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• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... ’s been with my IAP plans so far. I got back to campus the Tuesday ... sister (not biological, just to clarify... read the link), Alice '11, who I

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  Jerry on the subway to the aquarium trip. I kind of got adopted in and am ... when we walked to the beach at night, or when we saw snow on the beach in ... late on the night of halloween. at like 2am we all went out to killian

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Worms, Revisited a reflection on decisions from here

  

  notion, to recap from my other post, comes the idea that you are who you ... for nothing because it didn't pay off in the way I had wanted it to. And ... back to all of the things I had done leading up to the first application

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 18, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... meals, I tried out a new chicken marinade (it's the first one on Google

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  . Instead we just made sure to cook the meat through on the stove top, and ... video of a recipe we like, we email the link to ourselves, and usually try to make it during the next break. But given the current circumstances

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  like a freight train a schedule post

  

  like about my classes, the reasons I'm excited to take them. I’m on ... Enlightenment was one of my favorite parts of AP Euro, second only to the ... on the Enlightenment, we'll be in 1789, on the threshold to revolution

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thomas Friedman on Energy & MIT A NY Times article highlights MIT's innovative energy solutions

  

  goal, they explain on their Web site — vds.mit.edu — is “to identify the ... We’re all aware of climate change and the impact that it will have on ... entries). Today, Thomas Friedman, an op-ed contributor to the NY Times

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 2, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  . Second-most is tied between we visited every station on the MBTA and list ... nationwide, owing to the lasting influence of the Eraserheads on Filipino music ... least i'm not as sad as i used to be. This is the second mention of At

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  architecture, elaborate artistic displays and blissfully warm beaches. The second day, it seemed more just like your average resort town on the Atlantic ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  ”) and use the profit to fund a connectivity company. But on a more serious ... Pelkins to Cameroon this summer to work on the project, with the support of ... , with Milton seated second from the left. To learn more about Cassvita

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or ... processor but do not turn the food processor on. Chop carrots into 5- to 8 ... leave it on the stove (on high) to heat up. On a large plate or bowl

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  punting the day-to-day negative impact it has on my life. I remember what it ... avoid thinking about the other things I need to do but have not done and ... folding.   To get back to the thermodynamics analogy, I’m a little

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Free-est post! un-free schedule

  

  students struggling to graduate on time for the dumbest possible reasons ... told me that he convinced the EECS department to let him take his GIRs ... .006, which I need to complete my major, so the downer is that I can't drop it

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 28, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  white square at the point and the word "anchor" next to it: Click on ... to the layer you want the object(s) to be on. Now the image is in layer ... click directly on the "Image Trace" button to let Illustrator pick the

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  personal mission to make sure everybody on the planet earth knew I had gotten ... had not only given me the MIT bug but had also resigned themselves to ... impact on anybody's decision. I was reading the admissions site years ago

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  ; Computational Photography a.k.a. How To Make Photoshop) - The second lecture ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... 'm just kidding about the first part. It wasn't that cold. In an attempt to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  .” On the content of essays: someone has probably said to you, “Write ... to play the violin anymore and wanted to focus on other interests. (I ... to tell. Choose carefully! (On the other hand, in any case, there is

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Faking It self-consciousness and struggling and pretending to be cool, woo

  

  through Boston, a photo from my second-ever concert.) Today, I listened to ... to fictitious worlds to come to terms with the fact that they are weak and vulnerable, because in the real world no one wants to grapple with

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 24, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get by with a lot of help from my friends Lend me your ears and I'll sing you a song! You just might walk out…

  

  . College, on the other hand, is all about change. I have to laugh at myself a ... ’t wait to get out of here.” I couldn’t have imagined all the changes that ... ), which before had annoyed me on plenty of occasions, and the podunk central

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • June 1, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Non-Blinding my junior year(s)

  

  classes I want to be on my transcript when I apply to college. Even if it ... what I do these days. I'm putting my nose to the grindstone, and ... practice. So, after classes, I rode my bike to the local university. It was

  • by Paige B. '24
  • March 22, 2023