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• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  A couple of days ago, I was working on an entry talking about all the ... during the first week of MIT's Independent Activities Period. On Monday ... I'm working on identifying the genetic basis of various tuberculosis

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Complementary Post Canvas, balance, lanterns.

  

  the first session of the oil painting class I'm taking this semester, and sat by the Charles River with a group of forty-odd students for a ... doesn't really count. Wednesday marked a year since the death of an MIT

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  aware of all the different sounds in the laboratory at any given time. Kind of like how people who live by waterfalls don't hear the water ... one of the 8 TVs there showing me how to make the soup. She served it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Strike! Strike! Strike! I. H. T. F. P.

  

  of that quiz than any test I'd ever taken. I spotted the admissions ... things, so once I got the paper portion of Course 2 out of the way I'd be ... because I don't really count the liveblog yesterday as an entry so much as a

  • by Snively '11
  • March 29, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT What?!? The Long and Illustrious History of the MITMB, as far as Kim knows.

  

  of both the marching band and the modern football team. Looking through ... /kimfad/Public/rightsize/MarchingBand/newspaperarticle.pdf">fascinating piece of history</a> from 1978, we see on page 12 that "the band ... ;p>One of the band members out there was Doug Pape '81, also the trumpet

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  It’s something unpredictable, but in the end it’s right

  

  the idea of an engineering school, and unsure what I wanted to major in ... -on stuff, outside of a lab, was scary), or any math beyond the General ... toward the goal of getting into a top school, and it's been portrayed to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 7, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... . Full disclosure, I didn’t get admitted into any of the schools I applied ... ’ve faced”: Failing the last competitive math test of my career (to be fair

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Circles, circles, circles week to week to week

  

  be true, who knows? It's different without the infrastructure of being in college though, when there's a huge event in the beginning of the ... Content warning: depression, suicidal ideation. The other day my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2023
• Blog / Hacks

  C-Sail Jack Florey really went Captain Jack on this one.

  

  This might look like a regular old picture of the Stata Center on a ... ...a C-Sail... It's a C-Sail on CSAIL! (For those of you who still don't get it: the Stata Center houses the Computer Science and Artificial

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I Haven’t Been Blogging I, uh, don't really have an excuse

  

  Behold, the first sentences of four different unfinished summer blog ... outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it ... windowsill of the Internet for the world to see.   That's what I usually

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  my day in pictures

  

  sounds some sirens if you leave the "doors" of the "car" open too long ... : ...still in lab       it's been one of those days. we have ... started off the semester with basic stuff, like incrementing a number when

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 13, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  ’ve come into a fuller realization of how interconnected Rome is. The first ... ago, I discovered that all five of the other buses that stop at my bus ... be applied to. I think that’s one of the greatest strengths of

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Too Good to Just Tweet About Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT)...

  

  Hello blogosphere! Yes, I'm still alive and tweeting (@MikeyMIT). The ... . Just saw this article/video on CNN of Prof. Cynthia Breazeal, who works at the Media Lab here at MIT. She gave a talk at the TEDWomen

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Intermission Summer job: just kickin' it. And working at Pixar, too.

  

  ! Lots of good stuff coming your way from the studio - at the end of this ... pronounce as "Ra-to-lee" even though the logo has the built-in pronounciation

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 7, 2007
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How many students play sports at MIT?

  ! Students interested in playing varsity sports should contact the coach of ... With 33 varsity sports teams, MIT is the largest DIII athletics program in the nation. About one in four MIT students join a team during
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Week in the Life: Optimism Edition In which I have a particularly tough, enriching week.

  

  (Fundamentals of Energy in Buildings) that morning. After the review I had but ... on time Tuesday morning, so I can't tell you about the tour of Boston ... -deprived. Thanks to poor time management the previous days, I spent most of the rest

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 18, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  I Lived, I Learned, I Got Burnt not necessarily in that order

  

  couple of months. The Afeefah that sprinted across campus in March 2020 is ... writing this post in the middle of the night - vitamin string quartet ... putting things into words seemed insurmountable. Part of the fear comes from

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 26, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Alia Burton ‘05 Name: Alia Burton; Job title: Admissions Counselor; Hometown: Philadelphia, PA

  

  things about Boston: Museum of Fine Arts; the T (subway) is cheap and clean ... , Class of 2005, Course 1 (Civil Engineering) Favorite things about MIT: interesting and brilliant people; students of every major can take nearly any

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 28, 2005
• FAQ / First-year application

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• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  multiple times a day. It started out with small jogs to the museum of science ... esplanade on the northern edge of Boston along the Charles River. It ... spent a couple of hours in the morning waiting to be seen by the doctor

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015