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

  

  than usual. I’m reigniting my IAP resolution to cook dinner for myself for every night in January. During the semester, I usually grab dinner ... ’ve always wondered what the GEL staff looks for in its students, so this will

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  , working in policy, science journalism, or even working for the government at ... mainly in the Green Building, the tallest building on campus, and our ... and I’m a senior in course 12 with a minor in biology. Within EAPS, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  wayfaring a pile of stuff that's happening

  

  achievement-focused. As Alyssa Keiko wrote for the Toast, in an essay I've seen ... best of the blogs. As they used to tell us in grad school, done is better ... theoretical devices! As Ian Bogost writes in Alien Phenomenology, Faced with

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 28, 2016
• Blog / Community Projects

  A Field Trip Every day brings something new.

  

  workshop in Building N51 and saw for myself everything that they do. Check ... that goes on here. Case in point: over the past year or so, I’ve been ... ’ve corresponded back and forth with a number of the student leaders in these groups

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My New Hobby…. It's Giga-cool.

  

  taking a crash course in conversational German in preparation for a trip I ... The other day my roommate and I decided that there was a flaw in the English language. I'd point out flaws in other langauges, but my mastery of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • April 4, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Floating On A Whim [by Katharine Chu '09, Guest Blogger] An art UROP carries a curious course 9-er all…

  

  interested in working on an floating sculpture by Marta Pan for an exhibition ... Philbrick, from my small apartment in LA and set up a time for a meet and greet. I met with Jane in her studio and immediately signed on for the

  • by ARTalk
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  CPW 2008: The Hack Edition What!? Already!?

  

  threat and are confused by the need for a chainsaw in a box. They will be ... students. While traveling down the hall in building 16 you will see something ... . . . why would there be a chainsaw in building 16? Sure, it's heavily

  • by Snively '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hip-Pop – Konnecting Souls Part of the MIT series "Hip-Pop in French: Contemporary Theater, Film, Dance, Comics and Graphic…

  

  . For this stop in Boston, during a lecture/demonstration, Franck II ... Technologies: A Talk and Demonstration Part of the series Hip-Pop in French ... , MIT Center for Bilingual/Bicultural Studies Wednesday, October 4 7pm

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 4, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  World Cup Finals

  

  A story from a few years ago: During the 1994 World Cup, I lived in ... , Roberto Baggio. (It was in no small part due to his braids, I'll admit.) My ... , I bought posters of him in Little Italy, NY, and even went to an

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  -filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a story for another day. For now, here are three excerpts from conversations in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2005 Economics Nobel MIT's intellectual monopoly over game theory knowledge continues. (~9 pictures)

  

  -affiliated economists who have won Nobel Prizes for breakthroughs in game theory ... , the 2005 Nobels in Economics were announced. Congrats to the two 2005 Nobel Laureates in Economics! -- and -- Robert J. Aumann and Thomas C

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Application season

  

  programs in cell biology and/or neuroscience for admission in fall 2006 ... Just thought I'd reiterate, for anyone who's applying to MIT this year (or next year, or in five years... whatever, I don't discriminate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  on all the rest and socialization. In record-setting news, I slept for ... woke up in time for the pharmaceuitcal company site visit. If I'd missed ... “tradition,” I miss (as in, yearn for) at least two of my fall classes: 9

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Spring Think Some spring break reflections and thoughts

  

  and rest in our dorms, hopefully with forays into Boston for food (I did ... connection with the nation--I’m just traveling, for once in my life. While ... MIT in Barcelona, Spain. Several friends and I planned this spring break

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 27, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  This is a summer of new things for Maggie Lloyd. I rented a car for ... rented my first apartment; I had to find furniture for said apartment; I have to rely on my kitchen for dinner, not a dining hall; I have to wake

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  wardrobes come new and exciting activities for MIT students to take part in ... grabbed a potato, cut in half, for the eyes, a carrot for the nose, a red ... reports that the snowman's head had indeed been removed and destroyed in a

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  teachers soon called my parents in for a conference, horrified that the new ... in trouble a second time for telling my teacher to go to hell when she ... for the evening. In fourth grade she signed me up for a free class at El

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Blogs ...for the price of one! (a.k.a. robots)

  

  .022. Check my previous blog posts for more on that; in short, I miserably ... experience for me; it brought out a quality in me that I hadn't had to call on ... You've all heard what most of the other bloggers are doing for IAP

  • by Cam T. '13
  • January 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  'll be in the area for a while. Hooray! So you'll all have to come to our ... some cans in it, and I politely asked, "Is the pop in there for everybody ... necessary nor sufficient for research), but not so common in engineering

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  Class of 2023 Wait List Decisions Released

  

  decisions for students who were on the wait list for the Class of 2023. If you ... for the last few days, since the May 1 deadline for admitted students to ... function of our yield rate, which is admissions industry term for the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 10, 2019