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• Blog / IAP

  Thanksgiving Reflections Be thankful.

  

  quickly here at MIT is no matter what you think, you still get 24 hours in a ... things I think about coming to college is complete freedom in learning to ... in between. You learn a lot of these things through trial and error

  • by Chris S. '11
  • November 24, 2007
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  which classes you are able to take as a freshman. I took the test in June ... -D lottery. The upshot of this is that you can make more informed choices in ... ...eat a Beaver. Speaking of beavers killing trees...let's talk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  living in my thoughts a lot and i'm not sure how to write about it in a ... . this is a pretty famous ryan ross/brendon urie fanfic and notably the ... ever read in my life. so it holds a lot of importance. i could go into

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind ... people in your life during your senior year. So what is it that GCs do ... . As you can see, your GC has a very important role in the College

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing ... . And on top of all that, Will is a fan of my field, Artificial

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Weekend of Hacking three events, one weekend

  

  Arts Hacking Arts is a festival and hackathon that aims to create new ... between all the reality TV and cooking show. Then you come across a channel that catches your attention. A brilliantly parodied logo appears on the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 24, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  in a very expensive city was difficult.  Boston is consistently ranked as one of the most expensive cities in the US (see: Example A, Example ... handling their own finances in a day-to-day sense. As someone who notably

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Another year has begun Welcome to my world

  

  . Being at MIT is like living in a bubble, but it is definitely a bubble I ... read purely for pleasure, time to learn a new language, adventures in the ... boarded a flight bound for Mexico City, ready to start my summer in Mexico

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving yet another senior writing about their last semester

  

  conviction to pull it off, but maybe i’ll come back to it in a few years ... ’re trying to pretend they’re still in school. a lot of people have told me ... daring thing is to create stable communities in which the terrible disease

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • February 20, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  "what." for the fifth time in a row. By that point, I had already ... . Jonny is a PhD candidate at MIT and a writer for Bojack Horseman. Bojack Horseman quite literally changed my life. I was in a really dark place when I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  International conference followup A post especially for international students: casting a wide net to find a good college…

  

  things to come from this group in terms of information is the international ... you might imagine, MIT is near the top in terms of total money awarded ... these schools provide a really top-notch education in a diverse and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Me again (but with flamethrowers this time) yup, it's a shameless ploy to catch your interest. But it's working, right?

  

  . While totally awesome, this is also a really terrible plan. Luckily, he ... . I'm a complete sucker for historical stuff like that, which is why I ... MIT these days is pretty up on the latest social media, as is

  • by Alina G. '11
  • February 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  leaving home, coming home I jump from the train, I ride off alone // help me hold onto you

  

  came up with is like this: if you have a phone with a bunch of apps ... , but if you're in a frosh double, you have to vacate it for next year ... a word without using it in the definition, I can only gesture at it

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 25, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  classes i’m taking! (fall 2025) highways, storks, and movies

  

  , some of which he shared with us during a class walk we took together in ... , this course is essentially a reading seminar—there are no assignments ... week is, after all, a ~10-hour ordeal. But I've been liking it a lot so

  • by Victor D. '27
  • October 5, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I Wanted to Say to Prefrosh before CPW 2015 a resurrected freshman draft

  

  procrastination). What I’m trying to say in a haphazard way is that things will ... is my past avatar, a more accurate depiction of me when I wrote this ... math major. I had a clear life plan to start in the first semester

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 19, 2018
• Blog / Events

  A Typical Friday Afternoon on a Thursday Honoring the decades old (?) tradition of the East Campus Friday Afternoon Club (FAC)

  

  East Campus is unique for a wide variety of reasons. We build roller ... 's some food in there we could use. It's a stretch, but maybe there's hope ... . 5PM. Courtyard. The feast inside is waiting. It might be a bit

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Victorian Literature? MIT, perhaps surprisingly, has top programs in ethnomusicology, the history of Islamic architecture, and more...

  

  can do a UROP in HASS. Currently, UROP students are being actively ... 've have a number of friends who have UROPed in HASS, and all have had good ... interaction that is at the core of much true creativity -- and thus in the great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 24, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Since I Been Gone Running and nice weather -- and no school

  

  the marathon in 2006. I have since learned that Phi Sig is about a mile ... , who is a more educated but less devout Kelly Clarkson fan than I am ... ), it has rained for 25 of the past 31 days. (And apparently it is a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  you have to do is submit a project and budget proposal in order to ... resource. Everyone at MIT is talented and driven. In a couple decades, they ... IAP (Independent Activities Period) is a really neat time at MIT

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  jr fall classes &c

  

  is heavily concentrated in two assignments (a small project and a final ... .33 - Research and Communication in Economics a sort of pre-thesis class, where we ... these classes is 6 units (compared to 12 units for a typical one

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 19, 2016