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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summiting Mount Monadnock camping trip!

  

  through Boston's suburbs blossoming with fall colors and making pit-stops at a camera store in Malden to buy film, then Texas Roadhouse, and lastly ... frolicked in the forest to collect firewood and climb trees.  As twilight

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 18, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  So, What Exactly Happens? y'know, over IAP?

  

  food places, the aquarium, the coffee shop 5 billion times, and then I ... some form of a "month-long winter break". And it isn't not a winter break ... could try (and likely be unsuccessful in) compiling a list of activities

  • by Paige B. '24
  • February 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  UROP stands for "Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program" and it ... D students, and grad students on their research projects during the semester and/or summer. You can even get paid for it, which is awesome. [caption

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... ask them out. The reasoning was simple: it was embarrassing and high ... them, you took action and are now dating them, and you took action and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  batteries recharging because that's what IAP is for

  

  get away, but my research called to me and i decided to forego a bunch ... , because my boyfriend is doing GTL and SO MANY of my friends are gone as well ... fill my day with psets and project deadlines. let's do a comparison

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 22, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  of tests, homework, and projects that inevitably follows CPW. To ... ethic and a phenomenally operatic R&B singing voice, has graciously offered to temper my usual Course VI nerditude by writing about her

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admissions Bulletin – RA News, EA Results bang it here for the latest updates and stats

  

  , and the office is revving back up. And with that, it's time for a few admissions process updates, and a note about Early Action. ADMISSIONS PROCESS ... getting a lot of calls and emails from students concerned that their mailed

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 7, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Setting some expectations, discussing myths & realities.

  

  big MIT event, there's a lot of hype, rumor, and mythology surrounding it, and I hope I can give you a better sense of what to really expect, and what not to expect. Your host: There's no one standard for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 15, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Get psyched, stay with it, do whatever it takes Adam's dad's advice is succint. Mine isn't.

  

  important thing you'll learn is how to ask for help. And that's still true ... -zero integers a, b, and c. Well, it just ain't so. I mean, if the cold hard facts were the important thing, you could save your tuition money and get your

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  weekend) and decided to create her own Parents Weekend this weekend. She left my brother (age 16) and my father (still not old enough to cook for ... . (Seriously, Adam and I cook for ourselves all the time. But we're both busy and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious ... ! There’s been a lot of the ways my life has changed, both expected and ... exciting and confusing and most definitely different. Most people who know I

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... ." I've found solace in my writing classes and creative outlets: writing ... primarily a HASS major. When I look at the classes and the work being done by

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  offer amazing advice on how to snag internships and sometimes will give ... represents a lot of what MIT has to offer and it has personally helped me grow ... and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  I’m Graduating Early??? [NOT CLICKBAIT] also: the unification of course 7

  

  graduated on June 5, the '14s graduated on June 6, and the '13s graduated on June 7, and the '12s graduated on June 8. The late commencement date is ... weekend for Patriots' Day, and all the other schools in the area Commence

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 1, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Uncreative Post with an uncreative title

  

  out on the incredible education courses that MIT (and Harvard) offers ... to blog about). Post intros began piling up, losing their relevance and ... the essentials of IAP and Spring semester.   During IAP, I took

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 1, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  as a sterile place. Labs stacked on top of classrooms and everything having its place and assigned number. It didn’t seem like a place ... . But it is! And after a tour of MIT’s public art through my

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  "Confusion, by the Numbers" – I stated that finding balance between school and ... I took a long break from blogging. I [annotation note="and will be ... and Cognition, also known as Course 6-9. I feel accomplished

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  , I glance at the clock and wonder how I managed to waste so much time ... night reading and looking at pictures of the most amazing place I'm going ... entrance to Bush Intercontinental, my mom and I settle down in the terminal

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  East Campus Pros and Cons, as Told by Residents "because EC is home 400ever"

  

  East Campus has a reputation. It's known as the mysterious and “intense” dorm of people with no shoes and dyed hair. But, not everyone who ... ” activities like building rollercoasters and fire-spinning. As proof, I can

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 20, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  I Can Talk to Anyone perseverating with caution

  

  to purely engage in small talk– and that’s okay! If I introduce myself and all you want to say is “This weather is wild” and “It’s that time of the semester am-I-right?”, then I will happily listen and give the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 13, 2022