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• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Period, but I think "It's Awesome Pterodactyl" is much more descriptive), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... having it's annual "Winter School". Winter School is a series of lectures

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... before, so it was cool to walk around and see everything eerily shut down ... FUTURE for a moment, and take time to get back your energy, hold the reset

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to ... perfectly honest, it depends exactly what you mean by "not up to par," which ... around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  1 Week of Meals for $8: How-To’s and Tricks Tackling Food Insecurity

  

  between classes and everything else, it is a challenging skill to go buy ... cheap! Make sure to use the freezer- it is your best friend. I do this ... Support and Equality) Food Insecurity Group creating ways to tackle it

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • May 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... to see it in its final season. I also was too shy to go up to say hi to ... because I think it's stuff that everyone needs to hear. Please note a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mormons and video gamers Bonding with strangers

  

  to Washington, D.C. Very groggy, I sat down and made it through two ... ?? Where is it? Neighbor: Under the TV. Me: Really? Okay. I didn't see it ... nine years, and that those nine years have been enough to see its

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  you want and it’s going to feel so good. Imagine me sending good luck ... Singapore (It’s amazing how we managed to meet at another city half way around ... sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thanksgiving and a Small Hack Quick updates from tropical Boston

  

  has been executed before, but it is no less impressive to perform it ... responsible, but it was executed perfectly and was a great way to end the last ... conversation were all equally fabulous, and it felt great to have an excuse to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 27, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: The Story So Far An update from the frontlines.

  

  energy on campus right now is absolutely amazing. The Infinite Coordidor is ... it matters. Abi then ran off to the Whitehead Institute to take a tour ... Hippocratic Oath to black-market organ harvesting - yes, it's very intense

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  years at MIT, I was sure of it. I just needed to learn Linux first ... would consume my energy, combine my interests, and grow to be something ... language) to create your job is heaven. Business meetings, marketing strategy

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  UROPs. How hard is it to get a UROP in physics? Since it's more ... -shirts to the crowd. It was a great game -- the last one I'll ever cheer for ... going so far as to buy me a poofy pink ski jacket ("There. Now you look

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Ben Jones Name: Ben Jones; Job title: Communications Dude, MIT Office of Admissions; Hometown: Baltimore, MD

  

  favorite things about MIT is hacking, but it's been quite some time since we ... energy and passion. Favorite movies: To Kill A Mockingbird, American Beauty ... a human connection to an application, it makes them search even harder

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  turning back time now your clock can follow the right hand rule!

  

  , right? I immediately decided it was too difficult a task to actually ... (and broke and superglued one shoe) to buy the clock from [annotation ... direction. We hung it up in the main lounge for the world to see, and a few

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / Events

  It’s not every day… lunch with a celebrity

  

  it is that TWO bloggers were invited to have lunch with her. ~10 ... 'm really grateful that the president of MIT is taking time out of her day to ... ...that you get invited to have lunch with the president of MIT

  • by Bryan
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  Something I learned very quickly when I first got to MIT is that our ... whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one ... Management, it would be a [annotation note="Which is about the length of 12

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... .   the question— what is it about you that’s so impermanent ... ; you carry so much hurt that it's hard to talk about. you keep circling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Island Paradise That's where I live. No, seriously.

  

  " is going to have to be added to the list, because I am seriously good ... special to it, I painted, bought a floor lamp, and threw up a good number of posters. I did really like the color I picked, but it turned out to be a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 10, 2008
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  complain about not having opportunities or resources to do whatever it is ... free time (and maybe that’s why you clicked on this article)~ And it is ... Addis Ababa, where Gedion lives. It is also where my grandmother (who is

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  to accomplish (eg. it’s probably not worth it to buy a bunch of fish ... highest to lowest pitch). we use musescore to arrange songs; it’s a free ... the process of taking a song and trying to recover its original

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  , we opted to buy a bottle of water, which somehow cost $4. A Dunkin ... her family that she's coming, and is excited to surprise them. We ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014