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  The Onion article about Robot Hazing at MIT Robot hazing at MIT *gasp!*

  

  13 inches in diameter, was reportedly forced to climb stairs built at a ... themselves to this sort of abuse without extreme levels of peer pressure or ... was locked in a room and forced to calculate pi to the 1083 decimal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Using Fireflies.ai to Write a Post About Fireflies.ai behind the scenes: it's pretty meta

  

  write a follow up in one or two days about how I used Fireflies to help ... to Google Calendar” button to block off time in my day to sit down and proofread what Sam had sent me. The last task on my list was to add in

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s First Annual Q&A Kidding about the annual part. Catching up with my blog comments... finally!

  

  were accepted either EA or deferred to regular and then accepted - in ... regarding my essay to MIT. Basically I want to tell you how being in a small ... . How (or more appropriately where) should I put all this down in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 20, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  nice moments on campus things are okay, actually

  

  every now and then, either to walk around or to sit in a touchdown space ... really don’t want to do much of anything except maybe lie in bed and stare ... majority of it outside. My friends and I biked to Newbury street in Boston to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On the DUSP Course 11: Urban Studies and Planning

  

  office in Ghana   When I came to MIT I knew I wanted to major in ... sustainable infrastructure for the US or the developing world. As I started to ... traveling to Ghana, I got more excited about planning. Many people in Ghana

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 2, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  . Last season was intended to be my last. But a last-minute injury in the ... , or diets to follow; no competitions looming to stress over. I even had ... had to squeeze in training in the mornings, and do so on my own, without

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Announcing New Bloggers for 2010! A digital debutante ball...

  

  , in this case Chris Su - met to choose new bloggers who will be joining ... to land a job as a blogger than it is to get into MIT in the first ... or otherwise. Kate will be living in East Campus, although she is

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 16, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  ’d have to draw, or if they saw their home in a new light, with sharper ... tone or idiom, because I wouldn’t know how to manage those things in ... ,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Holiday Life's not always a picnic in Killian Court.

  

  joined in and made my earth-shattering waffles), and then went back to ... take up a quarter of the page, and to be printed in full color. Also ... that deviled egg (or maybe from the poor grammar in the caption?) And Ben

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The song "Hips Don't Lie" went to #1 in nearly every ... to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... , was compact enough to fit horizontally in my backpack when folded up

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Like Burger King – Only Not (Guest Entry) That ain't no Etch-a-Sketch. This is one doodle that can't be un-did, homeskillet.

  

  's kind of what going back to MIT feels like. So I visited back in February ... , "Ohmygods I can't wait to watch bouncy balls fall out of the sky and play in a ... there for an hour. Or if you don't think you're the Greek type, go to a

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  my team to get some criticism. Now, it wasn't like they were my boss or ... wondering more about Melvin", or, "I wanted to see more detail about Melvin ... the things that I strive to do is blog every week, or at least something

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  't being spent taking a minicourse, going to a country in Africa, or becoming ... you've discovered my secret: in addition to spending time at home with ... 's warm here, you still have to drive to get anywhere in Florida, Jamba

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Remembering Woodie Flowers they say don't meet your heroes, but some exceed your expectations

  

  , and to the decades of MIT students he taught in Mechanical Engineering ... authority solely by living the same values he hoped to see in the world ... , quick to laugh, impossible to anger, and radically human-centered in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ask me (an mit alum, maybe) anything! aka, am(amam)a

  

  figured I'd say hello to all of you lovely folks in the style of Qiaochu Y ... 've never seen an AMA before: in the comments below, feel free to ask any ... involved in at MIT How I've spent my summer Hobbies that I have / used to

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • August 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... prior to MIT, I had no clue what aspect of mechanical engineering or ... of my time in lab last semester and sophomore year was trying to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 A Questions Omnibus is a post where I answer your lingering questions left in the…

  

  without a formal AP class. You may want to annotate those exams in some way ... application, "Please keep to a 500-word limit." Kevin says in his blog that 650 ... the online application. Also, I am not going to count the words in your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  plot. Stagecraft has to do with everything in a play excepting the actors ... things give the audience an easy way to tell when changes in time, location ... "fairies," "pirates" versus "ninjas," or "Hork-Bajir" versus "Andalites." In

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  all time ever does is pass and all i ever do is remember

  

  provide updates on what i'm currently doing, or new and exciting things in ... things in my life right now. "how are you doing? what have you been up to ... to a time in sophomore year of high school when it made me so happy i

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a semester customary end-of-semester blog post: sophomore spring edition

  

  of it, not a mere tourist or spectator of the rush hour crowd. I go to ... someday own one or stick to the idea that they are too much space and ... philosopher. I know two or more MIT professors who I would love to be, for their

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2016