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  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  hadn't ever used a mill or lathe.  I wasn't sure what it meant to tap a hole. Heck, I'd never used a power drill before.  But four months later ... pops off in the final 8 round. I knew I should have listened to Chip and

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  🎶Jauntily Sauntering Ambling Shambler🎶 Yes, those are actual lyrics from the musical I was just in

  

  that I would play one of THE characters in THE chorus line. It was a ... I thought I would be okay a whole three weeks out, but even during ... loudly. The diagnosis is clear: I have a solid case of post

  • by Powers '23
  • December 20, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  more, but I will delve into that in a later post. As to why spend a year ... is really fun, and also teaches you a lot. For example, in Turkey, I ... my friend and I found a Turkish man in the tiny town we were in who

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Test Time! All my classes managed to schedule tests within a week of each other.

  

  . In fact, right now I should probably be studying for my math test ... should really study for 18.701 now! But before I go, I just wanted to say ... , having four tests in the space of about a week was pretty common, and

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  episode in which I spotted a motorcycle rearview mirror lying by a parking ... ), when suddenly I remembered that I had broken my mirror a few days before. What the heck, thought I, a wave reflector is a wave reflector. Into my

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  to do laundry by myself or to know which medicine I should take for what symptoms. This is a story about how I survived Family Weekend ... underneath my bed or in the closet, I put on my best MIT gear and made the ten

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  , as a complement to my life (aka. I don't have to actually "major" in it ... for nerds?"). Here's what I think: 111221. MIT has a small humanities ... before and in which there are no "established answers," then what do you do

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... a city I hadn’t explored before, AND work 8-hour days with weekends ... guided my work but also gave me a lot of freedom in terms of which tasks I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Where We’ve Been And Where We’re Going A brief history of the blogs and MyMIT.

  

  horizon as well. A quick check revealed that I missed it - it was August 6 ... 's original vision. I'm a big believer in finding something that works and ... you what a relief it is to be where we are. I recently revised the

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New ZigZag and more A new episode of MIT's video podcast, and Susan Hockfield speaks out on energy research.

  

  do care. We should, too, by investing in a secure and clean energy ... check out relating to this mission. First, there's a new episode of Zig ... Hockfield recently wrote an op-ed in the Boston Globe entitled A Model For

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  tier-listing all the classes i’ve taken at mit and some other things

  

  write a whole blog about this project in the next week or so (before I am ... other statistics: The smallest number of units I took in a semester was ... past year (senior year), when I was definitely a lot more checked out of

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 24, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  dexterity. A fair amount of time in which you could slowly begin to understand ... and BC. A fair amount of time is definitely not what you have right now ... professor. You don't understand a single thing in the notes or the book. In

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  I eat and when I eat. This was a pretty big part of what made me kind ... able to walk through a grocery store and point and choose what I want, as ... eat after 9pm or eat an unnecessary amount of rice in a day when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  sleep over in a random lounge. So far I’ve checked off three out of the ... scenario in which I’m hanging off the edge of a cliff, tall enough that I ... dependency on cars for getting around. Now that I’m in a city that’s as

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! part 1 of art, food, and churches

  

  what I can only imagine is how living in a bachelor pad feels like. I had ... finally got to the Malpensa airport in Milan, I was a little shell ... entertainment center and sofa, a kitchen area, and a walk-in closet. Also, I had

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 5, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  In high school I always wanted to know what you learned in college ... object is moving in a circle. I got a lot more confident with rotational ... sophomore year out of a textbook that was published before I was born." The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome Diva adventures When high school summer programs collide

  

  than I learned in one year of being a student… and I’m not even working ... . (I want *that* job!) One of the lecturers needs a document camera in ... Studies Program… every once in a while, I have time to take a break from

  • by Kate R. '14
  • July 6, 2011
• Blog / Advice

  greta gerwig’s barbie and insecurity aka moving to college

  

  that in a weird way, I am being forced to reinvent my personality–to find a point of basic connection outside what classes I’m in or ... a plot relevant enough to need them there, too. In my head, I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  The American Astronomical Society’s Winter Conference: 2013 Edition THIS IS SO EXCITING I THINK I'M GOING TO CRY

  

  of Mountains In The Continental United States, so I stopped a random ... few minutes after I arrived, a guy walked in holding a poster tube, and ... standing in line for my registration badge, I met a helicopter medic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 15, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Ranking Every Class I Took at MIT it's that time

  

  just isn't a skill I've ever tried out before (and I'm assuming not many ... meanings, clever wordplays that I could include in my raps. I even made a ... myself practicing piano 3-5 times a week before or after class in the music

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 24, 2023