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• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  One year ago, Gosha and I embarked on a whirlwind IAP trip across ... ,[annotation note='fyi i ran this blog by him to make sure it’s all good']so I ... France, and ended up in Spain. Because I was asleep, I don’t remember much

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  bursting the MIT Bubble when 🅱️ig 🅱️ome Energy gets too real

  

  essential. in Sloan Business Club's Board Education Program, which I talk ... the MIT Bubble. when i heard this, i realized how unaware of what’s going on in the world i am. i used to be so caught up with everything, but

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Breathe in, breathe out. Wow. I’ve barely had time to breathe let alone blog. I wanted to do an end-of-the-year reflection but thought it ... some are also my own). I’ve collected here some of the responses from a

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  MIT is really cool. MIT has a glassblowing class. I took the ... thinking, “hmm I wonder what happens if the glass gets cold how do you even ... . We were told to make something that has necklines and appendages, so I

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

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  kind of week I've had. Lots of deadlines, meetings, late nights, acne cream. But I can't complain--I've had more than my fair share of fun this ... , or October 31. Three weeks ago, it was October 10, and I was in Houston

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  39 minutes ago, I turned in a pset 2 minutes late (fortunately they ... ? I don't really know either, and it's ben 35 minutes. That said, he just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The ________ Outdoors What do you think goes in the blank?

  

  passion I'm glad I've been afforded the opportunity to develop at MIT, it ... and independent and refreshed, even though I always get (un)lucky enough ... sitting so close to me. I even love it when things go terribly wrong and I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 10, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Neil Gaiman! The uncensored version =P

  

  ). A couple more things he said that I really liked was when he was asked ... . Paraphrased, because I'm too afraid to try to quote directly from memory because he was so eloquent and witty (I sound like such a fanboy

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 24, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Making your college decision May 1st! Have you decided?

  

  people, each imparting their tidbits of knowledge and advice. I was in your ... money and a big research grant, and a state-school with a free-ride. I'll admit that I chose MIT and that the decision (for me) wasn't very

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 28, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Trp

  

  Thanksgiving was a beautiful day here on the East Coast -- I watched ... morning of reading, I had lunch at the Stata Center (or Building 32, or ... shaping up nicely (sorry, I didn't have a camera with me). And across Main

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  Unfortunately I don't think I will be talking about the duality ... maybe I will later this month/semester we will see). But this is a post ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  It's been roughly a little under 2 months since I moved onto campus. Instead of having an actual intro, I'll cut to the exciting stuff. So, here ... MIT, I took a train, which was a rather nice mode of transportation

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Orgo and physics and math, oh my 57 units of academic fun fun fun. Now with humanities!

  

  some reason, I've always been fascinated with schedules, calendars ... the fact that I was taking classes I was genuinely interested in, plus a ... back during IAP, before I'd started having to actually do any work for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / Events

  A Break from Break I went to the Undergraduate Women in Physics Conference at Yale. And I'm blogging about…

  

  I've missed mystery hunt every year so far. Freshman year I found ... moldy. By Sunday I'd had been well enough to visit first east's team headquarters in building 12. I left after 5 minutes and returned with a can of

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to convey a few revelations I’ve had recently. This was adapted from an essay

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  name is Ben Jones and I work in the MIT admissions office. My job, among other things, is to manage this site. I write stuff, I edit stuff, I design stuff, I format stuff, I code stuff. I try to keep my finger on the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  I often receive requests for advice about the college process. It ... , the underlying question is almost always some variation of “How do I ... , I responded to one such inquiry with the following: While there are a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  friday afternoon in the town of beans i'm freeeeeeeeeeeee

  

  [annotation note="By yesterday I mean Thursday. I was hoping I could ... from classes with a [annotation note="i ate so much fruit. soooo much fruit."]study break held by our GRA,[/annotation] I thought, "oh, maybe I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 11, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  blogger wrapped 2021 taking on the legacy

  

  and masha[/caption] this surprised me; i was under the impression i am listening to Spotify constantly. this is not true because i am at the lower ... . jenny and i are really hitting that 2000+ mark huh[/caption] i'm not

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • December 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  A few months into living on my own, my roommates and I have learned ... every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty big fan of it. What I am not a fan of is bugs. So naturally, I was very

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020