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• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  , good). We had such a good time, in fact, that we're going to try cooking ... This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... excellent time doing the things we can never find time to do during the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  calling home once in a while. There are things to do at all hours ... had their parents as a major factor in the decision to work that hard ... I've been at MIT for just over a month now. It hasn't quite sunk in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Going Home ... but where exactly is that?

  

  luck, it was cancelled and I had to stand in a line with 300 other people ... ecstatic to get back to campus after a much needed break, to see my MIT ... going to Seahawks playoff game(s) while I'm stuck yelling at a TV about 3

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 6, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  already-known objects in such a way as to create new composite objects; or 3 ... this list, read this. He finds himself sitting in the neighborhood bar drinking a beer at about the same time that he began to think about going

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  following are true", she said. "You want to be a part of this once in a ... in a show, but would like to try something new this IAP. You are ... find a song to sing. After subjecting the two of us to ~30 minutes of my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  a cubic formula for finding the roots of a cubic polynomial in terms ... As a freshman, I made the conscious decision not to live where I knew ... like math. The story I hear too often is that they loved math up to a

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  , but I also find myself alone in a quiet house a lot more than I used to ... tucking in an apple and a little treat next to my tupperware of leftovers :3 ... sleep to stay awake in class. Nowadays hosed means I had to finish a pset

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  in a very mural-happy dorm, I can't paint to save my life. But I do like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... shooting: But of course, being a hipster in denial, if there's two ways to

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  An MIT Acronym Quiz how many can you decode?

  

  to learn, and it's a bit like being dumped straight into the deep end ... . (If you just want a list of the translations, you can find them here ... TLDR: PLAY MY ACRONYM QUIZZZZ As a school best known by an acronym

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  their families to take part in a few time-honored traditions: huge, home ... everyone grabs what they want and finds a place around the house to sit down ... !) is Thanksgiving day, which is a BIG DEAL in the U.S. Considering the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  time to find myself. I've felt a certain kind of pressure to do something ... , like talking to a brick wall. It's been strange operating myself in this state, wandering through life like a ghost and trying to find different

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  students in seminar based advising, but typically your advisor comes to your ... many people like about it is that you don't have to go far to find your ... personally did not choose RBA because I wanted to get to know a lot of people

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a ... work with Amtrak and studies in Course 11, I think I have a job for you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Don’t worry, the king lives…

  

  study...uhh (something in the media lab I don't understand), for a year ... . Now, I may decide to paint them a different color, speed them up, or ... 've been cataloging and evaluating these tactics and I've come to a

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • August 7, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  to cook breakfast or lunch each day unless i bring a sack breakfast and ... Take a night off every once in a while. I have [annotation note="sometimes, i have lab from 1-5 on friday, in addition to various lectures from 9

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  short term / long term on growth and learning

  

  pressure of having a class in order to get things done. Online classes don ... once in a blue moon. It takes a lot for me to become engrossed in a book ... really..unworthy? In a sense? I don't really have a way to fix this, but

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Paris Hilton comes to MIT Just kidding, but I bet that got your attention

  

  come to MIT, we wouldn’t even have the time to find rotten tomatoes ... hand, it’s four days off in a row! Imagine the possibilities! You ... , somehow, I spent all of Tuesday night trying to write a chemistry lab report

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  nothing really matters or does everything? a tale of epiphanies and a crisis

  

  ."]digital communication[/annotation] in higher education from my time as a grad assistant to ... started paying a lot more attention to how they were using different ... community was making and/or saying, figuring out a way to form IRL

  • by kellen manning
  • May 6, 2021
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  willing to express their interest in a project that appeared so mundane ... find time in their busy schedules to stop by, put in some pieces, and ... research on this puzzle, nobody was able to finish in less than 8 months. It

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy ... wanted to. I was invited to live in Hawaii with a few friends, and I know

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020