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• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  the answer to any of these question is yes, I'm about to make your year ... random men sitting in front of me who decided to get absolutely shitfaced ... for the night to get dinner and see a couple of the most famous

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Long Overdue Q&A Post Sorry for the delay!

  

  seriously considering playing in college. Athletics are one of many ways to ... needed to. On collegeboard.com's website, there is an option to send scores ... and score.)" part to list all of mine. There are only 12 spaces! Ahhh

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  kindness friday and affording myself a little bit of grace

  

  .  But let’s go a bit further back, to that Monday, the precipice of the ... the other two exams I had to handle. So, what did I do instead of ... you know what? I think I deserve to show myself a bit of kindness after

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • March 26, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  students who have served in the armed forces and students who have spent the ... number #1 overall winner of international Olympiad competitions, and many hundreds more who have never heard of international Olympiad competitions (I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m Still Here (for now) quick reflections on the last ten years

  

  MIT in the fall of 2015, I’ve taken the trip from New York to Boston ... of it, but I could only rely on myself to assuage the crushing fear of ... . Its coastal views of the northeast are familiar to me, and its spotty Wi

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  This week’s Questions Omnibus

  

  because of your scientific passion and not just to get into college. Nick ... , people who are more serious about martial arts tend to work with one of the ... am brief and to the point with my answers! Questions answered by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 15, 2005
• Blog / Uncategorized

  i became british for a summer featuring an internship at bristol robotics lab

  

  ! Part of what I liked so much about the job was that I got to see and help ... pretense of also wanting to help do the daily crossword puzzles. [caption id ... Anika and here are all my hobbies and interests” from force of habit

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 18, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Middle School To those who are having or have had a bad experience

  

  , school B, that our mom wanted us to go to more because she heard a lot of ... mostly not talking to anyone outside of class, gave us the reputation of ... , we were both scared and even averse to the idea of our reputation

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 16, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  rice cooker cooking or, how to cook for yourself with zero skill

  

  measured like four cups of rice, filled it water up to the line that said "4 ... . Apparently you can add it to lots of other things too. Was it good? Yes ... -worthy pictures of good cooking. So here is your license to cook imperfectly, and to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 19, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  day in my life except it’s a live blog

  

  of everything im doing that i don't have time to really stop and process what exactly is happening to me. it's an incessant ray of energy ... life here. this is a lot of words to say that i've been neglecting my

  • by Victor D. '27
  • December 7, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What is a zonotope? yes this is a post about math

  

  [annotation note="What do these colors remind you of? Google? The MBTA ... ."]zonotopal[/annotation] tiling—a way to dissect the zonotope into pieces, each of which are a ... made sure to use the color of the corresponding vector. Here’s a somewhat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  relatively easy years of high school seem to fly by; SAT’s, ACT’s, TGIF’s, BYOB ... go to M-I-expletive-T, a girl thinks to herself on the first day of ... answers excitedly on their way back to Baker House (i didn’t get any of

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Womanhood

  

  , but they’re also things I’ve chosen to carry with me; they’re part of me ... lilt of my voice and the curl of my hair. I’ve chosen to be the man ... the series of steps required to charm South Asian parents. Dress in a

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • October 28, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  of it I remember. 6.006 - Introduction to Algorithms; One of my major ... what it means to be a fan of something and how fan cultures change and ... from 7th grade to junior year of high school scouring different fandoms

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  personally). Read on for lots of Q & A. Before I do that, though, I'd like to ... there, as well as some here, made me think of something to post: namely ... request the name of some other nearby EC who'll be happy to talk with you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes, musicals, teaching, research, sports, and wisdom tooth surgery. I think I can I think I can I think I can I think I…

  

  combination of Percocet and Ibuprofen, and am proud to say that today I graduated to eating an entire stick of string cheese. It's just as well, because I need fuel for the TRULY OBSCENE AMOUNT OF WORK I HAVE TO DO OVER

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  of your choice. Also, I'm kinda trying to hype myself up over the successes of my freshman fall. When I stopped to breathe between psets, I ... to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  undergrads, none of us having been to India before. After two days of touring ... students to MIT lingo, or enduring the horrors of [annotation note="https://catmario.eu/"]Cat Mario[/annotation], I couldn’t have asked for a better group of people to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  to wait six months for it to come in). Like many of the members of the ... is the runway, and you start to think to yourself, "In the event of a ... is green for the line of cars parallel to you, go! If the light is

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the ... stopped to watch (and take pictures) of the fun: Not sure how much fun this ... , we decided to get the hell out of there. Soon after this, we were told

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005