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• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  going to a shisha café (see a theme?). My flight was at 8am on New Year ... , as I met a number of people on the train and joined passengers in ... of the remainder of the month. On January 8, all of us, plus several

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  have to be honest to the prefrosh - many of you were stalked on facebook ... first time on campus, come for a tour of campus! Us tour guides will be ... take a look at each dorm. I am doing a couple tours of East Campus on

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Researchers Develop Autonomous Shoe Technology out of the MIT STrIDE group

  

  the spreadsheet are just some of them. Today I found out about a new ... MIT alumni have been responsible for some of the most revolutionary ... Experiment group (STrIDE). Using the same technology that's found on autonomous

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 1, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  You Complete Me What makes an application complete for Early Action, and related Q&A.

  

  , we will consider all of your new scores. MidYear Grades: We do not ... I see that there's been a bit of discussion in the comments about the ... set of scores now; we won't need them until we go into the Early Action

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  to be on-location in New York City with an independent movie directed ... of 2013, who is on the left. We are pictured in Ladakh, India. We are ... picture of me taken on June 22, 2009 at the top of Echo Mountain near

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  -that-be on MIT blogs). --- This is a simple story of three guys, how they met ... , if you entered before 2007, you had the option of taking 270 units on ... spurred on by this stupid idea of graduating each with two diplomas, we went

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  The interview life Recruiting for MIT on the west coast, plus answering questions.

  

  so many great people on my interview trips, and some of them have ... research internship where I did a modest body of original research. I plan on ... , the process can seem sort of random. It's not like that interviewing

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  highlighted those changes and sent me off on another period of intense personal ... , did a remote hackathon, voted by mail, and tried tons of new recipes. In ... -president of WiEECS at the start of 2021, while I was still on my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  terrain on a 1:1 scale. Tens of thousands of players have taken advantage of ... ; we're always looking for new areas and structures on campus, so hidden ... . Some people already added a police car on top of the virtual Great Dome

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  and present a new kind of medicine. I have no recollection what my ... about your topic, for (1) (2) and (3). Make new notes on your notes ... , preferably over a couple of days. If you're going to write on a board, practice

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  exactly what it sounds like. I personally had no intention of going, but I knew two of my best friends would be there, so I caved to peer pressure. Actually, I knew a lot of people who would be there, so I figured I'd stop by

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  's "weird". And weirdly enough, on the first day of March we had our first big ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  of building 2?" "I don't know, I dont think milk vending machines are ... -mail from Maxine, president of MIT's chapter of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, which I'm not even really a member of. From: Maxine Date

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  Gobble Gobble Geeks with guns

  

  concentration on one beautifully hand made piece of artwork, an opportunity to ... little lead pellets as ammunition. My pellets sitting on top of my freshly photoshopped hand turkey (courtesy of my awesome new pen and my tablet) My gun

  • by Snively '11
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class ... 10 people who commented on one of my recent entries about writing notes ... the scrambled contents of my brain on the margins of the pages of MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  [annotation note="I spent a lot of time in high school on buses and I got very ... , passing the unfortunately closed-on-Wednesdays Art Institute of Chicago ... , consisting of “good news and bad news.” Good news: I’m on the train, and we

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

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

  

  , however, plenty of people who live in BC or New or other dorms without ... ? :) Let me put it this way: my roommate lives on Conner 2. I have lots of ... percentage of people who work on them on their own. So, that answers just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  How to build a Tamagotchi and the power of curiosity

  

  , clunky buttons. I eventually landed on the idea of building a Tamagotchi ... ="aligncenter" width="501"] I placed the Nano on the back of the board to optimize space ... care of a virtual pet! My Tamagotchi, fondly named Tamako, was like the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • May 25, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  starting over and over again

  

  . I rely a lot on my myriad of notebooks and papers: my planner, that ... effort and management, which I just couldn't manage on top of my already ... 's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, and am planning on picking up a bunch of

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 11, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  like this for class, but it actually had many moments of commentary on ... voices. It displays a brilliance on the part of the author, as she switches ... particularly centered on the ethics of research, and I think it’s just as

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016