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• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  stuff is going on, and all my friends at other schools are going to class ... to Maine/NH/VT on the weekends to see my boyfriend do flips on skis (he ... '07: Ropes Adventure PE class (you get to climb lots of sketchy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  a dorm with a dining plan, but I don’t. On the bright side I get to ... something. (definition from How To Get Around MIT)   Which brings us to ... you’re here to do: go to class, slog through p-sets, write essays, and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  , you have to prioritize which input is the most important in your final ... peppered with due to pledge training the new pledges (which just ended, yay ... . I still want to go to Japan, I’m definitely making sure I’m in on

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bicycle Diaries Like the motorcycle ones, except far less artsy and with a serious lack of Gael…

  

  " sticker on it. I continue to yank. 3. Victory! The lock comes off! 4 ... longer drive in college), and you parked your car, and all you had to do was press a button to lock your car and you were good to go? Parking a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 4, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Polar Vortex or my third IAP, and how externships work

  

  contributions to the place you are working at. (For more on getting the most out ... —the pressure is always on to glean as much wisdom and learn as many lessons as ... me: 1. Listen. Ask people to lunch or to coffee and just get to know

  • by Connie H. '15
  • February 16, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  to get bullied by the other cat on the floor, and thus end up spending ... living with me on 5w in EC, and got to freely wander around the Wood ... Random, which meant I had to move this box that PUF liked to chill on

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... brain switches to a new task, however menial, it takes a certain amount of transition time before you are fully able to focus on the task at hand. So, to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  An Adventure on the Charles In which Kate fails spectacularly, except at storytelling.

  

  the dock. In order to get away from the dock, you have to get the boat ... turns. I like to call them the Easy Turn and the Hard Turn. Obviously, on ... towards the Midwest region but was really open to anyone. Basically, I sat

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Apple Juice Liberation! Something very important happened to me when I came to MIT a few weeks ago.…

  

  up to any class you’re interested in on the first day with an add ... was a limitation on the size of the cups we could use to drink apple ... a while, but within an hour of walking on campus I was learning how to

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking In A brilliantly exciting recap of the last month.

  

  sure I'd ever be able to get any work done. I went on a student-led tour ... -California, I had about 12 hours at home before getting on another plane to attend ... soon. I'm also happy to announce the arrival of a new blogger, Evan

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

  how ARe you today? Do you Nintendo? On an unrelated note, part of me thinks this and this might…

  

  . Basically, in a ploy to get people carry around their new 3DS systems ... has a bunch of people that will buy a new system on launch day and thus ... through Lobby 7 this morning on my way to a 2.002 exam. I stepped into Lobby

  • by Snively '11
  • April 4, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Remembering Gisel and honoring twenty years of service and friendship

  

  school teacher who wrote asking for a poster of MIT to hang in your classroom to inspire your students, Gisel is probably the person who put it in ... officer who realized, on the plane to some far flung recruiting region, that

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 28, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  friends or family over to sleep on your floor. Maybe even on your free air ... event or club."]Dormspam.[/annotation] Never forget to BCC! Paint (on) a ... [/annotation] for at least one semester. Find something fun to do with your extra time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ". To which I thought, "You're darn right, pal!" But of course, now that I ... ways to enjoy a New England spring and it does have its' charms, I ... tootsies with Uggs. 2.   Second way to enjoy a New England spring: Rainboots

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  , I have no idea who you are or what you’re like, but I’m here to ... .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I My Spanish adventures!

  

  a wireless signal to your house and tell it to turn the heat back on ... who I knew was getting to Madrid the same day as me to start her job ... all the way to Madrid, buying a new cellphone, and trying to remember

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  Intelligence. Be sure to play the video on the Peas homepage. Anyway, when Will ... find a new place to buy clothes. Here's the video Prof. Winston was referencing (will.i.am getting excited about AI): According to MIT CSAIL

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  hokey pokey is the best ice cream in the world (unbiased take)

  

  ="and occasionally Australian, if they want to earn a jab and some choice words from me"]New ... : I’d never seen the Big Dipper before coming to New England. There’s a ... ; when everything is different, you get the chance to become someone

  • by Janet G. '27
  • September 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  recommended pressure and were almost ready to get back on the highway before ... still get our gift and she decided to spare us. i picked out first band on ... look up a youtube tutorial on how to change a spare tire. winter in the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  See her picture(s) in a thousand places In which I understand what Bruce Campbell feels like

  

  upon being recognized that I forgot to get to your name. Sorry about that ... Sam: [folding laundry] Guy: Your name's Sam, right? Sam: Um, yeah. Guy: 'cause you're on Mitra's Blog. Sam: Heh. You know I have a blog now

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 3, 2005