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• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Another FAPtatsic Start we're juniors?!

  

  up in our room on the fourth floor of the Student Center. The freshman ... sheets making door signs for the freshman  getting a LOT of cardboard ... reveal *everything* here. Instead, here is a hodge podge of photos from the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 20, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Every square is a rectangle A brief look at every student activity at MIT.

  

  . For the past month or so, she's worked about 50 hours of UROP every week ... a dorm, the position of desk captain requires actual work, with the ... last sentence. Yesterday, a bunch of us went over to the activities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 3, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Thoughts from the Dungeon One night only

  

  I’ve been stuck in the same dungeon in Metaphor: Refantazio for the last two weeks.  The most frustrating part of this experience is that every time I turn the game on, it’s a new enemy that sends me to my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Social Engineering no no wait not like that–

  

  campus to help with this, luxuriating in the joys of free Starlink wifi ... day. This is particularly useful when the rest of college is… not super ... me, and I was really worried that I would miss out on the closeness of

  • by Allison E. '27
  • August 24, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer & the Coming Commencement stuff and things.

  

  introduced as a senior at MIT. Yikes. Of course, all the actual seniors are ... forward to waking up at 6:30am on friday. I'm stationed left of the stage ... I'm happy to be here again for the summer. So I did this once my

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT Women Rock All sorts of folk, and folk songs too.

  

  % International, and our minority community provides all of the cultural resources ... students are the first generation of their family to go to college. We also ... really just a pretext for me to post this. Flight of the Conchords fans

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 7, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions Omnibus & Fierce Forever More questions answered, with a few words about yesterday's Fierce Forever 6.

  

  , here's one of the things I missed on campus: Fierce Forever is MIT ... expected attendance of 1,200, Fierce Forever is the largest student drag show in the country. The past five editions of Fierce have earned

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 30, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  bored in iap maybe i should've signed up for something

  

  number of virtual meetings for esp. as one of the new publicity directors, we have to meet with each one of the new program directors to discuss ... bored. so i'm writing this blog post. (how does it feel to be the friend

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 13, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Top Ten Reasons I’m Thankful for Thanksgiving Breaaaaaaaaakkkkkkk!!!!!!

  

  .112 (Principles of Chemistry) class at the moment. Luckily, my TA is awesome, and he ... all of Thanksgiving with these three; I'm going to exhaust the gloating ... on the other side of Thanksgiving; a couple sleepless nights in the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 24, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainly i am writing a blog post about another song

  

  was supposed to be may 31, but because of the situation, we could (again ... frozen is one of the films i can remember the animation well enough to comment that the animation of the sequel was noticeably better. i guess i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 17, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sometimes you just gotta relax (putting this out there as a message for ourselves as much as for anyone else)

  

  The week of Monday, 10/2 – Friday, 10/6 was very, very difficult. We ... parenthesis correspond to notes at the end of the post) : Saturday 10:30am – Borderline Exec meeting to plan for our first general body meeting of the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / Classes

  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  didn't have them in the earlier part of last year. I'm moving to a new ... the goal. If taking 66 units of classes and sleeping every night was ... the power of hundreds of strangers potentially reading this and placing

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  deferred, you are one of the applicants who are going to be reconsidered without prejudice in Regular Action. A lot of MIT students, past and present, were initially deferred; you can read about a few of them here, here

  • by Decisions
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  the IAP acronym, and then spending a quarter of an hour trying to come ... exercise...) As we learn, the impressive-looking parts of parkour have ... , a version of multivariable calculus that starts in the fall and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  To the 2024s: Wishing You the Most don't be scared of growth

  

  experiences with the rest of us upperclassmen. We value you as members of our ... why I expected the process of finding my place in a completely foreign ... growth that has made me the version of myself I am proud to be today

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • September 1, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s Not Bra-Ket Science Building quantum computers to convince myself that they exist

  

  , anyway. Sure, I’ve seen demonstrations of the photoelectric effect and the ... metal cylinder with a cluster of tubes running out of it. Nothing like the ... anniversary of modern quantum mechanics – and the stars have aligned in every

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 7, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Standing out But what if you come to MIT and you're not the best in the class…

  

  bound up with the concern that not being at the top of the class will ... just for the sheer joy of it -- the better my grades became. I don ... I would have still felt like I needed to be at the top of the class

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  For Deferred Students Some advice and answers.

  

  , regardless of when the application was submitted. In each of the past few years ... College (Jan. 6), RPI (Jan. 1), and the University of Chicago (Jan. 1). For ... the midyear grade report. You can download one off of the MyMIT website

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  My Old Kentucky Home

  

  "soda". Some people said "pop" (I'm still unclear on what region of the ... prison system in Georgia and the benefits of rehabilitation, and the Chairman of the Georgia Department of Corrections read it (and my age with it

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Community Projects

  [guest blog] y(I)APping nothing crazy just another IAP blog

  

  This is a guest post by one of my friends, Heidi Z. '27, one of the ... massachusettsian". (shoutout DEAPS '23!) As stated in this post, IAP is one of the ... post, I’ll first cover some of the things I did and then present some

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025