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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 2) notes from the second day

  

  the trip; I have some plans for the layover at Union Station, but we ... good at sleeping on them."]spent my entire life training for this moment ... was woken up only twice: once at 2 AM, partially by the cold and by the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Spoofy Spooky Stories MIT is ~haunted~

  

  pset with friends in your dorm lounge or at Stud 5, but this week you ... floor of the Infinite. You glance at your phone, to see a 4am Slack ... schedules fall into utter disarray at MIT. While some of my friends never

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 31, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  psychotic or clinical depression (at least in the ‘90s, when “anhedonia” was ... have felt that way at times, like there is a horror trying to claw its ... excitable little girl. My father told me all at once over the phone, and I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning: Lightning Round six eminent faculty on educational technology innovations

  

  , showcasing fascinating educational developments at MIT and beyond, here.  Note ... at MIT. What follows are summaries of each presentation. But first ... -year undergraduate experience at MIT, which include leading a for-credit project

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Me Anything! Responses life and admissions

  

  offer, and if it is right for you. I can think of at least one excellent ...  studying social sciences at MIT on the MIT Admissions page. Below are some questions ... ? Confession: no. At first, MIT was my #1. When I first moved to the U.S., the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  idea of blogging about the Muslim community at MIT for a while now. To be ... of the most amazing women I’ve met at MIT. Throughout the past year ... day-to-days and what it means to be a Muslim woman at MIT.  

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  liquid nitrogen and everything else 🐸

  

  started playing for about an hour a night, working through the archives at an unsustainable rate. It can be hard to mark time at Mathcamp. For ... the blurry weeks in my head. This year, camp was at Lewis and Clark

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 9, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  starting at 4:18 PM GMT, and we will see what is to come. gmt. greenwich ... is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... school assignment process. heck, i'm in the UK right now looking at a whole

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will ... who studies law at Cambridge!"]Nicole [/annotation]visited me from ... graduated and did a semester at Auckland by then – I'd experienced university

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  new york without i*stagram who are you performing for?

  

  i’m starting this entry at an airport at 5am. sometimes waking up way ... culture felt underwhelming and couldn’t improve my opinion of the place. at ... best fits and beaming at the camera. there’s always a lot of energy in

  • by Janet G. '27
  • December 29, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to succeed in business without really trying on leadership, being bad at things, and musicals

  

  upperclassmen engagement. Second, I am pretty good at assessing a situation and ... listen and follow along with the rest of the band and the actors at the ... ."]IAP,[/annotation]because there hadn't been an orchestra at all the previous semester—there's that

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 18, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what I did this semester in broad strokes!

  

  up at the end of every semester: learning more from my classes ... ![/caption] At a high level, 2.004 introduces the analysis and control of open and ... temperature of a room. If we want to be at 67°F but our room is currently at 70

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • January 5, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  A few weeks ago, I visited a friend at Harvard. She snuck me into the ... visiting Seattle last month, making dinner at my friend Alex’s house, August ... they invented this emoticon at carnegie mellon on september 19,  1982

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  COPENHELL a giant metal fest in Denmark 🤘🏽

  

  get a tattoo (apparently at the metal fests in Scotland, which are ... = "I will add, however, that the toilet situation at Copenhell was one of the best I’ve ever seen at any large event. The toilets consistently

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 28, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Pursuing CS as a (near) beginner being a prospective CS major with little programming experience

  

  engineering and robotics because I was also interested in those things. At one ... school. CS can be hard for beginners, more so at MIT, so I'm at an area ... University of Alabama at Birmingham is a popular choice that people from my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  长大 on family, thanksgiving, and growing up

  

  lot of what I believe reflected back at me. It counts to put in the ... at home. I remember being completely out of place, and wondering why ... to visit my friends at Harvard, I felt even more out of place there. To

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 28, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  person I got into a relationship with at MIT is now my boyfriend :) We ... at a fencing practice last year: “This is MUCH less sexual if you ... that I enjoy eating, that’s going to be hard. I also want to be better at

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Wood Grain [Library at the Instituto Internacional] Classes were held at ... the Metro. At the time of my visit, the Glass Palace, which is inside ... public and can actually be entered, though at the time of my visit, it was

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Black Lives Matter until they don't.

  

  . Suddenly, I was at the airport, hugging everyone as tightly as I could ... ’m done at the post office, I’m walking down Central Square feeling pretty ... even. I’m almost at my dorm when I hear someone screaming, “Hey! HEY!” I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • July 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  looked at you with furrowed brows and a surprised look. Why? Why I ... published, at least not until the later stages of the novel, a hundred ... fast, seemed sort of normal at the time. I write with every chance I get

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014