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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... started to seem more and more doable. I'm really looking forward to learning

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

  Mirrors Because reflection is not just that image you see of yourself in the morning, or…

  

  Fun fact about me, on days when I don’t have much to do, especially ... curling up with a cup of tea, I sometimes like to just sit around and ... like GEL, you’ll do reflections a lot, and it might take a while to

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 8, 2013
• Blog / Events

  The sun comes up, then goes away Graduation day with pictures!

  

  weird, and I'm not sure if I'm going to believe it for a while. Thanks so much to those of you who watched the webcast and saw me get my diplomas ... EDIT, 6/11/06: Due to some server problems, this entry and its

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  unjaded by the responsibilities and consequences of adult life. As much as ... . In fact, the thinking has already been brewing. As I'm talking to my ... no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got this video. Or rather, this sad excuse of one...

  

  shirt and dark gray pants. I should stop now before I sound too much like ... laptop?? Does anyone else still read books, or do you all have Kindles??? Here's a video in which I attempt to eloquently answer questions that you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 10, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  of your life! And the rest of your life is going to be so much more ... to re-emphasize, stands for My Roommate Neha, and does NOT mean that ... know, the ones that have something to read every day, and you rip them

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  code to work. i won't miss my long morning commute and getting around LA ... that is lonely. i have more thoughts but not very much time to write ... i'm writing this post while sitting at an LAX waiting to board my

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  and go back to sleep. 9:15 AM: My second alarm goes off. This time, I ... put on my jacket, shove my books and laptop into my bag, and I try to ... it to class, which is just across the road and up a flight of stairs

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  (and free food), but I don’t try to get involved with them at any deeper ... careerists, and I’d like to avoid careerists. Or, as Eric put it, “These ... . And did I really want to grind during senior spring, especially when I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More on the Paris Metro Our final review was Monday - officials from the Paris public transport authority flew in…

  

  propose improvements to and new ideas for the metropolitan Paris subway ... master's, half PhD students (and then me), but age doesn't matter so much ... refreshing to just sit back and see what everyone brought to class, and how

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  , professors, and grad students?" The easiest question there to answer is how I ... all the different lab protocols, and since I didn't know how to do most ... -- and when Albert's not in the lab, I get to take over his desk! The

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  decided to take matters into my own hands and e-mail Professor Christoper A ... -metal alloy harder than titanium and stronger than diamond." To defeat him, they ... this subject. Thank you very much, Sam Much to my surprise, I received a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Flowers in your hair

  

  'umba, Capoeira dancing, MIT Gospel, MIT Dance Troupe, Steel Pan, and so much more ... classic stories such as "Tucker Tries Buttsex, Hilarity does not ensue" and ... online at http://vagina.mit.edu ...and to help you get in the V-Day spirit

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Piercings! sorry mom

  

  procedure and jewelry. Once at MIT, I did some research about where to get ... Lucky's twice last August, once to look at their selection of jewelry and ... gained from going to college and getting my first paid (on-campus) job

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 17, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE ... great to be only a 10 minutes walk from Boston and then have another whole ... actually a vampire and doesn't show up on film, so I had to stand in for her

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was able to attend number 2 (and am also missing number 3), which is why I woke up early* this morning and trudged bleary-eyed over to room 26

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  "hard coreness," so to 5p3a|<. We've seen it time and time again. Two ... -sympathetic acknowledgment: "Yeah... I just finished my fourth pset of the week and have to stay up all tonight to start and finish a stupid HASS paper." Evoking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] MIT THINK Scholars – A High School Research Program! From one side of it to the other

  

  ’re trying our best to recreate as much of the trip as possible and capture the ... . People create art to express who they are and how they see the world. When ... to think.mit.edu for guidelines and more information. We’ll be hosting

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Logistics and Planning packing, housing, strategy, and events

  

  !). Your host will know how much time to allot for you to check in and meet ... week!!! We are thrilled to meet and host you, Class of 2022! GET HYPE ... requests to help with events. We got our prefrosh hosting assignments, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  surreal - to be done, to pack, and to see my once-full room like this ... '14s, and to hear about prospective '15s, not to mention a few ambitious ... , but that doesn't do any justice to the individual ups and downs I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010