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  More IAP updates

  

  have a new battery, and their robot is fine, so they should be good to go ... something to that effect. Some students in the lab have fallen asleep at ... all-nighters or close to it. I remember what that sort of thing was like

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to ... I'm sure this isn't the best way to spend my time, I somehow can

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  in Cambridge. As someone who loves scenic views to take pictures, the ... that I've come to fall in love with.  And recently, I've been trying to take more time to acknowledge all the small things around me that I enjoy

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…

  

  [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] As he walked up to us and stretched out ... there? Make sure you show him your full respect, he's the top Senior NCO ... available to me that I wouldn't have anywhere else. The world's best

  • by ROTC
  • October 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Open Sesame A look at Brewster Kahle '82 and the Internet Archive.

  

  I'm back to work tomorrow, hopefully posting a new Questions Omnibus tomorrow evening. While waiting to be called from the jury pool, I had plenty of time to read both the New York Times and the Boston Globe. The

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  O hai A reintroduction

  

  position for creative media stuff, and I think to myself, do I want to APPLY???? I applied. I interviewed. And now, I'm back to where it all began. What a world, amirite? Except it took me so stinkin long to come back to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 7, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent ... happened consecutively (from 9pm on Thursday to Noon on Friday). Ever since

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  theory) ranged from rubbing dead cats on sticks to pouring super-cold liquid oxygen over a magnet to playing a physics guitar. That class was cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We are artists & writers extracting creative talent around campus

  

  community, feel free to submit your best creative work. For literature:  rune ... It's important to recognize that while MIT is known for top-notch engineering and science programs, this school actually has the resources to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • November 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Firehose Warning: insomniac blogger on the loose.

  

  "IHTFP!" from my (I mean, your) dorm room window. It's to show you exactly ... of my time immersed in the intricacies of addition reactions to alkenes ... chemistry), not to mention the peculiarities of second-order ordinary

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  budget to $68 million, President Susan Hockfield announced. "The world ... innovative ways to enhance our strong, entirely need-based financial aid ... to all of our admitted students, without regard to their economic

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Battle of The Bands takes over Bryan’s Blog Hostile takeover of Bryan's blog for the night.

  

  So me and my 133t h4x0r roommate Yuan decided to take over Bryan ... of the Bands is an event held every CPW where ten local bands come to MIT to compete in front of YOU for prizes and bragging rights. Yuan

  • by Bryan
  • March 12, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Review of “Shopgirl”

  

  to see "Shopgirl," a movie based on a novella by Steve Martin. Claire ... awkward scenes that leave you squirming in your seat. Awkward situations at MIT arise from accidentally hitting on your TA or forgetting the name of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 5, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One Year After Michael Jackson An out-of-place tribute to the King of Pop

  

  revealing about our culture that these events stand out in tandem to me, but ... remember exactly where I was and how I reacted. I don't mean to compare ... the second, I was newly done with high school, and better able to

  • by Cam T. '13
  • June 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... penny. To get their souls back, they would have to complete his course of ... get a chance to take part in next year's Hunt. I'm hopeful that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  about what to get. For one thing, I had no idea what skirt/dress size I ... East, on the wall next to her: And here she is again, getting fed an ... impossible to get a flash photo of me with my eyes open. This was the fourth

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our friends

  

  students passed away. James E. Roberts Sr. was known as "Big Jimmy" to ... Jimmy memories. Two stories come to mind to exemplify what Big Jimmy meant to me. The first was freshman year. I had a crush on a sophomore on my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 28, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes! REX! Politics! Science! (Vlog and a Riddle) You have 2012 jars of 1-kg mollusks, with 2012 1-kg mollusks in each jar....

  

  , leaving 2012 0.3-kg resealed mollusk shells in that jar. You need to figure out which jar they raided before you take the mollusks to market. Your ... is happening! Science is happening! And I decided not to twitter

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  elephants what I've been up to

  

  : elephants outside my room). In an effort to not get so over-burdened with ... 've taken to working on a little mural on my door whenever a pset makes my ... to dumb it down make it my own. Here's the week-long process, in photos

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Things We Don’t Remember Enough About each other

  

  can get in the way of relationship-building, but here are three things I ... are. People are more willing to help you than you think they are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • August 22, 2012