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• Blog / Life after MIT

  Hello, world

  

  . Here's an abridged version of the whole thing. I grew up in Hampton Bays ... of the AP classes the school offered by my junior year. With few options remaining, I cluelessly applied to colleges. Being the first in my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 6, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Local Boston Startups at Mass Innovation Nights Over 700 to be (sort of) exact

  

  Boston entrepreneurs. Each one is held in a different place, with this one ... Summer Street, one of the many tall buildings in Boston with its own ... tables. In the "Student Startup Spotlight" were entrepreneurs from Bentley

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Cacophony of Coats Also, my courseload for this term!

  

  in social situations with acquaintances. Two women waiting next to me ... outside. They established that coats were, indeed, useful to possess in the ... , could be acquired in a variety of stores, some of them nearby, some not

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 10, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  hours in rain or shine (or the occasional snowstorm), but I wouldn’t have ... -wee soccer in kindergarten at the ripe old age of 4 and since then I have played seven competitive sports. In my three years of American high school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  A Post For Parents, Part 1 The next entry is for the kids...

  

  , however, you have some serious decisions ahead of you in the coming weeks ... ! For the last six months I've spent time in cyberspace talking to your ... -ending campus visits. I know that this process is equally stressful for you. In

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  Delhi and Agra, we headed to the host university, living in dorms for a ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... sophomore double majoring in [annotation note="Computer science and

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Classes: Junior Spring Edition + notes on MIT academics in general

  

  academics in general. In the descriptions of 6.00 and 17.803, I talk about MIT ... largest Course 6 class: some fill 26-100 and have to be live-streamed in ... Programming in Python, first quarter of 6.00) and 6.0002 (Introduction to

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... enjoyed it because most of my friends were in it as well. One of my most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  within the forests and the mountains, I feel safe in the way that I associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful ... ="54230" /] I feel very strongly about Seattle in a way that I haven't felt about

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  In my first blog post ever, I wrote about my first three weeks at MIT ... returning to East Campus time and time again, and since I was temped here in the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Labor Day, literally Moving back into my dorm room

  

  Today was moving-in day, where I moved all of my stuff out of storage and back into my dorm room. Moving-in day is my second ... back to my dorm in a giant U-Haul truck I always dread having to move my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 3, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  As I Was Saying… My second internship entry AKA "How I copy and pasted my way to a new…

  

  in the middle of my time in the GEL program and contemplating my ... in my last entry, the InternshipPlus is a requirement for GEL students in their second year of the program. Instead of meeting expectations

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 26, 2011
• Blog / Announcements

  Welcoming you to the new MIT Welcome Center a new home for admissions, and all the institute's visitors

  

  offering in-person information sessions and tours at this time. We hope to do ... For many years I have written these blog posts from a cubicle in room ... longer there, ask me in the comments about the hidden vault in the secret

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  [GUEST POST] Cooked Cooking by Joy X. '29

  

  in the kitchen next to us, and offered us a piece of pasta to bread ... Bad Idea™ going on. In fact, every IAP, they organize something called ... most random things we could from Henry’s closet and threw them in his wok

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • February 14, 2026
• Blog / How to Human

  so you’re starting your first year? boy do I have unsolicited tips for you

  

  get a sense of what classes are offered in each major. What sounds cool ... , but it’s largely written with first years in mind. This is in no way a ... You Graduate List, in case you find yourself on one evening trying to

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • September 2, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Watching Birdwatchers And getting into summer programs.

  

  offer you an appointment to The NRAO Summer Student Research Assistantship Program at the NRAO site in Charlottesville, Virginia. Your research topic will be "Pulsars"...Please confirm acceptance of this offer by 5:00 PM

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

  In my New Year's reflections post, I mentioned that over the winter ... details yet. Now, I'm two weeks into the semester and in the thick of being ... semester, in one of my many existential crises, I started to think seriously

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sights, Sounds, Smells, Tastes, and Feels of IAP photo dump

  

  visiting one of our friends in DC, it turned out that one of my MIT frat brothers was also staying in DC, interning for the Department of Energy. So ... inspired by the Rome Pantheon and incorporated that in their design.  

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 9, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  This Day, the Year I Applied what I learned in college about application struggles

  

  alternative vision, I'm happy too. Happier? Possibly. In this Universe, I can ... what the message in the email said. And I wasn’t lying when I thought ... transfer in the spring. I’d have a plethora of extracurriculars. I wouldn

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • November 20, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Leonard Nimoy at the Boston Pops He told me to live long and prosper!

  

  Leonard Nimoy. “That greeting originated in Boston,” Nimoy said, to cheers ... . Leonard Nimoy is famous for his role as Mr. Spock in the original 1960’s Star Trek TV series. He grew up in the Boston area, where (in his words

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 31, 2014