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• Blog / Challenges

  A Texan’s Guide to Surviving a Boston Winter it's possible

  

  no more than an inch or two of snow at a time, figuring out how to stay ... It’s IAP and I've slowly but surely gotten into the rhythm of things. To the point where it feels like I never left for winter break at all

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 9, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Unremarkable things are you "jaded" yet?

  

  word here before, like it’s a thing - becoming jaded with being at MIT after experiencing two or three years of it. It means losing your ... you tend to notice and find significant in life are partly reflective of

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 25, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  to help develop a mathematical model of the electric properties of ... property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... two major goals going into the beginning of this summer. One was to

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  Today marks my last first day of classes (LFDOC!) as an undergrad at MIT. This semester feels particularly special for a number of reasons ... requirements Because of these unique facts, which have not been present in any

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  lot of blog posts that describe what iap is like, and while it's true that lots of people do things during iap (classes! internships! urops ... i slice and toss in sometimes. i've also started using more kinds of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  goodbye, thoughts; welcome, semester tfw classes are my saving grace

  

  are *gasp* relevant! and interesting!! and I'm only taking four of them ... 'm around two weeks into it at this point, so it wasn't a sudden shift alongside the start of the semester, but damn. I was in this relationship for

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • February 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Eric Lander, spring rolls, and the New York Times two of those three are related

  

  : (1) bacon (2) an Eric Lander lecture (3) large amounts of money ... number 1, and thanks to the obscene amount of tuition I'm paying MIT I was ... -100 for the first lecture of my MIT career. Eric Lander needs no

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Wheel To Rule Them All one small step for boy, one large step for nerdkind

  

  . Alas, such is life at MIT -- all of us caught up in such dense torrents ... after he built a motorized, self-balancing unicycle that a slew of tech ... through weeks of continuous all-nighters to emerge baggy-eyed but victorious

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 10, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really. Several times lately I've found myself saying, "So a couple of weeks ago ... length of the dorm with a bag of dirty clothes because I completely walked

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello world!

  

  Hello to all of you readers! I'm the latest student admissions ... 're one of his regular readers you might have seen me occasionally comment ... advice and chat about the UA (see fourth paragraph), of which he was

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  Tricky Questions A follow-up entry to answer all of the 50 million comments I got about the…

  

  mainstream culture. If you've heard of hacks at MIT, you've probably heard of ... at least give you a glimpse of another point of view other than my own ... I had lots of stuff planned for you guys, but my friend Ben (not

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  It's work week at [annotation note="pronounced 'Xi' like the Greek ... to [annotation note="what sounds like an incredibly draining week of ... and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes taken, etc. etc. etc. At times it seemed ... organization for lost orphaned baby whales in the middle of Africa, speak Spanish

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Pre-Sophomore Year in anticipation of the sophomore slump

  

  whirlwind of finishing finals, flying to DC, driving home to Pennsylvania ... ="Burton-Conner"]BC[/annotation]this afternoon, and it truly felt like home <3 Despite the bulk of my traveling ... drafts and actually posting, and part of that requires not thinking so

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • September 1, 2024
• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but it's also cool because there's so much more time to do the kinds of ... event was my weekend trip with some EC friends to the Harvard Museum of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  that at MIT, unlike some other schools, you're required to meet with your advisor at the beginning of the semester and have them approve your course ... At MIT, every student has an advisor -- in fact, throughout their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  students at MIT could do their own projects instead of helping Professors ... your own previous research. 4. Dan commented, "Hmm I looked at one of ... interview weekend, and over the course of my travels to California schools

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  ramen this is a ramen post.

  

  dreamer must order at least one bowl of ramen[/annotation] and attempt to ... the belly. you look at the towering monstrosity of a bowl in front of ... screens of cooking asian dishes with korean subtitles. the waft of delicious

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Where are you going, where have you been? (Part I) Academics.

  

  beautiful," it was exactly his kind of place, too. Full of a very wholesome ... the sunset. And at night there was always something to do. Parties with ... strange. Toward the end of his visit, she'd asked, "What are you supposed to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • May 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Syllabus in Retrospect goals, guidelines, reading list

  

  Evaluation Keep notes from reading. At the end of the summer, review them ... Today is the eighth day of fall and the first day of winter in my ... of it (recognizing it as idealistic, possibly self-centered and a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • October 1, 2015