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• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... about it from a random e-mail (probably sent to all of the dorm mailing ... order to get to their favorite restaurants. After a couple days of touring

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that ... are a strange beast to me in E+M. 5:10am. Still thinking about SI units ... strategic locations as to create the most natural and flattering look for a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote Lake Havasu City, Arizona, where it was reconstructed atop a man

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how the first midterms actually were xoxo gossip girl?

  

  ;dr not actually, but I was CONVINCED a trip I had planned to Italy was ... everyone has to take to graduate"]GIRs[/annotation] and a class essentially ... multivariable calc before, but that turned out to not put me at a disadvantage

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • October 15, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  from near my home about 7 miles to campus. I get a nice view, I get to ... the way where I have to cross a side street, or switch sides of the road ... 're trying to hit is only a foot in front of you. So as the car kept driving

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  year I began listening to podcasts a lot, so maybe I have just been ... ):   Blogger: Me First song listened to in 2018: "m.A.A.d city" by ... algorithm understand taste Comments from the blogger: i listened to a lot of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Students Operate On Hawaii Time! MIT's learning environment supports a wide range of learning styles and experiences.

  

  spending hours at a time talking animatedly to myself.) We created an online ... with interspersed micro-problems that were designed to test a student ... transcripts) are available to students as a kind of online textbook: they can be

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • February 28, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Spaghettuna and Lego aircraft If my first week of IAP is any indication of how 2011 will treat me,…

  

  at a dining hall, but now that I have the time to let out my inner Iron ... can be a turn-off. I guess I’m just used to it by now; you see, I ... local television, my dad mentioned the word “fridgey” when referring to a

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • January 10, 2011
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  : Tell us a bit about your hometown, your interests, what you like to do for fun! What made you want to come to the MIT fly-in? “I live in a ... best of the best, and I figured it was worth a shot to apply. I’m so glad

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  to look at things. --- A couple of weeks ago, my dear friend Davie - who is a super expert birdwatcher - invited me to go on a "birding" trip ... one accomplish such a thing? By learning to see. All the exotic habitats

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Even Waitresses Under 30 Call Me ‘Sweetheart’… Some thoughts about how classwork and free time intersect at MIT, with a look at…

  

  thinking a bit about age and about what it means to be eighteen, anyway, and ... to a two-year break from school, I'm finding that my passions ... to be a worthy contender for most intriguing class this term. We meet

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  living having the time of my life

  

  treading water. I had three square meals a day, friends to hang out with at lunchtime, and a goal to work towards (college), but I didn’t feel like I was ... make a portfolio, the volunteering was because I wanted to help people

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • May 10, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  school break thoughts

  

  I wake up with a jolt. In middle school, I used to have a recurring ... day at school only to realize I forgot to do a major assignment. I ... antagonizing me. To be able to sit and read a book or watch a movie or play a

  • by Victor D. '27
  • June 21, 2026
• Blog / Admissions

  QuestBridge 2013 FAQs

  

  be able to consider you during Early Action (just a few weeks later) if ... complete and you did not match to a binding school. If you take MIT off your ... to get them to you in time? A: I previously answered this incorrectly

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • October 21, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  scuba do or scuba don’t? under the sea

  

  .  As a side note, in order to address my homework, I’ve developed ... require you to have a separate timer. You start a work session, you work ... , after seven sessions, I had the option to do a scuba certification dive so

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • November 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a ... MIT (or HowToGAMIT for short). It's a student-produced handbook that's a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  The CrimZone. there are 2 impostors at harvard

  

  Orientation, when I decided on a whim to get a Harvard library card, which is ... wanted to get a library card, came with me and we both got our cards fresh ... fill out a profile and check-in to the event before we could spin the

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • September 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  G(e)e^ks

  

  : "Would you mind answering questions to a student in highly interested in ... anybody cared to memorize maybe more than a 100 of e? 3. the formulas for ... to the power of pi The discussion took a numerological turn, and we

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  He’s Making A List and Checking It Twice The things that I found important when looking at colleges

  

  So four years ago, I began a year-long journey to start seeing what ... to college. I kind of went about it in a semi-orderly fashion, but I ... I have when it comes to my ideal mate, I had a pretty hefty list of

  • by Bryan
  • July 24, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waiting How about 'em EA decisions?

  

  nine long months to birth with a lot of snarling and kicking around. On ... . Someone on College Confidential had posted a link to a countdown timer ... timer ticked its way to less than 30 hours, my palpable fretting grew a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 13, 2013