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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 3) notes from the third day

  

  train: #5, currently on time listening to: 鱼丁糸, “I Don’t Care (鱼版)” Good ... the mountains. I am feeling rejuvenated after a good night’s sleep; I ... forty minutes early, and, although I considered going back to sleep, I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 13, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am looking back fondly on those days, so I want to share how I did it. Maybe ... resources I used, the costs, benefits, and how-to of using them, and tips on

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  ms paint sidequest by kayode and caleb on a monday night

  

  Hallo!  My friend, Caleb M. ‘27 and I are currently in the MIT Student Center, and we need to be working.  I’m currently working on an assignment for 2.007, which was due Sunday night at Midnight. I’ll explain more

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a lesson in the feminine arts aka mfa boston and a rant on enjoying art

  

  Last year when deciding which colleges I wanted to apply to, I had one priority over all else: living on a coast. I'm sorry all states from Utah to Virginia, but there was no way I could go four years without at

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 30, 2024
• Blog / Summer

  bay area parties well, two of them

  

  in the last two weeks, i've been invited to two parties in the bay ... with friends. i had a particular idea of what parties could look like, and the one i attended was, somehow, yet another new experience. on the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 15, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  note="alternatively: horrendous"]challenging.[/annotation] Because I switched majors, I'm currently taking both the course 16 sophomore core ... [/annotation] agreed that this would be hard, but I really would like to graduate

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Burnout (and what to do about it) learning how to recharge a low battery

  

  Revision of the International Classification of Diseases (WHO 2019) I've been ... important things to write about. And, with the summer, I have more time: not spare time, but enough time that I should, in principle, be able to post

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2019
• 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 ... end of a prolonged battle with the flu. * I’m actually not sure about the last two; I just started with ‘relax’ and ‘recharge’ and then felt

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  Hello again, you beautiful goobers. I guess this is not really so extraordinary of an appearance, seeing as I might’ve abused my powers as a blogger ... posts when I was an actual undergrad blogger. That is probably a sub

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  do is guess which of the three things I'm about to say is a lie: 1. I ... .   Truth is…I am Iron Man.  Well, not really.  Not yet.  But I could ... , I have no idea who you are or what you’re like, but I’m here to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Mikey’s Meta TV Post ...In which you find out about the good, bad, and really bad shows I love…

  

  Happy holidays to all! I am writing this post for several reasons, which I will list here (notice that lists will soon become the theme of this post): 1. I have not blogged in quite a while. 2. I finally have a

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  to writing them once a week...I'll just write stuff. About my life and ... questions, so gold stars to them! I'll repost the questions and answers here ... choose to do so, but if you don't choose one (i.e. staple your applications

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I knew two of my best friends would be there, so I caved to peer pressure. Actually, I knew a lot of people who would be there, so I figured I'd stop by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, damn lies, and statistics

  

  I read Ben's entry about the thread on College Confidential (in the ... I decided that the comment would be too long. Because in addition to Ben's entry, I read the thread. I did not know about College

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  This entry chronicles interesting things I did on the middle three days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... about it. I suspect it's because we mostly get new members by telling our

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  I got an email the other day from Professor Patrick Henry Winston ’65 ... Slice of MIT). You may recall his previous guest entry. will.i.am by ... at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  If you asked me before spring break where I like to eat around MIT, I ... MIT for almost four years, I had not yet explored Boston's food scene as ... only visited Boston for a few weeks, knows more places to eat out than I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  At the start of this month, I had the chance to eat at a Studio ... Ghibli fan with an ever-growing collection of Totoro themed objects, I was extremely excited when I heard about the upcoming pop-up from Gilford T '26

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  I’m no cook when it comes to normal food, but if stupid ideas were dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I ... inbox like [redacted], I knew it was showtime.  Every year, during three

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  This year, Jeremy, Nikki, and I were in charge of the Admitted ... , wisdom, and honesty about some of the tough parts of MIT, so I asked him if ... !  Whether or not you're a part of the class of 2028, I think the advice here

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024