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  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST ... : every year, in January, a star-studded team of engineers on the Game ... certain things remain the same: two alliances of three robots each compete

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  procrastinating about blogging throughout the majority of the second semester ... opinions, but the mind has always been fascinating to me. This is one of the ... Sciences. The departmental requirements are full of classes I would like to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Adventures of Comic Artist Girl (+ Doodles!) In which comics class gets a talk from an award-winning cartoonist

  

  A: the sweet flyer that lured me into taking one of my current classes ... writing! (And thankfully the flyer does a great job of answering the most ... , this is the first time comics class has been offered; up until this

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  of other things too! eating, crying over problem sets, and idk like the ... "]blogger roommates[/annotation] which is very cool, but many of us only see the others ... -lived episode of m*thbusters and bust out the party music because WELCOME TO

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Rrrrrrr. CPW! [UPDATE] CPW Smoke. Don't breathe this.

  

  . Bryan '07 offered all of the prefrosh blog readers a chance to write a ... have a couple of things I need to tell y'all. First, Blendie (the Rrrrrrr part of the title). I could devote an entire entry just to this, but

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  , how it’s always dark out after my last class of the day, that tells me ... Masters of Engineering concurrently with finishing your bachelor's degree ... the chillest thing ever." For the most part, that's a stinking load of

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  boxes in Saran Wrap. Inside the boxes, I carefully loaded all of my ... 02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... envelope to open at the gate, which contained photos of my parents, my sister

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  notes on hope despite despite despite

  

  the tip of my tongue, and i can see it in the smiles that come more ... particularly acute bout of despair, thinking of the wisdom he would share with us ... of it all. Aside from holding Mary Oliver close to the heart, how might

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 25, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  of you unfamiliar with the Music Cubes, they consist of three cube ... much of MIT’s brutalist architecture, the exterior doesn’t exactly scream ... -minute walk off campus. Now they have a space right in the center of campus

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  TESS Science Conference III My first science conference!

  

  professors."]UROP[/annotation] with the MIT Kavli Institute of Astrophysics and Space Research, and it's one of the coolest things I've gotten to do at ... and sends pictures of the sky for signs of exoplanets. [caption id

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • August 7, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "This is the first day of my life I'm glad I didn't die before I met ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched ... being totally worth it. All the shadows of high school were dispersed by

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... -based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of ... families have different resources. The primary job of the application reader

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So I register online and the second step of the registration tells me to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Events

  beautiful moments i think too much

  

  tension of not-quite-capsizing, square dancing, the joy i get when working ... feel the strength of each personality taking up space in the conference ... 's been harder to notice the nice and pretty things in life: sailing on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Events

  I’m on a boat! It was only a matter of time

  

  stealers. Then it was time to head outside and enjoy the boatiness of the ... that by the end of the night I was going to be forced to dance. Some ... (sorry Malcom), and as evidence I offer you this video of him shaking his

  • by Snively '11
  • May 3, 2009
• Blog / People & Identities

  on the atlanta shootings from an asian american woman

  

  little space as possible offers the best protection. Both of them were ... year full of blades. If you are interested in supporting the victims ... to stay safe, but the request felt empty. How could any of us ensure

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Passions (No, not that kind)

  

  time for 2010 (think about it -- the writing of this post spanned almost ... volume of work most high school seniors get themselves into -- e.g. the ... , because, well, there's a lot of it. Or, the electronic bits storing your

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside The Bubble Life? Oh yeah, I forgot I had one...

  

  (though you probably weren't...). I got the "i know this is a busy time of ... posts planned and then the first round of exams hit us. Some of them went ... am actually that much of a freak.) The fact that MIT’s its own little

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  released — the few quiet hours that Ben once called the eye of the storm — I ... I wanted to open my decision alone so we could get the argument out of ... the 2019s in anticipation of pi day by Yuliya K. '18 (2015): but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 13, 2019