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  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  , Maryland, down the road from Goddard Space Flight Center, where I'll be interning for the next four weeks during Independent Activities Period (IAP ... the hall. No classmates down the stairs. No classmates anywhere nearby

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I ... for the reason behind my renewed vitality until I'd made it through classes for the day, but now it's Saturday night, and I'm still feeling

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Just Run With It Never waste inspiration, even if you're running with it for the first time (in years)

  

  This year's commencement speaker, Salman Khan, founder of the Khan ... advice in his remarks to MIT's newest graduates. The whole speech is ... serious. I jumped off the couch, threw on my running shoes and took to the

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 9, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Fryday on Sunday If you're looking for more apples, do not click this.

  

  in pendulous obligation to the slippery edge of a Sunday night that is ... cesium atom. Editor's note: The following is not for the faint of heart, nor the high of blood pressure, nor the diabetic of pancreas. It's the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Sufjan Stevens' brother Marzuki finished 20th in the ... singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the apostrophe. So it would be "the abacus's beads." BUT if you have a common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers are planning to cover their own dorms within the next z days!), I am ... single rooms. MacGregor may not look like much from the outside (it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  getting to know me. I mean, the real me. On Friday or thereabouts, I'm going ... comment and I'll let you know. DID YOU KNOW? The entry title comes from ... sing things like "1776!" and he replies "When did Columbus sail the ocean

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  How I Made the MIT Orientation Trading Card Game The Insatiable Urge to Collect Continues...

  

  The year is 2021. It’s a Sunday night in early January. My mother ... .5”x3.5” pieces of paper. I am putting the finishing touches on my Magnum Opus: Tommy’s Backyard: the board game.  [carousel image1="120382" image

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... meant I had so much more freedom to be spontaneous than during the ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2015 Graduates from MIT mind, and hand, and heart

  

  On Friday, June 5th, the Class of 2015 graduated from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology at the 149th commencement ceremony in the Institute's history. At and by way of the ceremony, 1,054 undergraduates and 1

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP reveal!! it's like a gender reveal but important

  

  the worst times in American history to do so."]I've started doing ... -persona STEM-free and relatively non-nerdy in order to preserve the major amounts ... , I sent in a bunch of UROP applications on [annotation note="The

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 11, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I love musicals! Wicked just dropped and I am LOSING MY MIND

  

  film for [annotation note='The film was announced in December of 2012 ... .[/annotation]    I HAVE BEEN SIMMERING. BUZZING. WAITING ON THE EDGE OF MY SEAT. HEARING GLIMMERS OF NEWS EVERY NOW AND THEN OVER THE YEARS, BUT NOT LETTING

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  pretty reserved, and, although I think I've become a lot less shy over the ... ='this review provided by the father of one of my friends. Incidentally, the ... absolutely horrific when written down.']normal.[/annotation] Still, in the past

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  recently read words absorbed by my brain

  

  of the Rice Chest” by Monica Youn My friend Alec attended the L ... like “I didn’t know poetry could do that”. It isn’t quite the same ... portrait of Asian Americanness. “At the Clinic” by Sally Rooney I love

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 3, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Simple Harmonic Motivation a time progression through the semester

  

  do anything at all, panic, and calm apathy, terror at the prospect of failing, and falling back on P/NR. Sometimes I just can’t find the ... the very last day. I was supposed to send the email requesting an

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  For the last several years, I've been getting canker sores around the ... them, canker sores are circular ulcers that appear on the soft tissue of your mouth. From what I've gathered online, what happens is that the top

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  ignorance is a virtue

  

  wake up. the analogy is that when there's something i'm alarmed about ... make it yet. i can ignore the deadline and process my feelings in the backburner until i have to actually have to make the decision, waiting for more

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 8, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  a novel excerpt in honor of the friendly toast

  

  Today I found out that the Friendly Toast in Kendall Square, the ... ’ve forged plenty of fantastic memories of the Friendly Toast. It was my go ... . Since my novel comes out in 2022, I’ll have to change the setting for that

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 3, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Aliens, Bitcoin, Camps now i know my ABCs

  

  The blogs have been pretty quiet for the last week. Most of our ... UROPs. Meanwhile, the admissions team has been attending conferences ... 'm currently at nerd camp, but anytime the blogs go unblogged for too long, I get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 19, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... research. still others take the opportunity to travel through MIT MISTI. some ... take the month to catch up on sleep, work on personal projects (or bad

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017