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• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  love mugs!! One mug for me, one for my mom, one for my mom's best friend Joan - ALL THE MUGS! IT IS SO EXCITING! We signed up for the class right ... for IAP: Mighty Mugs Cocktails 101 FormLabs Bad Ideas Getting

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Chancellor? What’s a Chancellor? What does the Chancellor do and how does that affect student life?

  

  position I think of as a dream job. For the previous six years, I had been ... , which is also a totally cool job – head of the biggest (and best but don ... not easy to give up a great job, but for me the chance to be Chancellor

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • August 16, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I went over to East Campus for a rush party (and because Random always ... 'm looking for a large sample size, so don't be a lurker -- tell me why you ... for students who have an interview or have an interview waived is higher

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

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

  

  previous IAPs have been really fun. In freshman year, I did [annotation note ... for Battlecode with two of my friends. In junior year, I worked on a ... similarly fun things! The things I'm doing that are new to IAP: I’m taking

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  MIT alumni are dedicated to having as much nerdy geeky fun as they did ... -up company called LiveScribe. They flew us into California for the weekend to ... . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  work expands to fill the space available

  

  design. this is one of those classes i'm taking for the fun of being with other friends in the class, my top advice for picking classes. i love how ... material changes every time it's offered and i can retake it for credit. this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 28, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  *Independent* Activities Period Part 2 our second IAP apart!

  

  We spent our IAPs in two different states, for the second time. We ... interested in, but are not sure if you want to pursue. Or, it’s also great for ... got to do some fun things throughout the month! The first weekend, I

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 5, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Karen: A Short History Finally.

  

  time-management skills, which is why it took so long for me to finally ... people said to me, but having fun anyway. I'll talk about this more in ... , not always understanding what people say, but having fun anyway

  • by Karen F. '11
  • September 25, 2007
• Blog / About Decisions

  Happy Holidays, and some advice

  

  pens for bright kids to go four years reveling in how bright they are ... fun? Well, yes, they truly are, but not all the time. If someone ever ... , every challenge they encountered here, was fun, all the time, they

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 23, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair #1 of 3 Boston Adventures

  

  , and I know none. For the fun of it, here’s some technical antiquarian ... solely for [their] content.” Those are merely "used books" and not fit for ... for the antiquarian book connoisseurs. Same goes for the $2

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 15, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  In which Elizabeth tries something new. (My idea of thrills is changing the location of my bookshelf.)

  

  The other day I learned something new. After being here for almost ... -Things-That-Distract-Me. But on this day, Chris not only had to give me hard time for not knowing ... perfectly reasonable direction for that conversation to take," I just want say

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • April 8, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Scholar

  

  lifetime is about to come true for one of America's best and brightest high ... ultimate American prize. For the chance at a full ride to the college of ... one of America's top universities -- will compete for a full scholarship

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  Law) for intellectual curiosity (aka just for fun) and have been reading ... taught the 6.810 class I took last semester. For the past few weeks, I've been rushing to finish prototypes for a project to be submitted to the

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Freshman Summer plans and progress

  

  while I’m excited for the sunny weather and the shorts ... frenzy looking for something constructive to do. Believe it or not, I started planning for this year’s summer break last year August, a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  meeting, and later across the Bay Bridge to Lafayette, for another meeting that had us grabbing for and setting up extra seats to accommodate ... decline our offer of admission). Getting hungry, fruitlessly searching for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  Is it ok to go over the essay word count?

  We require applicants to follow the word limits provided on the application. Your information will not be saved if the responses are too long. You may have to "play" with your thoughts and sentences a bit to meet
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three patterns from the pattern language of my life

  

  newborn.  In the 3,000 days, I moved to Washington, D.C. (for a fellowship writing for CityLab, then part of The Atlantic), moved to New Mexico to be ... for five years, reconnected with a friend I met on the first day of CPW

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  hours, maybe. But as for this particular piece of the internet, I haven ... , thanks for sticking around, and to new ones, I hope you’ve been enjoying ... really do feel so much better prepared for this year and beyond

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  uncle: "Joonho, how was summer vacation?" "It was fun, I did research at ... of all places? Wouldn't other countries be more fun to visit?" Like my ... uncle's mind, too, will change. (Written for the Japanese speech

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Five Years of Admitted Student Gatherings MIT community is getting bigger

  

  , and last-minute decisions are always fun.       Side note: I found a fun little website I'd like to share with everyone. I ... App. You set your session for however long you want (3-60 min) and begin

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 29, 2017