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• Blog / IAP

  WE BUILT AN IGLOO! ❄️☃️ a long-lost McCormick Tradition

  

  ’s effects, leaving faucets dripping to prevent pipe bursts and stocking up on eggs and milk from Trader Joe’s to last them weeks. MIT officially “closed” campus on Sunday and Monday, and Housing and Residential Services

  • by Hala K. '29
  • January 30, 2026
• Blog / Athletics

  Scootah Hockey a sport of tradition, friendship, and raw athleticism

  

  alive with the echoes of laughter and plastic pucks and the ritual shouts of “ON YOUR SCOOTAH!” This season, it was our fair and brave president ... Hockey. Scootah Hockey, while rich in history and strategy, is a simple

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • May 13, 2025
• Blog / Summer

  a year of counting fish the shape of real work

  

  is beautiful stuff, magnetic flux tubes and reconnection and turbulence ... things, then you can write down equations to plug into a simulation, and ... fusion reactor. Then, of course, you build the perfect fusion reactor and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • September 11, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Snippets of Iceland some rhymes from spring break

  

  , and since flights were also relatively cheap,  for spring break my friends and I decided to travel to Iceland!! This was my first time ever traveling with just friends (no Real Adults^TM?!?), and it was a lot of fun

  • by Allison E. '27
  • April 17, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  things that make noises for those lost

  

  see and things to do, but probably also in a pile of emotions you can ... 't really seem to get rid of. it gets in the way of your coherent thoughts and ... quite the same. it's experienced in shorter, more intense bursts, and is

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • March 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  everything is actually going okay and i think that's pretty cool

  

  and can you follow back 'cause it's my birthday?" No one cares what I want, just what I've got And if we sit and count it up, it's really not a ... two things: a way to vent, and a release from whatever negativity i feel

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... literally all the time. I'm also going through a break-up...and it sucks. I ... spent a lot of quality time with my roommates, and it was helpful for me

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... helped with transportation again, and i had the foresight to distribute the ... ahead and finally bought an actual laptop stand. it's way lighter. should

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  college I’m finally taking steps to beat procrastination and do things early and within a reasonable time frame. The plan was simple – I’d finish all my psets and work due on a given Friday, and then immediately start the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Spirited Away Guest Post By Freshly Alum'ed Wasay A. '19

  

  last of my clothes and move onto the items in my desk, the same questions ... -printed trinkets. Cards and letters. A gift from a friend. It fills up, but not ... that might fit. But all I can think about is the things that don’t, and

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 13, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too ... quickly 13 weeks go by. And just how little time there seems to be to ... impending deadlines and no where to be in particular. With nothing but all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

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

  

  outside of the bathroom. ----- So I bought some Ethereum at $7 and it ... laundry, and I'm still completely unpacked. ----   Some say the cure ... .com to force me to write walls of text and lose all of my progress if I

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

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... people stay on campus and take classes or work on UROPs. some people just ... ideas), and hang out with friends. so there's a lot going on, but campus

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Central Ohio Summer Send-Off Event celebrating the Infinite Connection

  

  Send-Off Event, a highlight of my August. The welcome from organizers and guests here is unsurpassed in warmth and joy. Last year, I came as a ... life. And packing. I was terrified of packing then. I met a graduate of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 12, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  show up and they all potentially want to give you jobs. That is, if you ... internships. It's a toss-up.) And you make a good impression. And are course 2 ... that want other majors, but 2, 6, and 18 are the big three. This is how

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Latino Cultural Center It's Mes Latino!

  

  Hidden from most of the hustle and bustle of classes and rushing to ... office, and most importantly, the Latino Cultural Center's office and ... this involves people serenading each other with a mariachi hat and jacket

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 3, 2014
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  , tests, med school interviews, extracurriculars, and more. By the time ... final presentation, 2 final projects, and 2 final exams then flew home to Houston. For the next two weeks, all I did was read at Barnes and Noble (I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  about the current weather and the sudden drop in temperature from last ... ways to enjoy a New England spring and it does have its' charms, I ... here and, moreover, I did not have the appropriate attire to gauge the

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  greatly enjoy eating, and I also enjoy eating great amounts of food. When I ... salad, a baguette, and a pie-tin full of spaghetti with sausage, and ate it all in one sitting, while documenting it with pictures / videos and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Do you have jobs? Can I have one?

  

  spring, it will be time for me to leave MIT and venture out into the real ... , and otherwise fulfill me. So far, I've met a *ton* of companies. I can tell, thanks to previous internships and projects, that there are some

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 8, 2009