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• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  course! That Saturday was the Manchester FIRST Regional, and I was psyched ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this ... during my junior year of high school, and it was seriously awesome. But

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

  ??"]cookies.[/annotation] I grew up as a massive baker, and every December I take it as a mission to bake as many cookies as possible and hand them out to people I ... ="The icing on the cake, the cake is a lie, to take the cake, and cakewalk

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  , the sophomore fall! *** Uh so yeah I'm gonna be a sophomore, and just ... for 10B. You're done with the GIRs and starting classes specifically for ... class sizes are still larger and the classes are well-known. Well funny

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Hate Superman. (I Love Superman.)

  

  things. But if someone told you that they’d have flight AND strength AND invulnerability AND heat vision AND frost breath AND … AND … AND… You’d call them ... and pumped into by big corporations. I thought he seemed like a Boomer

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 16, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  Con Vice President, a job involving lots of organizing and working with different folks to help make residential life at MIT better; my ongoing and ... [annotation note='a professional staff member who lives in the dorm and helps

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Growing Pains And Every Other Type of Ache

  

  little sleep. I haven’t eaten since yesterday evening, and I’ve sort of ... , though, is a precious commodity, and I’d like not to squander it, now that ... much work and far too little desire to do it. I put on the largest shirt

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • December 6, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  , elbowpads, and wristguards at Goodwill. I had always wanted to learn, but ... seemed very friendly and flat with bike lanes. My first attempt ended with ... mind, hitting a sidewalk crack and falling straight to my knees. I put

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... stand working in my room. I feel cramped and not as productive as there ... locations around Cambridge and Boston to complete the majority of my work. I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  floor. I opened the door and found my roommate, James Deng, standing outside, a cup held to his chest. In response to my jumping in fright and recoiling into the space behind me, he grinned and said, “I am the one who

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  what it's like to survive at MIT with no TechCash, no cash, and a ... bought lunch at Stata, handed over my ID and was alarmed to see that little "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  other things."]IAP[/annotation] I only took one class and it already ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very ... shops and randomly decided to eat at a fancy restaurant (Brasserie Liberte

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  teeth that need to chew on something or you’ll grow wild and mad, and so ... i right"]brain and hands[/annotation] or just doing the equivalent of ... ="specifically the Google one it’s so bright and happy!"]Minesweeper[/annotation] in

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  title of the event was "sf party" and the description of the event said it ... experience with parties were mostly parties in east campus and small gatherings ... , and the one i attended was, somehow, yet another new experience. on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  I went to a motorcycle festival don’t worry, parents, I didn't see other MIT kids there

  

  The other day, I skivved off studying for thermodynamics and instead ... , and planned that it would take about a third of the hours it did, so I ... the alleyway between Mass Ave and Windsor Street. Engines revved

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 23, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  View my 2020 resolutions and 2021 resolutions. There were some 2020 ... great connecting and networking with so many different companies and ... the PearlHacks hackathon with Crista F. '23 and Caroline B. '23 and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  later, in an ironic (and quite sad) twist of fate, I broke the November ... freshman year[/annotation] and with a senior in my direct social circle ... fucking idea" and to enter a relationship with someone almost done with

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  socializing over zoom it's been rough

  

  dorms was an experience in and of itself. In trying to figure out who ... "]staple[/annotation] with was a whole process in itself. Thinking about the spring and pods ... like, socially. And no matter how I try to frame it in my mind, making

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 24, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] Those Kids in Uniform Everything you didn't ask to know about ROTC

  

  (Course 6-3) and I’m a sophomore cadet in Air Force ROTC.  ROTC is an amazing program and a huge part of my life. However, it’s hard to understand ... wanted to answer some of the questions I get the most, and provide specific

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  (Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) courses at a rigorous technical school, you might ask? Well, firstly, I need to graduate, and since I began ... relaxed, and I was actually extremely confused. My body was confused too. It

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  , which is a month of courses, events, and other activities around campus between the fall and spring semester. While some people go off campus to ... overshot the :35 that I was going for, and I was too impatient to go back and

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018