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• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  magazines by your bed?" Slightly Unshaven Slightly European MBA: "I read the ... choosing, provided you invest your life trying to figure out why your global variable isn't doing what it's supposed to be doing (hint: you're doing it

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  open I get to see everyone that passes by, and this is what they see from ... List,” by Jess K. ‘10, about useful things to have in your room ... trained as a yoga teacher. I’m hoping to get trained as a yoga teacher, too

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Be A Blogger (2018)! welcome to THE INTERNET

  

  to pick your classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in ... students or students at other colleges). Your application will be read by a ... want to be bloggers to embrace the GOOD TIMES https://youtu.be/cozHT9Qa

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 30, 2018
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2021!

  

  's a pretty good gig, to be honest. Your application will be read by a ... to be bloggers to share your garbage with the world https ... plan REX, or UROP, or decide how to pick your classes, or a really cool

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Just My Luck The somewhat eventful story of my first EMT shift ever.

  

  remembered how to navigate a vehicle on a road. The two hours flew by, and the ... to be someone/something you're not. Sigh... ... that answer: Yep, it was good (despite the to-be-described misfortune, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  "passionate," "empowering," and "moving" had been used by Japanese to describe ... „Å´„Åé„Çä„ÄÅnigiri - the kind that you're used to with a rectangular blob of rice and a piece ... other hand) 72. Want to preserve your memories well? Invest in a Japanese

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  computer. At this point you're probably wondering if I'm going to dictate my ... I digress, and I went off to start getting caught up with manuals. I ... Cailou (a show my young sister was adamant to watch) I'd saunter off to the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Community Projects

  Friends, Carafes, and the Infinite Corridor What a week! Watch Tim play his instrument after a morning of camaraderie and cheap…

  

  (Note: to everyone who has emailed or commented with questions, I got your messages! I will reply in detail soon. Thanks!) This has been a ... ... ah, New England weather. More time to do homework? Something like that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 16, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Listening What's in your stereo?

  

  are good for you). Also, before I get to the list, a disclaimer: R ... " by Beirut: This is by far my favorite song that I've been listening to ... . "Compared To What" by John Legend and The Roots: Despite having some really

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 12, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  you to your home, hold onto it. Let it get you through the homesickness ... to your hometown to ground you. After all, college may take you far ... Of all the things to happen in college, I never expected baseball to

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Oh, the things I can nerd on about not comprehensive

  

  vowels are so open, as if the word wants to hang on to your mouth even when ... "mother"? It’s from the same root we get alma mater and matriculate. It ... from Greek manthanein “to learn”. Another cool word: awanggan “infinity

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  be eggs and veggies, but I forgot to get eggs, so it was in fact just ... Campus, what do you eat?” My answers have varied, from “Free food!” to “A lot of things,” to “Uhh… I mean… I certainly did. I actually have no

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please Vote for My Idea for the Obama Administration! Change.org is sponsoring a competition whereby anyone can post an idea for making America better.…

  

  appreciate your taking a few seconds to cast your vote and bring my idea closer ... receive the most votes will be presented to Barack Obama on Inauguration Day. They'll also receive the support of a national lobbying campaign run by

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

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

  students are developing methods to improve emergency transportation services ... Last June, I returned to my former high school to present an ... work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Relativity Special (and vice versa) I took a test today that relied on practically everything I have ever learned from…

  

  bedtime by a couple of hours. To first order, I'm sleeping as I type this. (Definition of MIT, #129: The ability to Taylor expand your states of ... my Special Relativity test required me to add (and subtract!) numbers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... tried several times to get a better picture of this, but I couldn't get ... 'd like to meet anyone who ends up buying one of these. By posting these

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pictures of what Could Have Been drawings i made for blog posts that i didn't end up posting

  

  keep coming across drawings for blog posts that I decided not to publish. I thought it'd be fun to show some of these! Better Call Tim??? Date ... for MIT? Reason for discontinuation: Not sure, but MIT should pay to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 8, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Everyday Is Like Sunday

  

  write moving your mail closer and closer to your mailbox. We have mailed ... received a decision by Wednesday. On Friday, we'll begin giving decisions over the phone to the applicant only. People have asked about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Flat Ryan’s Adventures at MIT! There are more exclamation points in this entry than there are days of classes left…

  

  : 1. You get to watch Spongebob and not even feel bad about it ("I was babysitting!") 2. You get to play with light-sabers and Nerf guns and not even ... get to laugh at the word "pants" and not even feel bad about it ("I was

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 5, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January in Paris and two weeks of speaking French

  

  . One morning, we tried to get into the library of the Sorbonne, but were ... a zero get hit on by an eight? He puts on a belt! Sitting in the café ... (on the right). Photo credit to Sophie de Loubens, one of our JSF guides

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 23, 2018