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• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Prefrosh: My ‘Year On’ ...and why you should listen to Matt McGann. [by Vicky Thomas '12]

  started MIT if I hadn't deferred) was one of the main reasons I was first ... projects all over the world. There are a whole slew of these pay ... one of the best decisions I've made in a while. Before I dive into what

  • by mitblogs
  • April 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Biking the bridge I biked across the Golden Gate bridge to Sausalito

  

  the bridge, and carry them up a steep set of stairs on the other side. The best part of the whole thing was taking this picture. Sausalito ... hardest part on the whole route was once we had crossed the bridge. We had

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  PE classes are…great!? catch me at the 2028 summer olympics

  

  when the Z has the Johnson Ice Rink up (instead of Johnson track for ... -obsessive amount of time to look through the course catalog and major requirements ... a syllabus just gets me going idk."]to itch the little part of my

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I ... what the club actually does) UROPs (to try different areas of research ... are slowly becoming an adult In part, the fact that so much of your

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  head above the water (intro post) an inner dialogue about my first month of classes

  

  I could slowly ease into the shallow end of the pool feet first so I ... trips down and back. I only made it down half of the lane when I grabbed onto a lane divider, gasping for breath as chlorine stung the back of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  . First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from ... Coffeehouse 1369 in Central Square with one of my favorite persons in the world

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is just a tribute I wrote a really long, funny entry. And then my browser window reloaded.

  

  annoyed. Shout out To Tommy, who was one of the leads in Pickerington HS ... both the single and dual moguls portions of Sunday River's Bust 'n' Burn ... get psyched CPW is probably my third-favorite time of the year (after

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Give MIT Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences a Chance Yultide Day 5

  

  This week, I am fulfilling my dream of taking over the Admissions page with a series of six consecutive posts. I am calling the takeover ... experts in the field, and often the world at large. And all of the HASS

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 31, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Anyway, this happened: 1.5 pages later, the moral of the story was ... impassively toward night, the last hanging breaths of August condensed into ... estimates, I caught six different strains of flu on the way home at 6:30 pm

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  4th, 2017, the first day of class, in the basement library of the ... walking tour of downtown Madrid on the first weekend, taking a group of ... Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Behind the scenes of Glamour: Part 2 A recap of three incredible days

  

  wined and dined and stayed in a fancy hotel, the beauty of the whole event ... , they were all venues of festivities to celebrate the Glamour Top 10 ... Martha Stewart), in addition to visiting all of the above locales. We not

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  burning out past the finish line

  

  i was finished with school work since about two weeks ago i have lots of things i could be doing and i am not doing any of them because i ... through wikipedia pages and getting information and not doing anything with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 25, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  The Summer Before College (what not to do)

  

  . Countless visits to the local diner to savor every last bite of your favorite ... in the serenity of the people you've grown up with, the people you ... ) pressure to make the most out of that last summer before college. To explore

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 12, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  whole lot of it. And 6.031, the love of my sophomore fall, had an ... Some of the bloggers have written before about the way that music ... screamy songs about the end of the world, perhaps unsurprisingly). I don

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Cleaning A psychoanalysis of the recently deleted folder in my notes app

  

  would be the first of two trips to the ER.   V. 3.091  I think I ... numbers. I have no idea what the first set is, but the "written" at the ... to, I type down some of the lyrics I hear to research it later. Here we

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home sweet violet capital of Ohio We didn't see a stuffed whale, but we did see a bunch of primates. Nonhuman…

  

  write the first draft of the paper if you complete the work in time, how ... , Ohio, which as you may or may not know is the violet capital of Ohio ... scared of flying, and Adam always tells me stories about the tolerances of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 30, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MITES, RSI and WTP deadlines approaching Summer programs at MIT for 11th graders.

  

  The three high school summer programs hosted by MIT -- MITES, RSI ... , engineering, and entrepreneurship. The Research Science Institute (RSI), sponsored by the Center for Excellence in Education and MIT, is a rigorous

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also ... % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources ... disporportionately male when compared to the college-going population as a whole (in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s been 3 weeks the firehose is still alive and kicking

  

  most common notions of love—love at first sight, the implicit sweetness ... It’s some ungodly hour of the day and I feel pretty tired. I’m probably one of the last few people awake, and will soon be crawling to my

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  an unnecessarily long post on how much i like spotify why did i ever think iTunes was good

  

  brought a lot of joy and happiness into my life. If you've read the title ... oh boy this is by far the best piece of technology I interact with on a ... not really knowing what I was in for. And granted, for the first few

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 9, 2018