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  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  . Founded in 1989 by Segway inventor Dean Kamen, FRC is an activity where a ... in two alliances of three teams each going head to head for a few ... -game (where a special end game is setup in the last few seconds for extra points

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Places You’ll Go Places I've recently gone.

  

  !) and busting my butt off at my JOB. I chose to get an internship in ... found the project interesting and meaningful. As an Intern in the Green ... house (built for and lived in by some wealthy politically-important Boston

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ‘Chances’ Thread That Is Actually Worth Reading That's perhaps the best title I've ever come up with.

  

  will be born on my birthday, vs. an average of 0.00274 = 1/365 for the ... * some factor accounting for the likelihood that we'd be getting married in ... not only a birthday but an anniversary! What are the chances?" Most

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Doonesbury Follow-up on Alex Doonesbury's college choice.

  

  folks at doonesbury.com shut down voting access for those in the mit ... "Electricity and Magnetism for Masochists") had an official response to the ... consists of emfs and resistors into: an emf plus a resistor in series

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Mystery Hunt mile markers portrait of the blogger as a young puzzler

  

  is really just because I pulled an all-nighter in 2017 and then ... other friends who make an annual pilgrimage for this silly, silly weekend ... for it to be MIT’s Mystery Hunt in particular, it doesn’t mean the

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  for students in on-campus courses (and you can follow along with MIT ... for my classes is in video form, which is difficult to review before ... around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  an empty seat. The EC's were enormously helpful (we had six in total ... in science and engineering fields being a big priority for MIT, and ... are (in general) not encouraged from an early age to dream of places

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2015 FAQ All the questions!

  

   This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the Quest ... use your QuestBridge application for that. In the Part 1, when you come ... in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  Sang at an open mic night Frolicked in an apple orchard DJ'd a party ... firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order: Stayed in a [annotation note='dome-shaped tent that feels like a cabin

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  polished in interviews, now that I've experienced enough of them to have an ... thing that has been paying off for me is the time I spent in UPOP (MIT ... ?" Speaking of uncomfortable situations: I was waiting for an interview lately

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  in the same place, I don't stay there for long. I spent half of my last ... embrace questions. Any and all. But I do have one for you - I'm temped in ... be completed, they're yelling for (at?) you. Ever since I got accepted

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  ’s probably an app for that, but I just wrote it down in the memo pad on my ... . The process for dropping is rather straight forward in that you submit ... providing an avenue for nutrient and waste exchange, but would also more

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  weeks for a graduate program in bioengineering. This stud sang in the a ... Massachusetts jury duty during the first week of school. Stay tuned for an ... , wrote. Interestingly, Abrams is directing Mission: Impossible 3, in which

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  , stepdad, and four siblings in Louisville, Kentucky, and will be there for ... other than the baseball team). I was in Atlanta for the 1996 Olympics. I ... . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  TechCrunch DisruptNY 2016 was an absolutely amazing experience. For ... avoidance technology for your car, and Hungry Host, an app that tells what you ... stage in front of a panel of judges to compete for $50,000. In "Startup

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Your CPW Host The host assignment meeting was tonight.

  

  !) and released hosting assignments for CPW. Here's what the crowd at the meeting looked like: (note fellow blogger Bryan in the front row, freshly ... hear from your host well in advance of arriving at CPW [and even if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  New Year Notes Miscellaneous.

  

  in today. Jun's MIT classmate, Jeff Ma '94, has started an "athlete stock market," according to an article in the Los Angeles Times. The new ... the good folks at Hopkins Insider for the idea): 1. In order, what were

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  On Reconnecting spending winter break in India

  

  back in Boston for a week now. Roosters replaced with phone clocks. Kites ... My parents were born under kerosene lamps. In a place where monkeys ... playing in the streets blended with the crowing of roosters. The perfect

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 13, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  is just an awesome gift for somebody, but I looked at the price tag of ... nation before you go there, especially in a language so well known for its ... . In München, the standard size for any beverage is 1 liter, pretty much

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  was a little room for sadness to creep in around the edges: as my room ... heard that there was an alumni event happening in the Stata courtyard ... begged for an encore. They clearly hadn't planned on doing one, but after a

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022