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• Blog / IAP

  Starting 2012 on a volcanic island bonfire! but no eruptions yet [photo-heavy]

  

  assistants for a banquet reception. Here is my friend Maggie'12 and I. Don ... M. '12 poses for a photo with his debate class. Oh, it gets dark here ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 11, 2012
• Blog / Hacks

  Today is a Super Important Day This is kind of a big deal.

  

  should be. For those of you living under a rock the last year, or just ... , between 11:30 a.m. and 1:00 p.m.. (For those of you just living somewhere ... Today is an important day. The end of an era, the beginning of a new

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 20, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to ... ="If you live in a dorm with a dining hall, you are required to pay for a ... the option to pay for a meal plan, but are not required."]meal plans

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Denied by MIT, Now A Goldwater Scholar finding her way four years later

  

  sorry for her disappointment but sure she would be a fantastic student at ... ... For a while, I really felt like a failure that I didn't get in ... something and that it was worth trying for anyway. It's a really huge

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Perks of Being a Humanities Major and downsides, too

  

  Read Read Read Read Read Read Write Such is the life of a HASS major ... policies that make me both happy and sad. For every excellent teacher and idea, there is a way to fail. There are readings that illuminate

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 23, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... it into sheet music for an a cappella group, ie writing a solo part and a part for each voice group (which, in the case of the ohms, means

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  overseas after graduating or for a summer internship. Many European ... back to the office to read applications for a while until 4:45pm or so ... this year (aside from Mystery Hunt), I took a couple breaks from reading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Sloan MBA Adetayo Akisanya works at Volaris, a Mexican airline, on their Commercial Strategy team “I really gained a new perspective on the airline industry, on commercial strategy, on competition,…

  

  the consumer gets transparency and convenience. “For a low cost ... thought I was a good manager, and wanted to give it a try in a highly ... a list of things I didn’t learn!" Volaris From the

  • by MISTI Program
  • May 21, 2015
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  California a Monday afternoon and stayed there with my family for a day before ... , bringing just a few clothes for the week, we brought 8 suitcases in total ... sleep for an hour or so. Exhausted and jetlagged, we then caught a train

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  avoiding responsibility writing this blog to procrastinate on stuff

  

  , running a quick setup test for a UROP, filling out a when-to-meet, things ... expected to feel refreshed, ready for a round three. But it’s not happening ... commitment than it used to. I gained a higher tolerance for low effort, and I

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • April 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Odd Jobs How non-seniors can occupy their time before and during graduation

  

  Materials for Biology, which hopefully will be a blend of my interests in ... double-checking of schedules, I signed on as a stage manager for this ... for a little while), as I tend to shy away from it as an extracurricular

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • June 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  you're looking for a more exhaustive list, these blog posts might be of ... heading home. Protip: at the beginning of a semester, ask upperclassmen for ... just had to go to the nearby Apple Store, swap my MacBook for a loaner

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  ... Went to Montreal for a weekend to visit friends at McGill University ... visit my family for a month (I even attended the 2008 graduation of my ... classes on Thursday - I started writing this entry. =p Summer 2008 was a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  The real O.C. Travels in Southern California.

  

  following the dinner was a Central Meeting. We had a nice turnout for the ... Academy. Unfortunately, I was a little late for my visit (I apologize!). The ... (home of UCLA) for a quick email check and boba, followed by a sit

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life and Learning in the Other Cambridge

  

  , and then picks a subset of those to review for the final examination. As ... exam, there is less commitment for attending a lecture, and thus students ... concern for how much you will remember six months from now. It seems to be a

  • by Cambridge
  • May 8, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  Listen: writing well is hard. It is hard for a lot of different ... 's comparison of two hypothetical introductory paragraphs for a master's program ... to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Goal Setting a learning process

  

  a way to keep each other accountable for actually achieving some of ... ever set goals for my actual internships, because that came as a part of ... 100 list' did a lot more for my motivation to read. In the end, though

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 4, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  think scaling back was a good idea for me. I was able to devote a lot more ... I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... started off at MIT, I thought that the only way to learn was to take a bunch

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  One year later MIT is like a surprise birthday party, but without the birthday or the party.

  

  for an entire 12 hours. Cambridge was wrapped in a wet blanket of cold ... , which was a few decimal places short of exciting, and walked around for ... stuck in a lab for most of the day. I mean, I'm sure she was voluntarily

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  excerpts

  

  I haven’t been doing a great job of blogging this semester for a ... … Yosemite for a day, then drive over to… San Franciscoto end our trip ... many new experiences, and memories I will keep for a very long time. Here

  • by Phi A. '21
  • December 27, 2021