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• Blog / IAP

  Yestermonth’s IAP Everyone else is doing it.

  

  characteristics rather than temporal durations, although each of those eras happens ... most of my major. It wasn't that exciting. As I passed the halfway point ... dramatically after college, junior year became the "just do it" era. This motto

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 14, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  [by Danbee Kim '09] I'm a big fan of allowing your ... lights. If you want to foster a community of free-thinkers, who are going ... think "out of the box"? If ever you get a chance, you should

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Following My Passions At MIT [by Susan Shepherd '11] Can a writer fit in at MIT?

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] Choosing a set of colleges to apply to can be ... when I read the Admissions Blog entries of a certain biology major (thanks, Mollie!), MIT rose to the top of my list. Even so, I couldn't help

  • by ARTalk
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  Near the end of winter break, I was sitting in an uncomfortable ... the latest issue of Blender magazine (Bright Eyes and Rilo Kiley in the top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  rid of it from all your displays, but I can't really find it and it's 2:43 AM, so that's probably not going to happen. I'm kind of tired because I ... awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  . While much of this advice is universal, YMMV with other schools for the ... At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... and running away. I recommend giving them all of the recommendation

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  know a lot of college students, especially at mit, who have carefully ... spoilers for the book siddhartha   i. at the beginning of my ... . he got back a wide variety of responses: one student said it documented

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  A brief happy post amidst the chaos and confusion of existence: Hi ... going on with me and my life. For those of you who don't know, I just ... with all of my family members and spend time with them, as this summer

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Music and Mayhem by Jess ‘12 Minus the mayhem. Also features running commentary by Yan. p.s.: Jess, your italics didn't show…

  

  unwittingly snapped a picture of me in Diff Eq. around Valentine’s Day http ... recall we journeyed to New York City at the end of July and survived a gastronomical bildungsroman**. *In all prepositional honesty, at least half of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Exploring MIT’s sports facilities there's so much to see!

  

  do it! As you may have noticed, I’ve been kind of into the whole tour ... -campus grocery store, it’s been fun to show off a little piece of what makes MIT so ... MIT has sports?? Of course, no tour is fun without some tour guides, so

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 4, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  checkboxes this semester in a list

  

  lot more time there, working, or not, and made a lot of fond memories ... reasons"]consonant,[/annotation] [annotation note="P and NP are classes of ... letters of the [annotation note="in case you are wondering, the best letter

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  I originally registered for 60 units of classes this semester: 18.701: Algebra I 18.404: Theory of Computation 18.905: Algebraic Topology I ... of the four technical classes I had picked out or put one of them on

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

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  in 2024 and wrote most of it then; but then i had to work on a bunch of ... day"] the end of every year. [/annotation] I write one to my future self ... photo of us being shopping-carted to our 5.111 final. [caption id

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  on the question “where are you from?” and the answer: neither here nor there. alternatively, about being a missourian.

  

  to answer and ask the same set of questions: what’s your name? where are you from? what are you thinking of majoring in? It got to the point ... now I've learned to say “I'm thinking 4B and 15-1” so I kind of sound

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  the summer before senior year you've changed...

  

  [/annotation] has been like: It's the summer before my senior year of college, and I ... song from Bowling for Soup. This, of course, made me think lmao, remember Bowling for Soup? This, of course of course, made me get sad about growing

  • by Abby H. '20
  • July 9, 2019
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  mildly. I’m overwhelmingly obsessed with the internet. I think a lot of it ... internet. Things changed when I got to MIT. Instead of being plugged into the ... . The Internet became my playground, providing me with an endless array of

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  lives. That uncertainty is mostly gone now, even though the end of college ... When I started senior fall, I was taking a course load of 6 ... horrifically cursed system of units, where 12 units is considered the equivalent

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  You’re Not That Old [by Elise '14] Not having done it before should be a reason to try, as…

  

  some of you overachievers) to figure out your hobbies and interests. Many of you probably have been playing an instrument for years or ... ways, this is entirely true. You come to college and you’ve been

  • by ARTalk
  • June 17, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Memory Quilt insert many sobbing emojis here

  

  weird to just keep wearing some of these shirts around in your post-college ... haven't processed the sadness of being robbed of a year of my college ... At MIT, one inevitably collects a lot of shirts. Like...a lot. There

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 27, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds ... lecture. Classes 6.034 lecture (10am-11am) This is our third lecture of the ... . It was cool to view the different representations of searching in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021