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• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

  eruptions bring to mind the old tales passed down from our elders. i’m from ... talk about volcanoes, and my teachers have been old enough to remember ... enough to have been through the worst, but it was near enough that they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  -violent spiciness. The next day, much to the shock of my personal fan club, I ... in Internet Explorer. I'll try to fix this soon, but in the meantime, I suggest converting to Firefox.] [EDIT RELOADED: Manually fixed. My

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cubes, Tetrahedrons, and Wind Chimes Silly lil musical instruments for a silly lil guy (me)

  

  this by using a microcontroller to amplify the sound, much like an ... .) and various sensors (accelerometers, capacitive sensing, etc.) to create ... encourages us to go wild with our imaginations, as long as the end product

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  An Afternoon In/Out Of The Snow

  

  psychopomp? The answer is about to be served implicitly atop an egocentric ... relentlessly upon Cambridgians' freezing bodies, the confetti to its gleeful ... visibly permeates Cambridge, and hike to Voltage Coffee, whose abilities

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Burton-Conner long live BC

  

  important to floor culture, so this is pretty tragic. Thankfully, efforts to ... murals may be restored. Also, sliding wall panels for students to paint on ... 's living communities. And that's why I'd like to showcase/preserve some of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 25, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Brain Dump This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too…

  

  This is going to be ~14 entries in one - my fault for being too busy to blog much lately. If you get through it all in one sitting, you're a ... had to laugh out loud when the presenter hit the button and put the live

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  the clubs I have gained access to. Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... about the Brain to appreciate humankind and the self. Cats: specifically ... want to write to finally put my social science skills to good use. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Simmons Hall 2015 water balloon wars, pancakes, roofdeck parties, and a trojan duck

  

  clubs and activities. They also learn about the resources available to ... , what it means to be an MIT student, and how to find support and push through hard times. We even have a play put on by students to provide useful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 31, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally made visual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  Crunch afterparty. But my main reason for being there was to get more into virtual ... afterparty. There, I got to meet with virtual reality experts and learn more ... Thomas Jefferson Memorial. Notice any similarities to other famous domes

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  I've watched the movie. The plot is literally too ridiculous to explain and sort of requires knowledge of the entire in-game universe to understand, but you can try your best to decipher it [SPOILERS AHEAD] here

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer reading: “The Language of God” Consider adding "The Language of God" to your summer reading list!

  

  sequence as much of the genome as possible before Celera could get to it. In ... contribution to the Human Genome Project (you know... the one that sequenced the ... gained a lot of attention. I haven't gotten the chance to read it yet, but

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Picture is Worth a Thousand Words Therefore, this is a REALLY long entry.

  

  Who: Chris M and Snively What: A picture Where: My room When: Last year at the end of CPW Why: We needed a picture together How: How did we end up looking like this? 4 hours of sleep-ish each over about 4 days.

  • by Snively '11
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Nourishing bodies, enriching souls and minds There's more to the MIT community than just famous researchers and brilliant students.

  

  Almost three years ago, I wrote an entry which was very special to me ... : James "Big Jimmy" Roberts and Howard Brown. My annual donation to MIT ever ... this: Mr. Jackson [was] a father figure to generations of young men in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... actually enjoy. This pic looks much better than the closeup one. March '06 ... under an hour. November '05. I don't remember if I was about to start

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Random Hall Rooms Six rooms and ten stuffed animals.

  

  most other rooms but also makes it much easier to socialize, since you ... door opens up to the hallway connecting my floor’s lounge to the back of the building, making it visible from the third-floor portal to the 282

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  involved soldering a bunch of components to a [annotation note ... Tech is still getting printed and distributed to the dorms, so I was able to use old newspapers to set up a safe soldering surface. Almost all of

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Angry Nerds Sometimes you've just got to flip the bird.

  

  finger as crowds amassed on the sidelines to see what the commotion was about. But instead of a police presence, and maybe a trip to MIT Mental ... feeling rising in my mind that I've forgotten how to put in words. Fu

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 9, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Orthostatic Tolerance [by Ken Haggerty '11] It might not be such a bad idea to visit this…

  

  Admissions that is supposed to highlight the best of MIT's arts community ... . The center launches five to eight exhibits each year highlighting the ... to campus. The museum itself is located in the old Media Lab building

  • by ARTalk
  • June 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  sketchy youth hostels and subsisting mostly on döner. I was planning to live ... in Berkeley next year, I thought it might be better to be a little more frugal. Just playin'. But seriously, maybe it's because I only get to eat

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007