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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  briefly during the train’s designated “smoke break.” It was great to see a ... on my poetry. I think that, once I get back to a real laptop, I will be able to compile all of these changes and have a reasonable draft of most

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  on friends / minsan in which i ramble about friendship

  

  subsidized. For me, the big reason I wanted to go to PUMAC was to meet a bunch ... dinner, and take a train to Princeton. As we arrive at Princeton, one of my ... things in his room, we head to a math lounge in one of their buildings that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 30, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  chaos and an exam that I technically failed irl deus ex machina

  

  to Boston on a red-eye flight and was feeling quite removed from my ... high school. I went to an IB school, so I had to write a 4,000 word ... happened to share an elevator in Building 68 with a couple of grad students

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Short Thoughts Girlhood, editing, iPhone notes.

  

  I've spent the better part of a day trying to blog about my semester, but I can't think of a pithy way to put everything together, so I wrote ... 's wrong. I keep thinking I've recovered only to wake up with a sore throat

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Senior Spring! What I did (and didn't) do over IAP...and plans for my last semester!

  

  ) until she meets a guy (or a recipe) who opens her eyes (to the miracle ... Day eve and all of a sudden I have to go to school again! Weird (in an ... semester to propose a drug/device to investigate/treat biological systems

  • by Alina G. '11
  • January 30, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  .005 but it's hard to feel like you're learning, you know? You try doing a ... to give up on the circuit problem for a little while, even if just to ... This semester I'm taking a class called "Sustainable Energy," and so

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Giant Cows Eat Venus; Earth Next Breaking apart and growing, fireworks, and a story

  

  Longfellow bridge was evacuated. A patrol boat crisscrossed from one bank to ... ." The fireworks started, finally, to cheers from the crowd and a rumbling ... . Since it’s far behind me, I’m now going to share a big secret about my

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 25, 2012
• Blog / Residential Life

  Siblings, Scrabble, and Boredom we're bored in the house, and we're in the house bored

  

  quite a bit. I had a whole Penske truck to fill. I'm not sure why I left ... everything in a box. No need to partition items into "do I need this at home ... . I had a lot of stuff to pack. Go figure. You accumulate a lot of stuff

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  Academic Things I’ve Learned no life lessons, promise

  

  to argue until I understood why I was wrong, and I had enough of a ... number among them. I spent a lot of high school trying to jump to the ... [annotation note="which definitely varies from class to class! There were only a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bed arrangements in dorms, and beauty on campus

  

  'm always happy to answer your questions. I'll demonstrate this by answering a ... are made to fit together, not built as a single entity. So you can ... "pretty", I think there's a lot of beauty if you know where and how to find

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  14.11: Putting Social Science to the Test—Field Experiments in Economics A new class on experimental social science, including: race discrimination, gender differences in behavior, persuasion,…

  

  's some information on what we're going to study: What is 14.11? 14.11 is a ... Social Science to the Test - Field Experiments in Economics. From what I ... and can teach us and how to conduct them. The class has three major

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  who started the fire? (not clickbait) playing detective

  

  few weeks ago, a friend and I decided to figure out what had happened ... [/caption] Which they forwarded to the Public Records Officer at City Hall. A few ... a community of women. To my knowledge, the only man who lived here at

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 28, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What’s cool about Nick’s room artsy people, walls, and East Side living

  

  A few weeks ago, a friend at Princeton traveled up to Cambridge for ... , my boyfriend’s* mom had a bit to say about the colorfully painted walls ... to appreciate if you live here. But painting individual rooms is a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  At The Ends Of Tunnels unlike a tunneling particle, I actually had to expend lots of energy to surmount obstacles

  

  -level gist of it is pretty simple; on a low level, we had to build in tons of ... was also a lot of C++ compiler wankery to deal with, because we built it ... relocated him to an extremely comfortable pillow. On a much more impressive

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • December 21, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  For applicants affected by natural disasters

  

  Admissions officer available to talk to you and figure out a way to make sure ... If you’re wanting to apply Early Action (EA) to MIT this year but ... disasters, know that our hearts go out to you from MIT Admissions. It

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  the fear and delight of fire spinning do not this at home! I am a trained (semi?)professional.

  

  day comes to close, a fire in my hands, a warmth in my soul ... went from tiptoeing around a lighter to loving fire with a passion just ... quick note: i did a TED talk with kano about fire spinning once, but

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • June 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  sick. What a joy it has been to experience illness during the first two ... stuffy nose) is a real mystery to me, because I haven’t really gotten my ... awful as I felt in the moment. But it wasn’t. And that’s a lot to be

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  talking about. Despite that little hiccup, Angela was excited to be a part ... ."]middle school.[/annotation]. After these revelations, we knew we needed to find a later meeting time and add a person to the team who had at least some on

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who cares about poetry? lots of feelings

  

  ’t have much exposure to poetry. The poems I’d read (mostly a few ... had to be even-ish, every line had to start with a capital letter, it ... a foreign land which told her she didn't belong, which told her to go

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you do with a BS in econ? Answering Karen's question about my degree

  

  't shake The feeling I might make A difference To the human race ... the musical then transitions to a song entitled "It Sucks To Be Me" so let ... econ PhD programs go on to research/teach as professors or employees of a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 9, 2007