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• Blog / IAP

  More IAP updates

  

  The Maslab 2007 competition (the culmination of the class for which I ... of our noise. :) I played in the Assassins' Guild tenday game. My ... , as the same could not be said of 28 (out of 52 total) other characters

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • February 1, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Waitlist Decisions 2012

  

  students this year for the Class of 2016. I know many of you have been ... As the May 1st reply date has passed, I know many people on the ... . Each year, we always plan on admitting students from the waitlist

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • May 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Call Me, Emeril BAM!

  

  the same time, seeing that I'm in withdrawal of learning how to do ... dogs as a college student, and I just am a fan of more spice in my life ... how to cook. Now I must say I'm to a degree spoiled, both my mom and

  • by Bryan
  • June 25, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Weekend Adventures Part One the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts

  

  know what the daily life of an MIT student (i.e. me) is like. So i decided to chronicle my weekend! This will be the first of several "a day in the life of Cyd" posts and I can imagine them being lots of fun (for me

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • November 23, 2010
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  Can a QB Finalist that didn’t rank MIT still apply for RA?

  . In the email, please include your full name, date of birth, and the ... , along with the QB supplement, in place of our first-year application ... ’ve completed all of the MIT requirements. You will not be considered an official
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tales of my first Career Fair Among other things, shirts for the next 33 days

  

  , and an 18.02 exam on Friday. In the midst of spending the day studying ... upperclassmen. "OF COURSE IT IS! GO FOR THE FREE SWAG," they all encourage me. So I register online and the second step of the registration tells me to

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 2, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  note="until AC came in and confused the shit out of me"]coolest thing ... "][/annotation], I still really enjoyed the content. The first third of the course was probability, which compared to the latter two thirds of the course, random

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  21: The Movie Afterthought: You probably have to had seen the movie to understand this entry fully. =/

  

  . Synopsis: (some spoilers for the first hour of the movie) Ben Campbell (Jim ... outstanding intellect, Ben was offered a chance to join the clandestine MIT ... brilliantly and is ceremonially welcomed into the team by all of the members

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Professor Ernesto Blanco: A Lesson in Creative Engineering "Science and engineering are like two sides of a coin, where the value of the…

  

  teaches us about the FUNdaMENTALs of design and we have guest speakers share ... included the Chief Engineer of General Motors and an engineer from Texas Instruments who designed a sensor that detects the weight of a passenger and

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  tenth grade, I put a similar lamp and mug on the floor of a dorm room ... forgot I owned, followed by the books I had no intention of revisiting. Three categories of books survived the cull: used – but still useful

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  off the train, I was greeted by a gulf of freezing wind. I mean ... path. And somehow I made it to the other side of campus. Somehow. But ... that the future of this nation and of the world for that matter depends

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  at MIT. Can people opt out of the meal plan in order to make their own ... figured I would make the best out of it. i introduced myself to the head ... stir fry or salad--both of which are offered nightly, so I'm always

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  2024 ring premiere! amogus??

  

  class ring, or Brass Rat, is an integral part of the MIT experience. It ... scattered throughout the crowd, and a few other fun outfits. It was one of ... ="linear algebra"]18.06[/annotation] at the end of the row--or it might've been

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAP and Igloos This is an entry about IAP. IAP is the month of January. It's...February. I know.

  

  . IAP is another name of the month of January. Some people may be quick to point out that we are in the month of Feburary. These are the kinds of ... of the glorious unknown. The mystery bag was an opportunity to purchase

  • by Jess K. '10
  • February 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  blog posts. On Friday nights, while the rest of MIT is hard at work ... connoisseur of next week's problem sets. The next morning, my esteemed colleagues are calculating the limit of sleep as time approaches 3 PM, and I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  "apply" section, which offers a related blog of encouragement from The ... Your MIT Education book for SFS, and the Application Guide, Best of the ... will never see the light of day. And this is something that I’m still

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Camberville

  

  reference to Cambridge and its neighbor Somerville) The weather here sucks. It has been 45 degrees and raining for the last week. Yes, this is ... I'd heard that Anna '02 (like Rax, an alum of my hall, and now a grad

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • May 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Humans 101 @ MIT introductory SHASS classes this fall and recapping the lightning talks

  

  Every year the School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (SHASS) publishes a list of introductory subjects offered across its departments. The purpose of the list is to provide admitted students with a basic roadmap to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Happy May! Everything I owed you...

  

  not studying, but managing to oversleep and forfeit 5 minutes of the ... the gaps of some of the stuff that I semi-blogged about. As you may ... couple of weeks I set foot on campus, I've been involved with the SAT

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mad scientist? “Everybody's a mad scientist, and life is their lab. We're all trying to experiment to…

  

  by obsessive behavior and the employment of extremely dangerous or ... lab, and approximately 6 hours of homework and lab-prep.) We spend the semester learning pretty much all of the basic biology techniques, from

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 15, 2007