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• Blog / IAP

  A Visitor In My Own Hometown Yeah, so it was boring. But it's still where I spent the better portion of…

  

  better portion of my eighteen years. I'm back at MIT now -- got here the ... while newly a visitor. I spent a lot of time pre-MIT longing for my days ... lecturer, and the classroom was full at about twenty students. Even on the

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The First Snow of the Year! Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. Also, what to expect for the…

  

  flakes became pretty big and fell for a couple of hours. Unfortunately, it ... fireplaces at MIT) and throwing snowballs at unsuspecting friends. But ... month, yay for IAP). - The record low for November is 8 degrees and the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 29, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Coming to a theater near you! (Or auditorium... or gym... or lecture hall...)

  

  /28). In the middle of that I head down to Tampa for the NACAC Conference ... that you can get real and honest perspectives from staff and students at ... info session is followed by a campus tour, so we can take for granted

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 12, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Share the joy

  

  update you on at this point. We work towards solidifying our early action ... summer programs which are hosted at MIT: The Women's Technology Program ... six-week residential, academic enrichment summer program for promising

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Small Things I Like About Autumn A short reflection on a colorful season

  

  few things that make the fall season such a significant time of year for ... , and orange of the leaves, for me, always adds a new type of warmth to ... different dishes for dinner, and I always had fun competing with my parents

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 31, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures from a Month into Classes and I'm thrivi... surviving?

  

  I genuinely thought I would be ready for whatever MIT would throw at ... 't pretend to know what's in store for me at this school anymore so stay tuned ... seems to be the number-one catered item for all events on campus and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • October 14, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  minutes each to complete. As you might imagine, particularly at a school ... 's shifted how I approach leaving the house. I can't just go home for lunch ... When I leave for the night day [annotation note="Am I dating myself with

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

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  that my exposure was off for the entire process, and my film was nearly ... more modern tech in the form of a Canon 70D. For our final project, we ... [/caption] 4. Create a shot list for each scene. Have a list of all of the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  talk about a lot of music for a lot of time. But I will leave it at that ... , would sometimes be the only person cheering for the heel, or villain. In ... a week on a black and white TV. He always rooted for the hero, and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Pirates and Pi and Rats and Pie and Rats (except there are no rats) 3.1415926535897932384626433832795… idk the rest.

  

  blog at some point. Our class has been planning for weeks to do a ... , a replacement MechE class for 2.00B, Toy Design, which didn't runt his ... definition of any sea song"]Chanties[/annotation] for the last third of class

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 23, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  old brownstone beautiful for another century! Or at least for the next ... as well. I'm back at the tΞp work bench looking for a bigger flathead ... It's work week at [annotation note="pronounced 'Xi' like the Greek

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  eternal dissatisfaction wish i could write more, care less

  

  summer i hit my ceiling of the amount of things i can work on at once that ... things, it's just hard to enjoy them all at once. two here's an example. one of my recent personal projects is cfish, a web app for playing the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 12, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Celeste the best video game i've played in months

  

  found too hard. Celeste allows you to play at a pace that's good for you ... convinced me to play it. I've had a copy for a while now from one of those ... for jump, climb, dash. The complexity arises with how these simple

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 13, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At times it seemed ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish ... terrified me. When I looked at students that got into schools like MIT I felt

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Railroad reading A Thursday evening book review that nobody really asked for.

  

  ?" It rocked. Today Sam's Mom and I went for cheesesteak at my favorite ... gave me plenty of great recipes for Apple Bake, Burton-Conner's annual ... Bravo at MIT, so this evening I watched Battle of the Network Reality

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.009 Final Presentation Recap Flashing lights, a live horse, social robots, great music, clouds of steam and lots of…

  

  at the correct or incorrect pace required for optimal steam or UV ... Engineering students at MIT, and we cannot thank him enough for everything he ... time constraint. It had to tie in somehow to the class theme for the

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / Classes

  Collections Simple

  

  difference. The professor starts each class with deep breathing (4 BPM). At ... crosswords. I started doing research at MIT's SuperUROP program in modeling ... the first-ever friend I made at MIT, which I think we both needed. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 23, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Dating Is Hard anon has some feelings to share

  

  I had been dating for maybe a month at that point, my romantic mind ... something to strive for) wanted to release this into the world, as it has been ... pages of MIT Confessions, I applaud him for writing more meaningful words

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 7, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  found that your busy lifestyle leaves little time for reading for pleasure ... couch reading books for upwards of six hours a day sometimes. Figure 1 ... them!) and my (incomplete) list of 10 books for this coming summer

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  To give you a flavor (well, many flavors) for what MIT students do ... bridges' structural integrity, what are your goals for the summer? I had ... 've pretty much given up on the first one at this point (I am a shameless comic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014