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• FAQ / Academics and research

  What kind of things can I do during IAP?

  If you think MIT is all work and no play, let us take you for a spin ... spring and fall semesters, the Independent Activities Period is a special ... to organize, sponsor and participate in a wide variety of personal and
• Blog / Challenges

  the happy ending is you thoughts related to relationships

  

  everyone who has been in a relationship agrees that maintenance is orders of ... reading it was that i value relationships as a space in which you can ... get all A’s in classes, but there are also many others that i’m just not

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 21, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  this is fine some thoughts at the end of the semester

  

  it. All I want to do is lie in the sun and read a book, but... finals ... , I don’t want to end on such a negative note. The truth is that the end is in sight, and even if that makes things hard right now, at least I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  college I realized that the dishwasher is on a long list of things that make ... 't tell you how happy I am that I don't have to do it, but walking two miles ... use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Is this real? The party called IAP continues.

  

  One of my favorite things to do that I don't really have time for is watching TV; however, when I do have time (*cough* IAP *cough*) I manage to ... Cowell seeing how far he can make people drop their jaw when he makes a

  • by Bryan
  • January 19, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  I’m still learning in college is how to spend my limited time and ... large scale, I learned how to design a rocket and run simulations in Ras ... , Composites has been doing a lot of research in carbon fiber and I have to say

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Two Cool Projects

  

  In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check ... a fair price for their work, at least double the price they obtain in Puyo, which is so low that few women consider it worth the time and

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  Guidelines website. If youТƒфre interested in doing a UROP this semester, now ... analysis And the list goes on and on. But of course, doing a UROP is a ... : Thursday, Thursday September 14, 2006. Keep in mind that there are three

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  8 Hypotheses Like Schubert, I never finished the Eighth.

  

  with snow. (In which snow is a metaphor for hilariousness. I bet you ... the horizontal. In an effort to convince Matt McGann that I am an ... , catapulting ice onto unprotected pedestrian heads, is pretty scary now that I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 7, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  the world is blooming! and so am i?

  

  , fall, and winter, I feel like these depictions do a pretty good job ... realistic, but I’ve learned the last few months that it's not a lie. I thought ... for me (I LOVE SNOW), or the way that a picture of auburn leaves falling

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... prom date who is a math teacher in rural Washington now and trying to get

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  i’ve learned that people here rely on each other. in a greuling ... said and done, i feel better. but i don’t know how to do it in ... so i ask: “do you want a headpat?” and then they either tell me “no

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  chances, in the long run, that you’ll write something good. (As a corollary ... yourself as much as others love you! There’s a point to learning how to do ... that your past self did, without having to do them again. You can admire

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  in the Green Building. I insisted to my boyfriend that I wanted to do ... full time job offer nor a spot in the graduate program. I do something ... me enjoying my life is quite high. I see accepting a position in a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Work in Progress So. I decided that I needed a new banner.

  

  the design is also a work in progress. I'll be working on the other ... So. I decided that I needed a new banner. Alright, so that's a lie. Ben decided for me that I needed a new banner. See, when Ben sets up the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 13, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  and i’d do it again differently

  

  growing as a person at mit: that problem you had no clue how to do suddenly ... do. at least that’s what everyone told me, and so that’s what i ... .701 became a way for me to start learning pure mathematics to the degree that i

  • by Paige B. '24
  • October 25, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  part is a lie. I do not actually have Alan Guth's home address. However ... . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... interest in astrophysics, which is probably a large part of the reason I was

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

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  is setting in, I always told myself, "If I could do this 100, I can do ... classes is remarkable). I loved doing a ~5 mile loop from New House, up the ... House in New House) had a little terrace that overlooked the river, and I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• FAQ / First-year application

  How do I track the progress of my application?

  You may track the progress of your application in the application ... days to be processed. Materials are not automatically loaded into a ... don’t panic. While it is important to submit your application on time
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  .) I don't have to do this. Nobody is holding a gun to my head and ... a sad face when I don't come in). Ironically, the project that ... hours and weekends is a project that's been mine from start to finish -- I

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006