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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... , and so we proceeded at a crawling pace for a number of miles. Eventually ... that, regardless, my dinner plans may be a bit of a hopeless case

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

  Above Ground now breathe

  

  my hands dirty. Thankfully, I have a few of those projects happening this IAP. That's right, it's a good old fashioned "here's what I'm doing ... .) Teaching a class. I've written about this before, but yeah I'm teaching a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  In case you haven't heard, MIT has a new president-elect! This ... was going to be invited with a press pass, but if I couldn't make it, he ... there holding a backpack and a bike helmet. I checked out the food table

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  probably because the excitement of being at a new place never got replaced ... , i missed home. a lot. to the point where ‘i just wanna go home’ was ... acknowledging that i was homesick changed a lot of things for me. my roommate also

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  bed, gave me some tomato juice and a kiss on either cheek.  But what I ... promised myself that I wouldn’t throw up again without my dad there. It’s a fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  Whether I like it or not, my senior year at MIT is coming to a close. Classes are done, grades are in, and I’m beginning a senior-year road trip with a group of (vaccinated) friends across a few national parks out west

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs ... is doing this IAP and a quick recap of our winter break! Winter Break Mariia and Raymond My roommates Mariia and Raymond have been working on a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard ... ="alignnone" width="652"] A free organ!![/caption] Step 2: Alert the Others Make sure

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  having a summer, only what The Ideal Nonexistent MIT Student would be doing ... strangers for a job, and three Skype interviews later, here I am! It turns out ... , linguistics...) are just right for a very particular project: looking at DEEDS

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  ’s window, a shy, tanned girl arrived looking from left to right trying to ... but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two ... .   Distance is much more than being far away, It is to know how a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  's not wrong. If you rewinded back to high school, a younger me (still just ... . Particularly in STEM courses, there was a group who called themselves "The Nerd ... paired up with one student in the nerd herd for a quiz, the rest of the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  A fire alarm went off in the middle of the first 20.110 exam. It was ... , except in a good way. Half of the class was taking it in one room and the ... to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Beaver Nation An intro to athletics at MIT

  

  DIII, so it’s rare that we directly compete with them. As a result, it ... that time is a valuable resource here. That’s why it’s a bit surprising to hear that 20 percent of the undergraduate population at MIT plays a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • November 12, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action FAQs Yes, yes, we got your emails!

  

  high. (Last week, we were getting over a hundred emails a day…) While you ... you back to zen calm state sooner :) ***AN IMPORTANT NOTE***: A lot of ... the Early Action (EA) deadline. We know that there’s been a ton of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • October 24, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eyes Wide a scandalous, unintentionally-devoid-of-meaning recent history

  

  Once, while working as a cashier, I noticed that a customer’s total had come to $3.14, the monetary equivalent of the ratio between a circle ... woman made a face. “PI?!” “Did you say PI?!” “I said it’s like pi,” I

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  All the Feels introduction to me and my thoughts

  

  I am currently a ball of feelings. Some people might call me an emotional wreck, but I think it’s just something that comes with being in a ... share with you a sliver of some of the amazing people I’ve met and the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Recap: SHASS Lightning Talks @ CPW some projects in the social sciences and humanities at MIT

  

  new admits at a reception to discuss classes and undergraduate research ... fields with MIT; our co-identification with STEM is a core strength of the institutional brand and our role in the popular imaginary. But, as a graduate of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 28, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Chris inspired me to do dumb things I went to Disney World. It was fun, I guess.

  

  January 2015 I saw a Reddit post about a guy's mother who ran the ... theme parks host a variety of runs throughout the year.  Many are themed ... does a 5k, 10k, and half marathon in November while Disney World does a 5

  • by Snively '11
  • July 20, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  We Made the World We’re Living In, and We Have to Make It Over Envisioning alternative futures

  

  graduated a little over a month ago, moved to Washington, D.C. a week ago, and ... heavier. I spent yesterday in a newsroom, with the weight and force of ... of the Watergate building beneath a white ledge textured with cracks

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... 's wrong. I keep thinking I've recovered only to wake up with a sore throat

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016