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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  perfect time to catch up on schoolwork and then get ahead in classes, if you ... years ago I wanted to get into photography. Digital cameras at the time ... . However, our awesome Next House wing reps Gabe '11 and Sam '09 forced me to

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  Authority which cover the region, helping commuters get to work in Boston and ... discovered how hard it is to get good pictures in the fog, especially when ... meantime, I’m getting quite peckish. Perhaps a visit to the cafe car will

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

  Visual Arts @ MIT how we practice and pursue it here

  

  to get really busy. But we went on the annual New York trip a few weeks ago, where you get to see TWO plays or operas in New York for FREE with ... an Art Scholar is you get to take SAA classes at a discounted price (it

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  So you think you want to be a doctor: Pre-med at MIT

  

  Harvard is B+/A- centered.) There is pressure to get good grades, but you ... repeat, do NOT put yourself though being pre-med if you only want to hang ... clue as to what they want to do after graduation. Unfortunately, anyone

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 19, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  You’ve got questions… ...I've got answers strewn amidst an explosion of other stuff.

  

  When I first got to MIT in August and checked in for Orientation, I received an interesting little poster entitled, "101 Things to Do Before You Graduate." It's full of cool ideas about things to do at MIT and the Boston

  • by Keri G. '10
  • November 6, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  -tower-indoor-balcony-thing that you climb up an actual ladder to get to!!! My desk, where I ... gets cut to ~1 hour. If you start training a neural net on a Colab ... our final site to get credit for the class, we tried to test it with

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Physics A short novel.

  

  classical mechanics, and even if I somehow figured out how to get around my ... I'm going to be honest - The first five academic weeks here were not ... , thinking that it sounds fantastic and you'd love it and you can't wait to try

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  medical reasons, and I was surprised by how excited I was to get back into ... I like the feeling of consistently improving. Getting back to lifting ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Kickoff! and away we go...

  

  , before most students now applying to MIT were even born. The goal of FIRST, broadly speaking, is to inspire students towards a lifelong devotion to ... Design Committee unveil that year's game to the 37,000+ students on 3

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 12, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  'm excited to be going home so I can finally get some sleep - between learning ... was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... fraction, to prove this point to me. All he really proved, though, was that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  didn’t get too much time to draw out the details, so I scribbled some of ... good Android user, do not have AirPods, though I might try to get some ... the course. I tend to get a bit frustrated easily with things art

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Skill Issues (spoiler alert: i've got them)

  

  interminable, since in order to successfully win a game you have to get through ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My older brother didn’t have the patience to play chess with me (I had a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • June 29, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  to get your leg somewhere and now you’re on top of someone; or they did ... pounds of me, were to get in a fight, the last thing I’d want is for it to ... . I feel like if I keep practicing, I could get to the point where I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  Power tools East Campus brings to mind rollercoasters and huge ... and they looked ready to start the next layer. The plans say it would be ... days. Part of me wanted to help, but part of me was scared. Sure, they

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  to give some thought to how people are going to get into and out of ... us and demanded from the get-go lifelike, well-styled people...and to ... , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  that wine in Spain is not just an excuse for people to get wasted. 5. I ... our contact (who was supposed to give us directions on getting to our ... system in Madrid. Puts the T to shame. 9. I love the Starbucks employee who

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  in a book or a travel guide or something if I don't get around to ... figure out what questions to ask, get the answers, and find a solution ... Stimpy. To begin with, a World Cup fan with the fortuitous name of "Go

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  : there are four pads on the ground, each corresponding to an arrow ... song begins, arrows begin moving from the bottom of the screen to the top, and the player’s job is to step on the pads at the same time that the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  why i chose mit the paths not traveled

  

  . I wanted to impress people around me and I wanted to get a job? And even now ... a trip had to include visits to prestigious college campuses. It ... Tournament and Math Prize for Girls. It would be easy to editorialize, to imbue

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 21, 2023
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Semester I Played With Chocolate and Ants for a Technical Class Inflatable Chocolate Balloons + Ants as Architects

  

  spray to help it release and I dipped the balloons multiple times to get a ... There is a class here at MIT called How to Design (Almost) Anything ... semester to create an object and then turn the object into a vessel. For a

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • October 7, 2018