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• Blog / IAP

  As the City Slumbers thoughts while walking in a park

  

  back in high school had emailed me out of the blue and offered to catch ... kids at the playground, and a trio of middle school boys in neon orange ... normally visit, but this year they stayed in Canada, and Covid safety means

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 21, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Walk down CourseRoad Lane A boulevard of broken dreams and dropped classes

  

  visualizes dependencies and degree requirements, and lets you drag and drop ... with a propellor hat fashion resurgence and an infamous tenure as East Campus Historian, is the ubiquitous and indispensable CourseRoad, an open

  • by Joel G. '18
  • November 24, 2015
• Blog / Announcements

  For those whose applications have been interrupted by disasters and disruptions providing what information and comfort we can

  

  crisis at and across the United States' southern border without ... Computing and Society concentration, more or less every class offered by the ... applications, educations, and most importantly lives have been interrupted by a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 29, 2019
• Blog / How to MIT

  My Freshman Backpack Or: How to bend the fabric of spacetime to your will

  

  (which is still pass/no record), and to a lesser degree in your second ... to MIT and that has been doing this bloggin' business for a while. I ... in my room, with pages of notes strewn on my bed and my person, where I

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Pop quiz, Viktor I finally discover what happens when you rapidly cool hot metal. Now my life is…

  

  decided to take matters into my own hands and e-mail Professor Christoper A ... science and engineering (Course 3).   Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 17 ... undergrad in chemical engineering and I have a question that none of my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  hadn't been collected yet) and dashed to 10-250 (one of our big lecture ... named Joel Moore from Berkeley, and his talk is on "Topological Insulators and Their Implications for Electronic Order." Don't know what those are

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Dance at MIT!!! [Collab with Ben O. ’19] hip-hop? contemp? bhangra? lion dance? MIT's got it all

  

  to have fun and willingness to learn! We hope this blog offered some ... Ben O. '19 and I decided to team up to talk about all the dance teams ... Mocha Moves in Fall ‘19 and are members of Dance Troupe, but I’ve done it

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • January 30, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions updates ...including the state of the mail and EA application tracking.

  

  of the United States, India and China are our largest applicant ... application tracking system. We are receiving buckets and buckets and buckets of mail to open and process, and we are doing so as quickly as possible

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to ... Jamboree in Quebec City. We spent three days in Quebec City and four days in Montreal. Montreal is pretty easy to reach from Boston and as such is a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A *Major* Dilemma Will you forgive the pun if I tell you that I just declared my major?

  

  closer to the universe, and the universe closer to me. About halfway ... deliberation, all the conversations and requests for advice and frustration and questions and identity crises… Every student at MIT is required to declare a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  is a pretty good opportunity when it gets offered, and it’s typically more likely to be offered for larger classes like 191 and 200, since the ... ” (Amphibious Achievement offered the opportunity to be an academic and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  pictures. Here are some headlines:   Thomas DeFrantz and the Dancing Body of the State    Thursday afternoon, Thomas DeFrantz, a former MIT professor and current professor of African-American Studies and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ROTC Is Life (In a Good Way) Everything you ever wanted to know about ROTC at MIT (and then some)

  

  , based in colleges and universities. If you join the program, you ... . Harvard, Tufts, Wellesley, Suffolk, and Salem State all have crosstown ... another university but come to MIT for ROTC) and varsity athletes only have

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  immortalized in the history of the Institute, I opened my email and found a post ... was to create an political statement about the troubled state of Random ... laundry server for the latest news on conditions in Random's washers and

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Staying in Touch Family back home or here in Boston!

  

  us, and stood around a getting a ring on a peg game on State Street for ... ’d ride down the block on my bike, wave hi to my aunt, and return back to my ... about everyone, the change is sudden and doesn’t even necessarily hit you

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Ambulance! Ambulance! So I'm in this serious long-term relationship.

  

  state of Massachusetts, many via the class which is offered every IAP ... It is four days into IAP and I have yet to sleep in my own bed. In ... half an hour since returning to MIT on Sunday, and I was only home for

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunny Skies In The OC [by Mirat Shah '08] A new post, and answers to your questions from the last…

  

  national and personal ideals and the state of the world. However, people here ... [by Mirat Shah '08] Sorry, I will try and write more regularly in ... while I was away from Cambridge, and so did my friend Matt's (MIT '08

  • by Cambridge
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Downtown if you could see it then you’d understand

  

  like 12:30-1 and walk around Boston CJ: i have hw CJ: but fuck that CJ ... -down and slacks; I’m wearing a t-shirt and shorts. “Couldn’t be wearing ... Boston University, a few stops down the Green Line. They debated asteroid

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 26, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Three More Tales of Junior Year the sequel to Three Tales of Junior Year

  

  Worrying and Love MIT A shocking confession: one time, I almost transferred ... though. And not just because application process is scary. But also because ... loved the niche I found here, and stayed because of my friends, my hall

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 31, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  42: The Answer to Our Changing Educational Needs a school with no teachers, no schedules, and no rankings

  

  understanding, and transference of educational innovations at MIT and elsewhere ... built a renewable energy device and an online platform for the monks to study and spread their ideas across the world.   According to Lou, every

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 24, 2017