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

  

  Quite a few Fridays ago I locked myself in my room so I could get as ... . There are over 1,000 high school teams nationwide that compete in FIRST. In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff

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

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  seats in the lounge car are very full as we prepare for the journey over ... conclusion that, in fact, South Station is just bad; Union Station is beautiful ... together at the only store open in the whole place. I had some miraculous

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Navigating the PM Interview the crash course i wish someone gave to me

  

  wanted to work on it in the future. I'm writing this post because I ... qualified I am to write this, but I thought I'd just give my two cents in for ... time in college, it was pretty evident my interests couldn't be really

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 10, 2021
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

  many of our Course 6 freshman friends reach out to for help in their introductory courses. Robert lives in Maseeh Hall, was born in Goma and grew up in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. I hope you enjoy

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5k, 10k, half marathon, and full marathon in January.  The Goofy ... medals if I do this one!" I registered in April and began my training. I

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Preface from Jebby: In addition to participating in Next Haunt with ... , so I’ll go in with a general overview of this year's timeline! [March ... before and were interested in continuing. Additionally, I was able to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  …ufacture mischief? In which I mansplain how my friends manipulate each other ... campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... . There are so many ways to find your people in college, and I want to talk

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  learning about Things!! cool classes explained in easy words

  

  meet cool people through classes, who have pushed me to think in new ways ... ="obviously class numbers are not in the ten hundred most used words, but I'm leaving them in to make searching for the actual classes easier if anyone wants

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 16, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  6.115 Microcomputer Lab! literally the coolest class i've taken so far

  

  mighty in the S-tier. Sometimes classes at MIT feel difficult for the sake ... approximately 1.28% of what was said in lecture, but it was reassuring to know that some of my friends were in the same boat. Lab was a whole 'nother

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 16, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  them. However, in total, 72 units was too many. I skipped most of my ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... this in another blog, but I did nearly all of my readings this semester

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  catching up what are you doing over the summer?

  

  . it's tuesday the 24th and we're waiting outside a house in mid ... , along with a yellow house that stopped me in my tracks. "that looks a lot ... chord in my memory. jeff and i met four years ago in the summer after

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • June 2, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  in the US with a research or innovation idea, we encourage you to apply ... competitions in that we only require a proposal, rather than a completed project in the application. We select 6 finalists each year, who will each

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  MIT in half of the articles on Popular Science. She is on Cloud Nine ... first exam. She gets that familiar thrill like she did in high school, the ... , there’s a little nerve in the very back of her head and at the tips of her

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Interview Tips from an MIT Educational Counselor Thoughts on how to prepare for your alumni interview

  

  and have interviewed 50+ applicants in the places work and life have ... , and New Haven, CT. I’m currently working on a joint MBA/PhD in ... and the students I meet are inspiring in so many different ways

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  invariants, number theory and unruly combinatorics problems. In eleventh grade ... for them in what little free time I had. It was my most stressful high ... —balance, time-management, something. In my first few weeks here, I got a fair

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  At CPW 2011, I had, hands down, the best ribs I've ever had in my ... line for the ribs. Where, like a beacon in the darkness, stands Snively ... ribs I'd ever had in my life. My hunger tore through me. The world went

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

  Liveblog: Info Session with Karyn Blaser! Learn about MIT

  

  Hey everybody, I'm taking a break from working on 2.004 in order to ... signing in on OLPC's (somehow the admissions office got a hold of two of them and use them for signing in now) with Mac keyboards (thank goodness

  • by Snively '11
  • October 12, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The 2009 Brass Rat My highly biased and personal opinions about Ring Premiere.

  

  , or might even be in the process of picking one out right now. If yours ... friend of mine was quoted in the Tech's article about the ring leak (Carlos ... there before my name appears in the Tech in a similar fashion on Tuesday

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Collective Apprehension Seems like my last entry freaked everyone out. No worries guys! You can do it!…

  

  back from my Easter visit home just in time for my training session at ... contaminated part off and drop it in this big yellow disposal bin with a caution ... keep in mind that as soon as you touch something contaminated (with a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  go alone or you may never go at all

  

  the ocean, partitioned by the faintest, haziest stroke. In front of me ... .   1 There is an innate human fear in being by yourself. Survival instincts tell us that we're in greater risk of danger. The unfamiliar is

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • January 6, 2024