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• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test ... multiple choice questions in the realms of biology, chemistry, organic ... colleges - but MIT's is very unique!), is one of the many reasons why I love

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it happened that these were the shoes I bought. As I enjoyed the feeling of near-zero friction against the floor tiles, it became pretty clear that the bottom of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane ... less than 8 vectors to break down, the use of double-angle formulas, and ... joking.) Thankfully, the point of all that was to introduce the concept of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  Today marks the beginning of the glorious month known as IAP, which ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball which is considered to be one of the most difficult hand-eye coordination

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• FAQ / Transfer

  Can I apply if I’ve completed more than 2.5 years of college?

  Students who at the time of entry to MIT will have completed more than two and a half years (i.e., five terms) of college may not be eligible because of our residency requirements. If you have been enrolled in
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  that they'd had enough of seeing so many other floors' entries in the ... for an entire weekend, flooded the field, and won most of the prize ... floor actually has an Apple Bake Chair. While a lot of people on the other

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Want To Play Music @ MIT? (informally, that is.)

  

  , and many of my friends played instruments in the orchestra and in various ensembles, as I imagine many of you will. Some of the best musical moments, however, were those found in the less formal, impromptu picking-up-of

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  how do i button up this coat? a clothing conundrum

  

  -opposite-gender thing, because, again: deeply unpopular. The effort was a lot of fun, but ... that I didn't think of the pun myself. Anyways, so a week ago, we went ... be buttoned to the buttons on their own side of the coat (folding the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • March 29, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  not the subject of this blog entry, but if you do need advice about ... to make a shortlist of the changes that I made or had to make when ... that I was not looking forward to, but one of the biggest aspects of

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Time Difference Written at 36,781 feet over Des Moines.

  

  the takeoff time? You just turned 18, so you don't get any of the fun ... of people and feel slightly less unnerved, but can't properly see the ... you get on the plane (through a gate next to the line of people that was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Taylor Pons from the First-Gen Program #FirstGenPride

  One of the coolest parts of my job is that I actually get to spend a lot of time outside of the Office of Admissions (or currently, on Zoom ... ’s a guest post from one of those awesome people who make the MIT

  • by DJ Rock
  • April 14, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... not grin at that! It really made the rest of the walk great (despite the ... group of about 10 cats, lounging by the start of the path. This was

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  demoed my final project before the last day of classes, with my two final ... some ways, the end of this semester has been bittersweet. I have 3 ... outside of the omg-finals-are-coming campus bubble. We walked into the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Beta CPW laser mazes and deep frying

  

  deep fried Bertucci’s Pizza? We will have a selection of the finest local ... of our brothers designed all the circuits from the ground up, and got ... that he offered to share:       Hope to see you both -- and the rest of

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 16, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LIGHTS. pretty pretty

  

  students, researchers from the Department of Architecture, Urban Planning ... installations showcasing the result of MIT’s technological prowess meshed with the ... flood of celebrations - all to commemorate MIT’s 150th year. These

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 10, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Videos and photos and more Lots of cool coverage of MIT stuff from sites, blogs, and vlogs across the web.

  

  Lots of fun stuff to check out! Peter Houk, director of the MIT ... ): Check out (also: 1, 2) the annual parade of elephants, which delighted folks across campus this past Thursday (I, of course, missed it for the 11

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dear Mom, Vol. 1 If I told you my life was a circus, would you believe me?

  

  share with you today's email. It is very reminiscient of the letters I would write back in the days of old at WJ Bryan. To: [email protected] From ... some of these people are supposed to be in class right now, but the

  • by Bryan
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Splash 2018 Learn about anything and everything!

  

  teaching high schoolers about any topic they want. To give you a sense of the ... , the class is about making games using a framework called Love. One of ... programming course, so no real experience is required! One of the reasons I

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art-related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the ... the parental units for feeding this creative money-sucker habit of art

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  This was the title of an email I sent to Neha '10 a couple of weeks ago containing, well, pictures of an Amtrak station in the middle o ... moved and where I spent the first week of the new year. As we drove over a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007