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• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... I noticed that I would be in town for [annotation note ... asking if they can search us. Confused, I said yes as one of the workers

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  as much as my family did: Anyway, I come to you in 2018 bearing ... where you can send us your latest grades along with any other relevant ... currently in school. What do I do? Ya still gotta submit the form, even if you

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  browsing email in search of free food when I came across Splash, a program ... outdated, but think Galahad in Temple Anthrax. I’d recently brushed up on ... remembered them. I mentally ran through their main plot points, just in case

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hydrate Happy Sent by the magic of mobile technology

  

  started at MIT. I put “smart” in quotation marks because Bevi machines stop ... . That I always end up contemplating what went wrong in the past few ... it, and it’ll direct you to a “mobile dispense” webpage where you can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • July 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current ... renewal season so I’ve been thinking a lot about where I want to live, and b ... , but I’ve also spent a year each in Simmons and Baker, so if you have any

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  MY college essay 498 words of angst.

  

  the summer), but I'm not sure where I could find it... Sean said: So..can ... going in as a girl,that know has changed, it if I can get her to read your ... thought of where I would be if I had chosen the fork in the road marked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 12, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why the title of this post is really important I got to present my UROP work looking at the titles of graphs at the…

  

  graph’s title—in this case, a single word—can affect how people report its ... refers to where people focus when viewing an object; Zoya’s work in this ... beach for the first time! Hopefully, if I keep doing good research, I can

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 28, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  activity I’ve done in the past day. This unshakable exhaustion is not new to ... " (2015) Last semester was extremely hard on me. In most senses, I was doing fine. I was organized, turning things in on time, attending most of my

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ring delivery! Saturday night was Ring Delivery!

  

  , which I had never been to before. Here are some pictures: As you can see from the pictures, it was a beautiful venue which I had never been ... name is even engraved on the inside, in cursive! So, in the picture below

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Weekend From Craigslist searching to meat-MIT building, this certainly is an experience

  

  past few weeks in preparation for this weekend's events.  You can see the effects of the madness all over the courtyard and even in the basement. I ... event, and "How Many Feet Can You Eat" Subway eating event.  But I still

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  before, I come from a small town in the woods, a place where people ... . But I didn't know how to make these, as my education in engineering ... (those logs in there are actually trees, and I'm standing a good way back

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Building, building, building, building This one goes out to the one I've left behind.

  

  least you can say that it's different." Myself? Well, I think the Stata ... inside is vibrant, if not necessarily practical. I take pride in biking ... , in which students were asked to write an essay analyzing its use of

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

  sitting down no more sprinting

  

  1.5 weeks during which I really had nothing in particular to do. Then ... ™. I had to slump over in the Maseeh 3 bathroom at 4AM and cry for no ... , probably because I went in with no expectations at all. This time around

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • October 12, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... resemble the campus I fell in love with, the one I encountered in this same ... classically mortifying high-school-cafeteria-where-on-earth-do-I-sit dilemma

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  . You should definitely try to come if you can. I've never been here in ... *Sigh* So I went and wrote this whole entry about women in ... no good. So the new plan is this: I'm going to go in and observe

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  25 things and another reason to come to CPW. FLIGHT OF THE CONCHORDS. OH GOD.

  

  with me can't convince you, and in case you're afraid you won't have ... . OH MY GOD. Also, to continue the in-cases, (I don't think I ... Facebook in like, the last month, there's this thing going on where you write

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  competitions. I’m in the weird situation where I just happen to know a lot of ... can explain why. I have this very specific picture in my mind. I ... groups are suddenly smaller. It wouldn’t be like MIT, where I live in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how to change majors in just five easy steps!

  

  ="IAP = Independent Activities Period. In January, MIT has a brief J-term where you can ... sophomore year, shortly after I declared a major in [annotation note ... classes and so should legally not be allowed to register for more than I can

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hi, I’m New Here The requisite introduction.

  

  for built-in excuses for not knowing what's going on!) I was born in Jamaica, but I moved to the Miami/Fort Lauderdale area in Florida at age ... thing. I live in Senior Haus, which is awesome. (You mean I don't live on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... other. It's a unique program where I could pursue sociological questions ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007