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• Blog / IAP

  A Jaunt Across Europe (Part 2) 12 hours of coastal biking and other Spanish adventures

  

  rounded app square on my iPhone. At the corners of each square, there was ... crown jewel of our trip was biking the Spanish coast, starting at La Cara ... . Whenever we passed a spot any of us wanted to stop and spend more time at, we

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 11, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  of eBay. I've been wanting to replace my laptop since at least the ... when I do. I got a new pair of shoes, since my old shoes were tearing at ... writing it, of course, which at this rate will probably be two years from

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  My MIT Story How I came to be at MIT

  

  needed to be at MIT. Matt McGann was the host of the info session and he ... opinion, I was not a blog stalker at this point. I read a couple of the ... great school for math, one of the best." "Ok, I'll go there." *laughter

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  The fourth Thursday of November and the few days before and after are ... size of our international audience, I thought I might take a few minutes ... just watched the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, another staple of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  ten reflections on mit

  

  ’t think a lot about MIT — or college at all — during most of high school ... .[/annotation] We make a quick pit stop at MIT as part of a field trip, and I remember the feeling of awe at the university — but also trying to figure out

  • by Phi A. '21
  • February 15, 2023
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  the first of two days at the convention and were met with lots of lively ... they offer, and I probably spent 80% of that entire day talking to ... battery was drained, I grabbed lunch with a friend at one of the many food

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of ... enforcing a hard cutoff at the deadline for this year's early action; no need ... required standardized tests. There are a number of options to fulfill the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat an oh-so-healthy college student meal of pizza ordered on the internet ... switched at birth.) Tomorrow, Mom is going to come to 5.60 (chemical

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  I've had dial-up internet for as long as I can remember. One of the ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in ... internet, most of the links were broken and the info outdated. This is my

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  An interview with AoPS "What Kinds of Students Does MIT Look For?" but ASMR

  

   podcast hosted by our friends at Art of Problem Solving (AoPS). The title ... Olsen: On today's episode, Chris Peterson, Director of Special Projects at ... everybody, but there were other things we could look at. Strength of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 7, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MARC 2025 (not a live blog) Featuring Andi '25!

  

  resonance for an hour straight took a lot out of me, but I was free to look at ... of the electromagnet used to magnetize them. Naturally, I offered to ... MARC is one of the few conferences people have in their academic

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  unfortunately, at my work place, to the highest of high-end seat-warming bidets ... - and much like their toilet, living in Tokyo offers different type of ... of seniority - being so good at bird surgery that you don't even get

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... summons me at 10:00 pm to accompany her on the most random and hilarious shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Coffee in the Pagi-nation [joint post] breaking cruel rituals

  

  . We met at a local café within walking distance of campus and my home in ... . After a long day of talking to prospective students at Paige Memorial High ... strange position: we stand at the threshold of young people’s futures. We

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 11, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  change my flight to a direct flight that arrives at O'Hare instead of the ... boarding at a lot of my flights. I message Ruth about it whenever it happens ... way at the end of B and you have to get all the way to the end of A

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  rest of my IAPs at MIT. There are actually quite a few options in terms of IAP abroad programs. I thought it might be useful to write a quick ... !). It was literally lifechanging. It was my first time out of the country

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  New MIT Viewbook Is a viewbook as useful to you as it might have been for my (pre-internet)…

  

  redesign/updating of the MIT viewbook, a process that will take almost a year ... "grow up with" the web and it's a (the?) predominant source of the ... you as it might have been for my (pre-internet) generation of college

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 3, 2005
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist who ranked MIT but was not matched still apply for EA and/or RA?

  offer made up of grants and scholarships that will meet 100% of your ... students, regardless of citizenship. If admitted to MIT through the Quest
• Blog / MISTI

  The Last Day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach as part of the MIT-Germany Global Teaching Labs Program

  

  the brink of the end of my time here at the Gymnasium, and there are a ... creeping over the steeple of the church as I arrive at school. 4. I will ... since my first day at Gymnasium Untergriesbach. Surrounded by excellent

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  year, at the start of my admissions blogging in the spring and throughout ... of failure or disappointment here at college. It was a pretty rocky ... see another theme of the semester taking shape, or at least an

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015