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• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  , stands for Independent Activities Period, and takes place for all of ... -imposed activities like clubs, or a handful of sped-up, all-consuming classes. Everyone ... the end, but each of the classes felt new and valuable. I took Weld Your

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  where is home? leaving your home is easy / it's keeping this one that's a struggle

  

  part of the reason why it's been so hard to write about what's been going ... pretty fun. then it was doing a bunch of final projects. for 21m.600 intro ... all of a sudden it was finals week. my only two finals were both on

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 27, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  it’s hard to take advantage of all the opportunities. It ... ). So if it helps, think about all the other EA applicants, thousands of them, anticipating the decision with you. A special kind of anxiety is

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Brown and Yale through the mountain states of Montana, Wyoming, Colorado ... Posner of Yale. Bowen is an earnest, funny fellow who went to Penn, taught ... our rental car) and the Big Sky State Games, the high school olympics of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  World’s Best Rib Recipe as advertised

  

  scheduling app. OK, BBQ at Burton Connor. Walk out of Kresge. Have to pass ... eat on the way. Classic. Arrive at Burton Connor. Lots of people. Grab an Arnold Palmer and some chips on a plate. Muscle to the front of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 27, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  compeition. What kind of competition, you ask? A robotics competition, of ... event. The challenge is actually a game- two alliances of three robots ... goals on the ground as well as goals high in the air (hence the name of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 29, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  on mit’s mailing list culture update: tetazoo glounge

  

  've already squeezed out so much free time out of my week. i am in class 3 hours a day, and then also doing a load of things outside of class. also i'm spending my free time playing a lot of monster train. actually that's the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 17, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  eleven, this can last for hours, and I am actually cognizant of what I am reading. When I go to bed at three, it’s more of a bleary couple pages, but ... I would not lose the important parts of myself to MIT, not all of them

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  updates cook or get cooked - summer boston edition

  

  semester I spent a larger than usual amount of time thinking about more ... class. It is challenging. Each lecture has a bunch of content and it ... and statistical setup people have found to describe the problem of

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • May 30, 2024
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee ... screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on fitness, health, and food a couple of moments over the years

  

  content warning: mentions of calorie counting, vague eating disorder ... lot of pretty strong memories over the years. Throughout elementary ... out, I was aware of my flesh body and form. In elementary school, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Homecoming some musings on memory

  

  mental map of what MIT looks like. It won’t be perfectly right, but it ... leads you. One. Don't look: what's the color of the floor in the room you ... nature of memory is that each time you recall something the image corrupts

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 13, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high ... studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using ... discovered K-Pop in 4th grade (it was actually because of a Ke$ha phase

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took second semester of freshman year. it was a terrible semester and i don ... algorithms class and possibly the most important class of my major. RIP my GPA

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer on the West Coast A visit to the west coast to see what life is like on the other…

  

  A couple of weeks ago, I flew thousands of miles across our wonderful country to visit the great state of California!  Growing up on Long Island ... Engineering, so his project involves a bunch of super secret space stuff

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 19, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and ... best-kept secret about being part of the MIT community. For this reason ... Craiglist. None of that matters. There are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions Omnibus 2 I should probably stop stealing entry titles from Matt McGann.

  

  entry has a bit of an identity crisis, since it didn't really have a ... me a bit of time to finish answering all your questions (one all the ... top of a few weeks in therapy, so I'm letting this entry make its debut

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the notes i took in a week riveting stuff, i know

  

  Not too long ago, my desk was covered in every variety of stationary ... …  Today, my collection of school supplies consists of my ipad, my apple pencil, and a few loose pens and pencils that only see the light of day

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 8, 2024