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  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  Upon opening my closet this morning – brightly lit with glorious sunshine streaming through the frosted window – I was greeted with a beautiful, inspirational maxim: Nearby were posted similar…

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP–Independent Activities Period–is soon coming to a close! Spring semester begins Tuesday, and so will begin the class I’ve been diligently preparing for all IAP–6.01, Intro to Electrical Engineering and…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas have penguins on them. It is decidedly winter. But at pika, it’s spring rush. This means feasts and…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  Wow. So this is what official blagging* is like. It’s nice to meet you all! I’m Selam, the newest new blogger, and I’ve just joined the team this IAP. This…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  On Tuesday, January 27th, Snowstorm Juno hit. Classes were cancelled for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to Friday (whew! more time to prepare). You saw blizzard…

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye, for now

  

  Regular readers may know that I’ve admired Apple’s design philosophies for some time.  (Regular friends are well aware of this, and are also sick of me talking about it.  By…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  MIT’s temporary emergency closure means I no longer have an excuse to put off finishing all the half-baked blog posts from this month. The idea that IAP is ‘infinite time’…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read and don’t have time got some time today, stuck at home by the blizzard. This…

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  learn by doing things i've done without really knowing how

  

  It’s snowing. Hard. Blizzard-warning, dangerous-to-be-outside, MIT-is-closed hard. But people like to stay active; my hall, for instance, is currently making plans to build an igloo tomorrow. I’ve been working on…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 26, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came easily. On my first full day here, I jumped onto a trapeze, despite the fear of high places.…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP, like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to like? >:( The backstory explaining this…

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Battle of the Boot storytime with Yuliya #1

  

  I was ecstatic. An educational video I had made for my IAP class was going to debut on the big screen. A white sheet would descend from the ceiling of…

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Updates & Notes Form some things you should know

  

  Hi Everyone, The MIT February Updates & Notes Form is now available on MyMIT. Wait! Before you fill this form out, please read some important info below. First, though, relax!…

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 22, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer to that question, no matter the time of year. This winter I have started working in…

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #1-5 Concerning the half I spent at home

  

  1. Go home My last final ended at 12pm on a particularly ominous Wednesday. I say ominous because I had just slogged my way through three other finals in the…

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  I wrote lightly about scrapbooking in my coping with anxiety blog post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look into…

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Events

  IAP Jealousy (Hey, Jealousy)

  

  One thing we always mention during information sessions is IAP, because of how unique it is to an MIT education. I wanted to update my spiel a little since I…

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • January 13, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  ^ how not to do it.   “Help! I’m from [Los Angeles/Orlando/other perpetually sunny place].  What do I need to survive an East Coast winter?”   I’m glad you asked!…

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  aeroastro privilege all-expenses-paid tour to seattle and los angeles

  

  Being a major in Course 16 (Aeronautics and Astronautics, or AeroAstro for short) has its benefits. For instance, we all got priority tickets to the AeroAstro Centennial (which closed with…

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter Break and New Year Resolutions In which I try to express how wonderful being home is

  

  It’s been a couple weeks, hasn’t it? Now that I’m back on campus for IAP, TA-ing a class (blog post to come) and continuing one of my UROPs from this…

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 10, 2015