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• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  unreasonable amounts of time on something is a classic IAP move. In IAP mindset ... January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a deceptively bland name for what is in my opinion MIT's greatest invention. It is

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Boring Friday Night (guest post by Nina L. ‘19) Familiar inbetweens. Taking breaks. Things that aren't (all) sleep and studying.

  

  , “Like is this a thing that happens in real life?” The photos of stock ... into the semester, are exciting in smaller ways. The rest of this post is ... .004 lab and quiz to study for, a thing for my UROP I don’t know how to code

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 24, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Regional Meetings begin Texas, Puerto Rico, and Florida are first up.

  

  in the next 6 weeks. You can see if there is a session near you and ... other universities? How might you know whether or not MIT is a good match ... . This is also a good chance for students to meet their interviewer face

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  My Entirely Unexciting IAP see title

  

  reason for doing so, you see. In a little bit more than 48 hours, I will be ... chemistry, physics, and English in four and a half hours. (oh, and write two ... backpack across Europe in 4 weeks, which is what one of my friends is doing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  , the difference between Burlington and Boston is that in Boston the snow ... in the bottle on several occasions. Cambridge is more or less the ... winter. You have to know how to dress for the cold. A few simple rules

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  NSUW Coffee Chat Casual conversations with professors

  

  ) event Coffee Chat with Professors. NSUW is a sponsored group of the Sloan ... Business Schools. Dr. Aggarwal's expertise is in the areas of initial public ... and Journal of Portfolio Management. As a Fulbright Scholar in Brazil

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 30, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  Number Münchners Eaten by a Trogglus Nicoise.

  

  fun of me. So, in your opinion, what is the most important world news ... from Nice, but one of the Bahn stations in München is called Freiheit ... Nice was spend a night in our Pension Grillparzer-esque hostel, which

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 More MIT Students Become Rhodes Scholars ...but no bloggers this year.

  

  winner, Whitney-Johnson, is a senior in civil & environmental ... December, majoring in civil and environmental engineering. A Truman Scholar ... 2007. In 2005, Alia founded a nonprofit business, Emerge Global, which

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor accessibility Mentor, n. A trusted counselor or guide. Or perhaps a really famous biologist who lets…

  

  .60 recitation meets twice a week in a different classroom and is taught by a ... 4000 undergrads in 30 degree-granting programs, MIT is a small world. It ... as the grad students in my lab for probably a tenth of the salary

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 28, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  goodbye after so long and with so much love

  

  could. MIT has been a place where I fell down and did not know how I could ... today. I don't think this is true of MIT: I am not a fundamentally ... long ago. My own blogs are, to me, primarily a benchmark of how I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Ups and Downs Currently down.

  

  encountered. A frazzled post-doc in my lab today told me that science is all ... Not gonna lie, my happy-to-sad ratio is a little sad-heavy at the ... 's how I'm planning on approaching it anyway. In other news, I've fallen

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Regrade Request Analysis points, please?

  

  how every single point was accounted for. Regrade requests: If a ... state it, but in the instructions it says that "a short computation" can ... story is pretty different for each type of assignment, as shown in the

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  obvious, I love playing! Twice a week in Kresge Auditorium, however, I also get one more unexpected thing out of being in MITWE, and that is ... piece, you have a sheet of paper in front of you in black and white. You

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hometown Heroes The first of articles about awesome MIT '09s.

  

  responsibility," he says, "especially like in my family in Georgia. My mom is a ... 'll highlight it in a future entry! A little background: back in the summer of ... , the old series about the now rising juniors is worth a read. Back to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Electrophoresis Boogaloo What it sounds like, plus some brief things that came to mind

  

  -of-sort-of know how to run a gel, shorthand in this case for gel electrophoresis. To ... electrophoresis is a pretty fundamental technique in molecular bio lab work; other ... In just the past few hours, I've realized a few things, mostly about

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  in the show, is a frenzied, glitchy sequence of footage and animation ... architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at ... soul." the scene, which is coupled with a jagged electronic sound

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  pull there is such a thing as too much caffeine MIT alumni are ... Engineering with a concentration in Energy, is wide awake at 4:30 am on a ... . We have a core group of very dedicated members. Everyone is involved in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Best and Worst Places to 💩 on Campus

  

  , and write about, a sociotechnical artifact — whether this is a bot, a ... , strength of air dyers) I also asked if there were a full mirror in the ... recently started charging to use their API so I switched to a free

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Admissions 2007 A quick look at this year's admissions.

  

  . One of the things that make these blogs special is that there is a ... applications a joy, but it made turning away students that much harder. Thank you ... This year, we received 12,443 applications for freshman admission, a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Hint of fall A Sunday adventure

  

  Last week was MIT in Hard mode. Psets, a midterm, papers, interviews ... need to find a station to check in). This general lack of planning and ... . Other than that, it was a successful trek. This is my 4th year here and

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 21, 2018