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• Blog / IAP

  An Experiment in Independence: PART TWO.

  

  ! Please check out the picture of dinner below and the links, and I hope to ... :) --- --- --- --- --- --- --- --- Here's the final dinner sitting in front of me right now! And trust me ... Activities Period, Period of Independence and Activity-Doing! I've lived here

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Walk of the Strandbeest "New life forms" with PVC skeletons march on the Media Lab

  

  "Not pollen or seeds but plastic yellow tubes are the basis of this ... surviving the elements such as storm and water and eventually I want to put ... 's Strandbeest stood in the rain on a patch of pavement outside the Media Lab. With

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

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  different floors of the dorm and talk to upperclassmen about living in that ... ’t notice, I’m a newborn in the blogging world, with this being my very first ... thing being a big part of the change. There are amazing places to eat all

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Some Good Advice On Advisors

  

  , because I'm sure the rest of my blogs will have enough run-ons and comma ... the rest of your life collapses in on you and you find yourself ... of reading materials, videos, and of course priceless blog entries have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  great time and making a lot of friends. or as another example, one of the ... , interacting with a broad spectrum of people seems to be worth the risks and ... would drop me off at the gym and i would run laps around the track, and

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MacCPW, et al. in case you couldn't make it

  

  Entry: A Night in the Lounge The first opportunity to chill and eat with ... actually No. 6) and New House. It's the tall one that looks like a hospital ... in F entry (my home). About half of us are on the meal plan, while the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 9, 2017
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Call For A Good Time a weekend of coffee shop networking

  

  those of you who don't know, was the original admissions blogger, and ... : The first reason... Mitra: Oh. Me: ..and also the second. Mitra: TAKE ... , and how each cover of Oprah is better than the previous one and this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 2, 2011
• Blog / People & Identities

  senior appreciation post in which i rant about my idol

  

  reality halfway around the world, but I’m sure a lot of you have heard all ... sheet) for college life. At first she came across as overbearing, and a ... niche in the giant machine of moving parts that is college? I was sure

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 15, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  , Harvard, Princeton, and Brown. I was accepted to the first three and ... mini-MIT experience. The people I met there were (and still are) some of ... more of it, and the more I did it the more interesting it became. What

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  tim’s wardrobe legend has it, TIM changes clothes annually

  

  merch, and does general stuff for the class. I, for some reason, ran my first year and have been on my year’s class council since. It has been ... . Some weeks, there is a lot of work to do and at times, people (students

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  primary form of transportation was a scooter. Not the super-cool and high ... many classes, and one of the furthest east buildings), is 21 minutes per ... myself to the schedule of buses and needing to time it just right

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT: Progressions what the students thought of the place in 1969

  

  what's amazing to me is the salience and relevance of this film. The ... creation of the Black Student Union and the Undergraduate Association ... a new way, rational inquiry and social concern...the ethos of talking

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  Some friends and I were chatting the other day, marveling at how ludicrously fast the semester was flying by when one of them pointed out exactly why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tetazoo is not a Hivemind Haha... just kidding... unless?

  

  and writing in the middle of it all, that I realize how much I love ... up for the freshmen and other hall newcomers. We have tasks to complete ... for the entirety of the scavenger hunt take some pictures It’s a good

  • by Powers '23
  • November 24, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  about their worries and we shared something at the top of an abnormally ... to walk alone and listen to the sound of silence, and I chose to splice ... ecstasy of hot water and then cold, over and over, next to the mountains. At

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Folding with Flair Adding a third dimension to boring old paper

  

  cardinal was one of the first origami models I folded purely from a crease ... summer, but it’s now the last day of my internship, and I’m preparing to ... saw the light of day (mostly because I forgot about it until last

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • August 4, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  sharp and soft featuring: my favorite naruto moment

  

  dedication of the self, and this naruto battle… well, i suppose you can ... just to practice thinking and working with the same level of desperation ... of anger and resentment and jealousy and to fuel the achievement of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 21, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights and Sounds Only at MIT.

  

  Bridge and into one of most famous orchestra halls in the world. This trek ... , slightly ragged due to the endless wear of psets and midterms, was renewed ... Some weeks ago, Jeanne '13 and I embarked upon yet another of our

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Average The benefits of challenging yourself in high school

  

  the first time and got hooked. Those two clubs were easily the defining ... As a freshman in college, one of the most important things I do is ... ? Do I leave my dorm room enough? Am I taking the most advantages of the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  , we were both scared and even averse to the idea of our reputation ... sudden change in our personas, and we really did not like the idea of that ... focus on the arts. They were just in their 3rd year of opening and were

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019