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• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  risk for wildfires; in the event that something looked off, they’d send a ... campus and NOT chill… for every friend i have whose IAP itinerary somewhat ... little sidequests, our paths mainly crossing for dinner in a dorm lounge or

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  to simply use for their next year at college or spend on themselves ... to farmers. I asked Hassan for pictures of the chicken farm and hE SEn ... graduating (aside from the chicken farm!) and reached out to him for this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  How to (Im)properly Get an Independent Study another step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  sends you an email! Hooray! Set up a meeting with the grad student for ... For our very last semester at MIT, and our very last course 6 class ... the list we made in this post. Come up with an idea for a project

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  dropped a pillow onto the floor and left four hairs on the bed. For the next ... , or at least they were smooth enough for human eyes and neat enough for ... , correcting for smaller damages. “—and a perfectly good reason. Well, did you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A World of Pure Curation an interview with holly h. 18'

  

  for the month of February, was created and curated by her (with some art ... because it was like the day before, and so I Googled “How to Name your ... ’s really hard for me; it seems really Meta to me to not only make a body of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • April 5, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  17,707 words writing at night like you're running out of time

  

  you’re feeling like you need that, scroll below the bullet points for ... for me in a way that I haven’t done since college applications: reflective, personal, and trying to get people to accept me for something

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • October 24, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Answers to the many questions left in the comments of McGann's Factors.

  

  for fall 2006. I need to know whether my school needs to send a ... Nicole R asked, "What is the policy for supplementary material when applying? Can I send any?" Yes. We're happy to accept extra materials if you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  paid around $450 for it, which is like way less than what I would have paid for a new computer with comparable specs. Also it ran Windows 7 ... coding pset at MIT and every pset afterwards for three years. It ran my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  the art of trying new things exploring new clubs, making new friends, and doing the things i was afraid to do

  

  slide presentation, case, and behavioral. For slides, they send you a case ... One of my goals for my sophomore year was to do all the things I was ... , failures, and experiences in between. For starters, my past few couple weeks

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Whole 6.270 Story Where LEGOs take over my life.

  

  right gear train so I stumbled for a while, sending sporadic and desperate ... interested in being on a team with him for a LEGO robot competition during IAP ... $50 registration fee later I was enrolled in 6.270 for IAP. The

  • by Snively '11
  • February 3, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Major, Course 6-9 computation and cognition

  

  for Future Course 6-9s Memes Individually, "Course 6" refers to ... sheep brain. After camp, I forgot about neuroscience for a while, until ... enthralled by the vast opportunities that computer science could unlock for me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  for this but he describes it as easily the craziest four hours. They ... [annotation note="it’s a 4W tradition to celebrate the birthdays for all the ... resolved to come prepared next time. We had planned for people to go over

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  A Late Recap of IAP 2020 externing at Microsoft, baking butter mochi, and more!

  

  IAP for short. It's an excellent chance to do whatever you want! If you ... implement them as modules for Microsoft's open-source privacy toolkit. At the ... (snack bar, a fridge of cold drinks, and plenty of machines for various hot

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 6, 2020
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  , to work together and find opportunities for both countries to benefit ... administration came under sharp criticism for collaborating with a regime that ... concerns about the message MIT sends by publicly courting government regimes

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January Blues living alone, daily grind, angsty music

  

  that most people don't know beforehand what they're optimizing for/how to quantify all their choices, and there is a post hoc rationalization for ... , and I'm in regular contact with my friends, sending out dispatches about

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... . (Sidenote, for reference: "normal" courseload is 48 units, and one unit is ... developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  's always conversation surrounding it, if you want to look for it. so i wasn ... . for one, software engineering apps feel very silly. instead of crafting a good application for a dozen or so carefully selected universities

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] STARS@MIT: A Year in Review By Claire S. '25

  

  for advice in my small town. That’s why I’m so excited to share what ... U.S. with programs tailored specifically for small-town and rural ... the right fit for us. So as we wrap up our first full academic year of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • April 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Latest Innovation at MIT Guest Blog: Social engineering with the Black Student Union's Co-Chair, Rasheed A. '17

  

  , helped start a yearly Black pre-frosh fly-in weekend for Ebony Affair — the ... Missouri, Yale University, and Ithaca College. For the first time since the ... stood silently for a photo. We had more allies than we thought.  

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

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

  

  [annotation note="occasionally 36 hours for some other hackathons. the point is that ... /or hardware. We run two hackathons every year — one in the spring for high ... apply!), and one in the fall for ~1000 undergraduates. Our Fall hackathon

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 17, 2024