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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  [Guest Post] A Day in the Life of a Clown College Student by Joy X. Clown College ‘29

  

  application to a “Clown College” on CommonApp. Perhaps those car insurance ... choosing to go to Clown College would only turn me into a [annotation note ... unicycle) and unicycle my way to class.  A common question that us Clown

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 1, 2026
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  street. On a whim (but not before consulting the Internet), I biked to the ... middle-aged men. Cute movie, though. En route to the theater, I passed a gathering with a banner welcoming me to Louisiana. At second glance, it turned

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  't agree with either of those sentiments. I like to think IAP is a sort of ... that Cambridge is a strange place to host a purgatory. I suppose I never ... and annotated using a system called ToBI in conjunction with a software

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Another one! The return to campus, round III

  

  ’m beyond hyped for this semester. I get to mass produce yo-yos, build a robot ... , Microeconomics, and Thermo-Fluids Engineering). Overall, a great start to the ... distance, they’re far enough away to ignore for a bit longer. Happy Tuesday

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • September 11, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  Heya! So, from 7:00 PM on 7/11/05 to 7:30 PM on 8/8/05, a total of ... . So, since I used to rely a lot on eating meat with pretty much every ... interesting to give it up for a month and see if my life could seem complete and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Art and Craft of Taking Notes ...take note.

  

  look around and sketch my surroundings, or try to add a stanza to a poem ... One of the habits I developed in high school is carrying a notebook and pen wherever I go. It's kind of like a journal, but I don't exactly

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 1, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  H^3: Home, Hummus, and HBV The end of my first semester (and Pass/No Record D:) and the beginning of a…

  

  honest, all of you just want to hear about MIT), I do want to make a comment about how odd I felt to be a college student returning home. You ... 'm taking 6.S189: Introduction to Python and a LineStorm Animation class. So

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  How I lost aura points i confess my sins

  

  requirement, where students have to take a certain amount of HASS classes before ... 's assignment we had to submit a pitch for six different story ideas that we ... state that I have been reduced to[/caption] For people who aren't caught

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 14, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Weekend in Kendall Square I know I work here all week, but hey, it's MIT

  

  cranking  (even when it's too warm out), I flipped to a big section titled 24 ... pick a weekend in March to hang out in the city?" she asked again. "Well ... stopping a half a dozen times along the way to see what's going on around

  • by Kris Guay
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  I like romantic things like music and art ...so why don't I have a boyfriend?

  

  to present a total of 6 dishes for tasting and judgment. I was incensed ... 'm writing a blog entry to you just to put off the fact that I have to study 20 ... DID YOU KNOW? Andre 3000, from OutKast, has a son (by Erykah Badu

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Congratulations! You got the job. You start in 6 months.

  

  a comment stating just that. Are you guys just out to get me or what ... lot of time to show me things. (Each crew must have at least 2 people- a ... enough experience to work as second riders.) After a lot of exploring the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 24, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  together and input to a script which runs them automatically. So, you can let ... , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications ... Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  about how I was going to make my dress for senior prom. I had never used a ... desire to be quirky with a nonstandard prom dress. Unfortunately, my senior ... Delivery is a major milestone where sophomores receive their brass rats to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  12 (the last day of CPW :( ) Chelsea and I boarded a plane to San José ... MIT alums...to the point where most of my dinner table was wearing a ... , then parents. My friends Sameer (a junior at Stanford, who went to middle

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... out a ton of work so i can get my actual project closer to completion ... are also willing to play for five hours straight as well. truly a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Blog] CourseRoad! A simple way to make your four year plan!

  

  ? Whenever you get a chance, try to read as many of those as possible. You ... called “The iCampus Student Prize”. This blue piece of paper stapled to a corkboard at knee height let me know about a competition to build some piece

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • August 25, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Expo how MIT is leading the educational revolution

  

  , follow the links to learn more. Visit openlearning.mit.edu for a ... equipping one of the members with six microphones for a fictional “quest” to ... ! And if you can't make it to Splash or Spark, neither as a participant

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 20, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  More Updates from Cambridge It's CPW 24/7 here. We can't wait to see you.

  

  week after CPW, drop us a note and stop by to say hello! Opening Day at ... so close to Fenway that you can hear the PA system. I had a pretty ... the website as a PDF. You can fax it to 617-253-4076. If we don't get it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I ... much else to learn. But in the last year or so, the old dream of doing a ... to make my own manga. A few years ago, I took CMS.301, Critical

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  weld your own bike and other IAP activities

  

  socializing. It is a glorious time to be alive."]IAP,[/annotation] jumping ... Own Bicycle (exactly what it sounds like), 2.670 (learn how to use a ... started at the very end of fall semester. MIG welding was a pre-requisite to

  • by Amber V. '24
  • March 1, 2022