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• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... , their energy takes an entrepreneurial bent. That’s why MIT began Start ... entrepreneurs. It’s a 2 ½ week long, full-time workshop that touches on everything

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Before you Register for Classes: Tools, Tips, and Resources Scheduling Tools and Tips for Incoming Students

  

  the requirements of your specific major(s) and minor(s). You can create ... -registration, finding internships, and so much more. ACADEX, MIT’s Center for Academic ... , remember that MIT’s Drop deadline is rather late into the semester. This year

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 20, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  , and it’s especially prevalent over IAP. I teach Hebrew for fun and as a ... sponsors the class, but it’s open to anyone in the MIT community and is ... a vocabulary quiz. (I’m not a mean teacher, though!) And that’s my

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  prospective MIT students what MIT is really about. Perfect! That’s just what I wanted to hear, so let’s start at the beginning. Where are you from? I ... the greater Los Angeles area. My neighborhood is mostly Latino. It’s the

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  station, and to our surprise and delight, there were 4 other MIT ‘12s there, taking the same train. Here’s a picture of the six of us: The train took ... had to be the world’s biggest crossword puzzle: The tour ended around

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  [Guest Post] An Overthinker’s Guide to Finishing Your Transfer Application by Warren K. ’27

  

  further ado, and in no particular order, here’s some advice and resources ... to write about. It’s okay to completely scrap that idea and go back to ... people talk about what’s important to them. One of the best places to

  • by Jeremy W.
  • March 4, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  world for four whole years.  It’s still on point, and you should go read ... magic formula to engineer most of life’s important outcomes.  Sure, you ... know it – maybe suddenly in your 20s or 30s, like me – they’ll be gone

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  . It’s cold and dark and quiet outside; the river has frozen over; some ... means the sunlight feels so bright (when it’s there) and hotpot with ... 8.08: Statistical Physics II. It’s a 12-unit class (the same as a

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  , that’s only 0.3 miles… BUT STILL"]from New Vassar to the physics building.[/annotation]  That was my first taste of trekking around campus. MIT’s campus is a ... scheduled time. While MIT time helps, it’s not quite enough, so all of us have

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  Modernity. It’s a class focused on Afro-Brazilian and Indigenous Brazilian ... intensity, bouncing from adventure to deep discussion and back again. Here’s a ... ,[/annotation] and I still filled it with books. This was somewhat easier because it’s

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  guess it all worked out well in the end. 3. Kaito The heads of house’s dog ... floor via stairs. It’s like having a personal highway from my room to the ... -WA0010.mp4"][/video] 13. The Simmons DB It’s old and written in PHP and

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to move carts not an athletics post

  

  ones involved in pulling, it’s easier to maintain good posture, and ... the right. you can try to adjust the cart so that it’s pointing forwards ... force the cart’s handle (or whatever other part of the cart you’re holding

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  ID"]Saloniki’s,[/annotation] [annotation note="all of the cafe staff ... To Go!![/annotation] What’s that, you may ask?  From the Too Good To ... perfectly good, surplus food from your local stores. It’s always a surprise

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

  Super Sketchy Background Activity the experiment, part 3

  

  note="and having a few 2026s ask me what this team does"]past two years ... talking so much about something that’s so secret"]the Secret Team mythos ... commit an [annotation note="'it’s not crime if it involves bunnies wearing

  • by kellen manning
  • June 5, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Making my Ring Delivery Dress and some reflections

  

  Institute. It’s also an incredibly fancy event that expects people to peel off ... from Van’s Discount Fabrics in Chinatown for a sturdier lining. Always ... standard units, I appreciated Micarah’s instructions to cut pieces in “the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • May 21, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  dating while asian to love & be loved freely

  

  boyfriends, rush to qualify their partners with “he’s really aware” or “I’m his first Asian girlfriend” or some other statement meant to say: he’s not one ... . Some say that, after all, we rarely know the details of someone else’s

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 30, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  network that’s frighteningly good at writing, on my old blog posts. And then ... past, and how much of it was just luck. It’s even picked up the impostor ... Learning. It’s one of the largest classes here, with an enrollment of around

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

  East Campus REX Events! welcome to the wild wild west

  

  already looked at this, but if you haven’t: here’s the complete list of REX ... other dorms are running, but I can talk at length about East Campus’s ... prefrosh. This year, we’re building a fort and an arch bridge, and it’s going

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 20, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  Among all the classes that MIT offers, it’s almost impossible to ... , we get formal instruction!!! Besides the level of excitement, there’s ... through “oh no’s” and “ahhs” and hope the registrar will help you fix the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  particular because I was incredibly homesick. It’s not that I struggled to make ... , Joel G. ‘18, Alexa J. '20, and Kevin S. '19. I think one of the things ... it’s drowning in work, needing a calculator for an exam in the next 10

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017