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  IAP: The Class Edition I'm back in class

  

  -da! (Oh, all photos in this entry are courtesy of my Mac's webcam since I ... Well, my two weeks of no IAP agenda have come to a close and I ... machinery in the main MechE shop, the Pappalardo lab. Inside are all sorts of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 22, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... admit that I was despairing a little. There are almost 300 people in New ... happy that I live in a dorm that can mobilize within 24 hours, to go from

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads ... College. They're all rising seniors in physics or astronomy; I'm the baby ... (104 degrees over the weekend, in my new Fahrenheit vocabulary. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Q&A: Food on campus, UROPs, decisions Qs from prospectives and prefrosh, As from me.

  

  make the choice to go to MIT again, would you? I'm a little embarrassed ... , in some form or another. I live in French House, which has its own system. We cook dinner in teams of four, which means that I cook once a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 5, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  Things I did instead of thinking (about decisions)

  

  dangling some brightly colored yarn in front of a hyper cat. I know it helped ... shadows of a face. In stats I concentrated on the hatching of clouds instead ... "]p-values,[/annotation] in comparative government I rushed sloppy notes in favor of drawing the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Practical virology A little too practical, if you ask me.

  

  marathon today because I've been lying around in bed feeling pathetic and ... biology major, and the classes I've learned them in: 1. When you have a ... -trained students. I've been to Urgent Care way too many times in my undergraduate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 17, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Guest Post] A Whiff of Nostalgia Amidst the Scent of Youth by Daniel Barkowitz

  

  start it with this line: “I was born in a place that doesn’t exist anymore ... my birth has become an accident of human history. See, I was born in ... crossing. My parents lived in the Canal Zone for 28 years and I was born

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Wolverine Wolverine, creme brulee, Ina Garten, BOOM. You symbiotic patriotic slam book neck, right?

  

  would win in a fight: James Bond or Wolverine? "I'm sitting in lab right ... . This is the best recipe for soup I have ever tasted in my short life ... synchronicity, I was jogging in the Z-Center on Wednesday and Ina Garten was on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  singular noun that ends in s, such as abacus, you would need an s with the ... that they would charter five boats a day for it, but I guess if the ... flying into our eyes and nearly killing us, and also I fell asleep in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Soy Bomb Doo d-d-doo d-d-doo d-do d-do. Ice tea!

  

  constraints, we designed a fuel cell that would fit in a cell phone and seemed like it would work pretty well. You fuel it by buying 2 x 2 in cartridges ... cell are carbon dioxide and water. In fact, it would actually be less

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The return of Questions Omnibus It's time to answer your questions...

  

  in terms of balancing time b/w them and with my host at CPW? I know ... student (yeah!) I would recommend you stay with a host for at least part of ... experiences? My thoughts: I would recommend you stay with a host. Each year a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 21, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  in California, but it is good to be back home in Cambridge. I got a ... racking. So here is the best that I have to offer 1. Take a DEEP BREATH…..In ... would like to attend in a couple of months. 2. Schedule your MIT

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Slow down, fast train. Take me with you!

  

  in a saucepan just to see what would happen. I remember meeting French ... 't half-ass anything on Conner 2, unless it's every problem set I turned in ... tour of Boston that basically touched on every place in Boston I have

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Once upon a time Who I was in high school.

  

  't about being boy-crazy. First of all, this was me in high school. I think ... that I always get carded when I buy beer. I went to the Massachusetts RMV ... pretty well-known for the performing arts, and I was heavily involved in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Singing with a Local Filk Group [by Susan Shepherd '11] At MIT, I discovered that my "unusual" hobbies weren't all that…

  

  hear about and have the chance to particupate in. And that's how I ... hobby for me, and I assumed I was the only person who would be interested ... out in my sophomore year. This way, I know I and my friends can

  • by ARTalk
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  On keeping on keeping on It's pretty much the only option.

  

  summarize the entirety of my MIT experience in one sentence, it would be: I ... (although in my hometown bedroom community of NYC, people were buying pallets ... during those weeks what they thought life would be like in 2020, they would

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  print “Hello, World!\n”; Everything you ever needed to know about me

  

  in your shoes. I would love to vicariously wear them again.   ... to Chicago in 1996, when I was almost four. Most of the stories from ... read and write in Russian. After school I went to an archetypal after

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 8, 2011
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... , sure. more variance in age, with what i'm pretty sure were prefrosh and ... was what people talked about. the conversations i had in this "sf party

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Joy of Building a chronicle of my failed attempts to create things that work

  

  of skeleton code for me to fill in, all while I went to lots of office ... impressive) feat. I took ownership and pride in this work, a very, very toned ... , hey, I produced that! With some help, but yeah that was me! And then in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • March 3, 2017