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• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  degrees), after a week or so I found myself missing the little things about ... , working on personal projects, or just chillaxing), and here’s what I’ve been ... , lathe, bandsaw, etc.  Even if you already have these skills I recommend

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Given how depressing and sad the last few days were, I’ve resorted to ... the extent to which they're amenable to idling is very different. I don't really play games that much; I've had a Steam account with like five games

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  -and-white). I go shopping downtown a lot (and return a lot of the stuff I buy - it ... draw a bike, and although apparently I know nothing about how bikes look ... dragons, named Mushu and Crickey. I made another embroidered thing for a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Opening doors How being an MIT cheerleader can help you get a job.

  

  A few entries back, I was asked by amino21 how I got hooked up with ... freshman year. It's sort of another "how to do everything wrong" story... apparently I'm not very good at applying for stuff, a deficiency I am trying to

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  entered and became a finalist in. "Gee," I thought, "A blogging scholarship. Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Davidson Fellows scholarship program A great scholarship opportunity from the wonderful folks at the Davidson Institute for Talent Development.

  

  From reading your applications, I know that many of you would be very ... geometry." This is a great opportunity, I hope many of you will apply! For ... Institute website or Cogito.org.

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 1, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  to MIT, I think this would be one of the first choices. There were some ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early ... to catch my 10 AM train. A couple days before, I had arranged to travel

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  entire shelf. I would passionately recommend any of these titles to anyone ... less willing to wake up than I was in high school. Seriously, how did I ... myself, I found the old blog that I submitted as part of my blogger

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  swore I would try it out sooner rather than later. The idea of biking ... me through the fall. I would idly look at different routes, and ... would see from the route looked absolutely gorgeous. Plus, I had never

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Curiosity, Part 2 How your laptop screen works

  

  , etc. In my last blog post, I said that I would write up an explanation ... to your eye. Here's a visual example from this website (which I ... that if I look at the screen from below, I would also see cyan. But

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 21, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  what i’m doing this iap 2021 a busy busy house

  

  want to learn how to make pretty websites :^) More blogs coming soon ... Hi everyone! Apologies for being gone. I have a lot of blogs backlogged right now and I'm trying to rush through them. Here's what my house

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 10, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  space. I thought out loud about how these places are completely out of our ... Last weekend,  I went camping with my living community [annotation ... rain that sort of derailed our plans. I hadn't been camping since high

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  from the Boston side of the river as the humble brownstone I call my ... it out. Did you know blustery was a word? I didn't. I got an email ... time at the house, I've gotten the chance to catch up with my fraternity

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  of its attendees better off for MIT is what I would call "exposure ... hours a week, I never lost that boyish charm when it comes to the two and ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  -inducing conversations. I really remember being so overwhelmed by MIT, and how smart those kids were, and how much more they knew than I did about...well, basically ... process, which is how you all ended up with me.) So I wrote about the summer

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

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  I'm a group chat kind of person -- I really am bad at individual messaging and anything I find vaguely interesting, funny, entertaining, or controversial, I send to my group chat. Here are some of those things. December 1

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... You know, I have about a million awesome entries planned, and NO TIME ... totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• FAQ / First-year application

  Can I apply for first-year admission if I already have a degree?

  application website and admissions requirements.  
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes and Casting and Birthdays, oh my! What are "Things That Wake Me Up at 9am"?

  

  how the process would go he instructed us to pack casting sand into ... told us how the molten aluminum would behave, but rather than explaining ... rattle off mean. Here's a great explanation by a class of '13 about how the

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • November 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First Days in NYC

  

  imagine. (Not to mention my gas stove, which I don't know how to ignite. HELP!) Anyway, I'm externing at an economic consulting company, along ... Hi everyone. I'm writing this entry from NYC, where I have Internet

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2006