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• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... decide to drop the class, too. So I go and unpack, get a hold of MY little ... , but 6 weeks is enough to get people excited for classes to start up

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t Miss the Battle of the Bands Watch Ben Jones's band, Tremulant, perform with Marilee Jones at Battle of the Bands this…

  

  really amazing... guaranteed to blow your mind or your money back (ok, the ... , listen to awesome music, get free Anna's Taqueria burritos, Ben & Jerry's ice cream, and see a demo by Harmonix, the creators of the PS2 game

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  sending this email! the end yours, kano In addition to the swift move ... funny... During lecture for MAS.863 How To Make (Almost) Anything at the ... , backpack to the side, and laptop on the ground. I didn't expect anyone to sit

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  shuttle to a Zipcar station where we were greeted by the Volkswagen Golf my ... unhealthy. We decided to get the bare necessities for lunch sandwiches ... . (side note: my condolences to all those left high and dry when the IAP

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

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  time to get medical checkups. Take your partner out to dinner. Play ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day ... subsided, " I want you to recognize that this jar represents your life. The

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  still a physics major against all odds

  

  to my love-hate relationship with physics by now ... get an 18C degree as compared to a physics degree. This semester, I am ... graduate school and get a PhD. There is simply too much that I want to learn

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Good Morning, Sportsracers! *erases introductory post draft for the umpteenth time in the vain hope that he'll stick…

  

  I was getting ready to attend my own Campus Preview Weekend (CPW). I ... disembark next to Kresge Lawn, pointed at my hat, and yelled, "You! You're ... to taste, and I live in East Campus.") but I feel a weird level of

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  freshmen get a flavor for what they might want to study next year), and we ... department and opportunities available to its students. :) Well, you may have ... period than if you were to pursue them separately or elsewhere. But it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  An Explanation I always end up writing about underwear!

  

  sender's underwear color. It has become a tradition. By signing with your ... sexual deviants hitting on you. This is just because we want to know your ... was an MIT student who didn't have quite enough credits to graduate

  • by Snively '11
  • April 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  cookies life lessons through six scrumptious sayings

  

   (or, getting addicted to success) Soon you're not so special, and that's fine ... sociocultural factors and your willingness to be quiet as a child and not your ... special, so who are you? You're a person who clings to it. You try even

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... your enjoyment, a video of me playing the clarinet solo from Muse's new ... Today I had a ton of work to do. To be fair, I did accomplish some of

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  honest observation about the person you're talking to is supposed to be a ... 've been influenced by this view. As much as I wanted to pretend that I didn ... by the people I talked to growing up. Stories of "the freshman twenty

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  had i known how to save a life on self-care

  

  has been trying to get back up on my feet. i like to think i’ve been ... to think that i’ve been strengthened by these things nonetheless. that ... alone. i couldn’t find the motivation to get out of bed that morning

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Off What happens to an MIT student when the firehose gets turned off temporarily?

  

  not enough time to do it,” since getting an MIT education is like ... opportunity to get to know fellow GEL students as well! GEL Year Two ... ! After getting to know our mentors the day before, the GEL students

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  , I am your advisor, and I want to make it clear that I strongly advise ... it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... post that connected the bed to the wheels. Fluorescent lights flooded my

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  an online drop request to your advisor, your advisor approves it on ... Inspired by Spotify’s year in review (with which I discovered I apparently like listening to Stomp Pop and Brostep?), I’ve compiled some

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2022 judge our music taste (the 5th installment)

  

  to hyper-fixate on! thanks for keeping us entertained with random new ... celebrates. In your personalized Wrapped experience, you may have noticed a new ... : Familiarity (F) vs. Exploration (E) — do you listen to your favorite artists on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 8, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  thought that it'd be imposing of me to ask if I could get help from her in ... that I'd try to narrate her story by myself, but I soon realized that ... was a no-brainer. I couldn’t seem to get the research out of my

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spring Break and Study of Cities Abroad Students in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning enjoy a subsidized spring break abroad…

  

  As an Urban Studies and Planning major, you can fulfill some of your graduation requirements by spending time abroad. One such class is 11.027, "City to City." This course includes departmental funding (!) for travel

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 23, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Getting My MIT Decision on Pi Day Pie a comic

  

  this comic was inspired by the pie invention scenes in Waitress the Musical

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 12, 2018