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• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  It is crunch time at MIT. Classes are over this Wednesday, and exam ... students who have shown a strong commitment to studying French at MIT. On ... eye opening :)”- Ploy ‘10 “I'm going to astronomy field camp at Lowell

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  . S. Johnston Every major at MIT has a course that's famously hard. For ... . Morale was low. At around 3:30 AM I took a 30 minute nap on the floor of ... project quickly, and turned it in at 2:56 PM, four minutes before it was due

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  David Berry: A “Fearless” Innovator with a Passion for MIT Dr. David Berry, who received his S.B. and Ph.D. from MIT, received the honor of…

  

  ’s clear that he can’t get enough of its taste. He arrived at ... School. Now a Principal at Flagship Ventures, a leading venture capitalist ... . His athleticism continued at MIT, where he was on the ski team, rowed

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  relief to finally understand everything people said, but here I am, at MIT ... to have fun at the same time. Surprisingly enough, I actually came up ... them. [Also, for those of you at MIT, the Muslim Student Association is

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Laura’s UROP Advisor in ‘American Inventor’ finals tonight! Watch it tonight on ABC and vote!

  

  : American Inventor Wednesday, July 25 at 9/8c "Episode 207" Time for America ... undergrad at Georgia Tech, David Moeller, on the invention. Here's the blurb ... formerly the executive at ABC responsible for all reality programming

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  training for the Center for Talent Development at Northwestern University ... students. ("These children are cognitively advanced, but only at the expense ... essential things in life, like sleeping (I HAVE TO BE AT BREAKFAST BY 7 AM

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  -fed at every turn. Even though I lived in Berkeley and Oakland for over a ... -California, I had about 12 hours at home before getting on another plane to attend ... comments, I totally agree and that's at the top of my list of things to

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Building 4 Odyssey Looks like my James Joyce karma isn't that horrible after all.

  

  haven't often feel this way at MIT, so I was enjoying it. Ulysses is ... hope you find it At this point, I was beginning to lose all hope. Buying ... following: keep track of your stuff; learn your Athena commands; people at MIT

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  As I sit back and reflect on my four years at MIT, I would like to ... grade at the end of the semester before deciding if you want the class to ... . Be nice to underclassmen -- Pay it forward, yah? Eat at The Helmand

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  and myself. So my first semester at MIT, I spent a lot of time figuring ... think that's somewhat unrealistic, and probably not a best practice at a ... flexible at the same time. No one said it was easy, but then if you

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’ll bet you got waylaid! Wherein Portland, Oregon rocks my face.

  

  with frogs inside. Or at least that's what I have chosen to believe. So I ... I'm taking on purpose at MIT. 10.491 -- Integrated Chemical ... country just calls this "design" or "process operations," but at MIT, where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Megaphone, Pressed Against An Insect’s Brain That is what this blog entry resembles.

  

  distraught to fix them at all. This is Lauren, who was incredibly pink at ... also took some pictures of my own outfit at the dinner, but I decided

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  will move away someday, they have NO choice. I choose evasion... at least ... food while being at college. It is way cheaper than buying meals. And I ... college applications, but I looked at it as an opportunity to get to know

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP is moving along

  

  blogs! Anyway, Hunt, which began early Friday afternoon, ended at about 2 ... better job than I would. "American Jiu-Jitsu Club has been at MIT since ... Congress at Centauri begins. " The idea is that you have a character, and

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 14, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Congratulations! You have been named… Time Magazine's Person of the Year!

  

  truth, and my second reason, is that this is what MIT is, at its core. Hacking and open-source both have deep roots at MIT. (I always get kind of annoyed when people outside of MIT laugh at us for calling pranks "hacks

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 18, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  . Anyway, I had an awesome time at the party, which was actually kind of ... a link to the full subject listing offered at this year's Splash!, but ... before I did (as usual): WTPer - You're looking at photos from Burton

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Physical Education: because your body needs problem sets, too My adventures in completing the MIT Physical Education requirements

  

  lasts for a week. Of course, I always end up signing up at the last minute ... distance. Though I had already completed the swim test at the beginning of my ... I’m really great at missing 2 classes. But, even when I’ve fulfilled

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  're an aero/astro major at MIT you, too, will take a (24-unit) class called Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  excellent athlete (...have we told you how many people at MIT play sports ... . But the numbers are the numbers. What we may realize more than you at ... themselves, who can laugh at their mistakes and struggles, who seem comfortable

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  . Drove down Saturday, hung out with my family at Mom's house in Philly On ... swear at times that XPN and Jack were reading my mind. I want radio like ... three bloggers at this juncture. A fourth will likely be added in the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006