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• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what ... . Among other things.” “Sure, I’ll help you eat that whole pan of brownies ... snowmen in the moat of the chapel. We celebrated my birthday

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  , on the first day of the week. (Yes, I am extremely lucky.) So as I sit ... year struggles, I feel like I'm starting to get the hang of this whole ... spent the first three days of dead week doing practically everything else

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back-to-school special i'm a senior now :o

  

  clothes (literally a pile covering the whole floor) in a hot room full of ... , and i also went to the first-ever social action fair, which is a fair organized by the Priscilla King Gray Public Service Center (of MIT) in which

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 17, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  Fortin’ with Mimi Let’s. Talk. About. Queer stuff.

  

  discriminated against in public areas based on gender identity. One of the most ... ://malegislature.gov/Bills/189/Senate/S2407. It’s super short. In November, the people of ... live on East Campus, one of the most visibly queer dorms on campus (the

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • September 18, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  [Joint Post] Build a robot boat with MIT Arcturus! Q&A with Arcturus captain Audrey Chen

  

  first season, and I'm really proud of all the work the team has put in. It ... the forefront of it! This year, we will be building an autonomous boat ... competition this year or the next will depend on the amount of manpower we get

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  capture the huge number of people milling around in caps and gowns. I ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... confused when station 17 left the gym first. I mean, why not just re

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests @ MIT The class average is your friend.

  

  just feel sort of gross about the whole thing. Then you get the test ... 's actually the second question on everybody's mind. The first one is "what are ... 's above the healthy limt of "zero." So I figured now would be a good time to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 6, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Deciding to Live on Campus a 4 month long emotional rollercoaster

  

  trying to boot out of the country, nor do I have any in-person graduation requirements. I actually just want to live on campus. Wild, right? The whole ... the most stressful ones of my life, and is a saga that unfolded over

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 26, 2020
• Blog / Events

  [Joint Post] Avoiding Sunstroke Solar Cars, Solar Stories, Solar Blogs

  

  race, the first of which I wasn’t present for because I had to work my ... put on the gas, and passed every other team before the first stop of the ... first place, a pretty trophy, and got mailed a felt pad for the bottom of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 1, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  I know that folks on the waitlist have lots of questions; hopefully ... the percentage of admitted students who will attend (known as the "yield ... uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Snowy Birthday Party the #IAParty2011 is just beginning

  

    Friday January 7th marked the beginning of MIT’s 150th ... Cambridge to see and remember all the great things that have come out of our beloved MIT in the past century and a half. There are a ton of activities

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • January 18, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  World Suicide Prevention Day Write love on your arms to show support

  

  about it via the MIT Class of 2016 Facebook page today, and people were ... electronics.  The Garment District is one of my new favorite places in Cambridge.  Look at the boots! And here is a picture of my roommate Maggie making

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and one-time workshops, I threw on the wheel for an average of eight ... or the whistling of the city. My destination, Brookline Arts Center ... was hours of pushing wet mud forward; scraping redness off the wheel

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  Finally the year is over. After a week of relaxing, I can finally ... my perspectives of the institute, and I cannot wait to get back to classes in a few months. However, the break from the constant demand of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  definitely don't provide the perspective of the whole Institute, and I'm sure ... perusal in the tome below. Depending how you count, MIT either has a lot of ... something completely different and equally great out of the experience. And

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  't relevant to the post as a whole and because I didn't know a lot of the details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ...  linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  i feel completely fine and maybe that's okay

  

  to handle. For the first time in my life, however, I am unafraid of ... , which is the kind of writing that always makes me want to write my own ... eventually."]instead of getting back to the people I need to get back to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • August 12, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Springtime I actually had no time to write this entry, which is why I cannot explain…

  

  The mildest note of warmness singing through the bipolar whimsy of ... the ones), intimidates the part of my brain that has suffered through ... a thesaurus. Anyway, the same part of my brain happens to be writing

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  This is the time of year where goodbye posts are pretty common on ... ’t sure if I knew the whole story. Understanding how life might be different ... that was close to campus but also allow me the chance to get a first hand

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Below 48 Take under four classes, they said. You'll have free time, they said.

  

  he cancelled the first lecture of the semester with a 2AM email. Why ... first guest of the semester was John Reed, the outgoing Chair of the MIT ... difficulty: the majority of classes are 12 units[1], which is supposed to refer

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • October 19, 2014