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• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty good at answering over the past couple of months. So I've decided to ... French. I'm a little bit of a language nerd and I've been taking Spanish

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  down eraser. At some point I bought cheap erasers in bulk on Amazon. They’ve ... , like my minor, is in writing. I’ve been getting a lot of emails reminding ... walk), from the lovely person behind the desk at The Breathing Room. I’ve

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Events

  eclipse chasing, undergrad edition compilation post by Kano '25, Allison '27, Amber '24, Ali '26, & Audrey '24

  

  doing anything en route), and almost everything that could go wrong might’ve ... under Niagara Falls, watched Poor Things in my living room (that one might've ... I realized, it was a shooting star!! I’ve seen them once before in the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • April 22, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty weeks later a post of galactic proportions

  

  . People got passionate about the theme proposal process. I've seen thousands ... , and the Athletics answers were [annotation note="Apparently they could've ... guiding its development. Editors are volunteers who've either edited

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 6, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  me to Pixar, and I’ve been there since 2009. I worked on Monsters ... we’ve done the safe thing with certain moments, within films, not films ... -wise it is the more films that I’ve studied—and there’s hundreds of films

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  October ‘06 Questions Omnibus Some advice from MIT interviewers, and answers to your questions.

  

  . (3) Interviews and parts of the application: I've interviewed students who've submitted every part of the application BUT the interview, and I've interviewed students who've submitted diddly. The interview is NOT a step in a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  confident, even as I’ve progressed academically, even as I’ve gotten far more comfortable around people and inside my own body. I’ve disappointed a lot of ... tracing, vaccination, and other interventions worked. I've been analyzing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• 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