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• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  first friends I made here at MIT and my favorite "homegrown ... the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / People & Identities

  A Part of Me or apart of me?

  

  regarding the plot. I highly encourage you to play the game if you haven’t, it ... My Head [annotation note="Right now I plan to keep finding music to go ... comes to math. To some extent, I’ve learned how to quiet this voice: I

  • by Paige B. '24
  • September 22, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  This is just one in the onslaught of many posts to come about what ... classes; junior year was lost to the fog of the pandemic; but sophomore and senior year I got to be on campus, living life but not living it too much

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / Class Projects

  Final Project Demo Roll if only they were more helpful to the world at large

  

  , you might remember that this was supposed to be the semester where I ... constraints of the class that would have been helpful to the world in times like ... 'm still proud of the projects, so I wanted to share them. Read to the end

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 1, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  More on balance Some parameters for self-improvement

  

  character Gogol and also, to some extent (and not without shame), the character Moushumi. If you've read this book, please feel free to send me an ... evaluating myself lately. Feel free to just skim the bullet points because the

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 7, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  ‘Just Chillax’ [about your college essays] My little brother is wicked smaht.

  

  To those of you who sent in your early apps - congrats! You're done! With one! (The secret to life is to celebrate the little accomplishments. Like making it to class without running into anything/anyone while on my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 22, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called "Ladies Dream." I don't know if it's trying to imply that this bus is the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The rest of my life is a black hole. But not the fascinating kind that's the topic of extensive astrophysical…

  

  : Teach for America just invited me to the first round of interviews. Woo! ... to take a few classes, write a million blog entries for you guys about all the things I kept meaning to write and then never got around to, and

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / About Decisions

  Spoiled Milk I wrote an entry so long overdue my milk has spoiled in the process. So…

  

  was past the 'Sell By' date, Dad!" My dad then proceeded to explain ... fraction, to prove this point to me. All he really proved, though, was that ... going to leave this as a comment to Mitra's question, "Does anyone know if

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 24, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where are you going, where have you been? The answer is "to a fast food restaurant to blog; to four countries in one…

  

  . But first I want to tell you about the most exciting part of the trip ... whole narrative was supposed to be a dream that the main character was having while listening to the radio, but nobody else in the class

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 17, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  , before she even knew she'd be able to use the R&D pub. for the first ... admin to explain the unconventional project. Karyn first reached out to ... least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  The View is Worth It but you have to make the climb yourself to find out

  

  be available to me. I think it's because for the first time in my life ... My boyfriend and I made an impromptu trip to Montana over the weekend ... who loves hiking, I was stoked. I coerced my boyfriend to wake up at 3

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  making meaning exit right in 0.1 miles

  

  according to the concentration of those molecules. Right now, I'm trying to ... try to submit it again, but maybe i put it in wrong at the fasta level ... stuck in a loop, constantly going back and trying to find a better

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 30, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2600 Years of the University college life since 600 BCE, as told by Prof. Shailendra Mehta

  

  voice in the movement. Many are surprised to hear that the first ... MIT Office of Digital Learning designed to facilitate awareness, deep ... , traveling to Taxila, where roads and civilizations come together. A professor

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 21, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  first office beyond the grid of portraits belongs to Frank Wilczek, who ... A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  International Admissions Conference My review of the annual OACAC conference.

  

  the benefits and challenges of applying to MIT. This is the first ... *Update as of 2015: Early action is available to both domestic and international students.   One of my goals for keeping this blog is to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Food Fights behold the deliciousness that could be yours

  

  posting it up on the web. I polished off an apple at the end to keep the ... . I used to say "little" brothers but now they're both bigger than me ... did kill an extra large pizza from Papa Ginos during the first quarter

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biology-inspired design from MIT alums What happens when you bring together nature and technology? I think you'll like the result.

  

  biology, architecture and computer programming to design fashionable ... using math and biology to produce the designs of their earrings, bracelets ... program designed to replicate a natural phenomenon, such as the branching of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 29, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Swag … I mean, Career Fair What I did not acquire at the career fair:A job.

  

  Computer mouse with retractable cord, which doesn’t seem to work Headphones ... under the bed. I can see the floor of my room, for the first time in days ... the point of a career fair is to collect job prospects, not swag. In the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  dangerous sense of nonchalance. Consequently, I spent the first month of ... new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... , gathered my books, went to a study room, and didn't move for about four hours

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009