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• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  a vocabulary quiz. (I’m not a mean teacher, though!) And that’s my ... swimming on my stomach, I'm getting there. I won't have to worry about ... store didn't actually believe that we were serious! It was a pretty

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  grad school vs. undergrad should you MEng?

  

  immediately and almost every option disappeared. So I don’t live in a grad dorm ... roommate is a close friend with amazing taste in decor and books, and I’m ... . I’m a teaching assistant. To get funding, most MEngs have to TA or RA

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  McCormick: Girls Wanted Minh '10 shares her love of McCormick Hall.

  

  entries, but the short version of the story is that I’m currently a freshman at MIT who just declared Course 15: Management. I’m considering also ... '10: Hi. I’m Minh. You can call me Minnie, or Minhsie, or any version

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Alternative Semester There are things to click in here.

  

  quite so. I'm a senior who's majoring in Course 4 Architecture and will ... Essay -  this is one of the two classes I'm taking "for fun". I don't ... -breathing startup, whereas I'm still thinking in a more theoretical realm... I love

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 17, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A blast from the past Looking back at things I wanted to do at MIT

  

  as 60 units a semester, but still haven't really had much time. So when ... past two years, but I definitely haven't made a significant amount of ... learning new skills. Maybe I'm just saying that now and will be as much of a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • March 9, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  how i handle canker sores not professional medical advice

  

  getting these. It was definitely when I was a teenager, but I'm not sure if ... mouth, not the outside, so I couldn't really hold a bags of frozen peas to ... 've started using it, I haven't gotten a single canker sore, except for one week

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  to go up after the talk to say hi, and I'm sure a small part of myself ... just a weird nostalgia trip for me. I'm even surprised I'm managing to ... provided a lot of guidance. I'm just gonna list these nuggets of wisdom

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  audience as possible. Don't get me wrong: I love to sing. I'm no good at it ... was more important than experience. I mentioned that I'm a terrible ... would be, but pointed out that that wasn't a reason to not do it. Since he

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  rearview reflections newly-minted cruft rambles on post-mit life

  

  hiatuses I went on as a blogger, it also doesn’t feel like it.   When ... between WOOOOO I’M DONE 🥳 and [annotation note="'It’s a terrible day for ... making a short list of things I missed about MIT and things I’m happy to be

  • by Waly N. '24
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  Cells, Cells, and more Cells you've met me at a very course 20 time in my life

  

  interested in genetics or cells, which is a pretty big focus here. I'm more ... this class was honestly a huge factor in me UROPing this year, which I'm not sure I would have done otherwise. This class is also a CI-M! I

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • December 3, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  the sun sets on another summer only one left yikes

  

  flight to boston. this summer went by weirdly fast but in a way that i can't ... and it's like you're caught in a time loop. i don't know if i like that ... without a car. i'll miss playing smash every lunch break. i won't miss being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 17, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  a jaunt to Philadelphia We went to the AWP writing conference!

  

  nearly everyone at AWP, I hadn’t been to a conference, writing-centric or ... landscape looks like. I’m more of a speculative fiction writer (read ... program?” “Actually, I’m in mechanical engineering,” I’d say. I felt a kind

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  61 Photos from my Time at MIT from freshman to senior year

  

  Meet the Bloggers, a glorious event for which we are required to wear t ... you can't do art—my friend and I made a mural from stickers one night ... a burger + ice cream + jewelry trip to Harvard Square. It was a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 3, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Facebook. Because social networking makes you cool.

  

  Hey all, I'm sorry you haven't heard from me in a while; I'm working ... linked to here on the blogs (although I wasn't a part of the "we", then ... all the accepted students! Last year, a number of "MIT Class of 2013

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 16, 2009
• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  Emmanuel A. ‘18 is a member of my own class year (as is Pelkins A ‘18, who I covered last week) and therefore someone I’ve interacted with a ... the privilege of sharing a class with him, but we would meet at all our

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summertime Happenings A summer of research and relaxation in Boston

  

  day in Maseeh. Now that it’s summer and I have a monthly T pass, I’m ... back to California for a highly anticipated return home. I hadn’t had the ... green line T stop is a mere minute or two away. On sunnier days, a stroll

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Bad Grades and Big Screw-Ups Pulling back the A's, B's, C's, and P's to see what's inside

  

  the ball on. I don’t know why yet, but I’m having a hard time with it ... semester was a shitshow of epic proportions. Just, ugh, you'll see. 21M.600 ... : Writing and Reading Short Stories  I didn’t write a single short story for

  • by Powers '23
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  . Well, I'm not a woman, a minority, I don't have a parent in a particular industry, I'm not the smartest in my class or major, and I haven't done ... heard about it just a bit late last year and couldn't apply, which is

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is ... convinced that there's a cute guy who works at the library, because she can't ... ...I don't know, died...when they got off this particular slide. So I was

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Little Rectangles Thoughts from Junior spring

  

  try?”. I wouldn’t consider myself much of a sharer. On the blogs I ... . ------------------ I want to talk about integrals. I’m pretty sure a lot of you nerds who ... zooming in: And then suddenly, if you zoom in far enough, the curve isn’t a

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • May 14, 2018