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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... might have supposed, based on my infatuation with remote controlled (r/c) airplanes, both of my UROPs center around the development of unmanned aerial

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  ) How did you start dancing?  I honestly can’t remember a time in my life ... my energy and excitement into a cohesive format, so I would pretty much ... ). Learning these dances became my favorite hobby, and eventually, I started

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  one of these entries takes up a good deal of time, so I'm sorry that my ... : Anon1 wrote, "Does MIT accept rush SAT reports, if I rushed my report ... , "my 11th grade grades arent good...however 12th is ok..and no olympiads

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  luckily I’d had my own disaster-semester in the spring, and we compared ... you my grades, and tell you what went down behind the letter. It’s gonna be great. Come and be liberated!   SPRING 2020 My Spring 2020

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  your guesstimate is wrong. Every month up until my last semester, I was given a monthly allowance from my parents that was plenty for groceries ... something to use it on." My internet history was full of amazon doodads, my

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  scarf wrapped tightly around my ears, listening to an audiobook or music or the whistling of the city. My destination, Brookline Arts Center ... , spinning. After class, I’d change out of my clay-crusted clothes, crack

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the phrase "one of my friends’ dads" feels very natural when spoken, but ... my acapella group to serving as the president of a dorm, or the vice

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  static which sits inside my head, just behind my eyes. This noise makes it ... every muscle in my body already sore, regardless of how much physical ... me. It is, of course, that same burnout which I felt just as I began my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  ’ve tried my best, through one of my favorite mediums, short stories: I ... the answer somehow appear in my head after the sight of these black ... though I’m taking 4 other classes, I still feel behind compared to my peers

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the point. My name is Anna Ho, and I am a constituent living in Cambridge. I ... so much for taking the time to meet with us. My name is Anna Ho, and I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... experience, to say the least - while my lab is an international lab run by an ... emailed my boss to ask if there was a dress code. His response: "Well, guys

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  , as the ungentle rain smashed into flooded streets and scoured my shoes ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You probably could have strung a jade necklace from the jadedness of my tonal

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Do Welsh Robots Dream of Electric Sheep? teaching kids robotics through GTL Wales!

  

  Two summers ago, I visited my friend Shruti ‘24 in their home state ... and my licenseless self was the passenger princess ... "]Paterson.[/annotation]  “Hmm this reminds me of Scotland. Or more like, my imagination of what

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • February 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  . The passion that rides my mind when I think of it cannot be explained in ... materials in the application. Is this true. "Another thing is that my life revolves around computer science and programming.To pursue my talent I have

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  in this coming year we run and rest and make and keep up the relentless pace

  

  … full sent a project, which was cool No one in my life has heard about ... having a complex system in my head, understanding one part of the puzzle so ... I like to think my lack of formal diction is relatable and shows that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Attack of the Acronyms and the space between the letters

  

  think I’ve seen more acronyms in the past few weeks than in my entire life ... won’t have to search my email inbox every time I need to translate ... two acronyms ingrained in my head. They’re the ones that defined my

  • by Allison E. '27
  • October 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  senioritis i wish i had no work today

  

  that my classes aren't interesting, because they are! i love thinking ... like thinking about it. speaking of my classes, i haven't talked about the classes i'm taking this semester yet. i'll talk about my three

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 31, 2022
• Blog / Residential Life

  last fall / last fall it's senior year and i still haven't learned anything

  

  Last fall, I went from my summer internship directly into running REX ... question was "what in the last week were you pleasantly exhausted by?" My ... out of it, and a lot more time playing catch up in all of my classes

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  you can care about things revisiting stoicism

  

  i. recently i was thinking about my relationship with other people ... to influence my friends’ decisions? when is it within my right to do so ... choice that i think is obviously wrong?” in other words, most of my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • July 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  hours perfecting my email’s filters, labels, and everything in between. I signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... my Gmail account, and for the first time in quite a while I was so

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020