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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  questions for me. Is it hard to study at MIT? How did you get into MIT? What is the best extracurricular I should be doing right now? How do you ... My [annotation note="Global Teaching Labs, a program where students

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

  What I Did on Registration Day I registered.

  

  observe that my bed is a right triangle. I sleep on the hypotenuse ... resumes in twelve hours, a carton of eggs waiting to crack and hatch their ... morning, I peddled a small piece of my soul in exchange for my academic

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I am home. Small thanks to the Airlines. In a surprising turn of events, Christmas travel is Not Much Fun.

  

  -threatening but faaaar more common than losing cabin pressure is having a flight ... need to behave around you? Might I make a small suggestion? DO. Then go ... our customer," and MEAN it this time. I could tell you a story about a

  • by Kim D. '09
  • December 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m laughing out loud cheek. muscles. cramping.

  

  Cumberbatch fangirl." Sam is a brilliant physicist so cross your fingers that ... when filling out your surveys. The evaluation system is supported by a ... entertainment here is a picture of a baby ocelot held by my boyfriend:

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 11, 2013
• Blog / About Decisions

  On MIT and Humanities I promise I will stop philosophizing (aka. sounding like an old man) in my entries…

  

  program, but what we have are excellent. 312211. When you say a school is ... become a valuable intern! When a friend that I know at UPenn is struggling ... fun this semester and a one-shot-deal, but it just goes to show how

  • by Chris S. '11
  • April 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Design in Boston [By Doug '14] Events that showcase the creative capital in and around Boston.

  

  changed my major to 2A and decided to concentrate in product design. I was ... though of how everything around us was “designed.” I took 2 ... out all my classes I can see that design is literally around us all

  • by ARTalk
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Someone saved my life tonight Survived my squalor, like a butterfly.

  

  stress.   And there is also a fourth degree, but, well, there's no reason for me to be such a huge downer all the time. Meara, of course,is nowhere near second class squalor, although her lifestyle is a little bit

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

  UROP 101 – The Intro Entry Each week, I will explore a different MIT student's unique research project and the insight…

  

  privilege is mostly a result of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities ... join a biology lab. Luckily, this is what the UROP program is all about ... and embryonated chickens. My research is part of a project to use these

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  map and realize how absurd that is. Schrodinger's train, perhaps? And ... /attending a school like MIT is that in a milieu of such strong students, it ... peers, and she/he won't get into a good grad program. This is also usually

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  well. EAPS as a department is really informal - I’m on a first-name basis ... note about course 12 is that it’s really good for a double major or a ... , which is important because you have to write a thesis to graduate

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Declared My Major :D aw yeah i'm a College Student™ now

  

  a deeper understanding of how the brain produces intelligent behavior and how we may be able to replicate intelligence in machines. 6-9 is an ... -9 is related to humans. As of now, 6-4 isn't officially listed as a major

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • April 21, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for MIT QuestBridge Finalists Don’t know what QuestBridge is? You can skip this entry.

  

  This is a blog entry specifically for finalists in the QuestBridge National College Match. If you don’t know what this is, don’t worry! You can ... tests in November/December/January. Am I still eligible for the Match? A

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • October 23, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Dudamel On music and becoming an old man

  

  "Dudamel is cool." So, even though I had no idea whether Dudamel was a music ... my program, I learned very quickly that Dudamel is not a music genre. Dudamel is not an instrument, or a song title, or a composer. Dudamel is

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 15, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Ten years at MIT for me 🎂 a few notes on the occasion of my 10th anniversary at MIT

  

  10th will always hold a [annotation note='Beyond the matter in Lisbon ... wanted to put in this blog post for some time. The problem is that talking ... this institution and the work of admissions has meant to me, is too

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2019
• Blog / How to Food

  Adventures with Miracle Fruit The lemons had a meaty flavor that should not have been there.

  

  sweetness of acidic foods after miraculin is equal to that of a 17% sucrose ... approved by the FDA as a sweetener or food additive, but is mass-produced in ... . Interest in miraculin spiked after a May 2008 New York Times article on

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MITSO Gone Wild! [by Shelby Heinecke '13] MITSO performs with Aardvark Jazz Orchestra!

  

  is an aural duality, a good versus evil, present in the music. The ... Orchestra (MITSO) played an exceptionally original and edgy concert. As a ... . This concert was unique for several reasons: 1. We premiered a newly

  • by ARTalk
  • March 15, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  homecoming to a new school year and adventure

  

  someone is making pear pie and they offer me a slice. And I need to seek out ... the commute and learning how to decorate my own room. I'll be taking a ... Railroad was hardly a ride at all, at least in the traditional amusement park

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 16, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  ISEF 2015 Recap researchers talking, and talking to researchers

  

  ISEF, here is a description from the Society for Science and the Public: The Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (Intel ISEF), a program of Society for Science & the Public (SSP), is the world

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 1, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things. First of all, IAP is MIT's Independent Activities Period, where MIT ... !! Cocktails 101 I'M GOING TO MAKE COCKTAILS! I'm so excited! This is a class

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  It was a music-filled, and unfortunately not work-filled-enough weekend for me, as I scored free BSO tickets courtesy of MIT... but that's a ... hope He hath not." Washing dishes... Mitra: "Did you know anorexia is

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005