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• Blog / IAP

  MIT – Problem Sets = IAP! Today marks the beginning of IAP 2007.

  

  stands for Independent Activities Period. From January 8th to February 2nd, MIT students get the chance to enjoy everything that MIT has to offer ... : Baseball (Art of Hitting)- “Learn the fundamentals of how to hit a baseball

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 9, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  GTL Kazakhstan 🇰🇿 [IAP 2025] A January I won't forget

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What ... pharmacy to get cough drops. In addition, a Kazakh teacher at Shoqan had ... school up to AP Calculus, about how I felt. “I explain something to them

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 6, 2025
• Blog / Visit

  The coolest spring break ever? Visit a College Campus!

  with our check-in process, I get to see many of you who come to Cambridge ... colleges are in many different locations, you may not get to all of them ... other aspects of our office. As a counselor on the Visit Team, I get to

  • by DJ Rock
  • February 26, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  charge of the lab that I wanted to get a job in this field; he laughed and ... Monday's off-day to go see Dr. Glen Fleisig and the staff at ASMI in ... practicioners of pitching biomechanics in the world. Wanting to know more, I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  Kekka dake da! "Only the results remain!"

  

  so I wanted to fill it in with a different class. "Ok", I thought, "I ... "lightening the load" and how you can choose to overexert yourself but don ... different professors, getting a response from 1 (just to say the class was

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  #tbt: MIT Cribs Digging up some old freshman-year blog posts

  

  me in the company of great friends. I had to choose some of my very ... less willing to wake up than I was in high school. Seriously, how did I ... comprehensive view of everything in my room, but it's cool to see how some things

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 5, 2015
• Blog / Events

  dogg number there is no one better to be than myself!

  

  taught me how to use Github, which I'd always been so confused by in ... -dead, "I get better every single day..." My roommates and I decided to join ... project in 24 hours"]HackMIT[/annotation] this year just to see what it was

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  MTV Wait, I think that name might already be taken

  

  planned for later in the year! Hmmm, I think I'm going to need a bigger ... lamenting our lack of access to Pixar's render farm and kicking myself for not putting "build Admissions Beowulf cluster*" on the To Do list. I ♥ my Mac

  • by Dave McOwen
  • April 30, 2010
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  tonight or wait until tomorrow when more people get back to the house. Last ... figured I need to actually do something constructive. Those of you in AP Lit ... hadn't seen in 4 months since she abandoned us and went to study abroad

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Decisions “I don’t know”

  

  dependent on how good I was at it, not in general and not in comparison to ... , we are going to… well, you’ll see. Danny: “Now, I don't know” is how ... class. So I proposed the plan to stay in the class until we take the third

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to ... course offerings. In the meantime, feel free to poke around the websites of the different HASS departments, which are listed here. In response to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Scrapbook Sometimes Stickers!!!

  

  I wrote lightly about scrapbooking in my coping with anxiety blog post, but I did not get to post about any of my own pages. Here is a look ... sticker donations :) And, as always, Rory is there to inspire me in my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 17, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  great. I am a little saddened to know that there are a lot of classes in subjects I'm interested in that I will never get to take—some deeper dives ... have to in order to get through the class, and so I do. 4:34 PM: I stop

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Robo-CJ writes a college app do neural nets dream of electric essays?

  

  . In fact, I had to look at my blog posts to check that I’ve never ... to run it online. In fact, there’s a Google Colab notebook using gpt-2 ... in mathematics research. I'm not even close to choosing." Or, "It's not

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 28, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  Slay the Spire as metaphor i didn't waste 60 hours playing for nothing

  

  constructed card games, it's far more difficult to get the cards you want in ... to get a certain achievement. but im also not great at this game ... are an adventurer ascending a spire in order to slay it. Your cards

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 21, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Transfer Wrap-Up 2008 Looking back at MIT Transfer Admissions for entry this coming year.

  

  We frequently get requests to blog about transfer admissions, and now ... lot of great students we weren't able to admit. It's true that MIT ... process. She did a great job in helping many students with their questions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... with how that information was stored. when many memories are similar to ... out. in his post, sam wrote: Do new things often. This seems to be

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  January Book List Oaks & Poems & Baldwin & Biss

  

  wide in the sun; oaks in forests grow tall and thin to get what they can ... once. They are gentle and severe. I want this woman to teach me how to ... The snow is quiet and deep. I hope all the people who want to read

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  can get a PhD in math and teach classes for the rest of my life to ... comes to math. To some extent, I’ve learned how to quiet this voice: I ... . Sometimes, I wish I could get rid of the voice. That it didn’t just linger in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  was never cleaned up properly, how the government tried to relocate ... complicated subject that i don’t think i’m qualified to write about in detail ... the topic and link you to some of the articles i’ve read  space in sf

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022