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• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  like a great big puzzle, and one where I can’t ever see all the pieces at ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I ... bit of a stretch, because I’m still catching up on the lectures for 8

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  lots of fancy art supples. we brainbarfed at each other for a bit and ... for the fungal blob scene. Audrey: of course we also had to have a ... went back and forth for a bit trying to decide whether our bebe should be

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  The end of an era Veronica Mars was canceled. That, or the seniors left. Interpret the title as you will.

  

  for no reason. Rar.) I was in the floor lounge to distract myself from ... more like a toy plane to me, but there's a reason I stayed away from ... to Evan, the newest blogger). I think getting a free can of WD-40 and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • June 13, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  So You Wanna Be A Blogger? The post that (hopefully) answers all of your questions about the selection process for admissions…

  

  decided to add an Early Action (EA) round for a couple of reasons - first ... 're considering for a major (list all possibilities), and what activities you hope ... and headed southwest. Assuming a trajectory of 42.6 degrees for said

  • by Ben Jones
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  recommend. I met a girl from Germany who used Aupair in America, where the ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... downright dangerous, especially for a woman travelling solo. Luckily I didn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  reviewing MIT’s Intro To Deep Learning the highs and lows of the beloved IAP class

  

  ="Independent Activities Period, aka the month of January where students can take a long ... week off of work, I understand the pressed schedule. From a purely ... , desktop monitors, and a [annotation note="aka something I could've sold for

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 12, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  the life I could’ve lived it’s like one of those “what if” episodes

  

  decision for just a little longer. *** When I was home for spring break 2 ... this Monday was a normal school day for them. Throughout it, I thought a ... I’d opt out of a meal plan. But this would be TERRIBLE for me since I

  • by Hala K. '29
  • April 12, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  And I realize I’m going home Cards for sorrow, cards for pain, cards for my last blog entry from Germany.

  

  -- Wage a land war in Russia in the winter. I can't wait to see you all ... which I hopefully will still have a key Saturday -- Leave from Cologne ... Sam's Mom in the early morning for the 8-hour trip up Boston way. I can

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  new combinations too. Here's a simple cereal combo recipe I learned from ... Yields: One sandwich that I have been told resembles something you can buy ... -night dining where that's the only option). Drink mixes Of course, I can

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  food consumed this week, mostly free or: how to get away with rarely cooking

  

  already understand"]leveraged.[/annotation] Trust me, y’all, I learned from ... early to volunteer. I froze a handful of meals to save for later. Rating ... the meal with seltzer stolen from a lab earlier this week. lunch: I did

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  feel the itch to blog. So, I turned to the world’s best enabler- a coin ... ![/caption] Recently, I had a person ask me: “you know it’s bad luck to be superstitious ... alone, where she befriends a dragonfly that offers to help her on her

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  with my brother from Pennsylvania a week ago and I joined them on ... cook from a cookbook but I ended up mostly baking, and everything else ... . Stuffed shells This is sometimes a staple for me. You buy them at the

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s FPOP for Entrepreneurship a week of connecting incoming freshmen with MIT startup founders

  

  how I really want to do part-time work for a VC firm this fall and he ... conversations at a food court where I eat my lunch every day is incredible. We ... myself, I can't imagine what it must have been like for the freshmen

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 29, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  working very, very hard campus tourism and imposter syndrome

  

  that I've earned buying a coffee nearly every day of the week. I go on ... -grad preparation drift, unchecked, from one week to the next. Yet, as long as I'm a ... , typing away, I wonder if I'm a part of the exhibition: real-life MIT

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • July 22, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final projects from the fall three coding projects and an alien in disguise

  

  list of options to choose from for our final project. I chose ... to write about for my final project, so I took a theory I have about ... suggestions, I tried to make a Bayesian model for how a player's confidence

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is wondrous strange. Why didn't the ostrich cross the road? Because a girl had no pants on.

  

  California. If you can't trust a student blog on the MIT admissions portal, then whom can you trust? Turns out that there's a zoo in Dorchester. I ... was a little bored (for the very first time since I got to MIT two years

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 25, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  The Tech profiled Lydia about resilience @ MIT "I’m building my vocabulary and I’m building my mind and I’m building myself as a…

  

  hard time. I know it did for me; I read it as a first-semester graduate ... diagnosed with cancer before I came to MIT. I did not think for a moment that ... where he was in the hospital to spend time with him for a week. It was

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All-You-Can-Eat Summer I hit food coma at the first paragraph.

  

  . It also turned out to be a record for me, as I ate 11 scoops of ice ... can be difficult to find the time for during a harried semester schedule ... razors with soap in them already. I'm living in a fraternity in Boston

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 10, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Where’s Waldo? Hack Attack!

  

  to in my email inbox I receive this email. From: Friend with the ... =) --- Mental Bubble: "ZOMG A HACK, Where's my camera?!?!?!?" Luckily, my blogger ... . I especially like the French Waldo. Off to the Stata Center for more

  • by Bryan
  • December 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  , at least for now. ----- "leave my door open just a crack / cuz i ... QUOTE: "MIT is a very good place; I'm not trying to put it down. I was just in love with it. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009