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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  incredibly smooth; it’s going to be hard for the second leg to live up to this ... for hundreds of miles. As someone who grew up in South Dakota, I am ... note="growing up, I really did not understand why the Midwest was in the

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

  data diaries inspired by Giorgia Lupi & Stefanie Posavec's "Dear Data"

  

  protein to get my first strict pull-up, so we split a ticket for sampling 10 ... in a crowded coffee shop for a few hours. Conclusion: As expected ... your water bottle every time you fill it up with something sticky like

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 5, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  living the sloth life regressing to my feral weeb childhood self

  

  time alone, which is why when all my friends left for the holidays, it ... book and painting a Christmas present for my sister as i watched anime ... choreograph dances for multiple hours a day, make art, and spend hours listening

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  i’ve joined a sorority and what that means to me

  

  dorm life and all of that. TLDR: I did continuous open recruitment for two different sororities, ended up joining the more "popular" one even ... , I did continuous open recruitment once again for Delta Phi Epsilon and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 21, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of the Trader Joe's lovers out there, you are in for some good news! The ... down dorm row). There are a few other nearby options for groceries as

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  for undergrad and grad students who are passionate about or practice any ... difficult to describe, but essentially it was a very moving, for lack of a ... indecipherable noises. And imagine yourself running from room to room, up and down

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate this book.” “Oh, wow we had so many stocked up school supplies!”  Next up was opening containers. We started with a clear plastic one. Its lid

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  FourFiveUnits all you could ever want to know about my semester schedule

  

  to pick up new activities to fill any available time, like a gas ... 's healthy for my brain and GPA to have a little bit more "free" time in the ... said earlier about filling up the empty parts of my schedule with

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 13, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Hello Summer! Finally done with finals

  

  finish up this blog post that I started last week, but I have just been too lazy to finish up this week. Spending a whole year at MIT really changed ... facilitator for Interphase EDGE 2018. I could not be more excited. As some of

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 1, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  , they had demos set up. The lines for every one of them were so long ... January, eight months ago: MIT Launches Play Labs VR Accelerator For ... Labs is a new startup incubator/accelerator program for MIT startups

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  MIT classes are divided up into units. The average class is 12 units ... around 48 units. Still, imposter syndrome comes up when everyone around you ... light chaos of taking tons of classes, go for it, but the number of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  On the floor where I lived last year, Elaine L. '18 was known for ... mourning the loss of the Stata produce market for the past few months ... Foods as being too expensive for college students. However, you can shop

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  - and be a whole lot more fun! Take for instance the time I was climbing ... to be a Harvard Ph.D student this year, and we agreed to meet up and ... finger and struck up a conversation - at work, wandering Third Street

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Interview I think that I forgot to tell you about that

  

  AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH! This is the result when you look me up on the ... 's just as well, though, because according to Youtube it's clearly time for ... airports and train stations. Yesterday, I was at LaGuardia waiting for a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 12, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  10 Lessons #IAP #Italy #LearningByTeaching #wow #Pi(e)DayCountdown

  

  cancelled and rescheduled for a full 2 days later. Arriving late to my job wasn't a problem because I made up the missing hours by teaching a few ... somehow fell asleep while sitting at the gate... for exactly the 40 minutes

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • March 11, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  January in the Studio 4.11A: Architecture and Environmental Design Intensive

  

  for a place to sit, I named the following constraints: that I must sit ... cold to type, but hey, that’s the outside for you. The class I took over ... component. I took it for context. My department, Urban Studies and Planning

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Looking Back, Looking Forward In which I take a study break, discover some embarrassing videos, and tell you why…

  

  other extracurricular stuff, ahhh. I wish there were a pause button for life. Or maybe just a fast-forward button - because I cannot waittt for ... 'll finally get to meet you in person. For those of you coming to CPW - be

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • March 31, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  My first final exam at MIT was 8.012: "Physics For Masochists ... !" I stood up and glanced around; no one around me had an exam, either ... marched up to a group of proctors, and tapped one of them on the shoulder

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  for the life of me I couldn’t remember a time when that had been my ... that in mind, credit for the revelation that I maybe was that sort of ... -more-mechanically-inclined boyfriend, Daniel M. ’14. For us, physics was always a collaborative

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  to say they were not qualified to run for office. When women do run ... of those hard enough? I didn’t give myself a reason to step up, but ... Conference for College Women Student Leaders in College Park, Maryland, and met

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010