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• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  can go to schools around the world during January and teach classes ... walked through the front entrance of the Shoqan School and was serenaded by ... wearing traditional clothing, and seemed to have been eagerly waiting the

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Aiden Wrapped a year in review

  

  , and everything in my mind exists in a battle-to-the-death style list of ... opinions and create my own war in the comments. My biggest issue with "end ... important that happens in December. But, I refuse to break a trend and

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 3, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  Andi and Aiden this year, I was also fortunate to have two Next Haunt ... . If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for ... arranging the build and actually running the thing. Because of that, I wanted

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A reading list for a week at MIT All my classes have required reading this semester!?

  

  of it is technical, it’s a really sharp break from the math-and ... regularly exposed to challenging and cutting edge ideas and being asked to ... mainly about two things: how to make interfaces that are intuitive and easy

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • February 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  serious), an MIT junior (majoring in math, of course), and a participant ... years of MIT? It is strange to walk into a building and find out that it ... at Cambridge and the culture at MIT is that the former has a greater

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  ugliness. Fulfillment proved to be elusive, expensive, and less compelling ... vegetables ($2.00 per 16 oz.) doused in oyster sauce and Sriracha, digging for leftover cornbread and lentil stew in pika's fridge (too many potatoes per 16

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  So I suck at life and haven't blogged in FOREVER. =( But! I'm making ... the dorm before sorting, editing, and writing captions for them. So if ... with some dorm-wide facilties and common areas... The first thing you

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Ninth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 02/14/06.

  

  . ------------------------------------- John wrote: "IB appeals to me because of its variety and it's coursework ... and challenge, as far as we are concerned. ------------------------------------- Raghav wrote: "I have a question similar to John's. I do IB and my school

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 14, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  ’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in ... Collier (!) and Yo-Yo Ma (!!) were coming to MIT (!!!) to tape the pilot episode of some video-podcast-like series, and as an MTA student, I was

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  必须好 – pt. 1 just keep swimming

  

  be a blogger. while i read it now and see [annotation note="emphasis on ... generally did an okay job representing my feelings, and i'd like to keep it in ... year later—and post a part 2 later reflecting on how MIT has both changed

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... time between registration and now, I also added [annotation note="a class ... Seminar[/annotation] and [annotation note="a career development program for

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • October 22, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... completely decimated west New York and Jess H. ’24 named the craziest cities in ... included baseball, basketball, hockey and [annotation note="American football

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  him. This friend is single and would like to have a girlfriend, and ... 's like, they were inputted into the neural network of my brain and the ... 't want to admit. After all, these decisions can be very personal, and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  day one, six out of eight am i doing too much?

  

  09:35. i hobble out of bed and pour myself some milk. there's a ridiculous amount of snow outside. i pull out some leftover pizza and walk to ... pull the pizza out of the microwave, and i walk back into my room to eat

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  ="🍰"]workiversary[/annotation]as the in-house designer on the communications team at MIT Admissions and ... Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the Blogs, and Make History poster for Admissions), designing the admitted

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  101 questions we’ve asked ourselves at MIT we're all just trying to figure it/life/ourselves out

  

  My high school life was a cycle of home, school, and church. My parents were relatively strict about sleepovers and hanging out, so most of my friendships were limited to class time and extracurriculars. I

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 27, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... information session; then later, another student group hosts an event; and later ... and set aside for a specific purpose, a specific event. Filling my

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Some Saturday Thoughts a meandering, journal-type blag post

  

  energy, and the rest of the things that come easily are mostly Internet Venting, which I often feel like is a) a little depressing, and also b) not ... tell you, honestly, how I feel. I stopped fighting my own mood to try and

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  My 21st Birthday More details about the transition to Halloween than you ever wanted to know.

  

  that whenever you go to the doctor's office and state your birth date ... class. Mike Conti (the instructor, and author of this) gave us a talk on ... Davie '12 and I went to an exhibit about using toys to communicate

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 30, 2013