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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  day relaxing and then have to recover from the effort of recuperation ... and IAP, I did my best to take it easy. That’s the wonderful thing about ... or be on campus and take classes and do a million things? You can. Or

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  -stop studying: 8 cups of coffee Three exams: 5 wrinkles and 3 gray hairs Having 2+ weeks of winter break and a month of IAP: Priceless Winter break is upon us and promises to be a grand ole time. I'm especially excited about

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  [/annotation] chapter, and after meeting so many cool and amazing people and ... , AfroTech is an annual conference for students, companies, and ... , October 31st this year, and aims to celebrate and cultivate black talent

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  last first day (take 3) there are so many other blogposts with this title

  

  of London, Paris, and Amsterdam. It was the perfect reset before coming ... I missed and loved the Boston-Cambridge area. I also just really ... -class semesters and I need 180 units beyond my requirements to graduate

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 8, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  , more often than not, I can write whatever I want and post it without a second thought. I write math handouts and make web apps and stuff, but no one criticizes me for them. No one goes up to me and says, well, the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  really fulfilled it, relying on my friends and my boyfriend, as well as a ... with friends in Washington, D.C. and wanting to save money for future endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Be Social awkward and anxious

  

  't still make my heart beat at an uncomfortable rate and tie up my tongue to ... purposefully "other" myself to maintain my identity and push this narrative that ... Asian girls clad in their tight-fitting black dresses and perfect eyeliner

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 26, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  Best Free Software for College Students must haves for productivity, security, and more

  

  schoolwork, clubs, fraternity, and side projects, I'm constantly searching for programs and apps for productivity, note-taking, security, and even music. After trying dozens of them and seeing which ones most of my friends use

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 13, 2015
• Blog / Class Projects

  Make a Lamp! and cart the pieces of it from IDM to IDC, the forge, Metropolis, and back…

  

  This fall, I enrolled in EM.S21: Design and Make a Lamp. It's a 3-unit, half-semester class under [annotation note="Integrated Design and Management"]IDM[/annotation] and the Infinite, as in, it's in the basement. The

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Stories from High School you wouldn't want to be caught with MMS

  

  reluctantly washed off the vestiges of sleep at 5 A.M., and prepared for the day. We had bathrooms on every floor of the dorm building, and they all ... people to wake up filled the stalls, and from them, a queue emerged. We

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  drawing near, not because the temperature is heating up, and not even ... and one thing only: it’s lax season!! The women’s and men’s lacrosse ... great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  the clouds, I was woken up this morning by birds, and we’ve now mostly exited heaviest-coat-in-the-closet weather (and are now entering bring ... thing lately. From touring MIT frats and sororities to touring our new on

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  dance dance dance! a weekend of trying to try everything

  

  everything. I’m in clubs and choirs, running events, and starting (and ... hey! PNR exists for a reason, and now seems like the best time to try ... , and I start grooving and schmoving. I’ll bop to classical, rap, and the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  technicals and a CI-H, a writing intensive humanities class. It's a perfectly legal and okay amount of classes to take, and it means that my schedule has a lot more free time for me to do other things and really focus on

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Lyrics to my MIT experience i definitely never, ever wrote songfics when i was in middle school

  

  you But now I don't care, I could go anywhere with you And I'd probably ... 't really like, and didn't end up pursuing in the long run. I worked hard to ... college acceptance as the light at the end of a dark tunnel, and clutched

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dear July illustrated

  

  experience that challenged us, July. We got some things right and many things wrong. But we learned from the mistakes and are prepared to do better when ... spend time with our high school friend, who is working close by! And we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 31, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  IAP is in full swing, and I am having a blast! At MIT, the second ... internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Listen to Admissions: the creative process for Pi day videos

  

  some #Content for you: last November, Loren S. '17 and I were interviewed ... Day 2015. Loren and I collaborated, with Elizabeth, on that video (and this past spring's droid delivery video, and also the Tim Beaver epic

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  A Continuing Experiment in Cooperative Eating or, every food picture I have ever posted from pika

  

  The streets are paved with slush, everything is cold, and my pajamas ... rush. This means feasts and festivity. Festivities like poetry slams, strange instrument concerts, and sitting in a dark room listening to music

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  tiny window (this one) and one larger window facing east, which let in a ... blinds. There is a nice view of Building 1 and a pleasant reminder that ... time to dress myself and perform my morning rituals (namely brushing my

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014