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• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  (IAP) at MIT -- between the fall and spring semesters, students get a ... ideas), and hang out with friends. so there's a lot going on, but campus still feels a lot more relaxed than it does during the school year. most

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... to a bloody pulp with my awesome newfound kickboxing skills. I'd almost finished them off when the second to last one snuck up behind me and pulled a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in my new world A little bit of everything

  

  are only going to let one thing out at a time." I think the most efficient way to solve this problem would be to simply create a device that ... will probably do a few later posts about the details of things like

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 18, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Endless rain into a paper cup ...also, restless wind inside a letterbox.

  

  like a little wind and rain is going to stop them from running it tomorrow. Look, guys, I know I'm doing a biofuels UROP and everything, and I ... 've been much more of lame-o about running outside since I got a MacBook and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 16, 2007
• FAQ / First-year application

  Do students apply to a specific major?

  Here's one less thing to worry about when applying to MIT: Students apply to MIT for general admission and select a major at the end of the ... doesn't have any impact on admission decisions. In fact, a large
• Blog / Announcements

  A special announcement about SAT Subject Tests MIT has made the decision to no longer consider the SAT Subject Tests

  

  research has shown these tests, in combination with a student’s high school ... informative and consistent measure of a student’s academic potential in a world ... simply not a part of our process anymore.   How does this apply to

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • March 20, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Deadline Q & A Have a question about your MIT application? Read on...

  

  application, here are a few tips, notes, and words of wisdom: Submit ... of documents right now, so there's a good chance we have received ... validation errors with their essays, taking more than a couple of minutes to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 22, 2011
• Blog / Class Projects

  Designing a Calculator with FSM Logic A web dev lesson from an MIT sophomore!

  

      My friend Robert V. '20 is a Course 6-3 (Computer ... has TA'd an interesting IAP class called 6.148, a web development class and competition. He's a really smart guy, and I found out about this

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  't cool. Things happen. For example, you might get a validation error ... interview is not a required part of the application (and students whose ... ) who needs one. Using a fee waiver will not negatively impact your

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  IAP Cooking a journey of uncooked pasta and cold pho

  

  I live in Burton-Conner, which is a cook-for-yourself dorms, but I purchased a meal plan last semester for convenience. I didn't cook often and ... lunch and dinner. I got slightly sick of dining hall food after a while

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • March 10, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  Once upon a time, when you wanted to know something, you had to find out about it by going to a place, probably not the place you currently were, called a "library." Just imagine. You had to actually

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  Spotify Wrapped day and the festivities surrounding it happened a ... represents them. A common complaint this year (and last year) was that the so-called personalized stats were just wrong or only partially correct. I for one was a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... by joining a student community, most notably greek life, the entire ... anything remotely close to "greek life", or in my case, a sorority, in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  During first semester I published a nice little entry about my ... ? Let's go on a tour! High School Yearbook For those nostalgic moments ... knowledge. Seriously, SUCH a good book. Physics E&M Book Horribly

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  , arrangement, aesthetic, and content of stickers. It's true, you can tell a lot about a person from their biography. Now here's what we can learn about ... Cubs if you are unfamiliar. The red/green Beast sticker is a symbol for

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  I really like learning languages. And MIT has been a really good place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it ... try out. Then, during my sophomore IAP, I took a Spanish conversation

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off ... a table. nature inspires you and you love the outdoors, but you're so ... . you're a charcuterie board devotee and have at least one weird niche

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what i drew this summer i took an art class

  

  student, you can become an Art Scholar and receive a scholarship for a class ... a scholarship.) I missed drawing. I used to draw a lot as a kid; I got in trouble a few times for doodling on my desk. But during my time

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 27, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  up dropping my UROP--a story for another time--I started cooking. A lot. This is a fairly common thing that students do during IAP, because it ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  updating my blogger bio because its no longer accurate

  

  A couple nights ago, while my friends and I were wasting away in ... someone read aloud: My name is Cami. I'm a lil bi filipina girl from LA county, from a city about 30 minutes outside of LA called Norwalk. I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 24, 2021