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• Blog / IAP

  eighty hours (pt. 4) notes from the last day

  

  This is the fourth and last part of a series, consisting of a lightly ... (nothing) Good morning! The inevitable has occurred; our train is now running two hours behind, although if the Amtrak schedule is to be believed

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • January 14, 2023
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] 10 Reasons I Joined Rocket Team

  

  and loves talking about it so I wanted to give her the platform to do so. Because MIT has so much to offer, I think one of the most difficult lessons ... energy. In the beginning of freshman year, I was having a lot of trouble

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

  Answers To Questions Fall 2007 Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or…

  

  Hi folks, Here are answers to the questions posted in my blog over the last month or two. I apologize in advance to the folks who have ... answer those without your entire application in front of me, in the context

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Astrology Forecast for the Class of 2023 Some big aquarius energy is coming...

  It's an incredibly exciting time of year, as the Class of 2023 is ... with our newly enrolled class through a number of events over the next week. Tonight I'll be at a welcome dinner for students in FLIPOP, the new

  • by DJ Rock
  • August 22, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the love of 6.470, Montresor we stayed awake, we built, we conquered

  

  As the blogs are quick to harp upon, MIT thrives over the month of IAP, particularly in the context of its coding/robotics competitions ... , all of which are numbered very inconsistently with respect to the usual

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 5, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Taste of the Real World an adventure in life

  

  When you are at school, the whole world seems to exist in its own ... on in the world, only able to scan the New York Times every couple of days, relying on WILG’s resident Course 17s to explain to me the riots

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tests of the non-standardized kind Stop thinking about the SAT and start thinking about 18.01!

  

  ridiculous-looking formula sheets to show you. In the book The Idea Factory by Pepper White, the author (who was a masters student in course 2 at MIT around the time you were born) is told that the most important thing he

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Junior Fall we're back in person baybee

  

  the Spanish grind, baby!! I am very excited for this class, especially ... things. CMS.616 - Games and Culture; A class that talks about the impact of gaming on the culture of today as well as the culture that surrounds

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 20, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  am i boring or just overstimulated?

  

  “There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.” -- F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby *** I have come to the profound ... with that. More importantly, I've recognized that the pressure cooker of

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A poem for every day of August or nearly; I wrote 25 in all

  

  books, from a tiny copy of The Rubaiyat bound in leather, to a weathered e ... Denmark, 1 pm for those on the west coast. One poem per week, with different ... , the writing of which resembles pulling teeth but creates a satisfying

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 5, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  bumpers a revelation i had while bowling

  

  only stay here for one night. I got up at the crack! of! dawn! to catch ... the D.C. area. In retrospect, I should have just flown in last night and requested a second night at this hotel. Then maybe I could rotate between the

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  ?” was one of the prompts I responded to. I wrote about finishing my internship work early and spending the rest of my day wandering around Boston ... 's blogs that overanalyze the heck out of everything."]contemplate anything

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Rush Course 12 what it’s like to study Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences at MIT

  

  Sciences (EAPS) and it’s one of the smallest majors at MIT, despite the breadth of our department. We study everything from the origins of life to ... mainly in the Green Building, the tallest building on campus, and our

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 6, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  the truth— you want to be needed so badly that you think you might ... feel like a wound that will never heal.   the problem— grief ... up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Four days after I returned to my home in New Hampshire after the ... decided that I would absolutely lose my mind staying inside all the time ... my parents, the only form of exercise that really occurs at my home. I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  my freshman year playlist 2/3 of a year in 25 songs

  

  May. the rules for adding to this playlist were very limited—i mainly ... , [annotation note = "ah, the irony"]3/14/20,[/annotation] i have 123 songs. some ... Out by T.I. — this was the first Mocha Moves audition piece and thus the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 21, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  Boston Public Library - Venue of the Class of 2020 Ring Delivery photo cred: Nick P. '20 Written by Danny Getting a Brass Rat marks the ... ’t believe that 3 whole semesters have come and gone and the fourth is almost

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

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  finish our project on my own. I still regret that. I promised myself the next time I was in a hackathon, I would finish the project no matter what ... cryptography for security. A blockchain is stored on every node in the network

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Summer Reading Challenge Read with me!

  

  : An informative diagram that I doodled Here’s a list of all the books I ... them is checked out at the library ^^;       (nf = nonfiction) Summer 2015     New Reads: The Emperor of All

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  IAP, CES, and other acronyms I spent my MIT IAP with a CEO at CES in LAS, and now I…

  

  between the semesters to relax, recharge, recoup, and reflect*. But somehow ... , which, despite the excitement and adventures, has wrought havoc on my personal health, just in time for me to start the spring semester at the tail

  • by Joel G. '18
  • March 9, 2016