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• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home ... 's invaluable in many ways. For me, it was mostly that I had four pristine weeks ... as I possibly can before I become otherwise occupied with classes and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  help kiddos. I know how rough coding can be, especially when you ... because I have friends in this class and my professor is very helpful ... about AI. Monday - 9/13 Before Class I wake up at 9am in the beautiful

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Come on, let’s go food truckin’ Where to find some cheap, reasonably tasty, and sometimes even healthy eats on campus.

  

  sandwich "barbecue", but I called it Sloppy Joe in front of the Europeans to ... with onions, poured in two cans of tomatoes, dumped in half a bottle of ... can't find them in Germany). The general consensus was that it was

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  .  Welcome to the party. I fell out of my parents' nest in New Jersey and ... winged mechanical beast that brought me to a new world, and I rode in the ... ) the next day and over the course of a week, I worked in a group with two

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career ... (Mechanical Engineering with a concentration in Management Science). I found that I really enjoyed the classes I had in course 15 but the course 2

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Parting Remarks Part I: Leaving Marks reciprocal changes

  

  the financial aid award letter. In June 2019 I wrote a post about how I ... to its end. And I do not want to be just an entry in the registrar's records, a person who exists on paper but not in living people's lives. I

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  taking care in all forms

  

  i've been thinking, recently: in times of need, who takes care of me ... 're in right now. i have been ruminating on care, in all its forms, and it ... and face masks and indulging in a bit of luxury. "self-care is buying

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 22, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... career behind me, I wrote a reflection post after being out in the real ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  scootin’ and zoomin’ a transportation saga

  

  whiteboard care to dotted lines on blackboards (i can make circles in both ... only if] true" and "i can only count to 3" and "i haven't seen you in ... Way back in September, I had the difficult, difficult task of writing

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 18, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  memories at MIT, I can’t avoid thinking about moments walking down the ... the magic happen. It’s the place where I can graduate today and know ... learned in 2.009 that this is the place that makes us SUPER. I have no doubt

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  , because I got too hosed to finish it in March."]room.[/annotation] It’s late ... ."]9 am[/annotation] I’ll be in the basement workshop under the Infinite ... otherwise, in years. I was reminded of Phoenix ComicCon, where I’d bounce

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rambax MIT On Rambax, MIT's one and only Senegalese drumming ensemble. Also known as MIT's best Senegalese…

  

  your hand. Now combine it. See how much imaginary fun you're having? I ... badass. In fact, shortly before the concert I made this flyer advertising ... , though I can tell you it was the most fun I'd ever had playing sabar

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 6, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  times like these I need to know I'm not alone in how I am feeling. I was ... never ended. I can't say what happened, but it was unfortunate. And no ... them all away. I went to a new counselor in the morning who taught me

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  's How I Take Care of Myself at one of the most stressful colleges in the ... 're not in the best state of mind. Growth, where we learn how we can best ... of how far I've come. I remember the sleepless nights in high school

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  add that I'll buy Jonathan's description, and that it's amazing how much ... dispell with names, each student can be RFID tagged? I know he was mostly ... telling people my major in words instead of numbers, and I always say the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lace, Gourmet Candy and Dorothy an inside look into the most fabulous internship in san francisco

  

  black sesame powder.)   In any case, I can't believe there are only ... this IAP?" "Oh, you know. I'm working at a startup in San Francisco ... in New York to doing research in Hong Kong. Naturally I gravitated

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  stories. “Not every day” for me was a few weeks ago when I landed in this ... -shirts, glorious T-shirts: I may have exaggerated a bit in the title. In reality, I ... outfits that weren't in my suitcase when I got here. A chunk of a car

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  super great at theory in Mechanical Engineering, I can say I know CAD and ... since I got back from China. Today, in order to facilitate Better Blogging ... Blogs in order to throw a post up without much editing, but now that I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  A person can develop a cough. Simultaneously the coldest and hottest entry I've ever written.

  

  morning, I felt a faint red soreness on my uvula, which can only mean that I'm developing my traditional mid-winter cold. I have way too much to do in the ... sheer force of will. I originally wrote "shear force of will," as in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  Hey you! Yes, you, the one reading this sentence right now! How would ... -2013 Admissions Interns What role they play in the office Why they are interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012