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• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Second Home You're in your room doing a pset. I'm in my lab making science happen.

  

  classes are 12 units at MIT), and I have been spending well over 30 hours every week in my lab, looking at worms, running gels and blots, and ... in the 70s, we have come to understand much of its genetics well and

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 30, 2010
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  Reflections from the STARS@MIT Fly-In a 15-author guest blog, featuring the small town/rural students that visited us this october!

  

  attending university and maybe graduate school as well. I would like to major ... second-ever Small Town and Rural Students (STARS) @ MIT Fly-In program. Students spent the weekend exploring the city, attending workshops, and

  • by Sara N. '28
  • November 11, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  college apps. A lot of universities have January 1st deadlines, and that ... -semester grades, and the university you ultimately attend may rescind you if you ... , chug coffee, drop out of school and go live in the mountains as a goat

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures of a Morning Person rise and shine

  

  morning presents me with a beautifully quiet campus. I wake up early and ... it a very personal and productive time.For example, the early morning ... four stove burners are available, and no one else is using the sink. At

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • January 14, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  What We Did In High School pls don't be as stressed as we were

  

  . Our school began to offer more AP classes and we jumped on the ... audience was mostly high school juniors and sophomores but there were also ... , we went to this panel and met Lauren there, and asked her a question

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • July 11, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  8 / Fresh start A month of eating and sleeping and other fun things

  

  , and single-digit-with-windchill-in-the-negative-twenties to 46-degrees-and ... Soundtrack   This IAP, I... My first, second, and third IAPs brought me around the country and world. This IAP, however, I had the most free time

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 3, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  what i talk about when i talk about running with apologies to murakami

  

  and excellence. Success was 'having:' money, awards, status. Excellence ... . Pursue excellence, Coach would say, and success will follow.” - Deena ... bestselling novelist, but Murakami wrote an entire book about life and running

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Marjane Satrapi and French Breakthroughs The author of Persepolis visits MIT, and my French professor is famous

  

  about life and criticisms of American foreign policy. All in all, it was a very informative and entertaining event. I am going to have to ... world these days. Mention eating, and people say 'cholesterol.' Mention

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The O.C. My first Central Meeting of the year.

  

  Tulane University and will attend MIT for the semester. ''I am a bit ... and floodgates. He is doing very interesting work in a city with similar ... reviewed, revised, maintained and repaired as needed," he said. "To see a

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  , physics, and calculus (these classes are known as the General Institute ... frequent state of confusion and dismay, which culminated in me not passing ... 8-class humanities minimum (the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

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

  tidbits i answer a bunch of random blogger prompts

  

  that state. My computer desktop - I never look at it, and so it just ... IAP yet, and I couldn't think of a single unified topic to write about ... Internet? What   things on the Internet help you feel more happy and less

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  , and Sam is awesomely posting this for me. My group has been here for just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for ... University of Zambia (UNZA) before we begin our trip to the community of Mwape

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... palace is used only occasionally for state functions and on most days ... Stellar, it's listed as "Cultural Encounters: Spain and Beyond"), a full

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these were recorded to VHS tapes, and later DVDs, and mailed to adMITs, but

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  MIT Dining Halls my controversial ranking

  

  wow students as there is with a state school or a small liberal arts ... better campus and it's not without notice, and also a lot of the issues with our architecture and planning are because of MIT moving in the early

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Highlight Reel Parents! A cappella! Thesis! Superheroes! Film class! And generally hanging in there @ MIT

  

  in a perpetual state of groaning and wondering why I had to think about ... Internet! Long time, no talk. Why such a long time and so little talk ... little has happened, and I’ve been trying to write blog posts about both of

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • November 22, 2014
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Musings of My High School Senior Self bring your best cringe face

  

  ? right? Eh my state of mind is very much a work in progress. And as the ... .  And it feels just as surreal as it felt when I got to campus for the first time. Everything was so new and there was this sense of wonder in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.

  

  questions such as 'Just how excited are you, really, about airplanes??' and ... to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... because they'd done well in their 10th grade Jet Propulsion class and found

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 30, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  offered me to write a guest blog, and I thought it was a great time to ... Dear friends and fellow CS people, My name is Kevin Wang and I ... in its infancy but quickly gaining momentum and recognition as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Financial aid news & more MIT announces costs & aid for the 2007-2008 school year.

  

  tuition and fees for 2007-2008 and has budgeted an additional $7 million for ... needs the kind of leaders and thinkers who graduate from MIT. By finding ... circumstances," Hockfield said. Tuition and fees for the upcoming academic year

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 6, 2007