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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!

  

  to be there. What is FIRST? Only the greatest thing ever, basically ... . In early January, a challenge is announced to the teams at the kickoff ... -packed weeks to design and build a robot that they think will do well at this

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

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  to Spain']before this current blog you’re on.[/annotation] That first part came out awhile ago, and this second part got very delayed due to a ... going to write the bulk of this blog, but he’s no longer blogging

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  terminal to another, NRT has the cleanest toilets you can possibly imagine ... uncomfortable couches on which to spend the night (ps. MAD doesn’t fare much ... to move when the cleaning staff comes over). Naturally, I’ve also been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here I am writing, because the fear in my fingers will not allow me to draw ... dramatic because it’s nowhere close to true, but I am scared of graduation

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was never going to leave the country. I always get this before I travel ... --a storm, tornado, [annotation note="In 8th grade I was supposed to go to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  New bloggers? New bloggers! [cue fanfare]

  

  ! Please give a warm welcome to: Aiden H. ‘28 from Loveland, Colorado, who grew up without internet and turned to books for entertainment like ... Rico, and a writer of heartfelt birthday letters to her friends 🎂

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 7, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  church gardens some paintings!

  

  separate blog about that soon.  Thankfully, I got weekends to hop on a bus or train to the destination of my choice. While there were about a ... North Wales. Unfortunately getting to South Wales would be 8 hours

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXachusetts Institute of Technology your guide to the daily confusion

  

  . According to MIT's Dormitory Council: Residence Exploration, or REX, is a four day experience for first year students to explore MIT dorms and find ... where you're going to live, REX is the perfect time to explore MIT’s dorms

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  available online Monday, March 14 at 6:28 PM ET. To check your decision, visit apply.mitadmissions.org/apply and go to your Application Status Page ... , feel free to email us at [email protected] and a friendly guy named

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  ’t live in a vacuum, and it’s stressful to waste energy and time on something that isn’t really important to me at the moment. Course 18C seems to ... the class. Or, more accurately, we moved on from special relativity to

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  are barely enough plates for one person to squat while another benches ... plates is rarely an issue, and you don’t have to wait for various machines to open. There are big speakers to connect to, and I blast rock through

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can ... i left boston to start my internship about 3 seconds ago. i talked to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  summer tidbits a picture and annotations

  

  summer. the two sets of flights to pheonix, arizona are work-related, but the rest comes out of my paycheck. TT i'm going to anime expo in LA this ... personal trip to portland, just to explore a nearby cool city on my own. :) i

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 4, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  seconds to annoy[annotation note="my roommate"]caleb[/annotation] as i go back to sleep without even thinking. eventually, though, it's 9:30 and i ... clothes i wore last night to see [annotation note="i won't give any spoilers

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that nothing was happening. To be honest, sticking my head in the sand like an ... fact that I got to go home and rant to my parents every night. But I know

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  road trip here in my car I feel safest of all I can lock all my doors…

  

  I really like driving. I wanted to go to college in a city with ... /con Should I go to MIT? list was "I can't take my car with me." Freshman year I got kind of used to walking places and taking the T. Eventually I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my halfway point at MIT. Usually when I sit down to write a blog post, I like

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  been used to describe Next House's annual Thanksgiving celebration. I ... not located at MIT during Thanksgiving break. However, I was able to ask ... seems to have grown each year. This year, we had around 70 signups and we

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  'm sticking to my good friend, the air-boot-cast. Before you all go "WHAT ... back to freshman year. I'm all on my own, at college, and I am stressed ... technical classes at MIT. I'm a crazy person. So I tried to find ways to

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I ... you respond to questions like “Did you think my mixtape was fire” with ... going to go get some food. Do you want some? Wait, nevermind, get your own

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015