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• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  basic idea of GTL is that you teach a classroom full of high school ... work as basically TAs as part of a middle school/high school outreach ... really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  I Hate Change but at least, I'm creating it

  

  talking about grad school applications and job offers. I began to realize ... , filling every square inch of this (albeit slightly smaller than the previous ... impossible. So now, I get to start of my days writing in bed as opposed to

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 17, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  what’s happening on campus tl;dr packing up & freaking out

  

  things. This is going to be the defining picture of this school year, for ... follow the path of an exponential function, info here) and research into the 1918 flu epidemic suggests that closing schools and cancelling large

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • March 11, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  soulsearching / naubos na in which i ramble about purpose

  

  of which I cared a lot about. I thought that, maybe, if I got an offer ... of all. Why not be a high school teacher, then? Teaching high school ... amount based on employment through the school year and on expected savings

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 22, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  my gap year of nothing and everything certainly something

  

  -underrepresented high school students. I was a member of the business development team and ... . Instead of spending time in school, I’d have to find other things to do ... okay. As in, while in the motions of school, work, and whatever else

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 26, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  OCTOBERRR NOVEMBERRR will NOT be my next entry, promise.

  

  completed typed 7.30 pset. I went through a full day of school, had 3 hours ... every member of the whole place thinks that it's the most wonderful place in the world--it's the center, somehow, of scientific and technological

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  on January 31st, but close enough"]the month of January,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nicht Bach, Sondern Maurer The proudest moment of my life since figuring out that "Wok & Roll" was a…

  

  wake up for a 1 PM lunch with some of my marching bandmates from high school, which required considerable effort--when I heard Sam's Mom crying from the living room. "SAM!" she yelled. "The Cornucopia of Doom is on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 24, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  having to plagiarize use another school's graphics but I digress. Class of ... series of beaver bois doing busy beaver things for CPW 2022! They're some ... replacement cap or even a replacement bottle of the exact model so that I could

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to decide if a given set of two majors is feasible, rather than setting out a ... at least once a semester from the end of freshman year to the end of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Waitlist post Answers to waitlist FAQs.

  

  waitlist? We offered 389 applicants -- approximately 3% of applicants -- a ... accept our offer of admission. Some years, we overpredict (as in the past ... the offer of admission from another college before May 1. After May 1

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I was out of bullets. Living free or dying hard in Germany.

  

  'm here in Germany, meeting up with tons of MIT interns while staying at ... . It's like a gyro, except the meat of indeterminate origin is slow-roasted for tons of flavor, the bread is some kind of wonderful crispy toasted

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers To Your Questions ...and happy thanksgiving!

  

  been taught, even despite taking all of my school's offered physics and ... teacher who no longer teaches at my school, and, as of today, he had not ... ------------------------------------- Ron wrote: "hey i miss the october test for the SAT because of the

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  been writing to offer me a job writing handouts for one of AoPS's ... all of this without ever leaving your room.  What are you going ... you. What I can do is give you an idea of what's possible using the

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Entry: A Yankee in Cambridge Math, exchange programs, and why we love MIT.

  

  have heard of otherwise until graduate school, if ever. It's one of many ... perspective to help you make sense of the decision that, though it won't make or ... of Qiaochu, a critically acclaimed math blogger (yes, blogs can be

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 1, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  One of the greatest parts of college is independence. One of the hardest parts of college is independence. High school is very structured ... cafeteria- you don’t have much of a say as to what goes on it. SAT Prep Pizza

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  If you haven’t heard of xkcd, stop reading. Instead, go over to xkcd ... . xkcd is “A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language.” Its creator, Randall Munroe, has something of a cult following here at MIT: we’ve hacked

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  at all representative of everything MIT has to offer nor is it the only ... myself in high school and really getting rid of the mentality of this is ... to be in college. You can shed the skin of your old high school self

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer begins And I get a brief vacation.

  

  year left, as difficult as that is to believe. It's kind of scary to ... enjoy this stage of life while I can - when I really don't know what ... has a SEPARATE security line at Logan airport (beware, those of you who

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 25, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  history: MIT was one of the few schools that didn’t divest from ... protested “the militarization of university research,” and in November of the following year, another group chanted, “We won’t

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007