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• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  The thing about summer is the weeks kind of all run together, so all the days just sort of bleed into each other and everything starts to ... food? Lots of food?) Held together by the ketchup that is lab or class or

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  About the Midyear Report We've been getting many questions about the Midyear Report. Here are some answers.

  

  should be completed as soon as possible after completion of the fall semester (or after completion of the second quarter, if your school uses a ... us directly - we will verify the accuracy of the information you submit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 14, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  barricades, I was hooked, and I knew I had to go to concerts for the rest of my ... overwhelmed by work and school and the thought of having to get good grades for ... screamed the shit out of those lyrics as loud as I could until my voice was

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  10:51 PM, on the farewell eve of Infinite Activities Period: School ... embryonic guts over the creamy, supple blankness of winter vacation. This ... 's blog, blogarithm, not necessarily because of the content but because I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  So what makes a successful MIT student, anyway?

  

  of experiences and perspectives across MIT is staggering.  That's the ... back-of-the-envelope calculation my experience as a Course 2 is characteristic of less than 5% of the possible paths you could take. But during

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Winter is coming. actually, it's already here.

  

  Confession time: I'm one of those West Coasters. The ones who get ... the snow is while everyone else got sick of it three weeks ago. But can you blame me?  Just look at the results of last night's storm: ^ the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 16, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  No Pain, No Gain I wish it weren't so.

  

  've forgotten so much of what I learned in the EMT class I took over IAP, and I haven't had a whole lot of experience on shift. The latter, though, might ... isn't all that useful. Channeling the spirit of "practice makes perfect

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  How Many Liveblogs Can We Get Onto One Page?! Mystery Hunt Part 3.5

  

  , Death from Above is doing a live webcast of the wrap-up events that happen ... (that's being awake 57 of the last 60 hours). For those of you who come ... developments, communication with the coordinators, and a general feeling of

  • by Snively '11
  • January 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let’s Build a Snowman [CRITICAL UPDATE!] We can make him our best friend

  

  ordered 4 of these, expect epic rock band pics to come Along with the new ... album describes it as, "the epic snowman of IAP." It was originally James ... is, really big snowballs are REALLY heavy, and at the end of it we were

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  insisted that i needed to get out of the house and spend some time with ... the fall: a cambridge housemate bubble and a stack of online classes. i ... difficulties of that.) the sheer number of permutations of problems i could run

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Retrospective Wait, what? I'm done with my first year?

  

  to no longer be among the 'babies' of the school, to be replaced by the ... ! My favorite part was when we went to the very top of the Prudential ... -picking: And enjoy views like this: Part III: Fall Semester One of the most

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 25, 2010
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  have a cloud covering, so though most of the day was hot, it wasn ... poured down my face and into every crevice of my body. On top of that, the streets of Port-Au-Prince are extremely dusty, so by the end of the day we

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Cheat Sheet This amazed me when I first saw it.

  

  about Mystery Hunt. This is an entry about one of the tools our team has for Mystery Hunt. We rarely used it, but the sheer amount of information on this PDF is awesome! If you even have a slight bit of geekiness

  • by Snively '11
  • August 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you live in Zambia? Malawi? Ghana? If you could send me some African dirt, that would be amazing! (And illegal. But…

  

  On the most excellent advice of my blog-readers, I have added D ... to make a strong brick using pressure instead of heat. Also, the bricks ... mortar to hold together. And of course the machine should be fast and

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Wrapup Final thoughts on Campus Preview Weekend 2006.

  

  ? It was great to meet so many of you! See you again in the fall =) ... For those of you who attended: How was it? What was your favorite part? What was the biggest surprise? What would you tell those who couldn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  it really is beginning and so it begins

  

  That kind of means summer is ending. Jessie wrote in her blog how everyone is getting ramped up for probably one of the most exciting times of the year, Orientation. In about 10 minutes, we start our pre

  • by Bryan
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  existential cubes a daily encounter with Ernő Rubik

  

  curiosity got the best of us. On one sweltering day, my oldest brother and I ... puzzles / a morning tendency Solving puzzles like these is one of the few ... getting me out of bed, among other things that the cube gets me through in

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s on my mind *insert witty caption here*

  

  UROP investigating the genetics of tuberculosis at the Broad Institute the freshmen in my fraternity the Class of 2012 in general ... sleeping lots blogging :) Blog entries I want to write: recap of the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 24, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Poetry and Physics You don’t have to get theoretical physics to get Frank Wilczek.

  

  of "tickets" to be able to do the thing you want to do, you have to ... age of 53 for work he did at the age of 21, while a graduate student at ... additional lectures The World’s Numerical Recipe, The Origins of Mass and the

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  Note: I am shamelessly stealing the title of this entry from Sam '07 ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good ... , Boston Marathon! Speaking of which...Last year, I watched the marathon

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006