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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... dizzying number of activities to choose from. For example, I could

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Smashing pumpkins and other halloween treats Turning back time and dropping squash off of tall buildings

  

  by catching up on all of the work that you were supposed to have ... “committed to reducing stress and facilitating student social activities while ... skating rink. Students got to ice skate for free in their creative Halloween

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  When I grow up, I want to be Suzan-Lori Parks. Only, you know, not ... to win the Pulitzer Prize. She was also a recipient of the Mac ... 's always great to meet and talk with someone who is not only successful in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senior Week: Anjum Sharma A salute to one final senior.

  

  unexposed to otherwise. Favorite MIT Professor: Terry Heagney for 15.281 Managerial Communications because he was always willing to help us with things completely unrelated to his class and made himself incredibly available as a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Senior Week: Jonathan Lii A look at a senior from the Class of 2006.

  

  professor here. He is the coolest guy to talk to about ANYTHING. He has all ... . Going to him for one on one help really pulled me through 18.310. I feel ... event going and provides some of the most dedicated students to make the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: Really Random 19 pictures. Don't open on a dialup.

  

  , probably because I had to much work. Do you always wait for the longest day ... , apparently the residents were strapped for cash one day and decided to sell the ... going to use the money to build robots instead of buy beer, he threw in an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to America's Test Kitchen, the best possible ... blog. The reason being that costs me twenty-five cents to send these photos from my phone to my computer, and I'm a college student and just can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  for a few days), since my fam is hopping on a plane to LA early tomorrow ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT ... treats and a frosted star cookie, and got to speak to the entire group

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Play hard…and then work hard! There's no excuse not to have an AWESOME time this weekend!

  

  It's been a long week, but next week promises to be even longer. Classes end this Wednesday, then we have one day to study (most schools get ... . Volunteers meet outside of McCormick and travel to Lawrence, MA to work on

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  More About Reading ...based on your questions!

  

  (remember, we're professionals); newer readers might take 30-45 minutes to fully evaluate and summarize a folder. We're expected to read applications at least 4 full days each week (including weekends), in addition to the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You stay classy, Sam… TA, go! At MIT, I live in a basement and I don't get to watch Desperate Housewives.

  

  successfully bribed Ben to let me stick around as a blogger this semester, and since I've already had to break out the long pants and awesome jacket, the ... you think of a really good one, send it to me via comment or e

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Mari McQuaid Name: Mari McQuaid; Job title: Assistant Director of Admissions; Hometown: Verona, NJ

  

  Traveler Convention. Got to love the wonderfully hideous modern architecture on campus too! Just the general gestalt of the place is very cool--down-to ... things about Boston: Boston's nice, but to be honest I spend most of my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  . Compared to most people in the South, I certainly don't. But in my first ... I interact with who have known me long enough to know what I talk like, and therefore don't feel compelled to comment). I certainly use some

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... field is an exaggeration. Right now, I want to get a BME minor. I'm not a ... 'd like to go to grad school, but right now I'm not sure in exactly what

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  5n, n=1

  

  (ISEF). I got in yesterday, and last night I decided to take in the ... -from-behind win by the home team thanks to a Troy Glaus three-run home run. Yet I ... place, like everyone is excited to be there. There's nowhere else like it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Monkey Dance

  

  work at 6:50pm tonight and was in the mood to do something interesting ... to the third largest Cambodian community in the world behind Phnom Penh ... interesting (at least to me). In the film, all three teens were from low income

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  I don’t get to make much during the semester, except on slow weeks or ... also places to buy food around MIT and some useful non-food things to ... masher. Drain the sweet peas and add them to the sweet potatoes. 18. Slow

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Every class I’ve taken at MIT RANKED!

  

  [/annotation] I've ever taken at MIT! Feel free to scroll through and take a look at ... to have some semblance of structure, I loosely based my ranking off of ... ! (Also, I clearly couldn't bear to put anything in the F tier lol. That

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 26, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  what’s on my wall too many postcards, that's what

  

  of my room at home, to the point where I started stashing away cards for my dorm room walls well before I actually got accepted to college. Naturally, when I got to campus two weeks ago, one of my first priorities was

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • March 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  friend where she admitted to me that she really screwed up academically this semester, and she seemed to be pretty embarrassed about this. BUT ... ? So I went to bed, and the next day I woke up, and I was like: “Gasp

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021