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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  desserts, [annotation note="a fried dough pastry I would soon come to love ... . While I didn’t enjoy the flavor, Colin drank his entire bowl in one gulp ... clapping when somebody dropped a plate in the dining hall. [annotation note="I

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

  Admitted Student Gathering Thank you MIT Club of Northern NJ for throwing a great one!

  

  student in the immediate area, I was pretty excited to meet other 2017's in ... Engineering, which I wanted as my major. It was amazing seeing how much the ... through so far. I began to wonder what kinds of questions they would ask

  • by Erick P. '17
  • April 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  6 / New Year, New Me Looking back, looking forward & staying in the present

  

  uncomfortable, a foreigner in distant lands, comfortable with uncertainty as I ... and every moment, and take it all in. Most of the places and people I met I would likely not ever see again. But I didn't want that to stop me

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 12, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Appreciating America in Tokyo (or Things I Never Finished, Part Two) On Japan and America. And being an American in Japan. Happy Memorial Day!

  

  my time in Japan comes to an end I find myself wondering how I'm ever ... place is in this gigundous planet we call home that I never would have ... , but in Italy? That would NEVER happen." I came to Japan to immerse

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  guide to preparing (or at least a guide to how I prepare) in the hope that ... was my mother–who, every weekend, would go over what I did in the prep ... national assessments. The first SAT test I took was in 7th grade--I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  making art for fun what a crazy concept!

  

  When I was applying to be a blogger in September, one of the first questions was about why I wanted to be a blogger in the first place. Amidst ... , I answered (in 250 words or less) that [annotation note="i don't think

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Thank Goodness! "There are bridges you cross / You didn't know you crossed / until you've crossed."

  

  reasoning that may have carried you through in the past. I would spend hours ... 'm getting a far better grade in 7.05 than 5.12) - but I'm seriously struggling in orgo. Argh! < begins long rant on organic chemistry > (I

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 21, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... ’t know if he realized how badly this would hit me. Maybe I didn’t realize ... loud with wailing. But in that moment I think it would have been too

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  July Questions Omnibus 1 Your questions & my answers.

  

  interested in MIT and Aero/Astro, I would encourage you to apply to MIT and see ... 's the one of the most selective colleges in the US. I know applicants have ... unlike next years class,would you consider me for this year's class?i am

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Cooking with Cami learning to adult part 1

  

  endeavors, I've decided to get my shit together and actually learn how to cook ... 's video on eggs, I was pretty confident in my abilities. I unfortunately don ... really good and I was really pleased with how it turned out. I'm a big fan

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  good pasta dish, but I also think I might like taco salad. How do I pick ... ’t think I’m into it anymore”. I’ve been fortunate in that I sort of ... .007 final competition intact. Rip. It hit me that I never in a million years

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colin Jackson is awesome So is my life, but not to such a great extent.

  

  . I haven't written a blog entry in 6 days. God created the Earth in six ... . So I would sit down to write something, like a blog entry, or a ... many assignments due Wednesday, and I would just be like, "Oh, oh, oh, it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42 classes i'm taking this semester

  

  graduate, how I got started in VR, every blog post I've written related to ... classes are still challenging, especially as I try to squeeze in a week ... founders who come in as guest speakers.   This is what I'm taking this

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why Do We Fall? so that we can learn to pick ourselves up

  

  Wednesday, I squeezed in some final study time from 10am to 12:30pm before ... about how to solve them and recalling past problems to guide me. I wrote ... thought were acceptable answers. I barely finished on time and handed in my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 26, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  dance dance revolution lessons from ddr

  

  reaction times so i assumed ddr would be a struggle [caption id ... gameplay i learned how to keep myself centered on the pads without looking at ... found a level i wanted to beat in my remaining week at mit. it was grand

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two answers on a Saturday night Because SNL's a rerun and we just finished our movie from Netflix

  

  know how to do is stick their noses in books and that older doctors dread ... I don't want to rule out. I'm thinking things must have changed in the ... MIT grads in med school? Should I worry about that? And Lori said in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  synthesis on changing my mind

  

  interest in during college, it’s a bit laughable how many areas i explored and how irrelevant many of them are to what i currently do. in ... rejoin even when their peers would be happy to have them back in my

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • April 12, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In the Music Cubes, no one can hear you scream…

  

  already has a concert scheduled there). Though I'm not entirely sure how ... did on soundproofing the building! I got to experience it first ... under construction since I started at MIT, and I’d often wonder what

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 25, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  brownie from a mug (an activity I highly suggest) in my apartment in Boston, almost directly beneath the Citgo sign. A brownie in a mug! I'll have to ... participating in a UROP through the MIT Energy Initiative, where I am using MATLAB

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  . When I walked in, there were 20 +/- 2 girls sitting on the floor, wearing ... , which meant that I couldn't see myself in the mirror - a blessing, as I ... direction. I stumbled left. Ashley stopped, and tapped her feet in front of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013