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• Blog / IAP

  Ciao, Italy! (Part 2) late post due to usual MIT firehosing

  

  still be Google-translating the lessons word by word, and certainly not ... , accented by sightseeing of seven of the city’s “secrets” from an Argentinian girl studying abroad in the quaint city. They included a window into a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  running the realization that it's way too cold to be outside wearing only ... To make up for the apparently unlucky (but ultimately normal) Friday the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  down to the Rio Grande Valley. The saga continues... McAllen, Texas ... Allen, eating some great food and hanging out in the Valley. I had cabrito for the ... at one of the local high schools. She's starting her second year, and

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  article came out in The Tech (MIT's newspaper) with the earth-shattering headline 10-250 Renovations to Begin During IAP Reading through the article, I was quickly excited to hear that they were replacing the chairs! No

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... Networking is a funny thing. It can be formal (and slightly artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Adventures in Logan Airport In which I attempt to fly back to Florida. Written during a too-long wait in…

  

  The other day, when I stopped in the Admissions Office to annoy a few ... blog didn't give off quite the same sarcastic vibe that I usually exude ... things: my last ten hours, which shall from here on out be referred to as

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Baker House A tour of Baker House.

  

  a reason to be disappointed since i could pick my own combo Diana: yup...the ... ). This entry is being co-sponsored by Diana, '07, a physicist who ... of nowhere Bryan: a piano fell out of the sky Diana: HAHA Bryan

  • by Bryan
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making Your Dorm Room a Piece of Art! [by Elise '14]...and how MIT'll help you!

  

  up the supports, as well as how high you want the bed to be. Not to ... be diverting from the artistic message of this post. Which is, MIT ... means taking on the job of making a home out of a small shared room with

  • by ARTalk
  • November 24, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  inevitable passage of time. There will come the day when I'm no longer at MIT ... from the drone of some electrical wire or the whir of a machine or the ... close enough, cutting through the chit-chat and the murmurs of the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  's because time doesn't really pass in LA - every day looks exactly the same ... . i like seasons which show you the passage of time. there are some things i'll miss and some things i won't. i'll miss the lovely people and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Summer

  the first day of work lessons i'm learning

  

  . in both cases, Y has slack, with or without a buffer. to be clear: the ... 't mean laziness, or the messaging app. in business, before slack became ... . task Z takes 1 hour and two people, and it can only be done after X and Y

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a week of class notes airplanes, ethnography, and some bonus doodles

  

  .06 - Principles of Automatic Control this is a required class for the course 16 (aero/astro) major at MIT. we spent the first day of class watching videos ... -pitch quadcopters flipping upside-down (developed in the MIT Aerospace Controls Lab

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Three cheers for the MIT Marching Band Is the band ready? You bet they are.

  

  being an absolute rock star. Turns out most of the people in the band ... MIT had a football game this afternoon against Worcester State. The final score was 49-6. It's apparently the worst loss in over 15 years. It

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  them they would be more impressed by the thing itself than by its ... usually feel better than complete posts because the process of completion removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  unquantifiable growth progress that can't be measured

  

  to be honest: The reading journals were difficult for me because they ... the way, is 12.) But even at MIT, not everything can be measured. When ... As for the first time, after a freshman year that can best be described

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding Time for you know, things that aren't psets.

  

  super worried about adjusting to classes and being able to keep up with the pace of the content that was being fed to me. Turns out, (for me,) that understanding the material isn't the hardest part of coming to MIT

  • by Joe B. '18
  • October 4, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Children of Eden, seek for your garden. You and your children to come, someday to come home.

  

  've spared you the trouble of reading something you really wouldn't have wanted to read. I will, however, grace you with this: It takes up more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • December 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Touching grass scenes of spring

  

  suffer from being interminably on the internet. My parents always yelled at ... to be interminably on the internet: Cambridge weather sucks. Why would ... 'm sad that I can't keep the karma for my main. I'd have loved to comment

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 18, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor ... the classroom of 2020 look like? Should there be classrooms in 2020 ... Five months ago, I took on the position of Chancellor at MIT – a

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair*, or tie your shoes. So every time one of the aforementioned tasks has to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006