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• Blog / IAP

  How I Spent IAP bonus content: one sentence statements about books and movies

  

  magic outside of the privileged magical school system. The Magician ... : that time I petted multiple owls, and that time I ate three bowls of ramen in one night), I’ve been spending virtually all of my IAP at home

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • January 29, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  UROP Deadlines and Openings The deadline for Fall Direct Funding is September 15, so hurry up and find yourself…

  

  UROP students pursing research in the School of Science. It's pretty easy to apply for one of these awards, just write that you are applying for ... there is not a lot of hassle with filling out timecards. All of this

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 7, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  (School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences) faculty. The dinners are ... (sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year) How I Learned to Stop ... , in my months of deliberation, I fell in love. With my life at MIT. I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Events

  The middle days of the week

  

  days of the week: Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. On Tuesday, I went on ... Braille Press in Boston. We started with a tour of the building. In the basement, there were huge stacks of paper, though apparently there were a lot

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hope for the Axolotl: On the Amphibian Extinction Crisis Happy Save the Frogs Day!

  

  awareness about the amphibian extinction crisis. When I was in high school I used to spend this day at my little brother's elementary school with my ... what you found in the comments for the rest of us to see). I hope you

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 27, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m Kind of a Big Deal Leaves and famous people alike think so.

  

  's formal. Brian speculates: All my buddies tell me MIT is for a bunch of ... your liberal art courses and still have a good chance of making it in MIT ... , I go to the mall, wear makeup, and own way too many pairs of shoes. We

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  approximately where you are now. A summer of waiting to start at MIT had finally come to a close and I was trying out my shiny new label of "MIT student ... my fall schedule. Of course, for me, all of this was happening in

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  was our middle school version of Memory Mushroom. Letters from friends ... normally. We went through the stacks of stuff, and pulled out hidden things ... this book.” “Oh, wow we had so many stocked up school supplies!”  Next

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years. Commence the packing process! Frantic scrambling. Wading through piles of ... . There are no restrictions on memories, and pictures of family and friends

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jon and me how I came to see the world

  

  , but the first episode I really remember watching was the night of September 11th, 2001. I was a freshman at a new school in a new town in a new ... Stewart was one of the people who helped me pick up the pieces and start to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 11, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  ; Spending Money You already took care of your school supplies and went back ... new room at my fraternity giving you a list of things you need to make ... carefully select survey on a stratified sampling of the population of MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Days Without a Laptop… i need laptop-rehab

  

  + humanities major in a school full of engineers, so I never had to sit down in a ... proficient in Python back in my junior year of high school because of SSP. kids ... 've experienced the five stages of grief (one of the few things I managed to retain

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  school were children of engineers. My dad is a carpenter and my mother is a teacher's aide in an elementary school. If one or more of your parents is an ... 's what I spent my junior year of high school doing- trying desperately to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Ballad of Sir Frankie Crisp (Let It Roll) Things just about get crazy-go-nuts.

  

  started way back in 1997 as a part of a seventh grade cultural heritage ... of a pyramid--larger blocks at the bottom, smaller ones on top. Try to build a structure out of leaning colored scalene triangles sometime and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  The Five Stages of Grief (Jonathan’s Version) on a journey from New Hampshire to Next House [guest post]

  

  be friends with Fatima, one of the bloggers of all time, and I am also ... have been told that a good amount of sleep is critical for such ... admire the many wonderful sights outside of Boston. And best of all, the

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 4, 2023
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be ... sorts of time consuming stuff). So, without further delay -- Puzzle ... for us to solve. When a new puzzle was uploaded, a group of people

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Wikipedia and in AP Art History, back in high school; much of what I know of ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2 ... other up. I'm sure most majors are like that. More of us trickle into the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Upside-down and Reversed: Photography at MIT [by Biyeun Buczyk ‘10] I came to MIT thinking I’d put art aside for the…

  

  Project Lab. From 1965, Minor White (a close friend of Ansel Adams) taught ... an inspiration to students, and one of them Charles Fendrock ‘ ... a number of extremely talented photographers ( Hi, Lulu. ;-) ). With

  • by ARTalk
  • March 23, 2008
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  grade of high school, so I was super excited to see them again. We got ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of high school didn’t feel all that long ago, I could only remember a few

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  A few weeks ago, in a true callback to our high school days, Paolo and I were Protobowling feverishly. For those of you who weren't quiz bowlers in high school, Protobowl is the website that trivia nerds use to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021