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• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  mornings, any inch of skin exposed to the air goes numb in minutes. But this ... previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... "]SEVT[/annotation]. In sophomore year, I helped with the Pi Day video animation and grinded

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Home(sick) for the Holidays winter break was weird: time capsule 2

  

  grabbed dinner with friends at the dining hall in [annotation note="a dorm ... into the big field in front of dorm row. I played some Christmas music out loud in the dark—at home around this time of year, my dad tunes into

  • by Allison E. '27
  • February 24, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  november again conversation with myself

  

  novembers that make you remember, something in the sudden, bitter cold. i ... see my breath misting in front of me. when i looked up at the sky, it ... against my will. i keep insisting that i’m in my cool color era, my green

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  23andme happy new year

  

  ? Especially since I'm still in undergrad and so much of my life is ahead of me ... 't really remember if I had any resolutions in 2022, but in retrospect, I grew a lot in the previous year, and I feel much more grounded and clear

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  carly SLAY jepsen concerts > psets

  

  Among my defining personality traits are playing 2048 in the year of ... , and being the number one Carly Rae Jepsen fan in most of my social ... happening at one end of the gymnasium. In fourth grade, Call Me Maybe was the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 28, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2021 Reflections & 2022 Resolutions

  

  resolutions I accomplished in this list, as well. 2021 Resolutions Go to a ... Celebration, a three-day conference for women in computer science. It was so ... really getting a feel for what is out there for me in the computer science

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Yeah, I’m turning twenty, it’s terrifying one year of mit

  

  trailers are right in front of Medical, and the line went in front of and ... Building, past Hayden, all the way to Building 6. I thought living in East ... number, confirm my address is still valid. "Do you still live in 362

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 28, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 1) wits, skill, and the teeniest amount of luck

  

  pleasure of competing in dormspam-the-game! Run by [annotation note="I plan ... ,[/annotation] winning a modest but appreciated $15! In my opinion, winning required more ... from the games, which the Gamemasters have so graciously made public. In

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 13, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Stitch n Bitch: Quarantine Edition a tight-knit community scattered across the globe

  

  This blog post unfolds in three parts: (1) a story about how I got ... in 2019, I met someone very special. Her name is Kidist. You might have ... , in our freshman year at MIT, but I think our story really starts on a

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 21, 2020
• Blog / Announcements

  To our prospective students and their families on taking care of ourselves and the people we love

  

  responded — responsibly — by changing or cancelling their activities in the ... in college, and my younger daughter is a high school senior who is ... Making Caring Common report was released in 2016, I wrote that an important

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • May 27, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  -and-tank-top-wearing days to finally be upon us again, I have also been in an application ... shitty first draft of my resume by the end of August. I improved on it in ... spent most of my free time in October and November polishing up on my

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Events

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  around in our badass Rush shirt or wearing a brightly colored cowboy hat. In particular, the people wearing the cowboy hats are around to give ... questions about East Campus or MIT in general! Some of you have probably

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6-3 not a definitive guide

  

  were 757 undergraduate students alone enrolled in Course 6-3 for the Fall ... people I've met who are 6-3 (which is... a lot) aren't in it solely for the ... enough along in it now to explain what it's been like from my perspective

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 26, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I ... else—with a spice of the technical in the liberal arts. I'd miss seeing ... , it feels lonely to do social science without being able to share in the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Weekend Trip to Salem, MA romance, adventure, and no witchcraft

  

  weekend in late April is helpfully situated before hell week(s), i.e. the ... part of trip planning was then figuring out places to visit. In my mind ... ditched it eventually and decided to improvise once in the town. Salem

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  . ________________________ Imagine: you are a prospective university student in India, 600 BC ... development of higher education in India. After the final five Indian universities were destroyed in 12th century AD, few records of them remained

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Senior Spring ... I'm almost done?

  

  relationship with her father. Both emotionally wrecked me in the best of ways and ... whether to keep walking in the cold and he said something to the effect of ... pretty good advice sometimes.      My weekdays in January were filled

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Poker, Mountains, and Magic The four words of this title have no other exact match on Google

  

  ? undergoned? underleft?) over IAP, but in the meantime I’ll recap my January and ... dropped before ever attending. In Pokerbots, I worked with Jeff ‘18 and ... -n-go pot-limit Texas Hold’em, in case you were wondering) against other teams

  • by Joel G. '18
  • February 6, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  Guest Blog: Operation Overgourd A different kind of pumpkin drop (by Lauren H. '16!)

  

  is an air museum in eastern New York that restores and displays Golden ... dogfighters and barnstormers…and for two weekends in October, they host a Fall ... , then compete to see who could make the most cuts in the paper before it

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 16, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Truth is Rarely Pure and Never Simple A behind-the-scenes special on directing a play

  

  What does a number do when it wants to be a picture? I acted in my first class play in 2nd grade. Science was a way to explore the universe ... later, I am now pursuing a minor in Theatre Arts at MIT. I, like many

  • by Neerja A. '16
  • November 6, 2014