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• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  -deprivation competition. Get together with friends to solve puzzles that will lead you to a ... hope you had an umbrella, Mollie. (Yes, I decided to watch in on TV ... . Title Link: I Am Prepared, get it? IAP... (it's okay if you don't want to

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Veni, Vidi, Jamba I came, I saw, I conquered a lot of smoothies

  

  Every summer, I tend to get a lot of the same questions about life at MIT. What’s it like? Is it hard? How much sleep do I get? These tend to ... rigor, but it doesn’t have to be a grind all the time. So, even though I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • August 15, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  since my mad biology skills weren’t quite up to engineering a couple of ... build a treehouse.” Or, in normal-person-speak: hey, I kind of like this ... because I function in a perpetual state of procrastination. “But Natanya

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Pachyderm Photography I'll try to avoid elephant jokes. There might be one or two, though, just for…

  

  (Answers to your questions are coming next entry; keep on sending ... circus comes to town, and the only way to get the elephants from the train ... every commuter for several miles! It was a lovely start to the day. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Characterization This might or might not enrage you.

  

  (too late for me to major in 11 now, but wish me luck on getting a minor ... projects. Now that I'm going to graduate MIT in a year I feel like I should ... get to living in the Internet," my hallmate once told me. And here, at

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Blast from the Past

  

  door, Bryan was like "Laura! OMG we have to take a picture now that there ... much time in Photoshop because I didn't want to be programming in Scheme ... unfortunate, since it meant I stayed out until after 2 AM and had to get my butt

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 15, 2006
• FAQ / International applicants

  How do international students apply to MIT?

  comfortable evaluating your application in context. A committee of experienced ... limited to): the IB, A Levels, the French Baccalaureate, and CBSE. Your ... to schools in the U.S., but almost one-quarter of MIT's applications
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and ... just my neighbor. Me and my mom. Return to hotel. LUXURY NUMBER TWO: A

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Yes, I am still alive My fourth of July in America's hometown

  

  going to have to T it up a little bit. The closest store is in Malden ... , is now getting his PhD in a neuroengineering lab at Stanford. ... fireworks. Usually we sit up on a hill in the middle of an 18th

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  diversions from what is otherwise a never ending trello of things to do

  

  life is getting a little too hard and i want to remind myself of all the ... had never been to a single concert in my life before freshman year of ... ="and david bowie died before i had enough money to go see him in a concert

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why I stayed up until 6am on Thursday More nerdy cake-baking.

  

  a frenzy, wondering if I would get to sleep at all. What happened? 1 ... CAKE! Me: Um...are you going to be in here for a while? Like...for the ... a mental list of all the things that had to be accomplished between 7

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 10, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77 ... music and would like to be a part of the music community at MIT, you may send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  think!) • Which is a more favorable condition to find yourself in: a bad ... few weeks you’ll get a behind-the-scenes look from yours truly at the ... at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  but support my dream to always stay in academia. I know doing a UROP as ... was easy to pick MIT. I knew I wanted to attend a school that would not ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hell. handling the hardest semester at MIT, virtually

  

  . As a result, starting to take courses relevant to our major in a ... very least, you won't have to experience your hardest semester in an ... about not succumbing to stress as the semester gets progressively harder

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 9, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  your photo, and not get left behind. The piece is supposed to suggest ... get really cold during the winter and it’s a pain to sit on them ... ’s brilliant to just stand in front of it and look up and take it in. I’m a

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  in fact a terrible way to pick a college, and I soon transferred. At ... had a lot worse happen to me. And now, for your moment of zen, a (young ... September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July A video experiment just for the heck of it

  

  in my 30 day trial period to tinker around and make a couple videos for ... filmmaking skillz). I should probably also put in a shameless plug to join the ... creates an annual video series called "Letters to July," sort of like a

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 30, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  a round of 10-hour psets, but turned out to be wildly effective during ... tend to get much more done for yourself. Some people spend IAP home, or ... , blacksmithing, pistol, etc. That said, I'm finally getting back to the alleged

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011