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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Repainting the Smoots A Wacky MIT Tradition

  

  group of older men wearing Lambda Alpha Chi shirts. It’s time to continue ... ’s rewind 65 years ago to when it all began.  POV: it's 1958 In the fall of ... the trek across the Harvard bridge from their house to MIT. The pledge

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 27, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Beantown. sketchbook showcase!

  

  if I was going to go on some grand tour. I only ended up going to like ... a great time! [You can click on the pics below to enlarge them ... nothing else in it, so I decided to fill it up with things that I've seen

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  I went home for about two weeks before IAP started. I went to all the ... was back on a plane to Massachusetts for the beginning of IAP. People were always shocked I had to head back so early for what they presume is

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never ... single soul. Not one person. It is never like that in the fall. To make

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  love people. cook them. tasty food. meet pecker!

  

  , and it looks something like [annotation note="to prevent bonfire erasure, they're the other half of the fourth floor -- this video just happens to ... will probably aggressively try to make you dinner; we’re somewhat queer

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 27, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Take Care of Us asking for change

  

  I try my best to be as honest as possible on the blogs, while simultaneously trying to be kind to the institution that gives me the privilege of having such a wide platform to share my ideas on. Which is also why it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to fulfill all my Science GIR requirements! I'm honestly somewhat lukewarm to this class since it's a class I'm obligated to take rather than one I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  iap: this year vs. last

  

  , my dance team's annual performance. I'd go to class from 10 am to 1 pm, go back to my dorm for a couple of hours, and then spend my night running between dance studios on campus. I'd get back to the dorm at 10 or

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  “I’m vegetarian now!” Two months, twenty-four days, and goin’ strong

  

  that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn ... ’ve never been a sandwich person, so there was nowhere I had to consciously cut out meat.  I expected this vegetarian thing to last maybe a month

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  decisions, decisions why are there so many of them

  

  I like to think that people are defined by two things — the values ... -decent way of introducing myself to the world (and give a decent overview of the bajillion things I'm busy with these days) is to share some

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 9, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  what i’m doing this fall leadership tingz

  

  't be running from activity to activity anymore, but I do have a few ... 't have the chance to dance together anymore, but we still have a few things ... summer to prepare! Coming in, I had absolutely no idea how weird managing

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 2, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the ... to my head, blasting My Chemical Romance in-between every single class ...   To the things that other people say to me when they probably meant

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  A Year at MIT, by the Numbers quantifying my MIT experience

  

  had to leave MIT. I spent around 190 days at MIT. 185 of those days ... hours a week during IAP to prepare for our annual show...those hours stack ... "]REX[/annotation] events in my Google Calendar. I actually went to 4 of these; the rest were

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Subtle Art of Being Unhosed what i've learned and what i'm still working on

  

  on a bunch of applications for something that I’m not ready to announce ... my remote internship have kept me HOSED. Compared to past summers, I ... ’m working on now, I’ll eventually get to a point where I have the time to

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  end of semester reflections in conclusion, online school Ain't It

  

  would've churned this out in no time, but writing The Words turned out to ... paper in over a year, so it was nice to revisit the HASS part of me that craves to synthesize literature. Creating the paper and presentation was

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 15, 2020
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... Andorra in a few days, so you'll be able to see it in on TV! [caption id ... country? Yes! Well technically it's a principality, or according to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  One Month of Baby Steps my feet hurt

  

  me is saturated with newness. I’m still adjusting to making new friends ... phenomena (like my transition to college) into comfortingly simple sets of ... tallest bars and wonder, what could possibly have taken her 30,000 steps to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 26, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more ... Courseroad and Firehose have added so much value to current students ... to dormspam:  Hello, fellow kids --   As you may

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Our Room (formerly, THE Sal Khan’s Room) is Being Converted into WiFi! we made this post just for the title

  

  .100 (Intro to Comparative Media Studies). The professor handed out ... email got sent out to the both of us and to two others who live in a ... counterpart to our wing, Danger Third Rail). One of the two in the Safety Third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  11.125 educating myself on education

  

  , I want to spotlight a few of them because they are just. that. cool ... -centered classroom activities and student-led classes, to explore issues in schools and ... assessment.” What it boils down to is an analysis on the current state of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 26, 2018