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• Blog / Community Projects

  Moving Out, Up, and In Expanding, now in three dimensions!

  

  school of my dreams was honestly one of the least exciting things I’ve done ... I have a theory: free food is positively correlated to quality of ... Wallet receipts in my inbox, I’ve spent an average of only $4 per day on

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  more into the design aspects of technology, and the work that i do at the ... basically the first day of school. i can't tell you how many jobs i've applied ... way back when, i wrote about the mistake of a courseload that i took

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  . For about a couple of weeks I was sure I was a 2A-product design major ... sleeping schedule in my senior year of high school. I slept at 10:00 every ... As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prettylatebuthere’sanIAPpost on MIT's independent activities period (ft. friends!!)

  

  ap chem the spring of my junior year of high school. i had just ... of high school dreaming about past the repetition and mountain of psets ... ’ve heard of IAP, or Independent Activities Period, MIT’s January term in

  • by Angie F. '28
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Halls are Alive with the sounds of students...

  

  signal the start of the fall term. But, even more than their sounds, I love to see and hear about all the cool things offered to students or ... asked by prospective students. What kinds of clubs do we have?  Usually

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 25, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Orientation and pre-approval In which I relate orientation to getting pre-approved for a credit card in a totally…

  

  name for a last name - essentially, my name consists of three first names - which is fun, but can lead to a lot of confusion. When I first started ... that his is actually not three letters and consists of some combination

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 22, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  i love this f*cking place "say this to my face when you're a junior." ~an upperclassman

  

  the range of opportunities MIT offers. the upperclassmen on my floor, in ... since MIT is a freaking hard school that will likely destroy me sometime ... senior year experience—i graduated high school a semester early (in January

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Parks and Relocation a finale and a premiere

  

  studying topics that weren't offered in school were perfect catalysts for ... York, occasionally rewatching my favorite episodes of Parks and ... could start a new season of my life. I packed up about half of my worldly

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Speed Walking literally and figuratively

  

  degrees Fahrenheit in Miami for a couple of days (yes, in Miami, water ... For winter break and the first half of IAP, we are in North Miami ... mom, cleaning around the house, meeting up with high school friends

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 11, 2018
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  schools at MIT) and a lecture hall full of eager audeince members. The ... round, it was a crystal clear 50 degree (Fahrenheit, of course, for the ... comfortable standing in front of an audience and trying to convince them of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Prepare for MIT

  tunes of interphase! or, how to leave home and look cool doing it

  

  people here go from being in the top 10% of their high school class to the ... letter in December. I held tight onto the breath of fresh air I took in that day for months, and the effort of it made me blue in the face by

  • by Angie F. '28
  • September 17, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Applying Regular Action – Q&A

  

  to fix it and then bam — you're out of time. No good.   It is perfectly fine if, through no fault of your own, your school ... Hi Everyone, The Office of Admissions is closing for the holidays

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  the npc life office hours with lupe fiasco

  

  In middle school, I repeatedly listened to Lupe Fiasco's hit singles ... the same idea. Near the end of last semester, we got brunch together at ... out of Arizona/the only one who can save me is Rona," I riffed

  • by Rona W. '23
  • January 26, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  One of the many things I love about MIT's dining halls is that they ... combinations across different stations. Although they are designed to be self ... stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Advice

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  flip- because who can argue against the will of the universe? heads ... of making me, the superstitious person, look ridiculous when I replied ... them out to the surface; the whimsy of it all only adds to the appeal

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  making things a blog about being a meche major

  

  Wikipedia and in AP Art History, back in high school; much of what I know of ... elements of design draw their eye. I’m hoping I’ll have more of that, a month ... Maybe my favorite part of course 2A is sitting next to my friend in 2

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 20, 2021
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Roman Life A.k.a. not-Greek life.

  

  Travel] (^ one of my many talents -- surprise! And yet another something that's probably only offered at MIT.) Hey all, No school is perfect. At college and in high school, you get occasional weeks where things just don

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 21, 2009
• Blog / Athletics

  SF AIDS Walk – Part II

  

  crown during the walk. Some of my teammates told me I reminded them of a Burger King employee... which makes my eventual MIT degree all that more ... , breakfast, and lunch!) Though he's spending his summer thousands of miles

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  effects (e.g., I learned that I do well in school compared to peers) of such ... role in my path to graduate school; but in the context of this class, it ... subject of what we learned at MIT came up. Now that this semester’s over, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  difficulty of MIT, but to all you high school students who work hard: don’t let ... aspects of high school are definitely worse than college and the working ... ’s simply true. I still remember what the pressure of high school was like

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015