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• Blog / Community Projects

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

  

  socially last semester. My initial goal for this IAP was to put the previous ... the blogs and imagining a future in Cambridge—having the opportunity to ... note="independent activities period! four weeks in January to do whatever

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 13, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  SEEING WAITRESS TWICE (sorry in advance for the obnoxious amount of CAPS)

  

  /3/18 11:30ish am We walked over to Macgregor. After some initial confusion ... haven't read the part that was posted before this, scroll down to the line ... WOULD BE LYING IF WE SAID WE WEREN'T TRYING TO GET STUDENT RUSH TICKETS

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 9, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Admissions process reflections from a crusty Junior Try not to bite all of your fingernails off.

  

  a list of 14 colleges that I was planning on applying to, but I had ... rejected, I would have to spend my Winter Break moping AND writing ... onto his website to watch his mailbox for the arrival of a big, beautiful

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... would want to do MISTI; in fact, I was set to do it last summer, but ... wanted to spend a summer in Berlin specifically – it's a very unique city

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  some IAP adventures as told by my camera roll

  

  equipment to cook with. I initially planned to cook for all of IAP. This ... , do research, or nothing at all! This IAP, I chose to do essentially ... another blog post. All you need to know about this IAP was that it was a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 4, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  Holding pattern undergrad | me | graduation

  

  senior = I just want to graduate already. Let's break that down and ... ) mechanical engineering class, and (1) thesis in order to graduate. And that ... Undergraduate Research The sad part is, as much as I try to deny it, I think I

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2020 Ring Delivery we got our brass rats!..time to drop out? (also many photos)

  

  pictures ranging from snapchat level fancy to professional photographer level ... him haha jk). No, it’s because as a member of RingComm he had to be at ... Ring Delivery! This first one is a 3E tradition - to take a fancy picture

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 27, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Moment with A Minister kevin rustagi '11 on MIT and entrepreneurship

  

  company he cofounded with some MIT classmates, is set to become the most ... . I asked Kevin to share some of his thoughts on his MIT journey: how it began, how he spent his time here, and now what he is continuing to do

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  initiative to pursue these passions, and their finished results are very cool ... competition of "I have to be the best, so you have to fail" or anything like ... "the people" of mit, they are only referring to undergrad students, and

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  minutes of searching to find out. The initial e-mail we’d sent, describing ... ’t exist, but we’d had the misfortune of sending our initial e-mail to a ... from conception to development to iterative improvement to final product

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do you want to be when you grow up? Worst. Question. Ever.

  

  Now that I'm a junior in college, I'm supposed to be almost an adult ... apparently, this means I'm going to have to go find a job- also in the real ... pace, is that I am constantly being asked what I'm going to do when I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  school taught me how to fail. All those B’s (okay, B’s are really not that ... I have to be there. I could fail better than anyone--mostly because, I ... , if I failed, it would not cripple me--it just meant I needed to fix

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it’s possible to do so on a college student budget. But what if you’re pursuing a really technical major, and it’s hard to get outside credit from a school

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  [Guest Post] A Note to the Class of ‘28 by Andre H. ‘24

  

  wrote a lovely blog post to document all the behind-the-scenes work that ... invite a student leader to help set the tone for the weekend and welcome everyone to campus. Andre H. '24 gave a great speech that was equal parts fun

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • May 21, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 2 Tempering Iron

  

  problem at MIT is also selective thinking, or failing to view good things ... the culture--when there’s something wrong, people are invited to fix it ... on campus as of late concerning how to best achieve a safe, caring

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 28, 2015
• Blog / Personal Projects

  How to Build an LED Acrylic Sign Your Complete Beginners Guide

  

  initial plan was to cut a thinner version of the letters from a sheet of ... an idea to bringing it to life are things I don't think I can ever get ... we could do to change up the Chocolate City lounge space, I absolutely

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Eating my words at Area Four Mushroom and fontina pizza my beloved

  

  . During the dinner, Petey also mentioned (in response to my initial distaste ... wood-fired pizza made from a 10-year-old sourdough starter, A4 is the go-to ... [/annotation] even when you fold it in half. To appreciate just how cursed this

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  , and I still haven't found a novel way to detail my first three and half ... the superiority or inferiority of crunchy peanut butter compared to creamy. Initial arguments centered around texture or lack thereof (looking

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  i’m back .gif not an undergrad, not a grad student, but a secret third thing

  

  in my friend's car to head back to the West Coast. We stayed in small-town hotels, accidentally drove through Canada, listened to a lot of [annotation ... prior, so I have a very distinct memory of us trying to find and

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  .   Wherever our path takes us, we may take the initial steps to ... ). It was a remarkable speech that really brought everyone to their ... and specificity than almost anyone I've heard. So I wanted to share it

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018