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• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  walked through Xiamen University, which was beautiful. Took lots of ... adventure. I broke my big toe into a bunch of pieces, then flew home to ... astronomy conference, then flew back to Boston (I got the results of my x

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Roombaaaa The longest trip I've ever taken in my life

  

  to make my way through the hustle and bustle of suited up MIT students in the Z-Center... I tried to orient myself to the layout of the ... interesting experience because you'll get a variety of different kinds of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 21, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  trust how do you decide who to trust when there are lots of untrustworthy people?

  

  that they tried to kidnap me. i spent most of my childhood distrusting ... vast majority of people are safe to be around in the vast majority of situations the problem with being suspicious of everyone is that interacting

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 11, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  activities and already-brimming corpus of memes has kept me sane in this quiet ... you are the type of person that would enjoy cute games that largely involve mindless daily chores and where much of the charm comes from social

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The One and Only Melis

  

  5.0 G.P.A. Rhodes Scholar One of Glamour Magazine's Top 10 College Women in 2007 Member of the 2008 All-USA College Academic First Team ... beautiful smile that you'd think that she's the daughter of a Crest employee

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • May 21, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  on their final projects, which they showcase and present at the end of the program. The Application Process I had heard of the program from my ... that I had gotten through some amounts of coding classes and a CS

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If you give a girl an assignment… ...she's going to ask if she can blog about it.

  

  -screencaps If you think you’ve just stumbled into the wrong part of the ... are no silly videos of me singing off-tune today. There are no silly ... ;dagger Juliet, the 1999 movie adaptation of the Shakespearean classic (or, as most

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • March 2, 2011
• Blog / CPW

  Backstage at the CPW Closing Show “Other duties as assigned”

  

  miscellaneous tasks an employee may be required to perform outside the scope of their stated job description. Of all of the other duties I’ve been assigned, running the CPW Closing Show is by far one of my favorites. As

  • by Jeremy W.
  • May 19, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  why do you do what you do do androids dream of electric self-awareness

  

  these women had no obvious dealbreakers that I knew of, so I asked him why he'd rejected all of them. "I really can't say," was his reply. "It's like, they were inputted into the neural network of my brain and the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  registration day! aka "registration day blues", but like, only in the good sense of blues

  

  classes. My friends going to university closer to home had all signed up in July and were comparing schedules; we, even with the combined power of ... . But now -- now I am an MIT student, and so I can enlighten any of you

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  Bruce. The three of us speedwalked down the Infinite Corridor, and a sophomore named Kirstyn joined us. The four of us booked it across campus ... , from mid-November to mid-April. It has the most volunteers of any single

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Delta Phi To Be The Best of Men

  

  freewill and a deterministic universe. It was just one of those things people ... have passed since freshman orientation, turning it into this blur of free ... under a mound of problem sets and midterms. However, each time I'm thought

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 20, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  that I’m already a quarter of the way through my time at MIT, but the ... talking about the most fundamental aspect of college: classes. So I thought I’d fix that now, with a review of all the classes I took freshman

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  feeling of being overwhelmed by not only how much I've changed, but also how ... clear cool night, talking about life beneath the stars - a little piece of ... start my second year here on 2E. I really like it here - mainly because of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  for the first time last weekend, and it was a great success. Offering a top prize of $25,000, Math Prize draws girls from all over the country ... , so I slow down. And then I hear it. It’s sort of like a chant: "Hey

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  Things I enjoyed reading in 2022 (ok, i didn't enjoy all of it)

  

  and poetic and pretty. I'm not quite sure what any of it means or what's happening, but it's certainly an experience. I am cut off from the passion of ... -based interactive fiction: type a command to execute it. There's hundreds of commands

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 21, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... , searching the empty cavities of my skull for words.  I was busy and not

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  OH MY GOD IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR CPW!!!! Class of '26, we cannot wait ... imagine how excited the Class of '26 is when their last two years of high ... . valid! I'm a member of one of the two classes that experienced an in

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  breaching discomfort

  

  crying and sitting in silence and really experiencing these new emotions of ... been the goal of it all, really. I joined a sorority because the prospect of having to explore and understand this new, complicated facet to my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 16, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  Hello and happy new year (kind of)! I was really bummed out to make this post since I feel like I didn't accomplish many of the resolutions I ... fit over the summer, and I've kind of fallen out of habit now that our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021