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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  train: #5, two hours and 51 minutes late listening to: Do By Friday It ... poetry once more. I continued to make good progress; honestly, even though ... snowier and snowier as we got closer to Reno; I was impressed by the snow

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... Sarah and I always escaped to the park.  One year we made a daily pilgrimage to Eegee’s, which is a Tucson sandwich chain named for its fine

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  showed up to the airport and was greeted by a super long line that I ... by Jim Marggraff, CEO. It's wonderful listening to the CEO of a company ... commercial, like Livescribe had slipped me a $20 under the table to write an

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  go to lecture, and having a good lecturer is basically what makes or ... think that’s going to make the class a lot easier for me. 6.0001 - Intro ... You know you’re hosed when it takes you a week after classes start to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... two flights of stairs (grade five) to trying to sit back on a chair ... impressionable moments come from other sources, and I want to share a few of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by ... rather, there is some spark of passion within me that makes me excited to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  slow burn you and the void

  

  be angry, just annoyed, and you’d have to spend time inserting a new ... machine to measure the distance between the two. The void reduces to a ... of the fantasy novels you both used to read, is showing a student

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Never Mind The Score Insights from the National Poetry Slam - for both MIT students and hopefuls

  

  stuff. Talk. And don't always feel like you need to have a p-set in hand ... 've met a few people you can talk to, see how well you can get to know them ... , if you went to CPW, getting back in touch with your host is a good way

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 17, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is ... excited even to make it to the quarter finals. I watched all but one of the ... through Colón to see how excited everyone was. Here's a view from behind of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  And So It Ends, And So It Begins May 1 marks the end of this admissions cycle and the beginning of the next.

  

  . Fourth, I'm trying to make a plan for the summer as far as MyMIT is ... here at MIT. If you're here in the fall, drop by 3-107 and say hi to us ... they can. We had a lot to celebrate. First, we're so proud of the class

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Filled With Cute Babies The story of my IAP in India.

  

  MIT students love to make change happen. This could be in the form of ...  or IDEAS/Global Challenge, or even dropping out of MIT to accept a Thiel ... population that strives to make the world better in some small (or big!) way

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  . Laugh at it. Make a reading list. Try to finish it Read book ... queued for a later post (in an attempt to spread out my blogging and be ... when a lot of people seem to enter a mindset of now what? You’ve prepared

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... residents of the dorm. I was entertained by a thread I read this morning ... anybody cared to memorize maybe more than a 100 of e? 3. the formulas for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7 ... released, with a magnitude corresponding to 21cm radiation. Ta-da! This is ... a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  to major in anything evenly divisible by three. I am not making any of ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... everything from Chipotle to liquid nitrogen ice cream, but also made a binary

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Skipping Class and Failing Bio A practical guide to poor life choices

  

  . Hahahahaha. That plan worked for a while. But by the second week of classes, a ... phrases that I heard my friends toss casually around. I scraped by with a 66 ... the last pset got assigned, I legitimately could not start to answer a

  • by Joel G. '18
  • December 29, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  me happy, even though it makes my schedule a bit claustrophobic. But hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... I love to dance. I’m a Minecraft parrot—put any kind of music near me

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  *to set the mood* [playlist ids="44803"] The floor of my room is a ... friends have left by now, and as I walk through the hallways that ought to ... foundation is left behind, for the next generation of the MIT community to make

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Doogie Howser, et al.

  

  to a boarding school to finish high school; but sometimes, applying to ... decision? Does this student have the emotional and social maturity to be a ... section of Technology Review. I'll print some of it below, with a link to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some ... campus. -- a swimsuit, if you wish to beat the required swim test and ... . No need to bring the stock of a lifetime on the plane. And once you

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015