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  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  Oh hi there. I'm back on campus now for IAP (Independent Activities ... ), which traditionally is when all the students return to see all their ... bit different. There's no snow to be seen, and temps are relatively

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  Alcide from True Blood! I waited in line for maybe 30 minutes to get ... will be until after I give them to her. Hooray for expensive accidents ... New Hampshire this weekend, but I wanted to take this brief moment of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Events

  picture the world my phone's storage space hates me

  

  try to make it to each lab session every friday afternoon. for a class ... never sat there for more than a few moments before i returned to the ... to MIT. my photo album conveniently lists them in chronological order

  • by Boheng C. '28
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Visiting the Museum of Science science is cool

  

  My roommates and I haven’t had an outing for a while, so we went to ... to make them float within a certain section of the column for about ... since the last time I went to a science museum was in eighth grade, it was

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life A photographic biography of a Friday

  

  , incidentally, also happens to exist outside of cyberspace sometimes. Anyway, Katelyn slept for 2 hours and still had a headache at 10:54 pm, according to ... to Random after class, I took a picture for the Internet. What else is

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Keg of worms and phytoplankton

  

  I'm at home now in Hampton Bays getting ready for the first of my ... for snapper. Sadly, though, I had almost no luck (skill?). Maybe I was ... applications I've seen. I thought about this for a while, and what I came up with

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 7, 2004
• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  pilgrimage to Eegee’s, which is a Tucson sandwich chain named for its fine ... graphic novels from a squat library. I gave a wide berth to a mom with her ... masks. I hadn't been to that park in forever, which isn’t all that

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Walking the Kerry Way journal of my fourth day in Ireland

  

  Waffle House. They bought groceries for me, too. Not knowing what to ask ... ’d spotted on the map. I decided to shoot for it, telling myself not to get my ... my jacket not long after, for it began to rain. And rain. And rain. But

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  making contact with this molten mess would be quite unfortunate for both your mind and body. We’re actually recommended to wear long sleeve shirts and jeans to shield ourselves from the heat. Anyways, we also learned

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  for a slightly better chance to do lethal? [caption id ... for the Defect. It's alluring to play a zero-cost card that increases ... ' win rates.) As for how this applies to real life… well, whatever, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... playing cards which I intended for friends to draw on so I have a completely ... reason to move any of my stuff. I've stayed on campus for two consecutive

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major ... . Basically, we send a bunch of people to another school for the afternoon where

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  One of those “big picture” days 2 hours of inspirational lectures, one from the CDC director and the other from broadcasting…

  

  ranked #37 in the world for its health system (according to the World ... scheduled to end at 5 pm, today was the end of a four-day experiment and we had finished early. I had two minutes to get to Kresge auditorium, where

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Alien in America A display of feelings; a post that might not make any sense.

  

  would say, take time for yourself, because otherwise it's hard to be ... frustrated with not belonging anywhere. Rachel Dolezal tried to pass for something she is not.  My whole life, I have simply been trying to pass for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 14, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  i [don’t] have covid?? in conclusion, i am the absolute worst at managing stress

  

  tested negative for COVID, but this did little to assuage my concerns ... figured that I'd inevitably gotten it from him. That night, I danced for four hours straight with my friends to 2010s bangers, which was the most

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 17, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Up The last of the post-finals, pre-internship adventures.

  

  Boston for the summer. One fistfight later*, I landed in DC, fully resolved to pack every minute of the weekend with something awesome. No summer seconds to waste. *Not my own. While I waited for my connecting flight in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 27, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  concept for a new story! I’m not sure I’ll be able to do this every semester ... somethin’), kinda hard for those new to coding; and 2.003, Dynamics, less ... for a semester.  The ‘25s are really nice, and I got to spend time

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  probably will be for a while. It’s easy to interpret that as lazy. And maybe ... myself - I was too old for this, too grown, too capable to be hurt over a ... opening plays memorized, but to be entirely clear, I’m not one of them. My

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

  1 Fish, 2 Fish, a Lot of Fish, and a Snail Putting a Big Box of Water on my Dresser

  

  to make it look appealing. So I eventually settled for a 16 gallon ... by the shore, wash it, boil it for a while to get rid of anything it ... So last semester I had a radical idea to get a pet aquatic turtle. I

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 30, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  trouble. Spanish sense of humor is very cheesy, I'm sorry to report. For ... after taking the above pictures I settled into the grass to read for awhile. When I noticed this tree. Okay, this tree just waiting for you to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008