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• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  few days off from school so we can finally meet and spend some time ... carbon nanotube complexes for solar energy conversion-synthetic analogs to ... sheller (this device can shell peanuts, shea nuts, coffee in large

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  72 Hours Three days can be a long time.

  

  energy balances, thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, heat and mass transfer ... -nighters in a row. 72 hours straight. Three days can be a long time. Before you ... . We need your help." "Huh?" *wipes drool off face* "We can't figure this

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • November 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  support your big ideas can become reality. On a side note, thanks to ... the Glamour competition during your junior year. You can find the ... screenplay for “Freaky Friday”). The musical was so full of energy and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  and you control two of them. You really can have a great deal of ... myself and brought energy and enthusiasm to any college, I knew I could be ... . I had the control over where I ultimately enrolled. I hope you can

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday vacation An atypical (but more entertaining than average) day in the life

  

  kind of can't move my head. This makes sitting at my computer slightly ... learned about Gibbs free energy for an hour. There were a lot of partial ... -- therefore, hour classes can't start until 9 AM. Doesn't that make you happy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  riverrun, past Eve and Adam’s "Do we start and end at the same place on the river?"

  

  because you can't take pictures in the dark or on a whitewater raft. You ... , and I, uh, saw an ostrich. Well, uh, I also tried to solve the energy ... New England highway history, the likes of which can't usually be found

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  H, buffer concentration, and residence time to see if we can prevent the ... our defective sand bath back to New Jersey. You can read all about it ... geothermal energy. No, actually, I have no idea why he keeps this in lab. But

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  the Bollywood movie Veer-Zaara. I love the energy of opening night film ... can really focus on your application. Most of the people in our office ... check out this beautiful campus in downtown Montreal? And you can practice

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Sweet summer song

  

  , can generalize and figure out the value of new inputs, ie predict f ... 's communication, localizing the key ways people can help you and how to give them the information so that this can happen searching across the

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • October 19, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  if forever is something you can even conceptualize.   ...   ... change the subject before anyone can dig deeper.) maybe it's silly, but ... because you can't go home because your parents are both overseas now and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  "]--[/annotation] High school was hard for me. I poured a lot of energy into things I didn ... The innocent can never last Wake me up when September ends [annotation ... can't ever be sure.   And now my fur has turned to skin And I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  playlists can come to define, and bring back memories of, semesters that are ... lot. (You can call my parents if you want to fact-check me, but be ready ... 't have time or energy to cook): pasta, red sauce, hot dog. While piloting

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  also contributed by pouring literally so much emotional energy into making two custom Discord bots. The first one can be summoned into a voice ... -person workshops into online workshops that we can run on Zoom. We're also trying to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  by three dimensions: a) feelings of energy depletion or exhaustion; b ... when your body is injured or exhausted, because it hurts and it can’t do things it usually can. When I went to the gym this morning and couldn

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to ... times so students can come in after their full-time commitments. 42 is a ... project maps. After taking base courses, students at 42 can branch out to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  just a cursory glance at these papers I'm using to orient myself, I can ... you can microwave. If I wanted to be thriftier, well, I could either ... pour more energy into cooking things more complicated than ramen or Pop

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Making Tracks

  

  is no conceivable way any incoming freshman can know or expect what the ... to be viewed as a successful scholar, you first must prove you can ... invigorating energy of new college students captivate even the most hardened

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  —where I can lay them to rest without feeling like they’re gone from my life ... , or another kind of art, can be really personal"]humanity added to it.[/annotation] It’s helped me edit, and in turn, write better, since I can more

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  Shape program. As a student—at MIT or anywhere else—it can be easy to lose ... , acting according to your values, and letting your energy inspire others ... else. Being a leader can be holding the weight of struggle and

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Skating or School? Why not both?

  

  -to-plausible possibility that I wouldn't have the time, energy, or resources to continue to ... with the school calendar. I have to be as ruthless and efficient as I can ... own. But every night I collapse in bed, sleep as much as I can, and wake

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 21, 2017