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• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  I was looking at the calendar a few days ago and thought to myself ... months seemed to pass by in no time at all. Between studying, traveling ... quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  have stuff to do at work. Unless you're working 16 hours a day plus ... of pulling all-nighters at MIT have trained you into a super ... chromatograms at the drop of a hat. There will come a time when there are just no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics If you want to come to MIT, you'd better learn a thing or two about…

  

  I do understand that human beings are not intuitively good at ... showing, among other things, that people in general are terrible at ... bad at statistics doesn't mean I'll accept that as an excuse from you as

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 1, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Andi and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Week :(

  

  severe enough that I decided to get it checked out at MIT Urgent Care. I ... doctor took one look at me and diagnosed me with [annotation note="This isn ... best idea I’ve had at MIT"]I even went to all my classes on Tuesday

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • March 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Red Bull Gives You (Paper) Wings airplanes, astronauts, and austria: a monday night boston qualiflyer

  

  professional Mean Girl, and I have come to be at peace with that. I have been ... the categories at each qualiflyer. Distance and hangtime are measured by ... finalists earn a spot in the Global Finals at Hanger-7, in Salzburg, Austria

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 8, 2015
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  ] I committed to MIT a couple of weeks ago, so my main goal at CPW was ... variety of events at each dorm was completely overwhelming, so I started ... -1556001363.mp4"][/video] Thursday [Ankita] I arrived at CPW around 10:30 and

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  is on Wednesday. At Seattle, we're crashing at the Phi Kappa Sigma ... brothers had previously stayed at Phi Pools while he interned at Microsoft ... sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  publication in a peer-reviewed journal? Or at least a patent? I know MIT kids ... didn’t shake out that way. “Come on, at least tell me you presented at a conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  —they radiate heavy grad student energy. I imagine hunched over adults sitting at ... biologists are usually pretty good at. It might be all the figures and ... the murky figures at the top which remind me of [annotation note

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Brains, Voltaire’s Son, and Other MIT Things Notes from the Start of Junior Year

  

  It’s the start of my third year here, and once again I am smiling at ... inevitably there is at least one final post by a student in their final year at ... ’m taking two classes at Harvard this semester, and one of them is in an

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  instead of only one weekend. But try your best to go to CPW or to at least ... experiences ever. My favorite events at CPW included smashing things at East Campus, laser mazes at Epsilon Theta, sword fighting at Simmons, and liquid

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  academic opportunities at school when you're, well, at school; it's decidedly ... much different than the sort of thing you'd find at your local YMCA ... . Thankfully though, I had just enough exposure at home to find myself not

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  celebrations and fireworks. I kept a blog (which you can read at gabehikestheat ... fundraising. The hike (called the Appalachian Trail, or AT) itself was ... to take this space to connect what happened out there to my future at

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  actually not too heavy on the wallet at all: $15 gas tolls: $3.60 x 2 = 7 ... not too much. You should see MIT students try to split the bill at a ... reasonable for eight hours at a theme park. Actually, it was just about worth

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  love letter to the ‘tute miss miss miss

  

  this spring, i am doing a study abroad semester at Imperial College ... felt like this was sort of my last real semester at MIT. this is ... requirements. i did a [annotation note="everyone at MIT has to take two

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 21, 2024
• Blog / Residential Life

  Don’t Stop Believing you can take the east camper out of east campus but...

  

  Don't Stop Believing, the last song played at every EC party. Many of my ... dancing for two hours. At midnight, the band said goodnight, but the crowd ... some equipment finagling, they gave in. And someone at the front of the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  avatar a weird metaphor for careers

  

  said something along the lines of:  look at the sandwich you’re eating ... ’s what i see every time i look at the world. everywhere i look, i see the ... look at all the previous avatars and say “nope, sorry, this line of work

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Things I Know to Be True Introductions and peanut butter Oreos

  

  hard. Unequivocally. That's harder to stomach. These are certain. Or at ... . Today, I am eighteen years old. I've been at MIT for a month. I don't know ... what one believes to be true is the key to understanding at all. So, in

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • September 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Starting Over it feels like this every time but this time it's different

  

  Every fall at MIT has felt like a new beginning. My freshman fall ... requirements to mostly [annotation note="these were course 6 classes at the time ... “new” people at either meeting"]old,[/annotation]but everything felt new

  • by Alex M. '21
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Leadership @ MIT (from a froshy perspective)

  

  students I met through those clubs, I'm barely involved at all with their ... offer. But at the same time, there were downsides. By the end of senior ... the world than I thought there was.[/annotation] At MIT, or at least in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 3, 2019