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• Blog / IAP

  IAP in Review: Week One IAP should stand for Independent Awesome Period.

  

  on writing!) to compare a bunch of genetic sequences. For three hours ... I've been trying to pick up a martial art for quite some time - there really is no time like IAP for doing those things you never seem to find

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  apples. They’re just okay. It’s really all for the opportunity to frolic ... look forward to. There’s still a ton I don’t have the answers for, like whether to stay at MIT for a PhD, how to convince other people to take me

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i learned from classes spoiler: not what i expected

  

  week or two). Now, there are ways to do this well — for example, on your ... much more than the material that is directly taught to you. If you’re a ... whole point of college to take classes and learn things? At MIT, I

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 27, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Deadline where I attempt to reason through an approaching all-nighter

  

  't reasonably expect for my body to endure another one of those hazy and hungry ... I have discarded jeans for yoga pants. My laundry load does not fit ... , for too often they have replaced a human lunch. Soon I will run out of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  was going to last for, and the economy was steadily nosediving, and I ... On April 16th, 2020, my life changed. That’s a kitschy way to put it ... memorable than usual, because it’s the day my first novel went to auction. It

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  love, only for things to inevitably fade away in the end. However, these ... call “love”.   So for now I’m not sure if I’m striving to find ... . Have I gained an ounce of sanity? Not really. Will I continue to obsess

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Spontaneous 5-Minute Classes on Whatever You Want These are too good not to share

  

  . To practice, I e-mailed French House to ask for sample prompts. Every ... tangentially related to this"-->"Okay, I have an idea for how to begin, at ... (Spark!) 3,000 middle and high school students descend onto MIT campus for

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 14, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Internet is Weird My first attempt at using eBay, or, how I'm trying to profit off of sad…

  

  claim to being "old school." So, without further ado: eBay listing for ... TOTALLY NORMAL and all, and I just didn't want to ruin that.) Snively loves ... for him? Well, I was one of those people. Let me show you what that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  A Physics Metaphor Featuring destruction! and sledding! Oh, and some serious stuff too.

  

  cool enough to make me continue in the physics track, so I showed up for ... schedule to take a physics course! But the metaphor holds for so many MIT ... was found to be the optimal position for seven people, and, given the

  • by Kate R. '14
  • February 7, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  So we’re actually *identical* twins which is surprising to absolutely ... no one

  

  that it is not that uncommon for doctors to misclassify twins. According ... identical, and the only way to know for certain is with a DNA test. If the DNA ... week ago, we thought Elizabeth was wrong. Because for our whole lives

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • January 27, 2019
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  I moved to Michigan for an internship, but I swear it feels like it ... ’t want to throw out. I consider it a sort of graveyard for my thoughts this ... autonomous vehicle company) I’m learning how to skateboard. 98% for the a e

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Important EA Processing Update! read this if your application is incomplete

  

  College Board to go directly to MIT, we will receive them in time for ... they couldn't bear to send you a single email. Apologies for the ... thousands of documents which came to us by mail and fax. We digitized them and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  When The Omnipotent Hand Of Google Fails You How some classes at the Institvte are justifiably hard.

  

  nightmare that I was trying to double major in 18 and 6-3 and had mysteriously forgotten about 6 required classes, which I would have to pack into senior ... Freudian terror. Flash back to the real world, where school is still kind of

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 23, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photo Scavenger Hunt Let's give this a shot.

  

  's have a contest, who got out the latest for summer vacation? post your ... -back, carefree, and a whole lot of fun. This year my summer is shaping up to be ... too much to try and blog about. So while I'm working on resizing my 3 TB

  • by Chris M. '12
  • June 15, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  . Today, all gone, gone, gone. I woke up this morning to a quiet snowstorm outside my window. So I sat in bed for an hour watching it. The light outside was grey and a bit yellow and when it deepened to blue I

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  OMG SNOW Well, FINALLY!

  

  (To be serious for a moment here - I really love comments and emails, as long as they in some way have to do with MIT. If you're an '11, I'd love to talk to you about whatever, because you're now affiliated with

  • by Jess K. '10
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  sophomore accumulations because i miss show and tell

  

  This week, as classes began to die down, I told a friend: "the only thing I gained this year was academic hardship." Sophomore year tends to ... myself working harder than I ever have to keep up. But there's much more

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • May 6, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Fall 2015 Wait List Decisions Will Be Sent Today

  

  . Today, May 15th - which happens to be the International Day of Families ... decision, including the 52 to whom we have offered admission. At that point ... students for the Class of 2019, not even Leeroy Jenkins. We have seen all

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • May 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  powerfully beautiful to me. Thanks Kevin, for this :D I think there’s a point ... , like unicorns or people that don’t like Taylor Swift. What’s not to ... friend and I were taking the same Intro to Java class this IAP, and spent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Photodiary now with 0% instagram, 22% my cat

  

  Weird and/or neat things I saw around campus this week, brought to ... pictures: As I was leaving East Campus for class, a squirrel with a full, lustrous, white beard waddled across my path and stared me down for a full

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • March 9, 2012