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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 1) two trains, twelve states, 540 pictures, one Speaker of the House election, and more!

  

  ’re off! The Lake Shore Limited starts off in Boston and New York and joins ... wooden bench in South Station, just across from the Au Bon Pain. I am about ... taking the Amtrak across the country. More specifically, the Lake Shore

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 11, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Trip Report: ISEF 2016

  

  I'm blogging this from a Starbucks in Phoenix. I'm sweating ... . More on that later. I'm in Phoenix for the 2016 Intel International ... qualify for more than $4,000,000 in scholarships, Special Awards (which are

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  though most of the people in the course were upperclassmen). There was no ... interested in Indian architecture – specifically the Mughal architecture the ... December – and 2010 – I was briefly back in the UK, now my second home, where

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  tucked in the woods and right up next to a lake. Off to Canada we went… Day ... Canadian road trip and spent our days chilling in the woods. Here are the ... catch the production in its final days. That was all we planned to do. But

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  fellow '12s in an effort to get to know them better") Matt's entry to see ... one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what ... -by-play of my year so far. After I graduated from high school in June '07, I

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Blog Projects

  where is south dakota again? and other fun questions for your south dakotan friends

  

  Back in September, when Shuli introduced the baby bloggers, they ... students attend MIT from each state in the US, so knowing that number is not ... ="myself included"]three South Dakotans,[/annotation] since we had all gotten in from

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  in Boston by June 9th for Commencement.   Day 1, Wednesday 5 ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Why Leadership? (guest post) Inclusive leadership and vision-building at LeaderShape 2018.

  

  a vast lake in the middle of a forest, undisturbed, with the capacity ... Wonderland Camp and Conference Center in Sharon, MA for the MIT Leader ... yourself in a flurry of work and deadlines, postponing and forgetting about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 21, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it’s been thirteen days since the Eras Tour began

  

  It has been 13 days since Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour began so in honor of that, I am ranking my favorite three songs (I can’t pick one) in ... talk to me in the comments!  Reputation This was the first Taylor

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 30, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  my IAP with my head in the books, trying to absorb as much information as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends' descriptions of their IAPs in their own words.   - - - Dalia L. '16

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Preview of Things to Come too fast, too furious

  

  Yo MIT Admission Blog Readers, Like I assured you in the last entry, I am still alive. Exhausted (like always), but still hanging in there ... =_____=)) But anywhoo, back to the actual subject. In many ways, I still have a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 26, 2010
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  in and weld your seat tube. This would be very simple had I in fact ... is bad). So I came in to D-Lab and did a lot of practice welds, and ... 't burn any holes in the actual seat tube, I welded that. The welds weren

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  walking the marathon… part of a four-day weekend

  

  moved to October"]run on Patriots' Day,[/annotation] and, in combination ... about a month ago, in the sense that Petey and I penciled in a date, and ... itself. In the two days before the marathon, I made a Google Doc estimating

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i rode a train across america it took eighty-five hours

  

  catching up on blogging. Here are the notes I wrote in real-time back in June ... in the Bay Area, and I’ve been doing research (a.k.a. UROPing) at MIT ... Santa Clara, from June 26th to 29th. Here’s (most of) my planned route, in

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  [joint post] blogston commons with Allison E. ‘27, Ellie F. ‘28, Jebby ‘25, and Sara N. ‘28

  

  note="and i must clarify with the pain in my heart that i now also ... at blogger meetings and occasionally wave hi in the corridors ... , with a when2meet. in true mit fashion, this attempt turns out to

  • by Janet G. '27
  • November 11, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tchau! Labs vai para a praia! And the King of the Internet returns.

  

  perfect, most attractive and largest fish in the lake. You have no idea what ... from something I still don't understand in the Media Lab, is coming back! (And maybe the return of m_quinn but hopefully not.) So, in usual

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • June 26, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear about in a performance piece. I didn't include the numerous amazing and

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in a cabin in New Hampshire, and skiing all day every day. Yeah, I ... , though I’d never competed or formally trained in any way. As Winter Break

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Anxiety Level: High A play-by-play of emotional diffusion

  

  . You’ll have a place in no time. Anxiety: Okay, but what about that ... ’t just in “bad shape”, what if you’re incapable of passing 8.02?!? Me: I ... deserve that A in the first place! You could never finish your code all the

  • by Powers '23
  • July 30, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  things i’ve made and/or consumed art, movies, shows, and more

  

  I started this blog post in the summer with the intention of posting ... ~. In a way, it feels like a dream come true because I’m finally getting ... that the layers could represent time and differences could show change in

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • February 28, 2021