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

  

  the OnStar Student Developer Challenge with their speech-recognition application, EatOn. This program helps drivers choose restaurants by offering ... account! The contest was hosted by OnStar, GM’s in-vehicle operator, which

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • May 21, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sorry 6.003 Wherein my senioritis starts getting just a little ridiculous.

  

  -minute talk on the life and times of Optimus Prime. Because just like ... , you know that I have 6.003: Signals and Systems on Junior/Senior P ... class and give a 50-minute presentation with overheads. He doesn't usually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maybe I’m Amazed ...but not until Season 13, at least.

  

  delivered something like 8 or 9 Valentine's Day band-o-grams on the slushiest ... that site and saw that JVJ got eliminated first on The Amazing Race: All ... is like 5 minutes away from my house unless you're driving a car that I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 19, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  spontaneously planning my life here on walks around the neighborhood and during ... is the link to a mini-guide to CPW with advice on packing, planning, and the weather. You should also check out this post by Selam G. ‘18 on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is a jock school the secret is out

  

  to be clear, this isn’t one team carrying everyone else on their back ... on sports teams are part of some pretty phenomenal programs with a long ... championship and having a 4.0 GPA? Now that’s a flex. Conclusion It’s not every

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Movie A Day… the only way to spend your PNR

  

  to take this midterm? I pass with a 40% in this class." PNR ... ) hours on movies. The movie streak, however, really was catalyzed by ... recommendations. Some of these movies on the "To Watch" list include, but are not

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 17, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Book Festival #3 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  authors! I purchased Colum McCann's new Thirteen Ways of Looking on ... .   (from Wikimedia) Colum McCann sat on a high chair in the light. He wore a ... work. McCann’s books contained sentences of one word and sentences of 40

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 14, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  YOU really want. I went to an art and design high school initially on ... thought. Eventually I made the decision to focus on academics because I knew ... -fulfilling prophesies or even deciding factors. I convinced myself that 11:11pm on 11

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s up? here's whats up

  

  high full moon through the trees before falling asleep on the dark road ... included in the cost of your tuition is now a $40 extra membership fee for ... missing the goings on at school. In other news, waking up at 3pm and

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • August 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Political Process For the civic-minded

  

  like everyone under 40 is crazy about it. I'm not going to get into my ... Politiques Français Since I know all of you read about French politics on a ... consideration, depending on how interesting they are... Keri did this last year

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on ... ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street ... class of 2010), packed (with Adam) somewhere between 40 and 60 percent of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  She works hard for the money So hard for it, honey.

  

  work with my homework for a few hours on end. I got a lot of homework ... day, I got a ten-week internship at the National Institute on Alcohol ... 300 rhesus macaque monkeys at six genomic loci using PCR and a big

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  for me since we mostly stretched and then laid on mats for 10 minutes ... You can get a perfect GPA and lead every extracurricular activity on ... taking measurements of toxic algae concentrations while you’re on a boat in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  shudder every time I look back on [annotation note="Intro to Probability"]6 ... "smarter", I've just become used to working on assignments for longer periods ... Introduction to computational theories of human cognition. Focus on principles of

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  bloggers.addAll( newBloggers); System.out.println("Hello, World!");

  

  more than the planet it lives on. Joe is also an extremely talented ... rabbits. She is a YouTuber, a tumblerer, and a listener of angsty acoustic ... blog post on her second-favorite admissions-related blog.   Yuliya

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  on behalf of MIT Admissions. I'll explain how FIRST and KC are ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  research that seems completely absurd. They are then voted on, discussed, and ... ; development on a chemical weapon -- the so-called "gay bomb" -- that will make ... "Huh?!" Each speaker has 5 minutes to share all of their research and try

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Survey says… A LOT of freshmen report that they were leaders in high school!

  

  A lot of comments from my last entry touched on the leadership topics ... opinions on the article and some of the leadership examples they see in GEL ... agreed that the results depend heavily on how students define a “leadership

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter ... -so-secret crush on Pine, the mail client that's used on Athena. I used to only use ... . On Monday, we had to submit the primary themes for our theme

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  situated on campus. It is home to 40 members from around the world. Our ... cold and snow.) Here's a guest post from Sondy G on MIT's six independent living groups - they've been mentioned on the blogs before, but as none of

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009