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• Blog / IAP

  IAP & Snowmageddon Infinite amounts of pancakes, international adventures and poutine, and icy apocalypse preparation

  

  writing and casual vlogging. But my friends and I have managed to get out ... of five of us headed to IHOP in Harvard square to settle the score. I ... middle where we took a walk to the top of a hill in Mount Royal Park

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 27, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Circus but like a nerd circus. So you know, less elephants and more calculus. Just as…

  

  and tweaking components to get everything to work like it does in the ... of the hilights reel. To start things off, I'm working in the new ... redesigning the wrist joints that allow it to turn in place, and then we'll be

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 7, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Decide my major! Because putting your future up for a democratic vote is clearly the way to go.

  

  Alright, you and I both have some big decisions to make in the next ... users in Kenya (our current market) to travel the long distances (30 km, in some cases!) to work, a task made difficult by non

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • April 2, 2009
• FAQ / International applicants

  Can I apply if I am undocumented?

  information, check out the section of our website for undocumented applicants.
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Is MIT too hard? warning: metaphors ahead

  

  that I'm here working in the Real World™ (sort of), I've learned to ... what I am proud of, is the fact that I've managed to put in these hours ... .  And the reward? Getting to work on and take some ownership of the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 18, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  own goals–in other words, decide which aspects of the job I wanted to ... , a flame to protect from burning out. I get to study the cosmos with ... , and went off to get her PhD; I stuck the program from her commencement

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  why mit

  

  facebook group last night, and wanted to copy it here in case anyone out ... ! * * * * * * * * * * * * * hey everyone! just wanted to pop in and say hi as decision day ... - when i was in high school i heard people say that MIT graduates tend to

  • by Allan K. '17
  • May 1, 2017
• Blog / Summer

  tiny living when life gives you lemons...

  

  classrooms around MIT! I think it'll be a great way to get our steps in and ... coming soon) into a new one in the heart of Boston. Unbeknownst to us ... 's no warm water in the sink or any hooks to hang and dry your towels or

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 1, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other issues in the future. The parent wrote: Why is it so important to have gone ... . Eventually, this lead me to MIT. In all these ways, that summer program opened

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  sleeping. I got to the airport at 10 am. My flight left in 45 min and the staff told me that it was too late to check in. I pleaded and they let me check in late and gave me a standby ticket. I made it to the gate just

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  We were worried An insider's look at a February tradition

  

  auditions. I was a musician in high school, so I’m accustomed to performance ... I have made the right decision. I am to be one of three girls in the ... , and one a post-doc in the biology department), I am eager to spend IAP

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 2, 2013
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... wanted them to like me! In 2014, with my MIT degrees and my own blogging ... tried to impress! Damn. +++++ In hindsight, I couldn’t have guessed in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Quick hello from Albuquerque I'm in New Mexico for ISEF.

  

  Musical kids yet, either) Tomorrow, I will get to have breakfast with the ISEF finalists who are members of the MIT Class of 2011, then I'll get to ... me it was in the cartoon "Herr Meets Hare" where Bugs Bunny first

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 17, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Wir fahren nach Berlin! Bullet holes in the cemetery walls, plus Liv Tyler.

  

  with history, and I want to get back and see the 99% of the sights that I ... laugh at me when I say that. When I get my act together and go over to Mr ... decided to raise Liv as if Todd Rundgren were her father. Since her mother

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  My IAP Mugs, polymers, cats, and pineapples.

  

  Ahh my IAP is going to be so cool!!! There are quite a few things ... students have the whole month of January to do anything they want - from working at an awesome company to making teapots to throwing things off of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 3, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to ... redundancy built in to the skydiving gear you wear.  Not only is there a

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stand Back! I'm going to try . . . well, you know the rest.

  

  from the collapsible litter group in 2.009 (that didn't make any sense to ... to do science. In the end, these were the results: Come to MIT, you get to do this.

  • by Snively '11
  • December 9, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Highlights From The Past Week A post on birthdays and bad (but oh so good) TV.

  

  last week... the new Alias season began. In general I don't have time to ... to admit this in a public forum but the only other show I make time to ... particularly awesome this week 4) We had our first followup meeting to my

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  yourself in different worlds and try to predict the outcome based on the ... ’ve started to realize that I tend to trap myself in this view of the world ... instructions that I would need to follow in order to be sure I follow the best

  • by Richard O. '28
  • April 30, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  Schedules and expectations The do's and dont's of freshman scheduling, and what to brace yourself for.

  

  reason. First semester is on pass/no record (P/NR) in order to give ... probably take you a while to get used to college life and on P/NR you ... to use Freshman P/NR to take the absolute hardest classes and get them

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2006