  

  't really want to go to a "jock school," the kind of school where you had to ... Despite growing up in New York, I became a Red Sox fan when I was 8 ... myself in a Red Sox uniform taken sometime in the late 1980s: While

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 22, 2004
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  their Ubers, which was a fairly short process. From there, we filed ... interfaces that support accessibility.   From there, I found a few ... new things about the tools and opportunities out there, I've become a

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  . There's a little black plastic part on the main bar of the bike where I ... horseshoe, and slide it in. There's a notch." "It's not sliding in." "You ... from campus as you can possibly get. She rode it over last night and

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  's. Back in the Fall of 2002, I set out on a journey that is still ongoing. I ... wanted to go to college, and I had a few ideas of where I wanted to apply ... class, you were guaranteed admission to a state school, so I figured

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  just one more gnome game it will fix me

  

  always surprising how much you can play around and experiment in such a ... gnome bounces high enough, you can reach the stars, where gnome ... the back log, a gnome can bounce backwards into a region where the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Answering your questions

  

  you there and not someone who'd rather be in a coed living group ... struggling. Believe me, I know, I've been there. However, I can make a logical ... (s) is (are), and what your academic strengths are. There's actually a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • March 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Quentin Smith Google Quentin Smith '10.

  

  Hollis teen is a Presidential Scholar with a summer job at Google ... own office at Lawrence Academy. [Staff photo by Peter DiCampo] You can ... critical code for ranking pages," he said, a bit wistfully. "There are trade

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  right of passage, a treat you only get as a student, and there's something ... ://webmail.mit.edu. You'll see a screen that looks like this: Click for 123K PDF This is ... type a couple of commands, which I detail in the next video. There you

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  When I say that snow was a statistically significant factor in my choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter propaganda, and that means more snow shenanigans! This time brought to you by

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Getting a Physics Major – Part I I split this up because i need to start studying for finals.

  

  ://web.mit.edu/physics/undergrad/majors/degreereqs.html You can get a more complete idea of what is required of each flavor of ... course "so we can graduate" is not the ONLY reason we take junior lab. You ... Juniors in physics tend to complain a lot. The more of them there are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 14, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Watch a Webcast! get ya popcorn ready

  

  . backchan.nl is a tool designed here at the Media Lab by MIT student Drew ... MIT: If you don't know much about MIT, this might be a good place to start! And if you do know a lot about MIT, I think McGreggor will share a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  the launch vehicle. The strength of the fin can is essential to a stable ... relieve stress and bond with team members. RT is definitely a you-get-out-what-you ... one of my best friends, Emma S. '23. She is a huge part of rocket team

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  . There is a way around or through anything. Lean into it. Inspiration is ... , it gives you insight. There's no wrong way. I've declared that it is ... platitude, but it is a certainty nonetheless. The people at MIT are reliable

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Meet My True Love: Notion a tool for stress-free college applications (and much more)

  

  the table to show only those rows. You can see that there are lots of ... words alone. In the top left, just underneath the header, you can see a ... can imagine it would look a lot more populated if you used it for your

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 18, 2020