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• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  ....grumble grumble), and all this can only mean one thing. The MIT machine is back in ... institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before ... calculations to derivate the coefficient of friction on complex surfaces and sum

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  I moved to Maine just a wisconsin girl in an east coast world

  

  an airport wearing a facemark, gloves, and only black clothes (major apocalypse vibes) Driven 24+ hours and 1000+ miles over the course of three ... for about two weeks, dealing with different waves of grief and gratitude

  • by Powers '23
  • March 29, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  architecture of MIT's campus, lies a pub. it opened in 2004 and was used for at ... hunts, and the like, which is why I was fascinated to hear that one of my ... equipment that is gathering dust"]storage closets[/annotation] and [annotation

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / Residential Life

  four ways to unstrip a screw tΞp work week tales

  

  and slander your peers) in hopes of securing a bid (an invitation to ... Charles River on the north and the glittery high rises of Back Bay Boston on ... carved wooden railings, eclectic murals and sculptures in every nook and

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • September 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  mit made me rational on decision-making

  

  to just die and donate all of that." I then asked my brother the same ... rather a smaller, standing-room-only venue, and this was her only ... tickets at face value, but then she fell sick several days beforehand and

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 19, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  In the tale that is my Junior Spring Semester, two exciting and ... and open-ended, which means that there’s a lot of groping walls in the dark and stumbling across roadblocks. The second theme is talking. Lots

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 4 U What you should do at CPW, assuming you like exactly the same things that I…

  

  hope that all your hosts have had the forethought to contact you, and that all your travel plans by train, plane, and automobile, bus ... , George, gets here in 6 hours, at 4:50 AM. Usually I offer to come out to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... during their time at MIT. Two are humanities classes, and the others relate ... writers and orators. A large part of that comes from exposing us to new

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Paul’s Top Ten Common-Sense College Application Tips Patent pending.

  

  , and open as possible. That's why I tend to believe that most of the so ... amazing advice and assistance: my parents. From August until December, my ... deadlines, boosted my spirits and my confidence when I felt overwhelmed. She

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 19, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  THE FINAL FANTASY 7 REMAKE IS OUT since 6/15/15, i have literally lived for this moment

  

  explain and sort of requires knowledge of the entire in-game universe to ... just know me in person - might know that I have one true love, and its ... since I first played it in 8th grade, and the characters and the story

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 16, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the FIRST DAY of CLASSES!!!!! A summary of the first half of the day/how I'm feeling, with many exclamation points!!!

  

  HI EVERYONE~ It’s the FIRST DAY OF CLASSES and I haven’t blagged ... different. I normally spend a lot of time editing and crafting admissions ... tumblr, which is ramble about my thoughts and feelings until I’m done

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  biology courses at high-school level focus a lot on reciting things, and I ... that biology is different at the high school and undergraduate levels ... like identifying skulls using a dichotomous key, dissecting starfish, and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  ,[/annotation] MIT offers an "Independent Activities Period" where students do ... whirlwind for me, and since we're now in the midst of the first week of the ... 't required to be on meal plans during IAP, and Next House has a fairly large

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Actually Doing Things or not...but actually, really

  

  offered in the fall), 20.109 (I think it’s bad form to drop a lab class and ... bacteria that grow in the dark and the light. See this picture? I took it ... and the primary stakeholder (the company that hired you) felt. Final

  • by Stanley G.
  • November 20, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Residence-Based Advising Residence-Based Advising WILL NOT allow you to change dorms during your freshman year.

  

  at Pixar, which would be formatting and finding information for the ... espresso, a million different types of cereal, and peanut butter and jelly-making supplies, which I am a HUGE fan of), a soccer field (and team!), a very good

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 9, 2007
• Blog / CPW

  how to tackle CPW ...i totally have the authority to write this

  

  offer. if you're interested, look at the dorm pages and check out their ... almost 0 planning, and I asked them why they would willingly indulge in ... CPWs in my freshman and sophomore years, but instead I was running weird

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 6, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  note-taking and doing work, but when MIT offered the option, I thought to ... was 8, and drawings along the margins of all of my notes. I learned how to use Photoshop and Paint.NET and GIMP and Paint Tool SAI beginning in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Slam Dunked Long crazy week...a few necessary lessons

  

  pleasant waters. It had its several current peaks and rocky outbursts ... school’s ultra-small math olympiad class, and spent a significant number of ... invariants, number theory and unruly combinatorics problems. In eleventh grade

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 4, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Conversations with graders And other ramblings of a frosh...

  

  my corny little flashlight: Now I can use a milling machine and a ... , the body mold, the steering rack, and the pedalbox. Oh, and the wheels ... concepts that I couldn't quite remember how to do and a couple that I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 3, 2006
• FAQ / QuestBridge

  If a QB applicant is admitted EA/RA, will they receive full financial aid?

  MIT practices need-blind admissions for all students, regardless of citizenship. If you're admitted through Early Action or Regular Action, MIT will assemble a financial aid offer that will meet 100% of your demonstrated need