Tag: Freshman

Hi, this is Pari! I just finished my first year as an undergraduate at MIT and have shared some of my experiences throughout the fall semester during MIT’s Independent Activities Period (IAP) in the linked blog posts. Through this post, I hope to share some of the highlight...

MIT implements a unique Independent Activities Period or IAP during the month of January where students don’t have scheduled classes and instead have time to engage in a wider variety of learning opportunities, from research to internships to volunteering to optional classes. Thro...

During my freshman year of college, I was required to take a history class for my journalism major. I recall that U.S. History was one of the few classes with open slots. I was not excited — I was not looking forward to memorizing dates of when old white men declared wars and reading about how...