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• Blog / IAP

  The Space Between In which I attempt to explain IAP. (Hint: it's not a Dave Matthews Band song.)

  

  to how UROP works at MIT, and how I found mine. In about two weeks I ... in has something to do with it as well. But that's just a hypothesis ... country during IAP can be a great way to expand your global horizons without

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  out here, range from explorations of South Asian identity to studies in ... looks come to life in the runway show, and additional designers had the ... a lot. That's why I'm impressed how the MIT Gala board was able to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  Making The Switch Making the transition from high school to college, Chapter 1

  

  yourself to new ideas. For me, personally, in the summer leading up to the ... in a long time, the only person I had to be responsible for was myself ... out how to manage myself. Managing myself included making sure I wasn

  • by Bryan
  • March 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  mid semester check-in all about my classes

  

  ’t like big class sizes and I did not have a great experience in [annotation ... and I wasn’t able to get any help or ask any of the questions I had. But ... ,[/annotation] I dropped the class to Listener. In the moment, it was very painful. I

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

  tryharding but still not enough

  

  doing well in school. It's a lot of free time for me to be a tryhard. For ... tune in to lectures and access course materials and stuff. I thought this ... I used to be really passionate about in high school -- which mostly

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • March 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Take Me Back to Tech (Guest Entry) So hurrah for technology, 'ology, 'ology oh.

  

  ’m ready to head back to the ‘tvte. Though I have some great ... ). In any case, for a trip to my new favorite place, the beginning was ... here are some pictures/videos I have to add (in roughly chronological

  • by Bryan
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Pimp my sukkah. I really can't think of a better blog entry title than that.

  

  bore the slogan "It's getting hot in herre, so emigrate to Israel with ... got to campus and everything was great. I made new friends, freaked out ... getting e-mails from Hilleevery two days inviting me to all of their events

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Antietam? I hardly knew him. A Fourth of July fable, while I'm stuck in Germany.

  

  comes as some sort of great disillusionment to you, but you don't always ... of commercial failures of the 20th century which, in addition to ... there once, crouching in the Devil's Den and pretending to be a famous

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  On Greek history, and this strange end-of-semester sprint  tl;dr nerding out over a final essay

  

  don't have time to care this much, and I forget how good it feels. In ... in the 1800s."]Mycenae[/annotation] as the original colonizer, how both ... start writing, though it took a minute to get to. I spent Thanksgiving

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  . You get to try a career for a few months to test the waters. If you don ... enjoyed the experiences I’ve had in labs, but I started to realize that it ... . Turns out, they were the next day. I usually like to prepare a few days in

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT is hard and I still don't know what I'm doing

  

  as it is now. Getting adjusted to fully in-person life on campus ... . That's what really gets to me. Clearly, there's half the class out there ... remember how insane MIT actually is. In a lot of ways, though, it

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • November 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  New York Trips that we went on with Arts Scholars!

  

  events and is a great way to join an artistic community at MIT!  One of the biggest perks of being an Arts Scholar is getting to go on an all ... didn't get to go on the New York trip that year, but we did every year

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 5, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  Buying books You shouldn't have to spend all your money on textbooks!

  

  ...whatever) just wait until you get to campus. There are always upperclassmen trying ... bookstores in Kendall Square. The Coop is guaranteed to have your textbook and ... . So don't run out and buy textbooks yet! Wait until you get to school

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 14, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... 't live without my fridge in Next. You might be able to get a used one, I ... packs of 5 for $3) and they're great to store in the bathroom. Wash them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  summer to get to and from his job in Providence. I've used it to go to ... . Getting to that fraternity or sorority party. Visiting your friends in ... for getting to classes quickly when you live in the farthest dorm and it

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show ... went on to describe his ongoing project in Ghana. He also shared with me ... back to Ghana sooner...” he said, “once people get married or have

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

  MEng (Masters of Engineering) Learn about the masters plans of Phil '05 and Laura '06.

  

  Interested in different paths you can take to get a masters degree ... is a great deal because you can get a Master's level degree in 1 extra ... Science) stayed a fifth year at MIT this school year to earn his masters in

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  , layered with ice, piled in drifts...I'm no stranger to snow. But snow before ... planning to write a little feature about MIT mailing lists in the near future ... to me and plays football, I'll be sure to check. =) In my entry about

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Finding Inspiration encouraging motivational inspiration

  

  that obstacle down brick by brick, go the extra mile to get around it, or climb to great scary heights to get over it, it will be worth it because ... you're finally going to take that shot and how magnificent it's going to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • November 7, 2016
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  tricycles, it was always possible to get from point A to point B in an hour on ... Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... 'd ever wanted to go, I'd gotten to in at worst an hour; most of the time

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022