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• Blog / Academics & Research

  winter things a sampling of IAP plans around campus

  

  of a chaotic mess that it is – I have freedom to bump into friends and ... firsthand what it is like to Screw Up (the get ... and I didn't really know anyone, but it turned out to be so much fun! I

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 5, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  just a semester of my undergraduate career left, it's hard not to. Every ... 've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... , it transformed into semesterly visits to North Carolina from Boston

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  On UROPs Research at a private research institute? Naaaaahhhhh, couldn't be!

  

  changes that has happened so far is my view on Unity. I used to not like it ... I'll get use to it in the future, but it's pretty weird. I'll keep ... to work up to it. It barely crossed my mind first semester. And yet

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 21, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  resources here, how to be someone how can let this place change their life. it ... , mostly as a joke, called [friend]iscringe, but i started to use it as a ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Our homework is to go camping on a school night...!

  

  , because really, it was the closest I've ever come to Project Runway - and ... so you know, it could all happen. :O Pay attention to detail, and be ... ever blog about is architecture stuff - but who am I kidding - it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  SUMMER ROSES stop and smell 'em

  

  can’t really tell you much about how it’s going. To be continued. But ... now. And while it still feels insanely weird to be moving so slowly, I ... getting ready to send off their MISTI applications. And it made sense too

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 25, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  [liveblog] presenting at the Open Sauce maker expo! built a funky microscope with my friends

  

  built Waterscope, a microscope that uses water instead of glass for magnification. It’s cool because we can change the magnification continuously ... Mateo, we’re at booth I22. If you’re around, feel free to stop by! It

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  On a week of ups and downs a life update for those who care

  

  extremely self-conscious of everything I do, it was difficult for me to feel ... I recorded everyone's reactions to it because it was just one look of ... closed the written question. I had no idea how to solve it. I went to the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 9, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Procrastination in the Time of Corona i have so much time and so many ways to procrastinate my work

  

  feel obligated to use some of it to exercise. Running: I used to run a ... it's okay to feel unmotivated right now, though. The world is an ... -person workshops into online workshops that we can run on Zoom. We're also trying to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Math. by Joy ‘13 I’m not a complete nerd…but I am convinced that math is a language

  

  different combinations using these digits to express a manner of things. For ... binary relations are. It’s the way that our computers can interpret what we are trying to convey. In a sense, making it possible for us to make any

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Spreading yourself too thin At MIT, the saying goes that you can work, sleep, or play, but you have…

  

  play a varsity sport. *sigh* Sometimes they expect you to have it all ... college. But, I’ve found it much more difficult to limit the number of ... just can’t turn down a good opportunity to learn (and have fun!) So

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 10, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  the threek post! my lovely lovely year on maseeh three

  

  to campus and quick access to a dining hall made up for it. As long as ... threekiness (it's hard to put into words)." - Janhavi Unlike other dorms, who ... think of is when we dressed up for a dinner we cooked ourselves to make it

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 27, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  where we are now. And you just made it 15 minutes, how bad can 7.5 be?" So ... experience leads to a smaller proportion of the time it took to gain that ... song: Passing Through (Can't the Future Just Wait) by Kaden Mac

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mistakes & the inspiration we need to move on

  

  semester has been going. It's been incredibly busy, almost to the point to ... the material, and I couldn't see myself ever using it again. It was a ... new, but I just don't think it was the right thing for me to do in the

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • November 19, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Tales from the application process Results from the 'mini-contest.'

  

  college applications, but I looked at it as an opportunity to get to know ... wasn't educational, it just had nothing to do with learning about who I ... directions—it wasn't easy. I remember coming to school that Thursday. No

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 22, 2007
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  struggled with falling asleep, but once I was out, it was hard to wake me. I ... my best to ignore it. The second time was at 6 AM or so, around Toledo ... Station to [annotation note="no, that’s not a real word; yes, I stand by it

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 12, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  Tales of Two Parallels East Campus History class!

  

  fall, and I want to encourage people to take it! [caption id ... other by sight or name were quick to meet. I came in fresh from REX and ... knowledge the only History student — many people took it to fill the H of the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Toga, Toga, Toga On being in a fraternity (info for parents too)

  

  lot of my friends back home thought to themselves when I told them my ... in high school, I was a pretty shy person. I was very quiet, went to class, went to soccer practice, went home, watched cartoons, then went to

  • by Bryan
  • June 14, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  Bad Ideas events I went to (another late IAP post) i can’t believe ellie beat me to the punch

  

  ”. It can’t be that bad right? WRONG. My pride as an Asian with spice ... much milk as you possibly can. Casein (a protein found in milk) binds to capsaicin (the spicy chemical), making it much more effective than water to

  • by Anika H. '26
  • March 8, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  went absolutely nuts over, and I'm so glad to finally have enough time to blog about it. If, for some reason, you don't like following links to blogs that aren't MIT Admissions blogs, I'll sum it up for you: The US

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011