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• Blog / IAP

  A truly independent activities period A glimpse at some MIT students' IAP plans.

  

  Wonderful Time of the Year”* During IAP, students get to enjoy MIT without ... things in the Hobby Shop, and checking things off of my “101 Things to Do ... technology to address the basic needs of low-income households. In many ways

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 7, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House Showers Bring No Flowers They're just really, REALLY bad showers. Like really, REALLY bad.

  

  It's hard to remember a time during my senior year of high school ... the drain to make you think they'd shaved a small cow. Perhaps worst of ... pretty much it for me. I was going to MIT. I never really entertained any

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 3, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  [guest blog] 1,694 Miles Away by Favianna C. '26

  

  Growing up, I loved to mock tourists. Precisely, of those who would ... the Charles River and stop in the middle of the road to take a picture of the beautiful skyline and fall-colored trees, I think back to my

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 1, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Quick and dirty I freak out a little about graduate school applications, then answer some questions.

  

  I couldn't figure out how to calculate the standard error of my GPA. Then I tried to plot the hours of sleep vs. number of units taken ... also reminds me of the time I tried to track my caffeine intake vs. sleep

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 10, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  The past four weeks, in maps. 3 continents, 4 weeks, 11 planes, made comprehensible.

  

  my absence from the blogosphere explained, using a series of maps. I spent a substantial amount of time at each arrow tip. Where? In order: Purpose of visit: Notable cuisine: More specifically... Pre-IAP: IAP

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of ... out your pink picture grabber to grab pictures. Here are some of those

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a few things from civic media race in sports, human experimentation, and hidden figures

  

  little one-month term to do pretty much whatever they feel like. lots of ... at the beginning of the summer to read and discuss interesting papers ... obligation to test and publish the potential outcomes of something you’re doing

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... reverting to my previous system of scribbling on bits of looseleaf paper, in ... 've ever had to cook for myself, so instead of actually cooking for myself I

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  library book that I need to return, and leave to deliver my cards. One of my ... people ahead of me getting their tickets checked- we had to buy tickets? I ... train. I’m one of the last passengers to get on. Phew. Since I have

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  class was also a 9am-10:30am class on Mondays and Wednesdays. To those of ... of hers. She described to me how it was the first band she remembered ... shifted over time. At first, listening to this new wave music was an act of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Missing documents! FAQ: What happens if part of my application isn't showing up yet?

  

  showing on MyMIT yet AM I DOOMED?") Let me respond to this series of ... The most popular question in all modes of communication -- blog ... and lots of materials, many of which were postmarked before the deadline

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  .42 kilodaltons of carbohydrate, 21.2 kilodaltons of protein) binds to the sweetness receptors of the tongue and activates them in response to acid, making sour ... sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Hartford meeting wrap-up Giving a better answer to a question I was asked in my Hartford meeting.

  

  meeting did it occur to me that he could have been asking about some of our ... opportunity to do real research through UROP, MIT also has a number of exciting ... % of its solar array, and yet still the MIT team was able to finish in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 9, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Omnibus Followup: Women in Engineering Melissa asks what the gender ratio is in engineering at MIT.

  

  crunching the numbers myself to be sure. At MIT, 35% of engineering majors ... , which brings hundreds of companies to recruit MIT students. This isn't to ... Last entry, I covered most of the questions that had been asked, but

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  chat called stitch n bitch! It was full of MIT students who liked to knit ... was able to talk to and learn from a whole new group of people. To my ... about the idea of a club dedicated to various forms of stitching. The

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of ... of their six classes; something I agreed to in the name of optimistic ... quality of “cool and memorable” to certain things was an illusion you’ve now

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to ... have to face some of the major issues that many universities encounter

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  I started MIT as a bubble of idealism. MIT was going to be AWESOME ... life. When I got back to MIT, I came back with a stronger realization of ... 't easy. There were uncountably many bumps. But each of those lead to

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  outreach. The purpose of public outreach is not to just emerge from our labs every couple of months to give a talk, teach some science, spread some ... 's missing one of his front teeth. The typical eight-year-old's look. "I'd just

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... !") and I proceeded to walk up two and a half flights of stairs, thinking (I ... Lucas came over to check on me, which was very nice, and a bunch of French

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012