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  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  . I learned the charming way to “dab” (not wipe) my mouth. I learned the charming way to flirt. It turns out that my nerdy pick up lines ... outside world as they are at MIT. I learned the charming way to shake

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  It's been 13 days since the school year began, and already, many of us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... really good about it. Until one of my Erlenmeyer flasks decided to jump out

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT ... your chances of getting to meet me and Mitra! You could see such amazing ... understood about six words, and then corrected my answer to the last question

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  . No, really. To all of the recently admitted, and any other hopefuls who ... remember if the log of the pressures was related to the ideal gas constant or ... of the year when life explodes in your face. Currently, I am in one of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Winter/Summer/Where I’m From

  

  drive from town to town up and between the hills and see dozens of ... I grew up, from 13 to 18, and where I spend most of my IAPs and long ... melts during the day except in the shadow of the house. I call my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • May 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  100 atm? Then you ought to meet us in the lobby of Building 66 at 2 ... . But you can meet the rest of us any time next year after you COME TO MIT ... one of the 170 student groups trying to recruit you for next year, come

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  with the life of the Admissions Counselor at MIT, here it is: We get applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... I need to post something. The blogs have been dormant for a few days

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Trendy Reif Strikes Again this time with the ALS bucket challenge.

  

  the back of every school event while silently staring at everyone with ... and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the university president. My favorite example of such continues to be MIT President

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 26, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Keep in mind I try to be helpful sometimes.

  

  , back when I was in the thick of it. Now, my role as a blogger, is to ... . However, over the years, I've heard a lot of advice and have even given some ... the time and see printed in a bunch of books, but there are two bits of

  • by Snively '11
  • July 16, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and ... kidding. My research deals with the characterization of a novel gene in the aging pathway of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (a roundworm that is

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  until the coin is found, usually sometime Sunday. To give you a flavor of ... Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities ... competition at MIT where people team up to solve lots of puzzles (which lead to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  THAT’S RIGHT! AP scores and computing at MIT, these are a few of my favorite things...

  

  to open for cancelled, so all the guards ran around the waterpark going ... ...haha) I came home to find the envelope waiting for me in the front hallway. My dad asked why I was excited to see the mail and I said, "Oh well I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Take Your Blog to School Day Vol. 1 Standing waves and FIRE!

  

  about some of the measurement and instrumentation tools that mechanical ... have a 40 page paper to write, but such is life. The class is also an ... So today we're going to take a little trip to 3-370 for some

  • by Bryan
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  danger!awesome firin' mah lazers...at basically any(every)thing

  

  Serious Business LLC and MIT squash coach. The premise of danger!awesome is ... , metal, and wood. Of course, it is not necessarily limited to these ... walked in to danger!awesome, here are the other people who were there

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 27, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Classy celebration, 5E-style

  

  impossible to get a flash photo of me with my eyes open. This was the fourth ... discuss our respective plans for the Institvte. So I went to the Garment ... Newbury Street could fit on the palm of my hand. So I puzzled for a while

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  test out of it, you have to do all the problem sets for the class on your ... but think of the time in high school that my friend Allison was giving blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Cacti and Ice Cream

  

  get to browse some of the 1100+ projects, followed by the big lunch ... with some of the MIT Class of 2009 folks who are here for ISEF: From ... their project titles: Use of Homology Modeling and Molecular Docking to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for the majority of my college experience, so it'll take some adjusting to ... in the midst of a lot of relationship-related conflict to be reminded

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  loft to block out the rest of the world and a touch lamp shining into the ... , and only if I had time to pick it out in the morning. At the start of ... walls of the box, exposing space for you to put things inside. If you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  team in the middle of Colorado. Prior to crew, I never thought I could ... members of the US National and Olympic teams did not learn to row until they ... alarm go off at 6am. A lot of people seem to think I’m crazy for waking up

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010