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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  ,[annotation note='fyi i ran this blog by him to make sure it’s all good']so I’ve ... come up. It would’ve been disappointing for us to book housing and plan ... that we could’ve taken, but we thought it’d be more gratifying solely

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

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  to unpack with a gap year, so I’ve broken it up into 2 parts. Three ... purely just me taking a break and lounging around, that would’ve been ... about that because we should’ve paid, and would've, but alas. I am not

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  and understand because I've taken 6.009 and 6.006 so it's nice to be ... method. It was cool to learn about A* in a class, especially since I've ... -focus but just in general. I've never been the strongest writer in any means

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  thoughtfulness, and I saw, more than I’ve seen in Chicago, Moscow, or Cambridge ... still is grasping at the moral, peaceful way of life we’ve grown used to ... , but I’ve lived through other forms of abuse, and I’m still trying to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  is a good topic for the "completely option" essay about something you've ... chances? I've got 730 for critical reading and 780 for math for SAT I (new ... , fill it out with the things you've achieved, even if they don't seem so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  Finally, I Wrote a Post about Grad School "grad's cool"

  

  [/annotation] and yet so different from anything else I've done. This post contains ... to do next. Now that I've spent the last few years in "science," I ... "wearing blazers," but now that I've dabbled in those a little as a result of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 30, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  gotten worse at it. This is the first year that I've ever competed ... research until the very end of this post. The thing that I've realized about ... the projects I've worked on in the last year include: misinformation

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  out bound is as good as one could've hoped for. Exercise: Find an ... you. Struggle through this. Struggle through this. Now that I've gotten ... of years at MIT I've felt like I've ignored why that bothers me. I've

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  . I think it would almost be true to say that I've tried all the flavors ... pandemic. Over the course of this project, I've also come to realize that ... ones that I've seen and eaten numerous times as a child in Canada

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  ready to rumble. Nothing much else to say right now; after all, I’ve been ... don’t. It’s probably the best train waiting area I’ve been in, which is ... standard. In the meantime, though, I’ve got four hours until my train at 2 PM

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21W.762 Poetry Workshop some poems from the class!

  

  Barrett. I've always wanted to learn how to write poetry, being too afraid ... classes I've taken here at MIT and 21W.762 is no exception. It's a great ... wanted her to cut it and see me in the mirror.   I've loved again

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  a conversation with my mom at 1 am about cacti, writing, meche, and chess

  

  mountainsides like trees. I got the tattoo to remember the desert. I’ve been ... . And I’ve worked to teach myself since then, by getting my [annotation ... machines in MITERS, but I’ve used all the machines at least once.” I have

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  I’m Too Old To Be Like This…but that we’d fix it together. I’ve spent ... metaphorical one on after almost two years of physically masking up. I’ve just ... trackers for all my commonly misplaced items. I’ve gotten mostly back to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  I tried. I’ve never felt like that before, and it was scary! Your ... struggled, gave me time to learn, and supported me even when I must’ve looked like a total dunce on paper. If I hadn’t reached out, it would’ve ended

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  meetings, but I’ve also gotten extensive one-on-one help from older members ... classmates as I do from members who’ve already graduated. I truly feel like I ... they’ve dealt with on RT. Not to mention, RT Design Reviews are a lot

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Thoughts for the New Year, part 4 the finale

  

  . So on the brink of every new year since then, I've made a post updating ... the niche I've found! And of course, we can't forget Sidequest 4. So all ... similar love to the one I have for research, and is the reason that I've

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 31, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a major road to trouble exploring interests as a baby beaver

  

  vast majority of my existence as a human bean, I’ve loved medicine and ... design I’ve been wanting to take way before even applying to MIT. Since it ... intro class to the field. In the class, we’ve had many interesting

  • by Waly N. '24
  • November 23, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  What a Robotics Career Looks Like What does it mean to get paid to work on robots?

  

  you think about it, a very abstract term. I’ve always found it funny ... jobs I’ve had, and is not particular to any specific one (to avoid ... technique I’m not familiar with. You’ve probably done this for your parents

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 14, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  , though! I’ve been meaning to do some sort of college essay post while I ... it and b. It timestamps every single edit you’ve ever made on the ... later and still think, “Hey, that’s pretty good”, that’s when you know you’ve

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Watch the Tea with Teachers Video Series! and learn about the wonderful students behind it

  

  have some pretty good stories! And they've all made mistakes and are like ... 's not a professor who we've interviewed, the hope is that the concept of ... : I don't like tea. Relationships with professors: I've been really

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017