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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Charmed, I’m Sure What I did my 2nd IAP

  

  't write much here. On Friday, I went to Charm School. I had a hard time ... , so a lot of what you see below will look familiar. Charming music ... Music Theater Guild's production of Tommy. Not only were the MIT students

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 31, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  a disclaimer some events are slightly out of order I was not really ... of spring and what I learned, what knowledge I gained, and I can show you pictures of the muscles I have not sustained, and I drew a bunch of

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I auditioned for a musical Oh my goodness, oh my goodness

  

  In eighth grade, I was Tessie in my school's production of Little ... . Six years went by - six years of staying as far away from singing for an ... , though, and there are very few people I'm willing to sing in front of. Late

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  community she has found in the small bubbles of art at the school have really ... in the heart of the Frank Gehry-designed Stata Center, the icon of architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  This is part 2 of a four part series spread across our four years at the 'tvte (for the first part, go here). Throughout the school year, we ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Athletics

  That wasn’t skiing, that was falling with style! Guest post by Katy Kem '16

  

  favorite thing about MIT – the ski team! For those of you who don’t know, at MIT the month of January is not part of the normal school year. Instead ... prefer to spend the duration of IAP with the MIT Alpine Ski team, living in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • April 5, 2016
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  everything i know about friendship, i learned from the wellesley-mit toons twenty two notes to myself

  

  in other years. and other majors. and other schools. parties are more ... of them. send my friends memes that remind me of them. make things ... together. guest-passing people into dining halls. taking boxes of food from

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 14, 2017
• Blog / Class Projects

  MIT Brings You Unwanted Attention You want to be popular? Really?

  

  've built yo-yos Five(!) robots A pirate ship out of water bottles ... isn't true, we aren't the experts on everything. A friend of mine was ... of the types of things that happen at MIT. There was an incident over

  • by Snively '11
  • May 17, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Update: App Tracking & More All of the mail has been processed, and MyMIT Application Tracking is up-to-date.

  

  for EA applicants; the current status of your application is now shown ... a good time for you to check up on the status of your application ... Part 2, Secondary School Report and Transcript, Evaluation A (math or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 18, 2009
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Intertwined Relationships — for me — have always been about choices.

  

  My sophomore year of high school I ate too many donuts. When I woke ... school teacher wrote in my yearbook: “The great irony of any communication ... fact of my life now; I’ve made it a joke.  I feel like throwing up, I say

  • by ana~
  • February 14, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  What I’m doing this IAP i guess i need to be more specific

  

  Activities Period—this glorious month of fun classes and activities. It’s kind of hard to describe IAP because people are just doing wildly different things during it. Some of my friends chose to have an extended winter break

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Pulsar Discoveries How to discover a pulsar.

  

  string up 120 miles of wire and cable and set up over 1000 posts: they ... charge of operating the telescope, and collecting data. Bear in mind that ... stuck using a pen chart recorder. It spat out a hundred feet of paper per

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  i wish we’d grown up on the same advice alternate paths

  

  questions me: what would you say is the primary source of joy in your life ... of them: one is people and another is creative work, like art or ... sense of meaning in different ways - social things help me feel a sense of

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 18, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  the best thing i did for myself as a pre-frosh the one where i gush about burton one

  

  and soaking in the Boston sun on one of those early spring days where ... state as a pre-frosh at Campus Preview Weekend. I was one of those admits for whom CPW felt like a whirlwind of an experience, 3.14 days that

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • April 7, 2025
• Blog / Events

  LSC – It Doesn’t Suck! Reject digital, return to 35 mm analogue

  

  screen or talk to one of our personnel after the show. LSC – it doesn’t suck! I’d never been a big fan of film back in high school, but watching ... not put on a show from the comfort of the Lecture Series Committee

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 7, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  self-taught dancing: a how-to how i learned dance through YouTube

  

  previous posts, a significant portion of my free time through middle and high school was spent learning choreographies from YouTube. training at a dance studio just wasn't something in the realm of possibility for me, so using

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  AHHH CPW!! Goal: Do ALL the things!

  

  sponsored by MIT Admissions during which hundreds of prefrosh from around the ... , and all sorts of other goodies. Ah, I miss those wonderful prefrosh days.  I made some of my best friends during CPW, and I'M SO EXCITED THAT IT

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 9, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  it's time for me to lighten the mood around here. So to all of you uber-serious folk... back away slowly and no one will get hurt. As most of you know ... Prize in Biology and attributing all of your success to your admission to

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  loftblogging 3: liberation via customization i <3 process

  

  My dorm East Campus (EC) has a long tradition of radical room ... additional bed posts, after several weeks of being ghosted, I decided to regain control of my space. I would build my own loft! Luckily, all the material I

  • by Victor D. '27
  • September 26, 2025
• Blog / Events

  life, with the brass rat we're halfway there????????????

  

  dancing—which are, of course, fun but it’s really just that. Overwhelming ... where a whole class is together, and this was one of them. It’s fun seeing ... . Everyone wanted a bite out of everyone for photos, which panned out

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • August 26, 2023