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  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  January at MIT can look like—I know I sure did :) Hi, I’m Heidi Z. ‘27, a ... intelligence)."]6 and 18[/annotation] at MIT! In high school, I loved browsing ... about how MIT students spent their days in classes, clubs, or hobbies, so

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  ? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do ... this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... questions that I'd ask: How diverse is a campus? What is the climate on

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What Do These Numbers Have in Common? 7, 8, 12, 17, 18.

  

  Taiwan (where it is wonderfully 80 degrees outside. I can envision the warm ... difficulty of 8.012, but after seeing the work in the first couple of weeks, I ... .01 is taught using the TEAL method, which I kind of explained in this

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 13, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Road I’m On Life's a lot to think about sometimes...

  

  now made it's way into my blog, like several other songs I can think of ... all the (hopefully) awesome entries I'll be putting up in the next few ... draws ever closer, I can't believe that it's already been a year since I

  • by Paul B. '11
  • April 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the (New) Bloggers! CONTENT COMING IN HOT

  

  filled with pipes (is that how it goes?). So, I studied architecture in a ... : 6 About: Hey guys! I’ve lived in exactly two places my ... school for me. Then, while visiting I saw how students were meshing their

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 10, 2015
• Blog / Advice

  a love letter to rice cookers and a recipe

  

  vegetable-haters, I hope this can be another recipe in your limited list of ... is proportional, but it should be. I can definitely see how it ... cooker?  In short, rice cookers are amazing. I hear their younger cousin

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 16, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  [/annotation] in the only way they know how: a group song. The last time FWACC happened, I was still a freshman, desperately trying to get on my feet. In ... be the standard spelling at MIT, although I can't really figure out why

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  These are the drones you’re looking for Aerospace engineers: what do they do in their free time?

  

  , majored in biology and brain and cognitive sciences, and I graduated in 2006 ... in developmental neurobiology at Children’s Hospital Boston. I’ve been living in Boston since I blundered onto MIT’s campus fresh out of Columbus

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 12, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  stuffed full in my brain. At this point, I had realized just how stressful ... , frustratingly, overwhelmed. “How can I help you sweetie,” the help desk man asked ... enough money in my wallet… “Please, is there anything I can do?” I asked

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i will meet zendaya even if it’s the death of me a wide-ranging rant written while feverish

  

  taste of death lodged in the back of my hot, sticky throat, I was ... to hunt down stumble upon Zendaya when I can barely speak, look like a blobfish, and can infect her. This sickness feels like a test. In a lot of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

   size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a ... : I love that I can describe this problem in a single sentence: I want ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  MIT Mini Maker Faire Celebrating STEAM and creativity

  

  written already, even by people at Make Magazine, and I’m not sure I can do ... physically building things. Even though I would love to learn how to construct ... other questions beyond what I showed in the video or was written in the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 11, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Grad school admissions My (limited) insight into the graduate admissions process.

  

  morning at 6:45 AM. (My postdoc at the lab told me I don't have to come in on Tuesday until after I've taken a nap. This may sound nice, but is in ... application and wants to get to know you in person. I'll be meeting this weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 20, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  the person you were, or who you think you were. You can admire things that your past self did, without having to do them again. You can admire ... chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Open-Ended Question Why I chose MIT ... twice

  

  So it's hard to imagine I just participated in my FIFTH CPW but yea ... meet everyone who got in and hear about their stories about how they ... in the classroom, that's not true. I think probably one of the biggest

  • by Bryan
  • April 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Night Vision Funny how "photo"graphy throws you into the dark

  

  -consuming -- I can’t actually think about nothing when i’m trying out specific techniques to make what I see in my head manifest on paper. It’s emotions ... going to the darkroom because it’s “therapeutic”. I can’t exactly disagree

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 8, 2013
• Blog / Personal Travel

  this ain’t (not) Texas yee, and I cannot stress this enough, haw

  

  "Howdy, how can I help?" I meekly smile at the word usage, and answer his ... . Fooooooood. I feel that most places can claim some sense of pride in their food ... with cowboy hats:   I step outside and breathe in the toasty

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • September 29, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Guest Post: Being Trans at MIT

  

  place where I'm comfortable. And now that I'm here, I can really feel how ... hobbies. I feel like I can grow more as a person." In an effort to make this ... welcoming place to work out what I was comfortable with and how I wanted to

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • April 16, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds and the Order of the Phoenix Answering the important questions of those still making their decision.

  

  in their freshman year and goes on to graduate. You can do it. And how ... as any to the students who are still undecided: How can we help you ... your lingering concerns? Etc. Anonymous asked, "How do I go about

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 25, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  Hottest ever CPW ouch global warming

  

  This chart first appeared in my CPW history post, but I wanted to republish it to show how absurd this CPW's weather will be. I updated the ... broken, but in the other direction, oops global warming. (And if you're

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2023