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• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  . Jinshinjiko （人身事故、じんしんじこ） - if you stay in Tokyo for ... big university in Tokyo that's pretty famous for taking a lot of foreign ... school term begins in April, rather than in the fall for American school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Experience FAQs from high school counselors

  

  difficult period. I’m now in PLEASURE @ MIT, which stands for Peers Leading ... Period), there's an Externship Program for students to work in alumni ... not represent the views of other students. For diverse personal takes on

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Burton 1 Cribs A look at the interiors of several rooms on Burton 1.

  

  proportion of them." "So with these goals in mind, we set out for the local ... good reminder that I'm definitely not in Malaysia anymore. As for Cathy ... room is just a way for us to be creative every once in a while," said

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  swanky hotel in the early 1900’s, then it was a grad dorm for 70 years, so ... my ID and being trapped in the lobby for all eternity. 2) White walls ... It’s my 3rd year at MIT. I’ve lived in 3 different dorms. My current

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Emilienne: The Sophomore who does brain surgery Emilienne has been studying the brain through her UROP in the Fee Lab.

  

  , mostly because I thought I would be interested in getting a UROP for the summer in order to stay on campus. However, the opportunity arose for me to ... -BMES) and the Society of Women in Engineering. For fun, she love to sew

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 16, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  partners for Science Olympiad, so I was in his garage all the time, arguing ... always soaking in nostalgia for the present. Dreading the decay that would ... This summer, my friends in LA kept telling me I hadn’t changed at all

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  to Software Engineering in Java 6.178 is a six-unit class offered only ... in the class). Differentiating between the lingo of add, commit, push ... as the class was only three weeks long. The topics, in rough

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Comments, UROPs, field trips, and OMG HP7! The most awesome blog entry ever. Because...okay it's probably not. But it's all about how…

  

  . =) Anyway- tune in this Wednesday at 9 to ABC to watch and vote for the winner ... watched the show from first airing you'd notice how she didn't fit in and ... her infractions and all in real life. Okay, no way, Ana Lucia rocked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  emails to self & the long goodbye

  

  sweetness in this, asking so plainly for a little more time. my 4W friends ... for this, no goodbye can be long enough. there is little solace in words ... what a strange feeling it is to be in your last semester at MIT

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • March 27, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  ’s drops for themselves? I was just about to pop one in my mouth when ... course in the MIT Glass Lab, where I spent eight weeks learning about the ... five things that you can’t (or at least shouldn’t) eat in the Glass Lab

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rosalind Franklin and Kent State Two more short book reviews and some news of my summer not (directly) relating to…

  

  then proceeded to get no credit for the whole thing because [fill in ... lines as "the best home for a feminist was in another person's lab ... Bookstore the first time I ever visited the campus back in my junior year of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of enlisting him to help design a new banner for Turkey vs. Spam--what do you

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  6.0001 is Done I learned a bit (or should I say 8-bit)

  

  test case makes me forget the hours it took in the first place. Instant gratification isn't the single thing to strive for, but it sure is exciting. I feel like I grew a lot in a few weeks. I came into MIT with a basic

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • October 21, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  Sometimes, you need to let things go up in flames. . . . I have struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack ... things for god knows how long—someone more well-versed in EC history could

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  Rate My Setup a guide to my room in Simmons

  

  the equipment in this photo is for 2.678, including the soldering iron ... photo, in the light blue box, is my DemoSat for 16.851. The DemoSat is a ... Since the end of August, I've been living on-campus in Simmons in a

  • by Alex M. '21
  • November 17, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Lesson Planning When in doubt, get Legos involved

  

  4 gave all of team 4’s points to team 3 in exchange for splitting the ... , because those are what we'll need in the future. After leading for two ... You’ve read in my blog entries about the weekly Engineering

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 8, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... myself, "Wow, you're so dumb. How do you even, like, get dressed in the ... to give them 19 years on the chain gang just for adding another letter

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  responsible for the deliciousness of caramel, golden-brown cookies, bread crusts, and seared meat, but in this case is responsible for huge, gummy brown ... underwater flame spallation rock drilling for applications in harnessing

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  Birmingham for an evaluation of his delivery. Because ASMI is in conjunction ... Wells, who pitched 8 1/3 solid innings. After a Gary Sheffield single in ... head alumni interviewer in the Birmingham area. Dr. Fleisig is the Smith

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been ... remarked on my bright red hair. It’s noticeable. Not in Davis Square though ... in the eyes of the vendors and I become invisible. They talk to the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016