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• Blog / IAP

  IAP trip to the natural history museum! turns out nature's history is pretty cool

  

  of different unusual classes and events that you can sign up for -- but ... things that you don't need to sign up for. I went into this IAP with no ... scheduled around psets or paid for in punted psets. One such spontaneous

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  residential exploration, but without a residence on burton conner culture continuing to thrive

  

  little clue how things were run, but was now responsible for making REX ... with several space coordinators last spring to evaluate our options for ... submitting nine events for my floor, which was more than we've done in past

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2021
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... 'd predicated a lot of my dreams for my future self on the premise of getting an ... differently for me on the train ride back, it struck me that not getting into

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  318 memorial drive a historical rabbit hole

  

  . However, in the process of doing research for it, I read a book titled ... " align="aligncenter" width="1400"] apologies for handwriting[/caption] To ... Hospital, for example, [annotation note='as can also be seen on this 1950

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Harvard Friends, Part 2 finding my quarantine dream team

  

  ' reassurance and my own empathy for the difficulty in finding balance didn ... . Now I feel like I've known her for much longer than just a few weeks ... [annotation note="for Paige, Alyssa, Denisse and Kathleen

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 29, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cooking in Quarantine making all the recipes

  

  had lots of leftovers for the next day too! We also made this same ... ingredient. We didn't have the red lentils that the dish called for, only ... lentils for an hour, at which point they should be squish-able. That did not

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Off six months of things being just a little weird

  

  uneasy for the past few weeks. Not bad, just weird. I've prepared for you a ... maybe it's okay for them to popcorn. When You Turn On Your Ad Blocker IRL ... note="into finity but continuing for a while in the direction of the

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 23, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  to focus on the door murals in particular for this post. When you ... of New York, credit to Yuliya for the idea and inspiration) “Door ... kind of represent your home and, at least for me, they paint a mental

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  The Gender Problem Reflections on a year of Silicon Valley upheavals and confused HR departments.

  

  school for funding, and started a team there: Team 4550, “Something’s Bruin”. But even though two women were the team captains, for two years, we were ... I am completely confident only want the best for my success. My UROP

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 8, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  This Is How I Read productivity hacks, but for reading applications

  

  one, but it's a bit different for me right now, because we've started to ... would make for a particularly interesting blog. So instead, I figured I ... 've written countless posts on reading in the abstract: what we look for in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  at the other Cambridge, Cambridge University, for the past almost 6 ... getting sprayed... For two glorious days, us engineers relaxed and ... at a computer screen for such long hours. So. much. sad. I feel like a

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My first music festival It was muddy.

  

  a tractor? (For reference, this is what I mean by muddy: ) It ... Christiansburg to ask for directions; I hopped out of the car, crinkled folded map ... watch out for the Mad Russian once you get to Floyd -- gives a lot of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 5, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT HSSP and Stanford Splash! Seven fundamental questions, and a field trip to the west coast

  

  At MIT, I've taught for two Splashes, three Sparks, and two HSSPs. My ... afternoon: a pulsar class for parents, and a pulsar class for middle school kids. The next afternoon, I taught a pulsar class for high school kids

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 4, 2013
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Good Stuff yeah, man

  

  numeracy - trigonometry, for example - is absurdly old. Haven't you ever ... requirements.) It's a little harder to do this for math classes, especially ... , right? So let's see how I do. Feel free to ask in the comments for

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • September 22, 2011
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 3: Koumon ou rele? Which is Haitian Creole for "What's your name?"

  

  for the meeting, however, so we stopped by the side of the road to look around one of the tent cities and wait for our friends from last night ... 've ever experienced, save for surviving Mt. Fuji and flying an airplane

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 28, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  this is great for MITers, but it seems rather arcane to the outside world ... , "undesignated" sort of means "same degree, fewer classes" -- many people, for ... . Can I get credit for those classes and 'bypass' them? My teacher says if

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Flipping Failure an IAP update

  

  recommend applying for next year if/when they run the program again) and about the story I told. But ultimately, I want to let this story speak for

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 28, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Sophomore Stupid It’s morbin’ time

  

  comforting that time would not slow down for either my last-minute studying or ... talk and a fireshow, write a 10 page essay, and study for my two finals ... a bit more, and promised myself not to pset when I was on shift for a

  • by Anika H. '26
  • December 30, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  , I'd gotten myself a shiny new UROP for IAP. It was my first time ... that knit. For a relatively small lab with about ten or so people, that ... , collapse in my chair, and crochet for hours. I finished my first big project

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  rating classes from this semester the good, the bad & the underrated

  

  The semester is over and I didn't go home for winter break because I ... courses again for this semester, I think I would've just taken something ... time, I hadn't even passed 6.101 (Fundamentals of Programming), for

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 26, 2022