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• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Round 2 less shirts and more interviews.

  

  amassed a large collection of various colorful shirts and trinkets This ... because of two reasons: 1) Nearly everything from last year's Career Fair ... of coding experience, or maybe it was the bags full of swag that gave

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  Towards the beginning of the school year, my friend Rachel R. '16 ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• 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 looks of disapproval. Except they're not like that at all. They're vibrant and full of personality and they're breaking the stereotype of the

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

  My First Week as an EMT It was quite an experience

  

  out of bed and walking around, trying to force myself to fall asleep.  I have been having a lot of problems with sleeping lately, where it takes ... comfortable coming and knocking on my door.  Many of us Medlinks in East Campus

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Some virtuosos play $4 million violins, and some Trojan heros wear brass rats $4 million violins, not 4 million violins. Joshua Bell isn't *that* intense.

  

  From a combination of Being enrolled in a music class this ... Choir Thursday night, I destroyed both of my knees running three miles on ... stretching by spending most of Friday with my legs propped up on a giant

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 22, 2013
• Blog / Hacks

  Laser Graffiti I found something cool on the way home.

  

  of the windows were black. But this was on the side of the building: What? All 20 of us - 10 upperclassmen and 10 freshmen - froze. A laser ... projector, and a computer. One of our freshmen started shrieking "DRAW A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Postcard From The Green Building postmarked july 5th

  

  Yesterday I took photos from the top of the Green Building. MIT sprawled far below us, the lines of its normally inscrutable architecture recognizable for once as the Hacker's Map. Even Stata finally made visual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... Semester @ MIT | Infographics Well, good luck to all of us this spring

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  One More Look At Our Snow Globe Life with moving parts

  

  !!! (The state instituted a ban on cars from 4PM on 2/8) There is kind of a lot of snow now -- and the only vehicle is a plower. Nothin' to

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 10, 2013
• Blog / Events

  How do you convince MIT students to dress nicely? as with most things in life, the secret involves free food

  

  contains a grain of truth. It's a good thing that we've got something called Charm School, a series of classes during IAP that aims to help members of the MIT community practice better etiquette.  And one of the most

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 30, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Seemingly Stressful Survey The Tech publishes about stress at the institute

  

  one night a week in our office on the 4th floor of the student center ... that there’s stuff to go on the front page. It falls on the shoulders of ... -weekly (twice weekly) dose of news from reading our paper. Over the past month or

  • by Stanley G.
  • December 7, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ago, I discovered that all five of the other buses that stop at my bus ... of this: I’ve stepped out of my box. I tend to create patterns

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21W.021 – “MIT 150: Inside, Live” Comics!

  

  to the history, growth, and, most importantly, the culture of MIT. The ... artistic medium of comic making.  

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • March 30, 2012
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Waitlisted

  

  This year well over 18,000 students applied to MIT, the most in our history.  Because of the incredible size and strength of the applicant pool we were unable to offer admission to many, many incredible

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  't my grades, my afterschool activities, or other ways of bringing honor ... to watch important football games (read: all of them) during dinner. But come to think of it, the only thing lamer* than my parents' rule

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Invasion MIT! the long war of general jack

  

  As I walked up the steps to 77 Mass Ave this morning I was ready to plow through another day of committee. What I got was war.   ... from the sacrifices of my soldiers to brighten your day. May you win your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Like a G6 except for the wings, the engines, the flight controls…

  

  You may have heard of the MIT Flying Club, which I'm not actually ... taking advantage of opportunities I didn't have at home ^_^)  In any case ... THING."   Since I make regular practice of not crashing planes I fly, I

  • by Piper '13
  • September 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  . Just saw this article/video on CNN of Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, who works ... ... (that was my uber-clever way of saying "Happy Valentine's Day!")

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  For EA Deferred Students Answering questions for those who were deferred to Regular Action.

  

  applications we can during regular action, regardless of when the application was ... number of deferred students later admitted has been about 300 -- but who ... Report for your updates. Should I send in a whole new version of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 29, 2010