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  FIRST fun And now...the much anticipated (but never duplicated!) photo-filled account of the coolest robotics competition ever!

  

  much schoolwork done as possible. I knew I wouldn't be getting much done ... then (sad story ahead!) we lost our funding and our advisor didn't really ... the ramp for some bonus points. Go team! Team 97 in action. FIRST isn't

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  the peak of fame, I don't know what is. [image_grid images="111539 ... the Q&A at the end[/annotation]. Admittedly, I wasn't as big a ... . I don't listen to much cello music (I much prefer piano/clarinet music

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I tried* to run to the airport *thank you Noah and Sydney for saving my life

  

  that there's no bridge. There isn't a bridge from the mainland to the ...  have to get to the airport now. I don't want to give up. I have a fire in my ... running. This is where it stopped being fun. I wasn't in the populated

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  reminds me that formality is something we don’t actually have to follow when we don’t want to. So with that, I’m going to try my best to give you ... and driving there starting at 1 AM on a Tuesday isn't ideal... but

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  transitions memories of first snow

  

  fall. I remember feeling like I was always out of place, like I didn't belong here, or like I was just in the cosmically wrong place. I didn't ... at another school, and I'd say, "Well, I really don't like that, so I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Noise and time chaos and peace in a silver package

  

  . What I didn’t realize was that, in the process, I forgot to do things for ... others weren't for me or that I wouldn't have time. I was in this chaotic ... environment. These conflicts meant that sometimes I didn't have enough

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 15, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Strands literal and metaphorical >:)

  

  that my knee-jerk answer - a couple of years - wasn’t true any more. She ... catching a cold), and it’s usually in a state of disarray, since I often can’t ... just can’t seem to get over the thing with my hair.  My nervous reflex

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 10, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... when we were leaving, all with heavy hearts. we didn't know if we would see each other again, and for the most part, we didn't. we still wish

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Personal Projects

  in Black Valley Hostel journal of my third day in Ireland

  

  was falling quickly now. Uber didn’t work so I called one on the phone ... nodded, though I hadn’t. She said we’d sort it tomorrow — this is late for ... , which is a lovely lovely blessing. I haven’t slept in a room alone since

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Radio Nerd Shenanigans i wrote this in october and forgot to post it oops

  

  other people on hall. “Commencing meowing sequence in T minus 10 seconds ... to figure out how to get to the club room. Walker wasn’t the most ... the tesla coil wasn't the cause, but it was pretty funny in the moment

  • by Anika H. '26
  • February 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  likely don't have time to rethink what I want to do from scratch Keep my ... poster for Thursday's showcase: and in the process realized that I don't ... statement with their slides. I don’t like the idea that graphic design is

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  Picture Yourself as a Worm if it helps, make it four-dimensional.

  

  can only see a short distance away). This isn't to say that flat ... [annotation note="don't you love it when the title of a piece is in the text? I ... identity, it doesn't change the fact that my four-dimensional worm is a woman

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 6, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  poorly, which by that point wasn't really a surprise. I could go into ... don't want to write yet another blog about [annotation note="though I ... point, the rain is falling, things can't really get worse from there. It

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  and i’ve come to terms d to the phi! phi to the e! d! phi! e!

  

  embarrassment that I haven't blogged in a while, BUT in my defense there has been ... at recruitment didn't even bother giving us a chance, just flat out telling us they don't want to join DPhiE. They hadn't even talked to us, yet

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 7, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  research, how she structured edits, how she searched for agents. It doesn’t ... slowly forward. We ended up at the Alewife T stop, where the bus stop had ... license. I feel pretty good about my fight scenes, but I don’t actually know

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  years. Something about college that I didn’t expect is that college is ... high school student, this might seem a bit counterintuitive. Isn’t the ... learning happens outside of classes is why overloading on classes isn’t

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... whenever I feel like dancing choreographies that I enjoy, but won't learn because I already learned a dance to it, don't like it, or think it's too

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  — Scattered glimmers I must walk away from— Like most fourteen-year-olds, I didn’t ... scherzi.    I can’t listen to Paganini’s Caprice No. 24 anymore. In ... about poetry, I discovered, was that it didn’t require character or plot

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  oh, the places you’ll go

  

  didn't quite realize that these laminated words atop a dirty whiteboard ... to different far away lands to do great things. In the moment, I didn't really think much of it. I really wasn't dreaming of all the places I was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  are curious of how this happened, don't ask. I'm still wondering too ... ’s inevitable. Unfortunately, the naive prefrosh I was didn’t know this and mistook organization for safety from email blasts. I didn’t forecast the

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