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  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a ... monstrosity to compete in a game announced in the first weekend of January. Dean Kamen's goal with FRC and all of the FIRST competitions is to popularize

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The fight’s begun but not yet won me vs. vista

  

  days in a row and had a bunch of guys poke and prod at it. The verdict ... with the computing power of 100 Tiny Dells, maybe even 1000, all black ... uncertainty and despair when the the little blue bar marking the progress of the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Froshmore oh to exist in a state of ~liminality~

  

  nearly normal version of the MIT experience. For one (positive) thing, my ... ’m in a weird purgatory of majors. Hmm calibration implies the existence ... changed majors to [annotation note="one variation of the mechanical

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 2, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode II: Amazing Rain The one where you rapidly cool hot metal.

  

  managed to get a degree from the Sloan School of Management or something ... for an inch of rain and a thunderstorm in the White Mountains, Joe '08 ... 's all a state of mind. Read on and find out how I spent the second day of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  “How to CPW 2012”…a Guide for Parents CPW can be overwheming...a parents' guide to making the most of it.

  

  Much of Boston and certainly the ladies in the sorority house where I ... can provide. Since I am involved with many of the parent events during the weekend it makes sense for me to offer some tips about how you can

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • April 15, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  one side of downtown opens up to a 180 degree panorama over the ice ... Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding ... I wanted to see more of the francophone part of Canada. :D We flew

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  of the images themselves, offering concise, descriptive language to ... everything, 'Sweetheart'?" in the manner of an elderly grandmother. I started ... 's work and calling do not lie in the theoretical disciplines of calculus

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  , though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day ... Junior level, though I had the comfort of the good ol' P/NR. Getting ... and trek over to the Skating Club of Boston, a 20-minute Uber-ride away

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Blogural Inaugural I just wanted to use this title.

  

  bigger and heavier than most of the other forks you've used.Why am I ... quite the case. (And of course, the jab above is all in good fun -- I have ... one of the lucky four freshmen in the advising seminar 3.A04, Modern

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  get SLAPped! it doesn't hurt

  

  last year, i got an email from sandy, the head of house at east campus. my tenure as a physical resident of ec had just ended due to the ... suspect they chose the name at least partially for the sake of an amusing

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 21, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  petals. Baby bunnies hopping around gleefully at your feet. The smell of fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their ... , regardless of admission or non-admission to the Institute, you probably applied

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / Blog Projects

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  given the recent opening of West Garage, official name New Vassar. CPW is ... people sent lots of messages. Trinidad, one of the admissions directors ... reading old issues of The Tech, MIT's student paper. Soon enough, I found

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Yo quiero… A Spanish themed entry?Ok, not really.

  

  take 5-hour naps in the middle of the day. They're usually only 3 hours ... other a lot, and it's kind of neat. Meara from across the hall cooks ... that bio pset on my desk. Cool learning experience of the day: 21F.716

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  handle. Now, I realize that these are the days when we become the kind of person we're going to be for the next stage of our lives. I felt like I ... idea any of these existed last year.   Within the past year, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with ... offered quite a bit of freedom with my room, even going as far as switching ... the sheer ugliness of the arrangement was that any time I sat at my desk

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Greetings from India: D-Lab Students in the Field D-Lab students Luke, Sydney, Jessica, Madhavan

  

  Cuisine" "India offers so many new and exciting things, one of the most ... are blogging from Assam, India. The students of D-Lab’s Cycle Ventures class are working with the Rickshaw Bank, a project of the Center for

  • by OEL
  • January 28, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Events

  This… is… Jeopardy! [UPDATE] Jean '09 knocks off a 6-time champion; watch her defend her winning streak tonight on…

  

  the bottom of this blog entry. You may have caught this news item ... . I.B.M. plans to announce Monday that it is in the final stages of ... . If the program beats the humans, the field of artificial intelligence

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2009
• Blog / Public Statements

  A letter from President Reif regarding George Floyd and Minneapolis

  

  Today, the Class of 2020 graduates — virtually — from MIT. On a ... ongoing pandemic, the death of George Floyd, at the knee of a Minneapolis ... people, including members of the dispersed MIT community, are struggling

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 29, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT is easy if you study rastrology. Getting into awkward positions, at the Bank of London, with penguins.

  

  . The Rime of the Ancient Mariner can be sung to the tune of the "Gilligan ... particular Saturday, my early awakening was the result of a yoga makeup class ... frog pose the likes of which I had never even imagined before. Whoa

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 11, 2005