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• Blog / Advice

  Parental advice, revisited… a self-referential throwback, that is somehow, still relevant

  

  ’t say that participation will smooth the path for admission, but any of ... , and the positive developments attributed to “getting out of the way ... makes sense, given my role.  Many of those requests, understandably, come

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  . Varieties of oatmeal Starting with the basics: breakfast, lunch, and snacks on ... cinnamon and a small amount of allspice on top. If you have time, microwave ... . 41. Hard boiled eggs For when you’re kind of hungry and it’s 4 am on

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

  The November Rule parete legi novembri

  

  't feel like I have any idea of what's going on at MIT, but the fact is that I do ... and coming out on the other side okay - and after November, of course ... ' experiences with freshman fall lie on the scale of "it was a little rough to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Language What Learning Chinese at MIT has meant to me

  

  largely looked like me. A lot of us are poor, black, and had lost any long ... language, and to a larger extent culture. For many of my friends, language is ... culture, a sense of history and background that I simply did not possess or

  • by Ben O. '19
  • February 26, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  alone in cologne homesickness, better late than never

  

  only one of us truly overcome with sadness. She’d squeeze tighter and ... on his German years as one of the best periods of his life. From a ... sense of independence and exploration. For my dad, watching me leave Texas

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • June 26, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this...and ... and a bunch of youtubers made up these storylines that they act out ... crying. kellen: *sigh* I don’t know how helpful any of this was, but we

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wide-Eyed meet the therapist hanging above my bed.

  

  very strongly in the 1960s culture of sex, drugs, and rock and roll. He was almost more well known for the number of wives he had (five!) and ... instead of 15 times, and I basically had a heart attack right then and there

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • October 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poems Robert Creeley today.

  

  , white ice cream on top of it, and I eat it-- Slowly. And while certainly ... . This semester, with two of them, Roman History (21H.302) and Reading ... headwaiter puts the bill, and very soon after rings out the sound of lively

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  Computation Structures, and I’m an active member of a fraternity on campus. Tell ... great chance to get outside and watch some fire athleticism on Roberts and ... lacrosse, I’m also a member of Greek life, a senior chair on the Chem

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Keeping it Green On a visit to NYC, I learned a little about environmentally friendly housing.

  

  unassuming, only the giant blue solar panels on the roof give any indication of ... break, I took large bites out of the Big Apple on my two visits to New ... her high school, Stuyvesant, and on the way there she pointed out the

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 10, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the stairs on the second floor and walk through the lobby. I could've waited ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Breakfast with a Genius Okay, so I stole the genius joke from Bryan. But it's still true.

  

  's eight), and there definitely isn't any shortage of options. Back in May ... . Each student has to take a certain number of HASS - Humanities, Arts, and ... HASS classes here, and these were the classes that didn't have any

  • by Keri G. '10
  • October 28, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  EAPS Field Trip In which I pretend to be Course 12 for a weekend

  

  forwarded me this email: Greetings, On Saturday September 13th and Sunday ... . This trip is intended for all members of the MIT community and will involve a brief introduction to the geology of Massachusetts and visits to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Machine Shops, Part 2 Really, there are a lot of machine shops.

  

  the FIRST shop (the easternmost building on all of campus, and a huge ... , Part 1 There are a lot of machine shops on campus, so in my massive ... you can use your imagination, and I'll just describe some of the other

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Upside-Down Letters We will get to the bottom of whatever caused this error, that much I can…

  

  To those of you who received your letters printed upside-down on the ... inexcusable and all of us are beside ourselves in embarassment and frustration ... think of - that we really do care. Not that you owe me any favors, but I

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman Fifty-Seven Back and Busy for Semester 2

  

  the next few months with 57 units of courses: On February 6th, the ... grapefruit, and sat in front of my Real Analysis class (18.100A) for a solid ... seems to be a real mix of different year students in there, and I don

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • February 9, 2018
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  whole foods, and went home. It was an awesome adventure, and I'm so ... and bartenders at the fancy Craigie on Main restaurant/bar teach MIT ... . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ Wait list answers to your questions

  

  1100 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of ... many people are on the wait list? We offered less than 4% of applicants a spot on the wait list. Not all of those students will choose to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 16, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  FAQ: Waitlist answers to your questions

  

  1050 students this year. Based on our estimates of the percentage of ... many people are on the waitlist? We offered approximately 3% of applicants a spot on the waitlist. Not all of those students will choose to

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 15, 2014