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  Totally awesome Incoming GEL students win big in the OnStar Student Developer Challenge

  

  This is an entry I’ve been meaning to write for about a month because ... Innovation & Design (EID), a class in the GEL program, together last fall ... , Blade Kotelly, mentioned it in class. A few months passed and then Sarah

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  A quick shout out from Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I am attending ... check out the projects, and finally a reception (now with fabulous prizes ... of this photo I recently saw on a blog: richietown via Bostonist

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  a lot of Star Wars books. I wore a fanny pack in the front with extra ... his arms around me in a hug. And I said, "aww, Kriff...I can't crush ... When I was a child I was a nerd. (I know this comes as a big shock

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sixth Sense No, I don't see dead people.

  

  ! It'll be loads of fun, I promise. I thought I'd take a break from planning to post a quick blog entry; I recently saw this amazing TED ... Report"-esque gadget, which she demos and describes in the video. Check it

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Motivation Finals are FUN!

  

  /Sr P/D/F. So even if I get a C, it will appear as a bright and shiny P ... My grades for the semester so far: This should keep me motivated ... AM to 12 PM 20.430: Fields, Forces, and Flows in Biological Systems

  • by Bryan
  • December 19, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  off my day in a breaded chicken induced coma after I crawl under my ... build a viral events framework in a technology ecosystem), I've found that ... IAP has been a time of very... well, different learning than I had

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  ." is from a musical written by MIT students that I performed in. The ... , and I should've been a little braver about putting sauce on the green beans, but all in all I think it was a success. Om nom nom. MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... halfway there." And I'd repeat this throughout the class. It became almost a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Accidentally Double Majored How I managed to accidentally get a second major at MIT (hopefully)

  

  , called a concentration. After my third semester at MIT, I had no idea what ... minor in this. I love writing - maybe it could be more than a ... thinking - could I actually double major in this? So I sent an email a month

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • February 2, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  Dear Prospective 2020s Passing on advice that good people have given me

  

  overwhelmedness – but I also find a lot of solace in kind, honest words. So that's what I can offer, because that's what has helped me most this semester ... are coming out in a couple hours. Yuliya K. '18 made a lovely post

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Rainbow Lounge Where the LGBT kids hang out.

  

  Back in the day (TM) when I was a prefrosh participating in the awesomeness that is Campus Preview Weekend, I noticed an event in my 500 page ... -friendly!), and me (I grabbed a copy for my dorm room door while in the Rainbow

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 23, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST Robotics Kickoff Things go into Overdrive at a reception at Dean Kamen's house.

  

  ...Heliport? Heliport? Did I read that correctly? Yes, Kamen has, in addition to a garage ... applications, I grabbed a Zipcar Prius and set a course for New Hampshire. After ... chess-playing robot and a steam-powered computer. As I looked for a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 5, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  All 42 cheeses I tasted in college i am a cheese enjoyer

  

  the cheeses I ever had in college. my final cheese rankings Vintage ... ton of this during Radio Society Field Day. Tastes like a really meal; I ... , 8/10 Mimolette - Mite cheese! A bunch of mites live in the cheese

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • February 18, 2026
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Whoa…You’re Old Bryan returns from the crypt of grad school

  

  classes in 2003 (3.091, 21A.109, 18.01A, 8.01 and a seminar). I don't know ... a class in every department so that's kind of cool. When I first ... go make millions. Today, I work in a mass spectrometry lab studying

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  -for items in dozens and dozens of households. This is what I love about ... I spent this past [annotation note="and also the summer before that"]summer[/annotation] at Canada/USA Mathcamp, where I lived five weeks in Tacoma, Washington

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  No Touching one plane, two planes, red plane, Corn Dog

  

  demographic makeup of the competition. "I forgot how much of a sausagefest DBF ... has more girls than guys." She had a point--the MIT team is in the ... inspection entailed a detailed checklist for our plane electronics, checking

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A, Vol. II A sort-of guest post

  

  ... aren't you supposed to be in school?" which is totally a legitimate concern. But in honor of "Patriot's Day" (I honestly never quite figured what that was all about)/It's-the-Boston-Marathon-and-the-city's-a

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 18, 2011
• Blog / Hacks

  Athena, Deliver Us From Finals And lead us not into temptation of crying ourselves to sleep at night.

  

  , hackers erected a giant statue of Athena, the patron goddess of wisdom, in ... the hack's serene majesty. Naturally, I was no exception. In spite of ... running out of battery!), I prevailed against all odds and secured a photo

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 20, 2009
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  39 windows and 2 friends a love letter to simmons's architecture

  

  conception of what a room should look like: [caption id="attachment_120548 ... you can fit a bed in the right half of the room; no, i don't know how ... look around myself. i realize again that i live in a building with

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • December 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Ina Garten Da Vida, Baby Can't you tell that I love you?

  

  she's in a third-world country. So I decided to finish up this entry, which I have been working on for over a month. But this entry is ... asked me to blog an entry that she wrote in Zambia last night, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 10, 2007