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• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  classes earn a Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctoral degree in Charm. When I ... drink, is on the right. I'm going to have to remember that one. Next, I ... year, and unfortunately that meant I didn't get a good photograph... so

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Choosing a Major I hope this is helpful to you at some point

  

  this is too many 8-classes. Hi Lulu.I have a small question to ask.In ... coursework, your research... In fact, I've been told quite a few times that ... address the topic in a proper way. First, some questions. Is Physics major

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Stephen, I’m Putting You On Notice!

  

  besides reading applications to MIT. One of the things I enjoy doing in my ... recently coauthored a book on how higher education is failing in America. During that interview Hersh - who I think it is fair to say is somewhat

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m sitting at work right now Seems like as good a time as any to bang out a quick blog post

  

  It occurs to me that I haven't told you much about what I'm doing ... to it. So, here's a snapshot of what I'm doing RIGHT NOW, at 11:52am on a typical day at work. I'm in an office with four other undergrads

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  how to spend a summer Spending a summer in Boston a la Bryan

  

  continue to do this semester, but I hope you got the idea that summers in ... like the professionals do on how to spend a summer in Boston. Now first ... list of things to do is by no means expansive and there are probably a

  • by Bryan
  • August 27, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  books I read in 2024, ranked and thoughts on the best ones

  

  that I cannot stand her writing. Normal People is one of the few books in ... This year I read 20 books. Here they are in a tier list, ranked based ... what I thought you could do with literature. I’m in love with the way

  • by Kai V. '25
  • January 13, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... 16[/caption] with a bike, that's a four-minute commute tops. i could ... get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me...i

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I failed an exam last week and it will be okay

  

  that I am suddenly doing considerably worse than I expected in a subject ... soon as I sat down in a relatively quiet environment I've been doing ... a notoriously difficult exam in a fraction of the time ii. anger I

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 21, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  finding meaning at the end of the world i alone determine my destiny

  

  't because i'm doing anything wrong. at once, i feel that nothing is new under ... one. when i was applying to be a blogger i wrote this in my blogger application, under the question "why do you want to be a blogger": i want to be

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 1, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... lunch which is like so much work"] which I do not recommend.[/annotation]I ... . This lets me do things like eat foods I enjoy that also contain

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  You don’t know what a robot is? I dig Roger Ebert. Roger Ebert digs MIT. Thus, I dig MIT.

  

  : All of this is just a way of leading up to the gut reaction I had all ... featured on the cover of Wired magazine. I guess that advising a film critic ... and a left, a front and a back. This has to do with the fact that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  check if your computer is plugged in. It turned out that I wasn’t able to ... language that introductory computer science is taught in at MIT), so I have ... shortcut truly is. (There were actually lines in my notes that reference how

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  Thinking Outside of Absolutes A short thought piece on thinking about thinking

  

  For a while now, I’ve had this realization that I tend to overthink a lot. And I think this is something a lot of people can relate to. There ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... grounded in that world. I’m a fan of flowery, (often needlessly) complex ... city, and stopped by a bookshop because that’s what I do when I walk

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  the hardest you’ve ever worked the firehose strikes again

  

  math major at a tech school in the ‘80’s. When was the hardest that I ... they have a system that helps keep everything in balance, and if I can ... choose to, I can graduate a semester early or drop any class that is

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 14, 2022
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I Climbed a Mountain Today there's always gonna be another mountain!

  

  . MUNI is a really cute name for a mass-transit system. 8. I want a car. 9 ... 'll have had a -, and a whole 1.0 increase in GPA for that class. it goes without saying that A- is the best grade to get, since it's the same as

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  anything in any of them. It's too much. I feel bad that I do none of this ... convince myself that I shouldn't feel guilty for not doing the same. This is ... a new pursuit that is worthy enough of becoming a story I tell other

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  thing about being in a major that is both interesting in itself and widely ... space for someone. That's how I got my first UROP!) The experience is incredibly valuable. A few years ago, back when I was Course 7 (that's Biology

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  On Greatness

  

  : "MIT is full of amazing people, I don't think I'm all that amazing, how can I fit in?" It's a question that's been on the forefront of my mind ... they loved it so much. So that's what I think in a nutshell: try new

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Accepting criticism please criticize this blog post

  

  the things that I strive to do is blog every week, or at least something close enough to that. I justify it in the sense that, having a regular ... about themselves. I want to tell myself that maybe some of them are in a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 31, 2021