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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  'm not keeping busy, but I can't relax either, and I sometimes find myself ... many non-credit classes you can take during IAP: it's taught by two MIT ... 'm less busy now, I can fill my free time with stuff that engages my brain

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

  4 / Just *breathe* Everything is going to be all right

  

  up with M I T. Seems like no one can truly escape the firehose, no ... breaks, where I can catch up on my life, focus on myself, take a moment to ... work. To kick off Thanksgiving week, I had all-you-can-eat shabu

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 2, 2018
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  activities MIT is offering this year. I obviously can’t speak much about events other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus ... and click “Filter by dorm” “East Campus”, then you can scroll through

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on wryping styles wryping = writing + typing

  

  default typing styles for as long as i can remember has been more like 'slim ... going from moment to moment, deadline to deadline that you can't really be ... all, which i can respect. if capital letters do exist, it's because they

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to decide, when you’re deciding a pretext for productive procrastination

  

  figuring out an answer to “how hard can I work, and what am I working towards ... your dreams and geeking out and figuring out how exactly you can make the ... want to hold onto these memories as you grow up. Because growing up can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 1, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  nights that turned into early mornings. It marks two.. whole… years… I can ... location is also next to the garbage cans and trash shoot, and behind the ... right: Nia M. '20, me, Katherine C. '19, Karen C. '20 Can we take a moment

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have ... #dormlife that I now can answer (my biggest question was/still is “Should I be ... , there’s a Tech Shuttle that you can take around campus when it’s freezing

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... can't really see us. But that's ok, the view's prettier anyway :) We ... ” positioned throughout the city. You can unlock a bike by using a special key or

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Maseeh Dining Yamatos - all you can eat sushi!! Domino’s at 2AM When ... bed after a long and completely exhausting day, knowing i can get enough ... Decide my major and not switch lol find myself a husband who can cook and

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  can’t emphasize that enough!! Another comment I’d like to make is about ... feel like Things Fall Apart really reflects that. As much as you can see ... or finish, I hope you’ll find time to read this summer! It can be on

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  like CMS/STS are rarely offered at high schools. So this list can help ... at MIT, you can also browse the subject listings or departmental course listings. For a visual tour-de-SHASS, you can also stare at this gorgeous

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  glass on can be hollow, and have mouthpieces on the end. The instructors ... you should be able to see what I’m talking about. (If you can't see it ... than my first class, I can definitely say that try #2 was a success

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  ; Fast forward to today, and I can point to every misconception in the ... , refined loquacity is your style of writing, you can save the fancy words for ... essays? The trick is that there isn't a trick to it. I can tell you what

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  presented themselves to both black minds and not: "I am not black, can I ... Vincent. These are the small subtleties that no one but a black person can ... I will do everything I can to fight for equality for my race. So next

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  1st Year at MIT Everything there is to know about my first year here

  

  (Hopefully I can write a blog about it sometime soon). Either way, in joining ... campus I can definitely do a blog post on that too! When it comes to just ... is something you want some more of I can definitely try to add it, and

  • by Ben O. '19
  • May 28, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  me anything, it’s that everything can be a verb), since there was a ... quality, and are working on other things I can’t speak about publicly right ... listen, and I actually kind of enjoyed it! I can't really describe how

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  outside of classes and want to make sure I can give my 100% to all of them ... for this long, so I hope I can make it four more months. I feel like I ... deserves its own blog post. But for now (~shameless plug~) you can follow my

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  November summary: books, playlist, gratitude

  

  friend who's at the gym waiting for me--well, I can't just not show up, can ... My mother ...keeps texting me emojis. I can't wait to see her

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  often very good quality. I think there are a lot of people who can do very ... they are. You can say this or that school is better in this or that department or this or that way, but you can never say this person is better or

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  design process and usability, not coding. Designing mobile apps can be ... ancient magic and modern stage illusion can inform cutting edge technology ... observations for 21W.789 due next week, and I can already feel the pressure

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015