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  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of ... to be pretty packed inside the Z-Center. As you can imagine, it was ... the photo on my phone. That's when I realized there was a trivia contest

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Win Sam Stuff! That, amongst other things.var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" +…

  

  . On a sidenote, Interphase is getting ready to gear up. I can tell ... !" There was a very confused "Hi . . . Snively?" from the tour group as I ... video! Second: During CPW there was a certain hack that involved a

  • by Snively '11
  • June 21, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  ’ll find that there is someone there to give you that extra “PUSH IT” you ... (which was a playlist of her (which is also our) favorite Russian songs) on ... “PUSH IT PUSH IT.” Immediately, we both just grinned, because how can you

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  arbitrary, and a two-month period before you can date freshmen kind of is, but ... with new people. and there's a decent chance your partner is in a close ... is a super SUPER bad decision. when you're a freshman, you don

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  : The MIT graphic identity you refer to is of course one of several since ... "Swiss Modern identity" mentioned here is a very striking, famous style of ... means that it ended some time in the 90s. But this is not a post about

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  may find that you can only fit, say, 247 words for a 250-word prompt. My ... the last section of both Parts One and Two, there is a link that will allow you to preview your application as a PDF. This PDF is exactly how

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  you click View Update.  This year, [annotation note='This is a small ... decision has been made with care, and it is final. I know this can be a ... portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  We Should Go To Canada In which Kayla E. '15 and I took a spontaneous adventure to the great land…

  

  /gardens: And here is Kayla climbing at a local climbing gym in Montreal ... differences between this country and ours. For example, Canada uses the metric system, so all signs are in metric units. Also, everything is in French in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 15, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  start blaring from the speakers and suddenly there was a dance number ... 've gotten Chris into a few of her songs, namely Want You In My Room ... where we saw Mitski back in July. The audience was definitely a lot older

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  -20…and apparently got a spot.” "This service leadership program" is ... description: “A one week long project held in Xiamen, Fujian, where a team of ... pink slippers the next time you do your laundry." Unfortunately I can

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: I’ll be at Maker Faire Bay Area this weekend and so will other people from MIT

  

  , where I'm giving a talk about maker portfolios in our admissions process ... .   If you can't make it on Saturday, you can watch an extended (and ... on. Hope to see some of you there!

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Blinky Lights (Part I) An example of how I go about building things.

  

  have a variable brightness, we can use PWM to change it. Basically, you ... for micro). A microcontroller is sort of like a miniature computer: you ... last for maybe one post after this one. But, hey - a guy can dream, right

  • by Evan B. '10
  • September 21, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  college is quirky than by saying you live in a triangle? I had the room for ... ’t. Once you get to the upper floors, A, B, and C towers are all separated ... On my 18th birthday and going away party, we had a huge cake with an

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Athletics When I picked the topic for this entry, I was cheerleading at an MIT basketball…

  

  MIT with a 0 on the SAT, even if you can throw a football ... here; as you can see, there are lots of ways to fulfill the requirement ... This entry is a double cheat -- I was trying to think of something to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  if you've read any of my blogs, you know that i'm a former resident of Burton Conner, a dorm that is currently under renovation and will be ... certainly options, but they weren't ideal since there isn't a lot of foot

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  That Lovely Pre-Finals Period

  

  all week. There's a lot of buzz on campus right now about some proposed ... changes that affect future classes (maybe you), so naturally there are ... desired, but it can be quite helpful for freshmen to take a variety of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 10, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I swear this isn’t an ad for Google But Bard is so much more fun than ChatGPT

  

  like GPT-4 for not knowing basic facts you can find via a quick Google ... , which is very cool (and a bit scary)! Although there are still a few kinks ... numbering system (although using a large language model like Gemini is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  while the pilot came over the intercom to tell us there was a ... hung from the rearview mirror. Boston is a very small city, but from ... , which is literally thirty seconds from where I got my ID. So, I turned

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Panic! MyMIT will be inaccessible on Saturday, October 31 from 6:00am until 10:00am EDT for essential…

  

  that last minute work on your halloween costume, or...... I can tell you ... coming from me the day before instead of in the morning when you fired up the browser to finally submit your EA application. Rest assured there

  • by Dave McOwen
  • October 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Disaster Relief .

  

  you can donate directly to the China Relief Fund, here. I hope everything is alright with your family, your friends, you, out in this ... translates literally into the four rivers that cut through it. The people there

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 13, 2008