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• Blog / Challenges

  Nothing is perfect… and it doesn’t matter a guest post by Tommy A. '21

  

  in the art of making. We were on our own, and had just a few months to ... I rolled out of bed at 8:30am last Friday and raced to Pappalardo ... the last chance I had to work on and impound my robot. It didn't work

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • May 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  distance of this place from anything I'm used to is bitingly obvious. I took ... , and looking ahead to all of first semester is crazy intimidating. But so ... calories), being with friends. This is what it looked like: The road to camp

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  given. Mildly disappointing is how some choose to take advantage of it ... yet. College is supposed to be about freedom. Discovering yourself is ... " -- graduates of years past that still hang around the hall -- which reveal all

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  on one of our psets, which refers to "Professor Alan Guth," father of ... indoors from the rain. One of the classes I just finished taking is 8.033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... . There’s a world of memories still waiting to be made. I know this is a ... depends on how patient of a person you are, but I don’t think I’ve ever

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Beard today, gone tomorrow a touching tale of a man and his beard.

  

  you can squeeze out is a patchy tuft of fuzz on your lips and cheeks. Or ... . It's a battle of determination to see whose will is strongest. You ... , maybe I'll be one of those beard guys." This is the last half week or so

  • by Chris M. '12
  • December 1, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Burton-Conner Floor Rush and Rooming How does it work?

  

  zombie on the loose is to shoot him. With Nerf guns. Also in the 23 ... broken. I'd be willing to bet that a lot of the floors had a Wii on, we did ... Burton-Conner is one of the dorms here at MIT. You can check out our

  • by Snively '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Recent Questions! Fun for parents @ CPW, enrolling questions, etc...

  

  are unique and diverse - this is a great way to explore some of them ... I'm kind of confused - if we want to commit to MIT, we simply bubble ... to Housing and Dining. This will be a great overview of the variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Temporary Band Entry Title And we hope we passed the audition.

  

  down the Infinite to the tune of S'weight, which was requested of us by ... get on the bad graces of the janitorial staff. WATE is perhaps the only ... separate versions of it. "Poo-wate" is played on instruments, "S'weight" is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  And miles to go before I sleep. Here we go again.

  

  long night ahead of you." Great. The thing is, I know how to handle these ... A friend in the class of mine which has a huge pset due tomorrow ... day. Time and time again, a younger version of myself began to nod off

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Two households, totally unalike in dignity…” On picking majors and following your dreams, Romeo and Juliet, Twitter, Sherlock, and the future…

  

  on more college admissions decisions (and/or maybe happen to like ... consistent image online. The posting has to be regular, which is really important when it comes to social media. The second phase of the class is

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 21, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  're two people who are my age, both of whom I love and mean a lot to me, pledging to spend the rest of their lives together. And the last time I ... want to know is do people ever use registries for anything else? Because

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  specifically to notify students of events that have free food. :)" This is most ... Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on ... is. I've seen plenty of it before. I've seen it piled 3 feet high

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  when their lives didn’t, not to those on the other end of the trigger. In ... . Suddenly I was on the other side of the line, separated from my family by a ... invariably leads to them finding out I’m from Nigeria, they ask variations of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hampshire to discover that my laptop, where I store one bazillion pictures of ... difficulty sitting down on account of a sore pelvis. Furthermore, tomorrow ... /20 (which is also my friend Ben's birthday), get ready for the most ravishing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  you ain’t gonna need it overthinking

  

  there are decisions that i worry about long after i know which choice i'm going to make, like whether to go to mit or choosing what to do ... hard, but you ain't gonna need it. you're not focusing on what matters to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When September Ends on career fair, life, and other occurrences

  

  Life is back on the MIT track… I ended my most recent blog post with ... to you. They might even add your resume to the thick stack on their ... weekend, a group of hall residents went to see The Martian. It was awesome

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF Wrap-up

  

  of my favorite parts of events like this is getting to meet some ... to fewer than a quarter of them. Next year, perhaps, MIT will have to send multiple admissions officers to ISEF, which will be in Indianapolis

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  Not in Kansas Anymore oh, wait...we actually are. Day 1 with the MIT Design/Build/Fly team.

  

  -control aircraft to fulfill a number of mission requirements, and do it better and ... to taxi for 40 feet on corrugated roofing. The theme is different every ... engineering gets, from the initial design brainstorming to the hours of mixing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  More than 9000 reasons not to groan at my poor usage of outdated memes. ALSO, CPW!

  

  exchange for free food. Which is totally an okay thing to do, by the way ... make me no less of a manly man, I happened to have two stuffed animals on ... Hi, prefrosh! I assume that the bulk of our audience right now is

  • by Cam T. '13
  • April 4, 2011