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• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  For the the first time ever, we spent a prolonged period of time apart! Not just spending-most-of-the-hours-of-the-day-apart⁠01 we’ve done that already in previous semesters, and are doing that this semester…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Tribute to the people of South Africa

  

  During a layover in the London Heathrow Airport I yanked Mariam (my friend, travel buddy and a literal queen) around with me in search of a journal. I anticipated that…

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 17, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  Sapporo Ramen, H-Mart Cambridge 1815 Massachusetts Ave, Cambridge, MA 02140 central ramen - sapporo cambridge you walk into h-mart and see the paris baguette cafe immediately to your left, and…

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  TO SET THE MOOD: ‘Aranjuez’ by Jorge Muñiz & José Luis Duval   I. With the fall semester complete, I could finally focus all my energy and attention on training…

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

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  tl;dr: Look how empty my Firehose is compared to the other bloggers:   Hello dear readers. In keeping with the trend of bloggers posting their classes this semester, I thought…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  Spring semester is here, which means summer is coming up soon, and while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts-and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I…

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  27,960 miles flown. $0 spent (by me). How? Through purely anecdotal research, I have ascertained that MIT has one of the best global programs of any college that I’ve ever…

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  Back in the fall, I wasn’t really sure if I made the right choice regarding my dorm. Now, I’m very sure I made the right choice. I like all the…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  first week madness memes does anyone relate? lol

  

  note⁠14 The reason we have to take an entrance exam is because we do not have the prerequisite, which is understandable, but alas :^( meme creds⁠15 These memes were brought…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 8, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I’ve finally reached a semester where at least half my semester is comprised of classes I actually really want to take. Here are the classes I took…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  The summer before starting at MIT, it seemed like all the freshmen were frantically scrambling, trying to figure out how to sign up for classes. My friends going to university…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  A Year away from home An intro video rant to my time in China

  

  Hey Guys 新年快乐！！！！ Happy Lunar New Year!!! I finally made it around to making this video about my time in China. If you can’t tell, I decided to do this…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 5, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  Spotify Wrapped day and the festivities surrounding it happened a long time ago. On that very same day, I asked the bloggers to share their stats with me, because we…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Green Building Challenge hex wins third place!

  

  I competed in the Green Building Challenge as part of this year’s Bad Ideas Weekend. From 9 PM to 1 AM, a total of 86 students representing 11 teams competed…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 31, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  If anyone reading this remembers this post from Elizabeth introducing the last last cohort of bloggers, and if you remember reading it when she just posted it, our little intro…

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second semester doesn’t start until February; instead, we use January to do internships, travel, take classes,…

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  Look at this if you don’t what a UROP is: https://mitadmissions.org/discover/the-mit-education/undergraduate-research/. On the MIT application, as many of you know, you are asked to talk about a program that interests you.…

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  Hello Internet! I’m briefly poking my head into the blogosphere as a respite from a very busy IAP (which I’ll hopefully get to blogging about eventually…). But since I don’t…

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  Last weekend was CES 2019, an annual convention in Las Vegas that I didn’t even know about until a couple of my friends told me to register to go to…

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  I can’t sleep in. I don’t have any early-morning obligations – I just naturally wake up very early. I know, it’s a nice “problem” to have 19 Except for when…

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019