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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.)

  

  this entry: what is IAP? The one-sentence, in-a-nut-shell version that I like to tell my friends and relatives is that “IAP, which stands for ... answer is that IAP is truly what you want it to be. MIT students and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 7, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Undergraduates by Major AND Professor Auroux. Don't miss it.

  

  Auroux, who is a simply outstanding professor. I was actually IN THE SAME ... ; Engineering (founded as Geology and Mining; Geology is now a part of Course 12 ... world to self-study (and also serves as a great repository of past exams

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 28, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  to a large construction initiative meant to "update the look and feel ... to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or... ? The TV is mine- I ordered it from BestBuy and had it shipped to my dorm just so I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  country I’ve never been to before that speaks a language I kind of ... neighboring countries of France, the Netherlands, Germany, and Luxembourg, to ... -rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Off to Zambia

  

  the school is able to hold adult classes in the evening. Another one of our main projects is water testing and education. The community has a ... 31st. Zambia is a land-locked country in southern Africa (see above

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Almost a Real Engineer my foray into the world of professional conferences

  

  , getting settled after a semester abroad, applying to jobs and the like, and ... the industry. I’ve known for about a year now that transportation is ... due to the weather conditions in both Boston and DC; the first real

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 22, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The only living boy in New York I get all the news I need from The Colbert Report.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The traditional wedding march is from Wagner's Lohengrin. Thanks to Zach for that random fact at the suggestion of a "barbarian wedding." There's going to be a great entry about all the fun Mitra

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  2021 Applicants: Answers to Your Emails Inspiration, Process, Components, Stress Mgmt, and More

  

  that a 2400 on the SAT is not necessary, you will probably try to find ... addressed to you. It’s a long weekend and thus an excuse to pretend that ... . The website tells you what MIT is looking for and how to get here, in as

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 9, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  a lunch counter and found that someone is already making the sandwich ... . A proper sandwich is the highest form of civilization to which ... age", and am a third of the way along a reasonably optimistic life

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Ridiculous things I’ve been up to in which i wear an exoskeleton

  

  . Surprises in the mail. I get a bunch of things shipped to me that I don ... around. And I got it for about the same price I got my old laptop. So that ... exoskeleton. Then I wore the fancy shoes and a backpack that had the battery

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  . The truth is that I never REALLY knew what I wanted to major in. I knew ... think Course 1 was the first to go- I had an internship at a civil and ... elections a couple of weeks ago, and I'm the new Conner 2 webmaster (or

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  learned that there was a difference between the BART and the Muni, and how ... Tech and is a master's student. We crack jokes about the tech stack and ... . And sometimes we take a Lyft to get back home, but most of the time we

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  at stuff and that’s alright. My inability to draw or do a pset doesn ... wouldn’t drive with a fogged windshield, and by the same logic, I shouldn ... available to everyone in most other countries since they were a preteen. I

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I ... ships on display. I take a diversion to The Alchemist and take in the way ... started using a stopwatch to time some of the walks I’ve made. Simmons to

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cloudy, nice and cool, a break from the heat. When we got there, I was so ... general, never to the Haymarket one in Boston and not as a college student ... that one of the handles broke when I was almost home, and I had to carry

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Best of the Ben Blogs Looking back at Ben's four years on the blogs.

  

  you read an application and a "perfect match" is there. [read more] The ... place. "There Is No Formula" Trying to define admissions with a formula ... , which is perhaps the most important part. Reading through [a blog and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 26, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  about the Olive Garden that draws cross-country teams like moths to a ... Waverly, Iowa, home to Wartburg College and the NCAA Division III Cross-Country ... from a state that is also occasionally the butt of jokes so I won't go

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  have the opportunity to climb the mountain that is MIT. They hail from ... use science, technology, and the useful arts to make the world a better ... number on our waitlist and informed the balance that we will not be able to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 14, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Writing Workshop I just wrote an entire post and my browser crashed. dfsdfksdfojfoajwefoiajdwf.

  

  for a quick bite) and reassembled it here, only to discover that one of ... Patrick the Irish's resilience that brought reason and truth into a world ... , I'm sneaky alright). The point that I'm trying to make instead is that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT at Copley Square Yet more photos of #NoBanNoWall protests in Boston, plus an update from President Reif.

  

  ourselves in, as an institution and as a country. MIT is profoundly American ... contradiction, MIT is profoundly global. Like the United States, and thanks to the ... measures in the Executive Order as a reasonable path to make the country

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 31, 2017