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• Blog / IAP

  More at Home At thirty thousand feet, thousands of miles away.

  

  proved how poorly I play Call of Duty) and then went up to Cambridge for ... computer for the entire month of January. Thus, when Chris made a call for ... . This trip to India, which had no connection to Hamsika's, was a follow-up

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • February 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  classes are hard but i’m sure you knew that already an academic case of murphy's law

  

  's like trying to pop a pimple, where you'd poke and prod at the pimple for ... was incredibly knowledgeable, approachable, and kind. When I asked for help, I received it. I wasn't prepared for the level of rigor that this

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  screaming a mood board

  

  Everything's going just fine! I'm registered for classes, the grad ... vent. A while back when I was asking people for recommendation letters, my PI of three years made a suggestion. He wanted to nominate me for a

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  what i ate in a month* *basically true to my word this time but at what cost

  

  sure does keep me up at night sometimes. if not for the price the food ... ’t toast it up more. my fault for getting the rainbow bagel instead of the ... chocolate sauce) viet coffee (very coffee forward. useful for waking up

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Forum for Admitted Students

  

  Congratulations and welcome to the Class of 2013! Feel free to use this forum to introduce yourselves to your future classmates.

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  signed up for – this was going to be strictly for myself. And in that sense ... differently and this was just what I found to be the best for me. I spent my last IAP not doing much and ended up feeling pretty sluggish going into

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  wednesday at wai & aina (liveblog) and leaving the mit bubble

  

  the morning; and Courtney cooked it all up for our divine breakfast ... right now, but it's been sunny these past few weeks. for the most part ... were essentially entirely up in the air at that point, he sent me a

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • January 21, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  - it's a scenic drive up in northern New Hampshire and perfect for a day ... and some other friends up to the roof for fireworks, and these pictures ... actually are. Also, summer is sort of nebulously defined for me as an MIT

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  up to the East Coast influence, maybe? Regardless (for me at least ... degrees and the skies are probably going to be blue for the next three ... , final grades are coming out, with little "P" for Passes appearing on

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Graduate" list. See here, here, and here, for example. To summarize: during ... years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... as a placemat for his jade plants. He pulled it out after finals, and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  fascists!" Not surprisingly, he urged everyone to pick up fliers for an anti ... much it. We can talk—or argue—about music for hours upon hours. We have ... like a baby fresh out of the womb. I stood there in awe for about an hour

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Give Me Liberty . . . Or Give Me a Towel!!!

  

  One thing you can totally count on as a student at MIT is for Boston ... included city-wide pillow fights, web-comic meet-ups, no-pants subway rides ... summer. I checked out the Banditos Misteriosos website for the details. The

  • by Snively '11
  • August 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Holy Grail of Classes Think of the coolest class you can. Then think of one that's a million times…

  

  ourselves up the best we could and waited for any final comments from our ... left in high spirits, knowing that we had all signed up for the best ... class on Tuesday (a math recitation at 1 o'clock for an hour). I

  • by Snively '11
  • February 6, 2008
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  coding project out there! Honestly, I'm super proud of us for coming up ... Spotify artist's "Dogg Number". That's the header for our HackMIT project ... among my friends for the past year, mostly because when I found it, I was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  walker memorial. i have known this fact for at least a year, but didn ... direction (up/down/left/right). players choose from a variety of songs; when a ... typical sequence of arrows[/caption] i ended up enjoying ddr a lot more

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  FWACC! and some small thoughts about kindness

  

  over a crowded audience. Then, moments later, for the first time in three ... September, I had auditioned for seven or eight [annotation note="this seems to ... first concert. I auditioned for a solo in [annotation note='"Sucker", by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 25, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year in laptop stickers RIP my laptop 7/19/20

  

  session. even though i ended up not applying for the program, i'm a weeb and ... things happened, and just as i thought things were looking up, i spilled ... . losing the files on my laptop and having to pay a good amount of money for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  like to finally be on MIT’s campus. As my Uber pulled up on Mass Ave, the ... . This is me now:   I woke up today, to a similarly pleasant scene. The sun ... , rowers float their way past my window. My roommate's prefrosh is up early

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / Community Projects

  Guest Post: Simmons Hall Finishes 18,239 Piece Puzzle in 40 days and 5 hours

  

  took Simmons 40 days and 5 hours. I am incredibly grateful for the help ... ,000 piece puzzle to leave out in Simmons for people to solve over IAP? If this ... success. After an hour in which nobody showed up, followed by another hour

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 29, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Rowing at MIT: a guest post by Connor M. ‘16

  

  for MIT. I had never rowed before college, but I fell in love with the ... : Growing up, I never thought I’d become a college rower. I was a swimmer in ... was important to stay in shape and to keep my mind off school for some

  • by Connie H. '15
  • August 26, 2015