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• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  at the water, and there was a lot of foam floating around. One of our ... .’” “We went to a restaurant that sold noodles from the north west of China ... times.” "One of our students said that his dream is to study history at

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  outside. They were content. At dinnertime the sounds of human life again ... the otherwise silent houses. Normally I would put this at the top of ... ending for you. A while ago, at the start of summer, I was making my bed

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  All around North America, it's been a pretty snowless winter. Some ... though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  just taken a leave of absence. Taking a break from the Institute is not unheard of here. I can think of several people I know who are currently ... better. A lot of emphasis in choosing colleges goes towards student life

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  22 other amazing people over the course of the semester, and we pulled ... show! One of the most amazing parts of 2.009 is the final presentation. Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Montreal a.k.a my awesome birthday blog a.k.a the end of IAP Photo's! Adventure! It's like a comic book, but real!

  

  gear. If you truly have no idea what I mean, we here at the ONLY institute of technology went back to class for reals on February 3rd. Before all this, (or at the same time if you're Dr. Manhattan) the graph of

  • by Chris M. '12
  • February 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What it’s like to work at NASA and a few other things

  

  places an upper limit on the diameter of a telescope at around 10 meters ... 's biggest telescopes: Other perks of working at JPL: getting to meet Mohawk ... artificial) - think of the scripted conversations you have with recruiters over

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 1, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  don't get at the end of their time here - a degree. And so Paul had the ... idea of what you're going to eat for lunch today (update post-lunch: a salad), the Next Big Mailing represents a lot of decisions you'll have to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to (Im)properly Cross Register a step by step guide of our mistakes

  

  narrow them down to just 4 at the beginning of each semester (or 5 for the ... (which you can probably guess at by the title of this post). We are actually NOT taking this class at MIT, because *sigh* MIT doesn’t offer

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Architecture students Are you interested in designing abroad?

  

  umbrella of the Dept. of Geography at Tel Aviv University is the only Urban ... Since its start (circa 1984) MISTI has sent over 350 MIT School of ... their skills abroad. Dima Ayyash Class of 2012 MIT-Germany Program

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Classes

  day one welcome back

  

  't always open. Everybody wears masks. Many of my friends are gone, off to new ... , one on artificial intelligence, and none of my recitations are holding ... other courses I want for the remainder of the day. Today, in artificial

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 9, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  Association and the Black Alumni of MIT Association organized a huge event at ... wins a competition to become the apprentice to one of the most recognizable real-estate moguls in the world. For those of you who haven't heard

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  on happiness and well-being Coursera attempts to cure our depression

  

  -"sellout" culture that's prevalent at MIT, I feel like a good number of people would ... are ones that offer a lot of fulfillment. Things are a bit hypocritical ... acceptance of the fact that they are a student at Yale. I know that getting

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 11, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Library War there's nothing about war in here, that's just my fave imaginary band name

  

  right on the north side of lobby 7). When I walked in, I was greeted with this lovely man all the way at the back, which of course made me very ... I have embarked, dear reader, upon a reading tour of my own. I have

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  near and the pressure is on--but for all of you who are still typing away at your application essays, fretting over phrasing and wondering what to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / How to MIT

  in the prospect of leaving are you proud of the work you've done?

  

  left: a UROP at the Institute of Soldier Nanotechnologies various ... something of it. It's been weird, standing at the intersection of media ... more time in the present with my friends, even if it means at the cost of

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  graduating with a CS degree. It was hard to go a day at the Institute without ... to MIT, I wanted to be the first man on Mars--or even one of the nerdy ... internship at a large defense company and was ready to learn anything and

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  A Day in the Life (of IAP)

  

  fair held at MIT, but it's one of the more interesting ones. (In the ... Yesterday was the final Friday of IAP. IAP went by so quickly, and sadly I missed most of it! Determined to not completely miss out on IAP

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 29, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Why I came to MIT A few reasons I chose MIT, and I few reasons that would have made me…

  

  concentration of excellence at schools like MIT is really unmatched in the large ... . I wanted a challenge, but I didn't want it at the expense of ... . (This is kind of a duh. But I wasn't thinking of it at the time.) 3

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 7, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Don’t Eat the Hot Glass Five things you can’t eat in the MIT Glass Lab for “health and safety” reasons…

  

  to thousands of degrees in the furnace. Talk about defective! I tried ... when they threw yet another curveball at me, this time in the form of a ... ancient art form. One heavily-emphasized aspect of the class was “safety

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 24, 2022