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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  taught in English, but for those looking for a more Spanish ... held four days a week (Monday-Thursday) for three weeks (January 4th ... homestay, and additional expenses for food and travel in Madrid. The rest of

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  For whatever reason, I’ve been getting a lot of tumblr questions ... made me feel very welcome. Now, I can’t believe I’ve only known them for ... M. '18, Megan P. '18, and Anika Y. '18 (not pictured) for making House

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  In a recent concentrated effort to create a 'professional Tumblr' for ... ) My deepest apologies for the hiatus; now that I’m not at home (where an ... advertisement for one of my friends. He jokingly mentioned that his goal for the

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lost in the Pages of the Institute are we out of the woods yet, are we in the clear yet

  

  forever as usual and was due on Thursday--and studying for the only 6 ... a boarding Catholic high school—for my fiction humanities class. I went to bed around seven, slept for five hours, then headed to my writing

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 25, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Summer Recap—The Book Launch Oh hi there...yes, I'm back!

  

  For several reasons, it’s been quite a while since my last blog ... than that. What I do know is that I never really intended for it to be ... it for the first time, there was a certain way their eyes popped open

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Splash. Was. Awesome. I taught: 3 classes, 5 sections, 246 kids.

  

  Room, for teacher registration. To be fair, it's no less chaotic in here ... classroom. I LOVE arriving early, and seeing the number of kids waiting for ... want to teach! Perfect. I love that the classroom fills up. 40 kids, for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  , the removal of distractions, and knowing when and how to ask for help ... easy for me. I then coasted through Math class without really learning ... class. I started studying for 18.01 by going through every test, and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Go West, Young Man my mountain travels with yale and brown

  

  Immediately after the new site went live I left for group travel with ... report for Stu & crew; I figured I'd blog mine! Wednesday, July 13 ... at a high school in NJ for five years, went to HGSE and now is an

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Help! Learn from my mistakes...and from the Beatles.

  

  “Help!” by the Beatles. Relevant verse reproduced at the bottom, for your ... …and which lay the smackdown on my morale for a couple of months. I couldn ... steeling myself for the next paper. This was a fluke. I had been careless

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 1) Another IAP. Another Country.

  

  I hope you (and the powers above) will forgive me for blogging about ... embarking again on a cruise to the Carribbean next week). I go home for dinner ... much. They think it makes everything cuter. For example, kawaii-ne~ Um

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  grandma's house when my parents asked a completely unreasonable question for ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter ... of my head for the next 4 years, slowly growing into more than just a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Read This! All those questions you needed answeredvar gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www.");document.write(unescape("%3Cscript…

  

  That title is just a lazy excuse for not being able to come up with a ... settling in for an hour long T ride DO NOT eat a McGriddle right before, the ... admitted student meetings, help dole out prefrosh for CPW, sign Valentines

  • by Snively '11
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  published online for you to look at, so I'm not going to bother publishing a ... Solving Puzzles for Mystery Hunt were continuously uploaded to the internet for us to solve. When a new puzzle was uploaded, a group of people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Course 2A is Cooler than You I'm back from the dead, to tell you all about my major and its ridiculously…

  

  or two digits. For example, "Course VI" (which is the only one written ... jargon) is MIT for "Electrical Engineering and Computer Science." Below are all of the names and numbers for your convenience. As a funny side note

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 29, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sororities @ MIT- Become a part of it! Come to the first day of recruitment on September 1st to learn more about what…

  

  academic resources for its members. Additionally, sororities provide ... sisters in an informal setting. This is useful for underclassmen who are to ... addition to providing opportunities for sisters to go out into the community

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Houston-area Suburbia kid Makes Trek to MIT Campus Preview Weekend with Mother By: Kevin, '11

  

  Hello everyone, prospectives for the coming years and prefrosh alike ... Jones waiting at the table for me... and any other prefrosh. No matter, I ... , check Friday Liveblog), I knew that MIT was the place for me. Now to

  • by Bryan
  • April 22, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  coming back here for Lent term than I was when coming here in September. I ... and on, all for about $10-$20. This year, not as many bands come into ... bridge and being in Boston. Also, it's so expensive to pay for a concert

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  time for packing or doing dishes or eating or...well, lots of things ... working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for ... to say. And it's still in the running for actually becoming my major

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  “Freshman Musical Dorms” A question inspires an entire entry about housing. But I threw in some other stuff…

  

  Hello friends! News updates: IAP is over! This is sad for most people, but happy for me, because I'll actually be attending FEWER hours of ... such useful tips as do's and don'ts for a first date. She also had plenty

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism ... 's easier for us to notice this in other people + people are more open in some ... than people from other schools. smart technically passionate respect for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023