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• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  this: I got a lot out of writing about my experience at MIT-- the ups and ... This IAP, I took part in a writing workshop at MIT known as Flipping ... ~5 minute (true and personal) story about challenge and resilience at

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  FIRST in 2007 and had the experience of a lifetime at the national ... Tonight's blog entry is brought to you by Cam, a resident of CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  constantly fluctuating sets of policies at MIT and beyond, such as the absurd ... in, even if you wish they'd pass. No, the hardest part of arriving at ... , about the mission of care that the students at this school have for each

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Fall this time, with more zoom u!

  

  start off my first day of my sophomore year with 21G.703, Spanish 3, at 12 ... concept of "firefighting" within businesses, specifically looking at product ... because one of them is a 3 unit class, meaning it really doesn't take up

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled ... cheaper prices, at Shaw's (a supermarket off of Mass Ave), or at La Verde ... trained at the Hawthorne Institute of Martial Arts. During my time there, I

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  . Scrape off excess clay at the foot of your pot; use a needle or wire tool ... how big you can make your vessels. At the end of week 1, I ended up with ... . At the end of week 2, I had kept the following two bowls: [caption id

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  Convention, except that at the slightest hint of instability we throw out our ... job, exercise, drink 8 cups of water, consult your doctor, and resurrect ... semester, which means another dramatic housing lottery at Zeta Psi. Every

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2014! That...that's not a factorial

  

  that 2014 should open up with some sort of bang—performers at Times ... and not at all self-conscious ideas fell apart at the feet of the ... , it means: Meh, was a busy month; definitely first week of February. On

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Christmas: The Playlist and much music was had.

  

  school covered both of them at our first (only) Christmas concert way back ... But first I'm going to talk about the Toons. Some of you might recall that I'm in an a cappella group with a lot of really great people

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Kick . . . start

  

  release of the MIT Application at the end of summer.  I know during the ... Greetings and salutations! If I'm a good judge of time, and I like to ... many of you will do a fair amount of reading as well. Before I go too

  • by Snively '11
  • June 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Stomach Overrides All Priorities culinary procrastination

  

  with at least four pressing tasks, and the burning question of what to do ... If there's one thing I am utterly terrible at, it is prioritizing. My top priorities of the moment keep getting supplanted as more and more

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  read through at least 3,000 pages of material this break. if you think ... So, compared to my IAPs of years past which I spent studying abroad ... taking the monster of a test known as the Medical College Admissions Test

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  '13ers for the ceaseless rounds of free food that will be slung at them ... you out of corresponding introductory classes at MIT. A 5 on one of the ... around, but mostly useless. At the beginning of the year, MIT offers

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

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

  

  in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of shoes exhibiting the minimum amount of traction possible, and so it

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

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I ... of physics is trying to figure out which angle is which? I mean, you ... figure out the component of mg in the direction of the inclined plane

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

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  by the capital Greek letter omega. The inverse of resistance is ... -down letter omega. Yesterday I had one of those quintessential MIT moments. I was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Class Projects

  in which i blog again four-ish blogs in one

  

  published at the end of IAP, a blog on how I’m not graduating this year to be ... layout and graphic design of the zine. But at this point, the spring ... stillness of my apartment at the end of the night).          The best and

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • July 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Guide to CPW: Why It’s Special all the things that make CPW amazing

  

  . Prior to the visit, I was terrified of taking Biology at MIT. After CPW ... , let’s say College N. At CPW, I struggled to decide which of the many ... Professor Talent Show, but that would mean missing a game of mafia at Burton

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I never want to finish my P.E. requirement MIT PE might be the best thing that's happened in my whole (short) athletic history

  

  of the graduation requirements. Students at MIT are required to take ... to be good at broomball and everyone falls over constantly, which of ... PE classes in high school tend to follow one of two models. Either

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston ... much, then how can we say no? So seven of us met at the T stop in Kendall ... off of it and realize that there's more stuff that I can check off. (For

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006