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• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  take the test. I'll spare you the exciting details of me doing breakneck ... because none of us has homework to do. Aurora, the group mascot ... "La Fete des Neiges de Montreal" or, in English "Crazy snow sculptures

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  . "What socioeconomic class would you say your person belongs to?" "Do you ... students really do read by telling you what I thought of various books that I ... ), Cosmopolis (Don DeLillo), and Guns, Germs, and Steel (Jared Diamond). I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  do have their own authors' notes, which you can read if you want more ... the authors' thunder, so please do look at the original puzzles and ... one December morning. As suggested by the following picture, I do not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  unicorns big confusion

  

  , barring strange web3 schemes that try to tokenize people, individuals don ... mean is that people often tell me that i’m doing great or that they ... do exactly three things: read, write, and talk to people. every other

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 18, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  okay to do this as many times as you need to, as long as you are doing so ... even if people do mock you for it they’ll forget and stop soon enough ... . he understands that the only real way to learn what you should do is to

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  physics. I would not have been able to do an engineering degree. I loved my ... addition in high school, simple hard work, like putting the time in to do the ... not kid myself, and actually try to do the problem. Another study

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  doing promys again, this time as a head counselor, i'm helping run ... things i am doing. i'm forced to partition myself, to choose how much soul i can put into each commitment. and as much as i want everything i do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m taking this semester! senior fall

  

  of the Communication Requirement in your major. Not only do you learn ... because a meat blob full of electricity and chemicals is telling me to do it ... independent, print and web). I'M SO SO SO SO SO EXCITED. I've wanted to publish

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 4, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  followed, then I don’t really know what to do. So I move back into small talk ... okay. 2) Asking about anything regarding what I do in math. If this ... forced them to do a math competition for extra credit, or maybe they just

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  action. I suggest every incoming frosh do this with their PNR classes. I ... working on doing research to help improve a study based on our VR game ... wanted to do lab research for the longest time, but after getting a UROP in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I want you to burn Unfortunately, usually somebody just blew up their spaghetti-o's.

  

  though we haven't meaningfully updated our web page in two and a half years ... him. Well, I can do that too. I got a little worried that the fire ... , "no, I do this EVERY TIME." As you can see, Gabe does look pretty

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  All About The Author A bit about me and my job as Director of this site.

  

  web sites for their admissions programs. These sites are great sources ... would be ignoring the full potential of the web's interactivity. And MIT ... /Writing and Environmental Studies. Since then I've been a paralegal, a web

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Sleep is for the Strong getting through finals week

  

  de-stress. Avoid the junky finals food and eat well. Take care of ... goal to understand the material, and even if I do okay on tests and don’t get an A, I’m still fine with it.” -Azaria Zornberg “Don’t EXPECT to do

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  , and Course 20 wanted to avoid doing so if at all possible. In the end, every student who wanted to major in Course 20 was able to do so. I think ... short, if you want to do bioengineering at MIT, you will be able to, no

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  The Art of Juggling please take away my balls

  

  done this to herself? I entered MIT with a job, a web-based research ... social media posts and do some ~research~ like things for MSEF and it ... between urgent reminders to please for god's sake do your psets you dirty

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 23, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Remaking MITadmissions.org we are psychic vampires, please give us your ideas

  

  finally got the budget and the design firm to do it right, and I'll be ... the new website and what we do -- but as we think about how we help our ... 's what we want to do: figure out how to best meet our goals as per above

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fredventure, Part 2 Hearing Amazônia

  

  Nacional de Pesquisas da Amazônia (INPA) – Brazil’s premier institute for ... , but kudos to them for doing so. We had a few hours of free time back at

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Awesome People of 2016 part 1 of an incomplete list of the greatest and coolest

  

  mentors gathered in the conference room for a final learning session and de ... . She told me all the awesome things I could do with a Philosophy major

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  We begin our story in a cul-de-sac with neat green lawns in what was once one of the nicest towns in central Pennsylvania. It was morning; the ... against her heavy body to fix the bed. “And how old do you think they are

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever ... last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into ... fun. Having no responsibilities for this period of time, I wanted to do

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025