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• Blog / IAP

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

  

  new experiences may come later, but for now, let's not get lost in ... were about to find out how Jeju does New Years'. (I apologize in advance ... First time in a foreign country - the pace at which new things are

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

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  whopping 168 acres – which is 1.5x bigger than Vatican City! To get from one ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster ... be your partner in a group project. You probably like to hike or do

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  thought to myself: easy! If I was able to get 5s on my APs and As in my ... orientation, each MIT freshman has the option to take part in a freshman pre ... living before you get to campus. Personally, I had taken a special liking

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What makes me an MIT student? Some thoughts about blogging and a special question for returning readers.

  

  in more than a month, and the time had come to catch up on MIT ... longer term than, say, to the first-time visitor. Bearing that in mind ... obligations always tended to cross paths. And yes, now MIT is in a different

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  I did not graduate on time

  

  fortunate to get a D. In fact, I hadn’t been that happy about a grade since my ... 't fit in the other me, the one who had trouble getting both in and out of ... still wouldn't get me out of bed in the morning or stop me from engaging

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 13, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Day 7: Philly Part 4 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  landed in Philly around 10PM. After getting my luggage, I took the shuttle ... in Philly so I'm staying with her to save MIT some money (and sleep in ... . My mom came to see her kid in action and really enjoyed herself. She

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  *john mulaney voice* Cause we’re delta airlines, and life is— My delta flight this IAP, a couple of weeks late oops

  

  change it when I get in to see if there's anything else but I'll keep u ... to the same place as me, maybe I should get in line too? There’s only ... in Boston How to get to place to sleep How to get back to the

  • by ana~
  • January 18, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  hazy mid-semester days what i've been up to lately (mostly, psets...)

  

  able to get done. Sunday is also Bread Day around here!!!! In addition ... bother to lie to myself that I'll get ahead on work; I just bask in the ... just on the horizon. I wanted to share what my daily life looks like, in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 2, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Unlikely Candidate Finding the unexpected “right fit”

  

  ’t get to see her much afterwards, except for the occasional "get togethers ... in high school, she invited me to go to a MIT info session with her. At ... information session was a stellar opportunity to "spend time with my friend in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • October 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Premed and Me (frankly speaking) MIT is hard, but MIT premed doesn't have to suck. Here's why.

  

  things to do, doing well in them, getting leadership activities, volunteer ... . But I didn't want to be the guy who was estimating my position in the ... pertinent to what was going on in my mind: is it right to feel like any less

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 29, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW: Tips and Tricks Hitchhikers Guide to Campus Preview Weekend

  

  part of CPW for me was talking to other prefrosh getting to know the ... prefrosh is like an open door to visit labs, classes, and get exposed to everything that MIT has to offer. Relish in it. Rule #5: Don't knock it 'til

  • by Bryan
  • April 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  hold me (but not too close) on writing the full-length play

  

  : Playwrights’ Lab in the spring, where I’ll get to collaborate with a ... , where I suddenly had an infinite amount of time to respond in a way that ... in a while, I’d open my eyes and check the clock, just to see that only

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 7, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  , getting tickets to a last-minute concert, etc.  Being present. I keep ... in new and old ways, and basically just living it up. Happy LFDOC to my ... . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Why I do what I do A few reasons I'm still on this planet.

  

  class to make all eight plays and musicals held during my four years in ... as a sophomore, and was the only girl in my class to make our school ... pick the direction it goes in. It might not even get published if I don

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 24, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Teaching at MIT we live and we learn and we teach

  

  language, Scratch was an invaluable stepping stone in my journey to pursuing computer science. I first learned to use Scratch in high school in order to ... Program (ESP) in which 7th and 8th graders come to MIT to take a variety of

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • May 16, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Other summer programs A further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors…

  

  MIT homepage today, I've been getting lots of traffic interested in summer programs. To that end, here is a further list of some terrific math & science summer programs for high school juniors to consider. All of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  . the rain started to get worse and by 8pm, lightning crackles in the sky ... should really get up, so i[annotation note="in room 251, we all have Next ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  100% Completion It’s pretty hard to do, but I’m going to try.

  

  to get your hands on the prized diploma, but it’s way more fun to ... . The long term goal is to be able to correctly fill in a blank map of MIT ... here. Sidequest 2: Get my Pirate Certificate. To be honest, this is

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 7, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Random Post While Reading Apps. Because we need some new posts...

  

  applications, we get a lot of applications. We then need to read those ... . Its a long story. Ok, I need to get back to reading. I have a lot of ... I'm sitting at my desk in my robe right now. I'm on my 5th cup of

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel ... good at in high school, and you definitely don’t need to know what you

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018