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• Blog / IAP

  firsts of first year 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1…

  

  firsts. Here are some that I remembered, in roughly chronological order ... ']Learned how to use a hair stick[/annotation] Got stuck in a slinky Embarked ... As we’re approaching the first of 2024, I’ve been thinking about

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  ! how exciting). Adam and I went out to dinner, shopped on Newbury Street ... donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... conditioners for the new apartment. Now ask me how much I've studied for my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  I'm not so reliant on them. I gave up shaving for IAP and now I can go ... into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Caine’s Arcade on making your dreams

  

  its star. I will, however, say that the Caine's Arcade website is ... interested in seeing what Caine can do with an engineering degree. ... and all sorts of different games, rummaging for raw materials in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 11, 2012
• Blog / Advice

  On Trauma, and MIT I’m imagining my high school self, and what I would tell her before coming to…

  

  ’t feel anything while editing and sometimes I can only get through it in 15 ... . I have been in many workshops about how to support friends rather than ... resources as well, but I can’t speak on how they work as I haven’t personally

  • by ana~
  • May 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

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

  

  This semester I’ve lived in an apartment with three roommates: one omnivore, one vegetarian, and one vegan. I decided on the day we moved in that I would try out vegetarianism, just to see how it went. It wasn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... laptop, it lets me do what I'm doing now (type a blog entry in the floor

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I read the news today Oh boy! I hope that you're as excited as I am.

  

  beautiful mathematical problem of the millenium in 2003. One of my friends ... Hypothesis if it is actually false." Last year I wrote an entry on a one-question examination that could be used in lieu of an application to admit people to MIT

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 23, 2006
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  website. This blogpost is the story of how I wrote that website. Play on it ... git history: As you can see, I started this project in early March ... , but in the end I'm happy with how it came out. I rewrote the chess

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  websites I find are pretty complicated. I think about how that can be fixed ... disruptive, and I don't know how to keep 100 kids in line. They might find ... astronomy class; she wants to know if I can teach him about radio astronomy in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when ... way that mankind buys food from the back of a truck. I assert that only

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  things that made me happy lately from the first week of classes

  

  me. I think this shows in what I like to write about, too: how things ... layer of masking tape. When I come home from classes I linger in the ... love for soy milk. It’s sort of how I imagined my freshman year would go

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 20, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  else you can do with a microplane? Buy fresh parmesan, like in real ... one of these for a long time. I’m sure you can imagine how hard pouring ... ’t claim to be a food safety expert, but I can claim to know how to have

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  , tablets cost WAY more than $150! "How's the battery life?" I can go all day ... enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day ... one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  't represent ALL of Baker, but I can't imagine many dorms other than Baker coming ... Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or ... shirts to any location.I would appreciate if you mentioned this in your ... your MIT reply form with an affirmative response, check in here in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Heartbreaking Lunch of Staggering Genius I'll write about campus dining some other day.

  

  -Georges again for the first time ever. (If this is in fact how I phrased it, Jess ... sprouted like a mushroom in my lung. “Dangit Jess, we're getting old.” You ... inflection. Jess disagreed, unbitingly. I can't blame her much; Jess and I have

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • July 30, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  moments where i ask how can it be home when it so obviously, clearly, is not ... "]IAP[/annotation], i began to cook™ for myself often. i would buy weekly groceries, make ... , i slowly made an active effort to make the place i lived in, mine

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022