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• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... super fun and the two guys running it are very good teachers -- I love

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  To all the prefrosh who are about to arrive / on their way here ... excited for the REX events we’re hosting for y’all this year. This year, our theme is “Wild Wild West” and we plan to deliver on this - come to the

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the parents' forum) where parents were discussing the pressure to load up on AP ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  The summer before you come to MIT, there’s a bunch of forms to fill ... !"]FPOP applications[/annotation], advisor forms… You thought the get ... culture. If you’re in the market for somewhere to be from, I give Hawaii a

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 in imperial college london. i spent a few days thinking about the decision, and talking to people, and declined in the end, because i "didn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  the Applicants who have emailed me, and it contains all the answers to your questions that I could know, some generalized for the public. If you ... want to keep any of you waiting longer than others (also the reason why

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... you've got the time.) What did prefrosh Laura think she'd major in ... ). Interesting. I got the major right, but probably on accident. Also, unless

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

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

  

  Hi world, it’s me!!! I haven’t been writing on the blogs much because ... in the future. That plus my involvement with MIT’s fall planning plus ... anyways.  I keep telling myself that if I push through the things I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I ... ’t have any free MIT wifi. But the biggest change for me is this: I am not ... . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunes of the All-Night Tool Just a little night music from me.

  

  a few of the top hits on my playlist right now. Some of these are old ... [/embed] Dragonforce: Through the Fire and the Flames Mokoma: Takatalvi (Liz '11

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 29, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  thought I would largely contribute in a behind-the-scenes way, as I do with ... the itch to write. And when Celena C '12 said that she was going to vlog, I got the even stronger itch to make a video. So, last night, I

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  Compared to the previous, this semester was less tumultuous, more of ... . It helped that I got an early start, having stayed in Boston during the ... have few complaints about how everything went, save the laments that come

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Setbacks head hurty

  

  the cool kids, and it's great because I get to customize my planner the way it fits me best. This is one of the pages I've made for myself ... enough from my dorm that I don't feel the magnetic attraction of my own bed

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 1, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  Be a Blogger 2023!

  

  up and check AirNow to see if more smoke is floating down through the ... of you who might want to be bloggers to share your garbage with the ... I posting the blogger app and prospective bloggers coming out of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  sets on my iPad though because that makes it easier to submit the pset on ... paid or earn credit for it."]UROPs[/annotation] from the Tangible Media Group @ MIT Media Lab, to the Reliable Autonomous Systems Lab @ MIT

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  girls just wanna have fun when u gonna live ur life right?

  

  less than 48 hours to my next 6.006 midterm, I sit here contemplating the ... . After a hard week of advocating for myself and my class and begging the 6 ... Blue, (which will now be referred to as RWRB) a romance novel about the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without ... inbox Look through AirBnB and save all the beautiful apartments in Hawaii ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  ... Whatever’s in the top ten of the U.S. News & World Report rankings ... the nonprofit I founded?? but maybe I should focus more on the research I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a gcal september never really used it until now

  

  classes. they're pretty much the only things i've been putting on my calendar for the past three years. light blue are things that are ... like going to the gym or running. as you can see... i need to work on

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 29, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  yeeting classes bye

  

  be doing instead of this class: reading The New Yorker talking about reading The New Yorker so everybody knows I'm an intellectual ... The New Yorker.[/annotation] taking pictures of black holes

  • by Rona W. '23
  • May 12, 2019