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• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... most unique, liminal pockets of time at MIT, showing that a month can contain multitudes. I really hope you enjoy learning more about what a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  own devices, I do actually cook a fair amount of Russian food. This isn ... I'm not a particularly good cook. I once managed to set spaghetti on ... and would instead on myself and learning how to be a functional human

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Sport CPW cpw at senior haus

  

  do you get when you put Bratwurst into a flour tortilla? A sausage taco ... it before. Mix the two together and you just get a really excitable and ... two reasons: one, a lot of our events are discussions or activities

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  and get it done while to "punt" a pset is to not do it or not hand it in ... Committee, and I enjoyed designing our class's Brass Rat. As a lover of MIT ... a forward before the presentation was handed off to RingComm.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Events

  How I Spent My Sophomore Spring Break I didn't go to Florida or Cancun, but I still had a lot of fun!

  

  addicting game. We even had a team chant going "Two-Oh-Four-Eight Who do we ... the Undergraduate Practice Opportunities Program, is a program for ... searches and in preparation for the summer and the future.  UPOP also holds a

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie crumbs, and light are scattered across the dining room tables. There is a lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Structure and function, dorms and culture

  

  , and because if an FSILG moves to a new house, as some of them do from ... "structure follows function". This is a good axiom for biologists, but it ... structure. Or, to be more descriptive, geography and physical structure have a

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  was before Tesla REALLY took off.  It was a Tesla Roadster and I was ... I graduated from MIT and a year and a half after that I moved to Oregon for work.  I found a real estate agent, found a lot, and built a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  going to be a very different post) I...couldn't do it. I really just ... create action or really do anything much productive--it is simply a display ... Last weekend, I wrote “A Guide to Farmer's Markets". Here’s what I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  semester, I’m taking 21M.370 – Digital Instrument Design! It’s a new ... [annotation note="For our first assignment, I made a synthesizer patch that emulated an ambulance siren during a rainy day, and he loved it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  my room an evolution

  

  with a new theme. I didn’t even bother doing the full sophomore year ... I had a vision. Every year, my room would have a different aesthetic. Was this followed to a T? [annotation note= " thank you covid

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 8, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Invitation to Cross-Register Guest post by Katherine W. '17 :D

  

  PSA: This is a really cool guest post by my friend Katherine W. '17 ... appealing?   Step 1. Determine your eligibility Are you a full-time MIT sophomore/junior/senior? Do you have time to drop 40+ min for

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Escaping MIT Maybe if I just get far enough away, my finals will cease to exist!

  

  -to-back, followed by a third on Thursday. I would say that I’ll blog about the result ... of the outcome. Pass/No Record was a wonderful thing, but like them all ... take a break from the sit-all-day-locked-in-my-room studying technique

  • by Joel G. '18
  • May 16, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Seattle: Land of the Strange, Skies of the Free where pirates roam the streets and dogs play the bucket-drums

  

  I was walking to the Pacific Science Center with a friend one ... planetarium, when we promptly found ourselves blockaded by a veritable barricade of marching bands and crowded cheering. A large marshmallowy Boeing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 14, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  MIT is a lot like a bowl of milk. A really really big bowl of milk. The students, accordingly, are a lot like tiny kittens (or any milk ... 2017, right now, I’m feeling a little overwhelmed. Before me lies a

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  After a busy CPW weekend, I was driving home on the Mass Pike basking ... a bad thing, and she wasn”t saying that we can”t fully use and enjoy ... “particular problems’ but to develop a new vision for the act of problem solving

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  banana cake (Aside: making banana [blank] is a really good thing to do when ... blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  lobby. Rewind four weeks, to a field in Albuquerque, New Mexico, where I ... , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... showing at the World Cup, that was probably a mistake.) The other team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  enhance who we are. How do we have time to paint murals? After a grueling ... [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your ... lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007