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• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... to do with turning an idea into a commercially viable business ... you have to do is submit a project and budget proposal in order to

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  supposed to give you a ten-minute buffer if you have consecutive classes. Do ... time, to do this certain thing. It’s a rewarding type of [annotation note ... obnoxious. If I wake up, it’s not because of a clock, but instead purely

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving Self-Quarantine 101 tldr; memes (haha jk...unless)

  

  have a lot of time that we don't know what to do with. in fact, in the ... recommend learning a new language during this period. i, uh, would be doing ... ....chances are that you're bored out of your mind. you probably miss your friends a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  one hour in which i am Holden Caulfield (but more tragic and less hero)

  

  ! recently i’ve been thinking about where i was/what i was doing exactly a year ... damn, i haven’t blogged in forever and it’s stressing me out (alongside a ... about how i feel a general sense of unease at how not-together my life is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  weather and stuff a Californian’s first experience of fall and also other things on my mind

  

  I do not own any fall clothes. It seems that this is going to be a problem for me. I Iive in a triple. One of my roommates, Claire, is from ... class one day to see that Claire has received a big box of “fall clothing

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • October 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pressing Pause Taking a moment before the beginning of spring semester

  

  credits to Ayesha B. ‘18 (my fantastic roommate). I do not actually own a ... IAP--Independent Activities Period--is soon coming to a close! Spring ... a nice, long break. Snowpocalypse 2015 also basically forced

  • by Selam G. '18
  • February 3, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  : “Bless you. You know, I’m interested. What does a typical MIT frosh* even DO on the weekends?” *defined here as me. Disclaimer: I may not be the ... game character or piece of sushi. As a winged version of myself, I had

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on a napkin... I just haven't had a good chunk of time to sit down and ... true meaning of IHTFP. MIT can be a wonderful or awful place depending on

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  . Take time to enjoy your senior year (I know that you have a lot to do ... I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now ... between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  host your MIT mail. To do this you get to use a nifty little tool called ... things you can do by just experimenting with Gmail so have a good time. If ... perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  favorite two. Roast is also a time for halls and suites to do something art ... weekend-long party centered around the overnight roasting of a steer in our courtyard and the subsequent feast. The following description is courtesy of a

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Random notes A mystery solved, an updated blog list, and a handful of questions answers.

  

  undergrad age?" We do consider older applicants. We will still require a ... students with families do get special provisions. Lorelei wrote, "i am a ... comments. I do read every comment, and it makes me happy to see a blog

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 2)

  

  grandmother says you do not need to measure with a ruler—8-mm cubes are okay ... . But maybe it’s a four-day weekend and you do—you could have soup for a ... to do this before exams or when I’m stuck in a place that doesn’t have

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  able to do. as a simple example: in the linked document my friends write ... a relationship rather than the thing itself. and of course, almost everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  perception but who *are* you?

  

  do feel out-of-practice after a year in quarantine, struggling to find ... like I might enjoy doing it. Each person that knows me has a ... Over the summer, I’ve centered on a fear that I have in graduate

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • September 18, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Autumn Questions Omnibus Answers to questions asked in my blog's comments. And there have been a lot of…

  

  there anyone else who could do them? If you are a full-time university ... 've become a bit behind in answering your comments. It's been nearly two months, I apologize! You've asked many questions, I'll do my best to answer

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  to try a back dive off the board even when all the younger kids do it ... , and then do a core workout. Each night, a different team member takes a ... Hello everybody! My name is Katy and I’m a senior studying electrical

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I Ended Up Working for a Reality TV Show

  

  Ambitious Adventures, a reality TV show following innovative cities ... people. But most "reality" TV is fake nowadays and so we want to do ... serendipitous slew of events that happened before I found myself a part of this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 5, 2016
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  life down in the sunlight of a suburb. I chose to do this exchange ... gave a test to his students. He showed them the bird and said, what do ... the world always, overwhelming with its color. Do you feel in your bones

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  lifting heavy objects and the grungy basement gym

  

  muscles tremble at the end of a workout, when you’ve pushed to the edge of ... their MIT years.  Before MIT, I had a lot of false starts with strength ... while living in my car, to shower — but I never hit a solid routine. A guy

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2021