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• Blog / MIT Life

  In Their Own Words (Part 3) Thailand and Israel and Columbia, oh my!

  

  one of those rare UROPs in the humanities. I am helping design a new ... will take someday. In addition, I am coding the website and software ... server). In my spare time, I work front desk at Random Hall and am a Summer

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Hate the First or at least, I used to

  

  [annotation note="to be clear this is the time stamp in the song, I will use ... week of classes, especially in high school. I hated how boring it was ... phrase that is in almost every conversation about high school memories

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 14, 2022
• 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 ... trade in courses in physics and math for wonky classes like "Science of ... the MIT community at any stage in the process of of starting a company

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  with effective methods of chillaxing. In actuality, I'll probably end up ... rancher. This distresses me. I own no cattle.) Tucked away in the American ... , Yan Z., frequent superiority in the World Series, frequent superiority

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  . for instance, i remember when i was in elementary school, my parents ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of ... instance, last fall i filled out a google form to go live with 30 strangers

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  ! Peep the other two puzzle boxes that will be completed and glued in the ... offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your dorm or libraries all weekend. In my opinion though, there’s more to life

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  [Joint Post] A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 1) vomiting in Venice and other Italian adventures

  

  : Rome [Kano] In search of things to do in Rome, I browsed Google Maps and ... eventually one in particular caught my eye: Eurovelo 8. It stretches all along ... be a part of in Italy"]MISTI Italy GTL.[/annotation]I was supposed to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... pretend i live in PST: Procrastination Standard Time (utc -69) and call it a ... relieved to hear that I’m actually travelling now, in contrast to last year

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Early Action Updates With one week until the deadline, answers to frequently asked questions.

  

  transcripts) in three ways. Please use only one method; duplicate submission ... first-class as two words each, and father-in-law would be three. Thus, you ... the word limit will in no way influence an applicant's admissibility

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Curseroad MIT class roadmaps that shouldn’t exist but theoretically could

  

  Choosing classes at MIT is like filling up a skill tree in a video ... , there are too many great options; with over 300 classes in [annotation ... . Many of them probably wouldn’t work in real life. But nevertheless, it

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  In mid-December a friend of mine, Jared '10, asked if I'd be interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP ... $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  Google Form based on the one we've used in past years. And then boom ... In the past few weeks, I've been pretty busy with [annotation note ... happens in the week first-years get to happens"]REX.[/annotation]Then, frosh

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  though everything was online and the motivation loss was real. In light of ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... awesome - it's basically like Google Drive, but for you to make music

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  ,” to fill every blank slot in my Google Calendar, to push myself to run ... -optimizing” (FOMO) in a conversation with Scott Alessandro, the Director of Undergraduate Education at Sloan. i was connected to him in my first week on

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  award-winning makers of Snipmap, a Google Chrome extension made during the ... effective learning. We are already using technology in the classroom, but it is not always interactive nor designed with educators and learners in

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So ... ? After some googling, it seems that the construction of the two is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  I managed to be at least as busy as I was in October or November ... personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail ... Markov Chain. I drafted most of this post in the eerie, apprehensive calm

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don ... three midterm tests in three of my classes, and an essay due in my fourth ... a long weekend in which to get away from MIT! (Something that all you

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  if only I cad more time… Diving into software, ft. a bad pun

  

  ://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ ------------ In the past couple of weeks at Zoom University, I have somehow continually found new and improved methods of hosing myself and ... method of looking into a mirror. The first culprit was binge

  • by Waly N. '24
  • October 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  nerdy (like the kids in the Facebook group "Dorks Who Were On The Facebook ... minor in Course 17 (Political Science). Now, that said, let me tell you a ... embrace that my state is one of the most-often bashed states in the country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005