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• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for getting industry experience in a field that you know you want to pursue, but maybe have not gotten the chance to get your foot in the door through the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Second Semester Schedule + Thoughts A mind-dump of excellent quality

  

  ="MIT's Writing course/major"]21W[/annotation] classes are HARD to get into. In the ... even want a shot at getting into these classes”. Well, this was news to me! I was left scrambling at the last minute to try and get into a

  • by Powers '23
  • February 19, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an album a day the only new year's resolution i've ever completed

  

  in 2022, I challenged myself to listen to an album every day. I ... in grisly detail, are incredible books that I have no choice but to ... ambient time in the life of an MIT student you might wonder how I found

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  creative lockdown: low points of a virtual fall Part 2 of a fall semester recap

  

  joined clubs, went to events, partook in many things. But the activation ... quite hard and not allowing myself to rest. After our week-long break in ... school turned out to be the dagger in my side as I trudged on to the end of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • February 27, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  A man’s reach should exceed his grasp My roommate and I built a lofty heaven!

  

  floor and not the fifth). In this case, I actually did know how to do ... got too-short ones twice in a row). Ten minutes to figure out how we ... are central to the way MIT works. In the right environment (one

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 23, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory ... fortunate coincidence) so I was able to get the individual house presidents on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  a salmonella saga weekend outing tingz

  

  in Boston is a nightmare, so it took us over an hour to get to her ... few weekend trips to New York. these helped me realize how feasible ... , given how much work we have at ALL times. surprisingly, I was able to pull

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wonder ecclesiastes 1:9

  

  Arthur Highway. To get to school, I would take a jeepney up MacArthur to this ... a city, in contrast to the wide open fields and sparse buildings I saw ... to go to a museum. It was in BGC, which was maybe twelve or so

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 1: Classes My academic plans.

  

  classes within that department. The idea is to get some depth in a HASS field, and not just lots of breadth.) 3) It's time to explore my major in ... undergraduate has to have a "concentration" in one of the Humanities, Arts, or

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  , I finally receive it in the mail! Because I want to get these boards ... to learn how to fix them. Laying out the PCB Having learned how to use ... to lay out all of the components in a schematic. My main components

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  getting ready to go outside and play in the snow with Sarah when the 223 ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... stopped to watch (and take pictures) of the fun: Not sure how much fun this

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  the Big Rocks are calling and I must go MITOC winter school!!

  

  know everything about how to not die in the Big Rocks when it's really ... words again. But then I thought that I may never get to call "Big Rock ... Club runs Winter School every IAP to teach people how to enjoy winter

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • January 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  idea how to do, and living in an apartment, and and and. coming first ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra ... insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  awesome. In content, anyway. The author tends to ramble on a bit, and seems ... pretty much the same thing. But in the second example, "going to" isn't an ... affair with linguistics was born. The book discusses how language came to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  need to go back to get the card made in the card machine."]half a Harvard ... from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting always waiting

  

  decisions, to get an email back about a potential UROP, waiting for something ... my team can get back on the water again, and waiting to see if my ... "] Memes. Please put them in the comments section. Things To Do While You

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 12, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Not in our stars, but in ourselves Or in ourselves not to see our stars... or something.

  

  stairs once you get to the end of the hallway. Unfortunately, this concept ... jumping from side to side. To their credit, they did so quickly, but in ... it a year and a half ago, I knew that the best place to check it out

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  to dissolve the aromatic flavor compounds in my saliva, assumed to be a ... for $3 in 26-100, had invited the MIT Marching Band (MMB?) over to play ... perhaps the IRS. Sadly, I didn't get to watch a bunch of people send out an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2007 A final report from this year's awesome IAP puzzling solving funfest.

  

  came in to save the day, offering the teams the opportunity to get the ... videos on how to be really really evil in various fields, and all the ... get a chance to take part in next year's Hunt. I'm hopeful that the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Bavarian Rhapsody I'm just a poor boy, I go to MIT.

  

  something that you see every day in Bavaria. Am I allowed to say transvestite in a blog? Anyway, it's good to see fans getting along. The motto of ... almost had to change into liederhosen in 45 seconds, but somebody with a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 29, 2006