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  An Experiment in Independence all by myself for IAP

  

  unlocked one of the other Zipcars so we could steal their ice scraper instead ... in California. We spent the rest of the day carting ourselves all over ... ) [good for packing with lunches. I grew up drinking one of these every day

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 5, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  stripped of our work, activities, friends, and most of the things that keep ... get ahead on work. And I'm one of the lucky ones - I'm at my parents ... exhausting place to live in at the moment, and the stress of even just looking

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  first Mocha Show performance was on Friday night, so a good portion of my ... enjoyed the show, even though they were a bit out of their element at a 10 ... blankets and napped. the rest of the day passed in a delightful bliss, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  , there is one clear trend: I hate being sick. I hate the idea of not being as productive as possible, I hate the idea of not being able to do ... taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cream Tea with the MIT Club of Great Britain Meeting MIT alumni in the UK

  

  The MIT Club of Great Britain invited us to cream tea recently. Here ... tea was when I went to this event. But the president of the club kindly ... doing very well. One of the alum in attendance is from Hong Kong and just

  • by Cambridge
  • April 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling grown up walking in adult clothing

  

  one of the prompts i answered, when i applied to be a blogger (and ... 's evening. on the weekends, most of the time i'm too tired to organize things ... the feeling of constant creation, of always writing or coding or doing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  . :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you are curious on a more in-depth treatment of the topic) Since I've been

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  We Treat You Nicely VOTE VOTE VOTE!

  

  the lap of luxury. This is good, because as a prefrosh, the next thing ... ): You'll say hi to the friendly receptionist and then sit down, in one of ... to see the hustle and bustle of MIT. Weekends are a special case, you

  • by Snively '11
  • November 13, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Multi-Day Weekend at MIT

  

  ! -- the applicant Class of 2010. As for me, I spent a good part of today ... Maine for a relaxing rest of the three day weekend. Mmm... lobster =) ... Now that CPW is over, things are a little less hectic around the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fantastic Course Numbers and Where to Find Them A List of Ways MIT is like Hogwarts

  

  Hello friends, it is near the end of term (*cries*) and so today, I ... /not good it was, did at least spark the pottermania once again :3) 1. The ... been released into the wilds of the internet...) 3. First Years are

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 30, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Things to Do in Cambridge and Somerville places and events, illustrated

  

  big city lights and into the "suburbs" of Cambridge (which is where MIT ... my friends. As a bonus, the keynote speaker was Ryan North, writer of ... River, is an "exuberant celebration of the arts." It happens yearly at the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 15, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Next House Thanksgiving 2016 (sort of a guest post) A (very late) recount of last Thursday’s celebration

  

  so hungry and then I wasn't hungry after I ate the good food" "Juicy ... Kyle S’16 (the organizer of the event) if he could talk a little bit ... dinner has happened for the past three years. A few of us who were not

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • December 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m supergirl and I’m here to save the world My day, being thought of as superhuman, and answering several questions.

  

  : 6:45 AM -- Arrive in Boston. I actually sort of slept on the plane ... :15 AM -- One of the girls I met at the UCLA weekend works at a ... somewhere in the neighborhood of $30, and I had already spent $30 at LAX last

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 25, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  power of a good walk. Step 3: Solder This is the step where you physically ... care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the ... electronics to the point of designing them, and that had been something I

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  ): The Evolution of Our Scientific Answers to Seven Fundamental Questions MIT is not the only school with Splashes. It does have the biggest ... just the ones I'm aware of.) We want Splash programs to learn from each

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  , because you get to see where all the creative energy of the student body ... the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company ... company looks like, and were introduced to many of the monetary and

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  really like a lot of the poems that came out of these. It was interesting ... have mixed feelings about my own writing in the moment, as one does, but when I look back over the stuff I wrote in Oct., I really like a lot of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A HASS[le-free] Semester Stay for the videos!

  

  under the "Social Science" category of HASS). Ironically, at the end of ... sets, as I love the freedom of expression and the absence of a "right ... colleges, but I also love the rigors of science, which I grew up with, and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 9, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2020–2021 application cycle

  

  our students, which they do. We regularly research the outcomes of MIT ... the predictive validity of our decisions with respect to subsequent ... accessible to everyone well in advance of the application deadline

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • July 13, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sketches from the Independent Activities Period Yultide Day 1

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... ." ___________________________________________ Prefrosh!!! We have Early Action adMITs now, and the circle of (admissions

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2018