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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!

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  phrase it, especially to a public audience, most of whom I probably don ... about less thrilling aspects of my third year so far for a thousand words would not be too fun. So, here is a status update in the form of a photo

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  things i have been consuming this summer random bits of media i have eaten

  

  unsuspecting town. Not only are the residents of the town incredibly quirky and chock full of personality, there's also certain secrets and hidden gems ... week, I finished Season 2 of Gravity Falls. Right before my senior year

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 19, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  requirement for course 12 (earth and planetary science) majors. as part of the ... the data they need as part of a larger project. the class ends with ... optical infrared telescope part of the SPECULOOS (Search for habitable

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  semester I spent a larger than usual amount of time thinking about more ... class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  I’ve been thinking about different modes of transport through cities ... . Each of those three have their own method of transport: Copenhagen bikes ... exposed to other ways of getting around, I'm thinking about what I want to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  -time instead of Mocha was difficult and took quite a long time to make; I started ... was no satisfaction of selling out a successful show, or of buying ... liked having creative direction over choreography, but the thought of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  mental map of what MIT looks like. It won’t be perfectly right, but it ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... discovered K-Pop in 4th grade (it was actually because of a Ke$ha phase

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... Engineering, so his project involves a bunch of super secret space stuff

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  , kind of. I`m almost 300 pages through Matt Ridley`s "The Rational ... hike. I was in a strange mood. I`m a student at one of the most ... the pace of life, the thirst for knowledge and the search for new ideas

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... Craiglist. None of that matters. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... top of a few weeks in therapy, so I'm letting this entry make its debut

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008