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  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Spain. With their iconic rows of upside-down pigs legs hanging from the ... Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Samantha: The Automated Nerf Gun Turret a personal project by raymond t. '23

  

  . Essentially, MIT students get the month of January off to do whatever we please ... that went. Note: A lot of this information is taken directly from ... lot of torque due to its size. The Nerf Gun In order for this to work

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  Thursday a feeling: walked home in 24-degree weather after ... fear: spending my life like i am this month, in a bubble of people who ... overlooks a city but is not quite part of the city a thought: my capacity to

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  V&Q&A Video, Questions, and Answers

  

  you use, but at the end of the day you're arguing over degrees of ... wrote our responses so that you can get several points-of-view on the same ... the culture. From the hackers scaling buildings under cover of night to

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 3, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  dying to check that fateful webpage sometime in the middle of December ... 'll say my spiel anyways. Freshman fall is kind of a shitshow. In the course of a few weeks, you have to learn how to deal with classes (which

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  climbing. Of course, you can't hang out here forever, we've got spires to ... 'm reminded about the discovery of an entirely unacademic (and some would argue ... , in my home town of Pearland TX, the highest point of elevation is

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  two days prior to the start of CPW to visit family and such. One quick ... registration desk. I got a booklet of the several hundred events going on during ... decided to roam around the campus for an hour. Of course, I ended up in the

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Turning the Tide My thoughts on an important report

  

  Graduate School of Education released a report entitled “Turning the Tide ... 100 of my admissions colleagues at colleges around the country. I think ... have of students – and more important, by clarifying what we do not

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • June 20, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Why does my kid have to move again?”

  

  Before I get to the point of this entry, I'll answer a couple of ... guests are permitted in Institute Housing with the advance permission of all students of the room/suite in which the guest is staying. The host

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into ... had already put enormous amounts of time and effort. All the national ... of times, when you're not frantically trying to say a too-early goodbye

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  loved and accepted and celebrated. "The arc of the moral universe is ... the fiery shades of leaves in the trees covered the faintest clouds in ... : "Hey, This election means a lot to all of us. And right now, a lot of us

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  It's pre-finals week. Today is the last day of classes. Projects are due, one of my friends slept for one hour last night, I have to submit a ... sense of humor: 1) This article. 2) My bff Sam B. '14's post on my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  overlapping section- we should be best friends.  :) As of now, my existence can ... copious amounts of time to my drawing/sculpting/architecture classes and felt myself distancing from the sciences, but expanding in my range of

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Past, Present, and Future This all "began with a single blog by a student five years ago, at the…

  

  a single blog by a student five years ago, at the dawn of the Facebook era." Let me share with you an anecdotal history of blogging, what I ... -- MIT alums are cool HISTORY OF MIT BLOGGING I'll keep this short

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So I said to Einstein… ...think of a name for my new theory while I go talk to my relatives.

  

  .. "I think of MIT as a samurai school," said Jones. "It is preparing you for the highest work of advancing civilization. You have to find a way ... course of my job of turning turkeys into oil, there are long periods of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It’s snowing outside and the windows are cloudy with condensation. A couple of ... . After my PhD defense, I mailed the author a hard copy of my dissertation

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  universality. According to Anonymous Fourth Guy, "young people are terrified of ... hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... .05 (Quantum II) so that's kind of exciting. 17 minutes ago, Professor Moore was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  a sign of royalty, princesses drank water from clay vases and then ate the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... done with the parts that involve getting all the videos off of the video

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  questions! I'm happy to do answer questions, and most of the bloggers are on ... University, had this advice in his most recent entry: 1. Time for a self ... questions, and be honest with your answers: What kind of a school do I want to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  ! We got a lecture or two on the shape of the universe, and the Higgs ... : not personal growth and the importance of self-care, or how long one can ... of college coursework. So that's what I'm providing here: rough

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020