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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  palace is used only occasionally for state functions and on most days ... Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Breathless Why it's so hard to tell college students to ease up a bit.

  

  year, and we’re all always busy, so this is, surprisingly, a rare chance. I ask him how his life’s been lately. He pulls out his cellphone, and ... everything on it from important academic and club activities to hangout time

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  theirs. There are people doing externships in other states and countries or ... transformed into a mix of adventures, innovation, and learning.  I am spending ... weeks of IAP at MIT, and the last week at home. Over the past few weeks I

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Books I did read this semester I am literate if not literary

  

  and recess, in the hall and during class. Then in high school I took classes that I had to pay attention to, and somewhere along the way learned that respecting your teachers was a thing, and obviously reading while

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 21, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Yikes! It's been a month since I last wrote to you guys. In the intervening…

  

  intervening time, I have accumulated like 5 entries worth of photos and stories ... , if you can imagine- and how freaking awesome it was. Seriously guys, go ... summer programs called the "Governor's Schools," and there's one for each

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 19, 2007
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Massachusetts to Michigan guest post by Liz O.'21

  

  confident and professional in a button down shirt and grey blazer, handing out ... little overboard and printed more than I needed. There were so many big ... enthralled. Then, as I was about to head back to my dorm and call it a day, I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 6, 2018
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  wow students as there is with a state school or a small liberal arts ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  in a perpetual state of groaning and wondering why I had to think about ... Internet! Long time, no talk. Why such a long time and so little talk ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  . Nonetheless, after a quick homemade dinner of soba, ginger, almonds, and dewy ... in a while! See you on the Internet sometime,” and then I figured that ... asked him a question about the physics department at MIT, and he directed

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Rewriting my Blogger Bio more like brutally revising i guess

  

  great state of New Hampshire and unironically love fall colors, hiking ... "]was;[/annotation] people change, and people especially change over 4 years of college. What's cool is that I can now attribute the changes in myself and my interests

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 24, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sewing minus the machine Costume Design: Featuring the best non-stick-figures I've ever drawn!

  

  , so I decided to compensate by only taking two technicals and two HASSes ... of high school, but I mostly design and sew clothes for myself. If you ... sketching, and even more watercoloring. In short, it was nothing I had hoped

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 21, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  around 9:30, and started right in on the 18.03 pset that was due Friday. I ... somehow managed to forget that my Gaussian surface was a cylinder and not a ... Slave Girl (which is only suggested and not required reading for the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  love in the time of unlimited data against kindness as utility

  

  , and being so insistent on communicating in Italian that it posed a ... Italian word that I directed at waitstaff, cashiers, and train operators ... total confidence or none at all, they’d switch to English immediately and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • October 16, 2024
• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  -of-internship presentation to give, and my mentor had invited 30 people.   We have a ... engineers all look at each other; “Cake?” We scramble from our seats and ... close early in Denmark, and I hadn’t been able to find anywhere with cake

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  The Art of Scheduling breaking and forming habits

  

  For the past year and a half I lived in Cambridge, worked full-time, and did all sorts of [annotation note="including but not limited to ... from 9 other roommates and mailing out the rent checks, making the switch

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 5, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Finally Finished (for now) Saying goodbye and good riddance to a few things

  

  other things on your mind, and so much has happened between now and April ... came to a close, I packed up all of my belongings in under 3 hrs, and ... be honing my laying-motionless-on-a-sofa and stuffing

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • June 2, 2015
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  assigned around 13 students, and I quite liked my crew. Throughout the week, I saw people open up more to each other and really talk. Like petals ... less as a “how to do MIT” and more like a “here is a hodgepodge of advice

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  Just like that, freshman year has come and gone. It’s weird to think ... lot about my feelings and about experiencing MIT for the first time ... year. I only noticed it now, but my class selections for the fall and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  the well-practiced, the shouts of people reached my ears. “Come and see ... while holding a bottle of water and having it spill all over me (last ... impressionable moments come from other sources, and I want to share a few of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013