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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advanced Standing Exams: know your stuff, get out of a semester-long class! You should really consider taking them.

  

  MIT has A LOT of graduation requirements. Most colleges have some sort of breadth requirement. MIT, being a technical school, has a weighty ... these graduation requirements was “But I’ve got a ton of AP credit…won’t I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • May 24, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  what I’m doing this IAP mostly physics and musical theater

  

  the month of January: some people treat it as a four-week extension on winter break, some people take classes or work on campus, lots of people are holding cool events and workshops. IAP is my favorite time of year

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  ‘Til the Net Breaks Championship Szn

  

  for games. Regular season: where we play all of our official games on ... championship, which is three games over the span of a week. In the NEWMAC ... the game like a crack of lightning, and you can instantly tell what type

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  Over IAP, I joined the ranks of bloggers who have fallen into the black hole of fiber arts. (It could happen to you! It could happen to anyone!) At the end of last semester, the [annotation note="the undergrad

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of ... door on the first floor of the tower sounds an alarm, so I exit the ... carefully pruned flowers and walkways warped by the overgrown roots of trees

  • by Ella T. '25
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  growing over time continuing to become myself

  

  of my thoughts without any exciting MIT anecdotes or events. I feel ... to hear the ramblings from the inside of my head, maybe they won't find them relatable or interesting. But when I expressed this worry to one of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 31, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  most of high school letting academics, particularly science, overwhelm me ... thought that it would be more of the same; but I couldn’t not go, for it ... changed after months of milking goats and carefully calculating whether it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Tunnel66 bringing the borderline tunnels online for CP*

  

  Borderline is a club at MIT that started in Spring of 2017 (our freshman spring), when a group of upperclassmen got funding from the Council of the Arts at MIT to paint a 200-foot long section of the MIT Tunnels

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  playlists is one of my favorite things to do, so i decided to create a ... freshman year was cut abruptly short, i'm doing this post now instead of in ... associate with cool experiences. as of my last [physical] day at MIT

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  fear of high places. I talked to my roommate until early morning, though ... abandoned in the midnight heat, and only the steady murmur of the Charles ... of a mysterious domain. MIT’s Big Dome shrank to a tiny dot a million

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  from The Other Side of college: one on where I live, one on what I do on ... live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... long it would take me and my fellow undergrads to notice if all of Boston

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  wow. my first three weeks being an actual student actually at mit

  

  too. Neither of these are things I ever thought would happen, so that ... 'm still in a state of shock (so try to forgive me if this post is all over the place). The idea of MIT never became a reality to me until I

  • by Joe B. '18
  • September 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m sitting on my bed right now so sleepy

  

  Pain, only to find out that they were out of chocolate chip cookies ... characteristics of ourselves that we aren't proud of and are trying to fix. Now I ... joined a group of people from New House 3 (a neighboring living group) and

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... years I didn't have a book to read, a paper to write or a set of problems

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  guess I’ll come out and say it: I skipped the first week of classes ... Israel was only the last piece of my IAP this year. I spent the first week ... 10 days rowing, eating and sleeping. And video review of course. It’s a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  about life outside of their parents' houses. Everything from how to clean ... totally new experience for college freshmen. One of the most important changes for most people is the task of cooking meals. With LaVerde's open

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Just a Yellow Lemon Tree… I wrote a rap song for you.

  

  a couple of times, but alas, I've broken that promise by two days. :( OK I know you guys are all sick of the whole "I'm hosed!" talk, so I'll skip that. (please refer to back entries of any of the bloggers if you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 11, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  've been insanely busy reading thousands of applications - probably many of ... cool that I just heard about recently... One of my very good friends ... -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Zone Cell Challenge Why work when you can hack other people's servers?

  

  There are lots of things I should have been doing this weekend. There ... to program a Turing machine - it's due Thursday. Or the revision of my ... design I'm going to write up). Or either of the psets in my other two

  • by Evan B. '10
  • March 17, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What Is Your LΔ? What about heart? What about determination? What about resilience?

  

  One of the first things that I learned about MIT is that everyone ... of the MIT blogs you probably have an affinity for math.) In an effort ... me, you need to know that my definition of LΔ is the following: (L

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 18, 2007