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• Blog / IAP

  vienna & prague, in 194 photos iap '26 #1

  

  Have you ever dreamed of visiting Europe? Ever checked your financial ... of Spain and France? Ever heard of Billy Joel? Ever known of Prague as ... contain a mind-numbing, overbearing amount of detail and documentation? If

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 6, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  a super timely post about spotify wrapped bloggers wrapped 2018

  

  overall snapshot of my listening habits. Then I remembered that 2018 was the ... , which I streamed at least 50 times over the course of a week, on my top 100 playlist? I don't even recognize at least a third of the songs on

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Blockchain and the Niger Delta Creating a system for accountability

  

  and African communities on campus, and would also be a big part of ... roles to revamp the African Students’ Association, he was one of the first ... of 2016, where he and other MIT students worked on interesting startup

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  classes that fulfill me instead of the ones that are required, and ... ; I don’t entirely like this rush of one thing and then another, too ... of my week.  Completing those psets will not make me satisfied. I will

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Two hundred puzzles, fifty hours later mystery hunt, mystery hunt! puzzles puzzles puzzles!

  

  This post contains minor spoilers for the structure of MIT Mystery ... about puzzles, like On puzzles above and below. There’s a lot of non ... The beginning of the end The final runaround Help me because I don

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Interview with Hanhan Wang: EECS, robots, and more! What it’s like to study electrical engineering and computer science at MIT

  

  the fields of artificial intelligence, computer science theory, and ... major. Hanhan’s love for Course 6 is contagious! In high school, she ... to MIT. She loves the EECS department because of the phenomenal

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 13, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  sick of. So when a discussion came up during a house meeting about things ... jumped at the idea of creating a new sign for our wall.   For reference, the previous sign was a printed banner which to me felt pretty old-school

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  on body image me in my head, me in the mirror

  

  sign of concern; that they care about you enough to both remember what you've looked like before and inform you of the change now. Another ... and bones", which is viewed as a sign of malnourishment. To eat food and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Protocol for MIT Admissions Essays Chemical SOP: Pen, paper: irritant if digested; Brains: gateway to thinking

  

  school reflect these qualities. Some of them are already in your ... and acknowledge yourself and your growth, say goodbye to this stage of ... have to be academic. It might be more interesting if some of them aren

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 26, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Every song I’ve referenced in my admissions blog posts

  

  By my count, there are 61 times I've referenced a song in one of my ... there's an average of one song every 2.8 posts. The song mentioned the ... . Of the 57 distinct songs, 41 are in English, 14 are in Tagalog, 1 is in

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 15, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  Nationals! In which MIT XC goes to Iowa

  

  Roughly a week ago, on a Thursday morning, at the crack of dawn, I ... found ourselves, at 6:30AM, at the beginning of the end, ready to make the ... from a state that is also occasionally the butt of jokes so I won't go

  • by Alina G. '11
  • November 27, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  24 Things I Learned in My First Semester and a Half for the lovely 2024s!

  

  one school in America, told to take a bunch of classes, and now are ... December, when EA decisions were first released. As a result, some of these ... terms of what to do and what not to do, what works best for me and for the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 17, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  across an animated short of a lady making bread. I probably watched the ... before finally learning that the creator of the short was a first ... ="🤷"]something?[/annotation] A month passed and I still hadn’t thought of the idea but, as it

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  how i (kinda) studied for finals brought to you by "a PNR mindset"

  

  If you are reading this, it means I am successfully on my way out of ... would be a D or F). There are a few existing camps of advice on how to ... without the risk of failure Above all us, every upperclassman has one piece

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 22, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  chances the point is to let yourself be helped

  

  psetted a couple times a week, for two of my classes, with someone who became one of my closer friends here. Junior fall: I went to office hours ... problem together, first you need to find a partner whose level of

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 26, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  i stole a vhs player! and other old things i’ve acquired over the last 2 and a half weeks

  

  . One of my favorite high school memories was at the end of senior year ... the language out of respect to the original post."]Two weekends ago[/annotation] was CPW, or Campus Preview Weekend. A lot of really neat events happened

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • May 3, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I’m leavin’ on a jet plane… and another plane...and another plane...

  

  rent a car from the local Budget office. Unfortunately, the only type of car they have is a PT Cruiser - which, although I'm not a huge fan of ... a bit. 12:15pm. I meet up with a friend for lunch at Cosi, one of my

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • September 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  10 ft from Hasan Minhaj D R E A M S D O C O M E T R U…

  

  till freshman year of high school, uses coconut oil (ayy, Parachute) to ... . Blessing us with 72 minutes of geniously scripted & reflective comedy ... night was spent with great laughter, deep questions and a good amount of

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Regular Action Admissions Update Updates about application numbers, application tracking, and more.

  

  Action applicants; the current status of your application is now shown on ... 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
  • January 25, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Colors of Campus and other random things on my camera.

  

  A few snippets of life .   Inspired by Kai's Parallel Universe Post      

  • by Richard O. '28
  • February 28, 2025