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• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  adventures, I feel more at home overseas and traveling abroad than at home ... going to a shisha café (see a theme?). My flight was at 8am on New Year ... January 2 in the early – very early – morning, at 3:30am. I was back in

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  places at mit (favorite) places (to work/study)

  

  the buildings are numbered, and at first glance, the ordering of the ... student, you might be very confused at this point. But if you've spent ... , are confusing at first, but makes talking with other MIT students and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 27, 2017
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... into this category.) I go grocery shopping at either Whole Foods or ... of you following at home), since they're only open for dinner anyway

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  how to obtain any glass. The furnace is kept at around 2,000 degrees ... ’re working on it. Practice session 1: Necklines, an attempt at a snowman ... would most likely fail and all his snowman friends would laugh at him for

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

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  . Another non-trivial difference between academics at Cambridge and MIT is the ... your knowledge. At Cambridge there is significantly less graded ... assignment at the end of term where you have to meet with the corresponding

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  , I expected to get lost at some point. Everything is so new! Psets ... I go all the way back home at all during the day?, will I have TIME

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  chance to catch finals breakfast at home.  This way, we can ensure that people are eating at least once a day. MIT is really supportive during

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fashion Design at MIT calling all fashionistos and fashionistas [pictures inside!]

  

  Fashion is, evidently, alive and thriving at MIT (we're not just a bunch of nerds who always wear hoodies and jeans!). Tonight, Kappa Alpha ... usually performs in snuggies and Waldo costumes (check them out at one of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  written and looking at resumes. Alex G. ‘15 was also playing video games ... . Molly was reading a textbook. Jacobi was watching YouTube, bored at desk ... brave. (Eli hoped to go from “Not knowing how a computer works at all to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  just wants to perform at the Duke's upcoming wedding. Last, the story ... human boy up on her own, as best she can; Oberon is furious at her refusal ... new interpretations that wouldn't seem apparent at first glance. Like

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  I haven’t blogged much at all this year. I remember how happy I was ... much at all. I didn’t have enough time. That’s what this post is about ... doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Night at da Opera A Jolly Splendid Time!!

  

  class looks at moral and social questions concerning the human experience ... Goddess” at Jordan Hall in Boston. Luckily, it wasn't four hours straight of ... their husbands until they end the war. At first this seemed stupid, since

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 1, 2025
• Blog / Events

  look at the stars hacking mit, six months at a time

  

  HackMIT, the club I sold my soul to at the beginning of freshman fall and ... , aka HackMIT, is the biggest hackathon at MIT and one of the biggest in ... my soul to HackMIT at the start of freshman fall. I was head of

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  Somalia. At least one student from Iran was already denied boarding a flight ... flag on the Moon. At the same time, and without the slightest sense of ... policies announced Friday tear at the very fabric of our society. I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... want to live a calm life and do a little science while I'm at it. We had

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  MIT is, at the very least, interesting when it comes to biology. You ... biology and if it weren’t for 7.01x being a GIR (a required class at MIT ... have had a lot of interesting conversations at my fraternity about how T

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  , there’s a little nerve in the very back of her head and at the tips of her ... to lose sleep to help her. Again. Or, at least, that’s what she thinks ... way it works is pretty simple: for your first semester at MIT, you get

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Curbing Hunger at MIT food for thought

  

  Facebook (given that you check Facebook semi regularly), you can get at least ... on a meal plan at MIT, then this one is pretty much a given. You ... vague idea of how it worked. For one, yes, you can still eat at them even

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Finding heritage at MIT

  

  that I wouldn't have wanted to switch high schools, since leaving it at ... be able to LARP (or a regular basis, not just at Cons) or act in ... politics event] happened there". I know my room has at least one interesting

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 4, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends at college Lots of 'don't's and a couple of 'do's.

  

  thoughts about making friends at college. Don't It was sometime in the middle ... extracurricular commitment, then rushed home at 8:30-9pm or so, to finally get some ... , I need familiarity. At that moment, the novelty of college and MIT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 2, 2011