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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  IAP 2013 was a logistical (and medical) nightmare but a fantastic ... London for winter break, then flew back to Boston and got an x-ray at MIT ... for over twenty minutes...) so the doctor left and I wasn't able to get

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  The Classes I’m Taking This Semester [in order from least-to-most edible] 🪀🚑🔥📚♟️

  

  five-minute chunks, and if you ever stop, EVERYTHING gets DELETED. :o But don't worry, I'm cool and awesome and never stop writing ッexcept for ... .008: Design and Manufacturing II I'm taking 2.008 this semester, [Design and

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prizes in your pocket Computers are so cool omg this is why I’m a course 6

  

  brain of your computer, each engineered and manufactured to near ... )! And don’t even get me started on other things like displays, memory, and ... everyone’s mind and today being National Nanotechnology Day, I wanted to take

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 9, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Clinging to the Coattails of Identity Who am I now?

  

  background, and your interests (e.g. where are you from, your interests and ... things: where you come from, and what your interests are. So, where am I from? That’s easy, and maybe moderately interesting. I’m from Hawaii

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  -perforated silence of Cape Cod two full months before the season of tourists and ... . Overhead, a countable infinity of little stars twinkled, and I pondered their ... child to the pika alumni trust fund and spending one fine weekend in early

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  journey to the end of the world visions

  

  caves, and got a few diamonds. diamonds! i won—and that’s where the story ... underground, mining a good amount of gold and lapus lazuli and a couple more ... , vines, grass, flowers, glow squids and glow berries, and the occasional

  • by Ali C. '26
  • November 16, 2023
• Blog / Life after MIT

  You always have been hi everybody!

  

  some degree I wanted to give a heartfelt and very full thank you. My ... Dear Reader, I'm writing this in the Wordpress portal and this is an ... somewhat raunchy or vulgar and I cried after the meeting because I thought it

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Applying While Transgender #InHonorOfMarshaP

  until every transgender student can apply to our institution and not face ... World Pride in New York City and celebrate the 50th anniversary of the ... reminded of Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera – Black and Puerto Rican

  • by DJ Rock
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Hello, Ma Sheng Li Gong A journey of four years begins with a single blog.

  

  ), and we decided to stay in Boston for a couple of nights before heading ... with knew a grad student from MIT and asked us whether we would like to stay over for a night at the Institute. Having heard so many amazing

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2007
• Blog / Entrepreneurship & Innovation

  soul searching at CES 2019 a non-journalist's take

  

  (!) by registering as a student. I was there for hours and didn't see even ... , and every open space was packed with people. Some of the exhibitors even ... their building, and they also built a gumball machine that dispensed

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 15, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  moral dilemma, a person vs. self conflict which I would both win and lose ... , because I had finally moved on from the stage of denial and accepted their existence. My cereal had become unpleasantly dry and decidedly less palatable

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How the Career Fair saved my summer And forced me to try something new

  

  the first time; I drove over 400 miles across several state lines; I ... , and write exciting papers that would be published in exciting journals ... , and now I was forcing myself to chart a new course. Interestingly, I

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 17, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... waitlist, and the year before that we admitted 20 students. However, the four ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A for the Waitlisted Some (hopefully) helpful questions and answers for waitlisted students.

  

  students remain on the waitlist, and how many we wish to take from the ... students from the waitlist, and the year before we admitted 40 students ... . Who do you admit from the waitlist? For example, if someone from state X

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wooo Summer The goal as usual is to do ALL the things

  

  institute required classes!! YAYY!!  And learned SO MUCH and I am proud of ... -of-school-year beginning-of-summer post, and it feels like so much has happened since classes ended, but I'd like to sum things up in one post and just get it all out

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • July 15, 2013
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  community members could walk in and get a flu shot. I was initially a bit reluctant to get the flu shot, because needles and injections terrify me, you ... , and three minutes later, I got my flu shot. And I was awed. The flu

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Simulating Catastrophe and learning to speak up

  

  United States and the Director of UNICEF to keep them informed of the ... , each of the GEL students evaluated one another based on leadership and ... . I meet with the staff and fellow GEL 2 student officers, and make sure

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • April 17, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  oh no the future obligatory “i am old” post with pretentious morbing

  

  holed myself up in Radio Society to avoid getting distracted, and yet here ... graduated and all those afterwards shall carry on Tetazoo’s legacy of fiery ... often joke about graduating being the equivalent of dying. It’s funny and

  • by Anika H. '26
  • October 23, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore spring in hindsight reviewing my journal

  

  school in a city that has so many other colleges and universities is ... spring, I went through my journal and picked out some of the memories and ... , so the atmosphere was calm and lax. We talked, watched some Sherlock

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • June 28, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  ? right? Eh my state of mind is very much a work in progress. And as the ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021