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• Blog / MISTI

  Piece of my Heart Hey, look, a Turkish internet cafe.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? The proliferation of "standing cafes" in Germany was ... working on some important stuff for Bayer CropScience. Anyway, I'm not going ... understanding of the language. For example if somebody at the bank says "blah blah

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 1, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  Bad Ideas Month word of the day is oops!!

  

  jam, Feastables, and slices of whole wheat bread. MIT Science Olympiad ... dishes, I’d be head chef of a Michelin-starred restaurant (or at least I’d like to think so). Unfortunately, at MIT, most of my computational power

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 3, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Marathon If Mollie's boyfriend can complain, so can I.

  

  School of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences. Dan Tecker wrote: Hey my ... . Plus, there's a lot of work. Take last week, for example. I was up until ... on Thursday. Once I handed that in, I had a couple of hours of class

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  Over IAP, I had the opportunity to participate in one of MIT's IAP ... -language intensive course, MIT also offers Spanish 2 and Spanish Conversation and ... covering a crash course on Spanish history, an assortment of Spanish poetry

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Kevin’s Room Portrait of an MIT Student

  

  iterations, but MIT is a kaleidoscope of vastly different people, all of us united by this one weird thing or set of things that keeps us moving (it ... , I sat down with one of them, Kevin, to talk about his room, which I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Crazy Day

  

  , non-profit organizations, or academic course offerings in and around MIT campus. Groups and organizations of all types set up booths to display ... offerings related to International Development. The Fair is also the flagship

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  off-key at the top of their lungs. It was a gorgeous day, 85 degrees ... This is a tale of two college kids from two completely different ... family in Ohio; I am of the firm belief that summer is not summer until one

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  Dear Members of the Class of 2022, It's been an absolute pleasure to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of ... by the Class of 2021's struggles to adjust to the Institute. This post

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Trail Notes

  

  intertwining of science, spirit, and story." It is a generous and warming ... goes even beyond the sort of universal experiences we have as a race; it ... triumph of nature. For just a few months, the landscape alters dramatically

  • by Sara N. '28
  • October 6, 2024
• FAQ / Academics and research

  Do most students complete a UROP?

  The opportunity to get involved in research as an undergrad is one of ... who is working on something that you think is awesome. More than 90% of MIT students participate in the UROP program at MIT. Many of them will
• Blog / Admissions

  Our thoughts go out to Virginia Tech.

  

  [email protected] To Members of the MIT Community: Yesterday's tragic events at Virginia Tech have shocked and saddened all of us. We offer MIT's condolences to ... All of us here are quite saddened by the shooting at Virginia Tech. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 17, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Massachusetts: The Geek State I less than three (

  

  National Science Foundation released a ton of statistics as part of their "Science and Engineering Indicators" report for 2010. They compiled a lot of ... States in order of the percentage of workers in STEM (Science, Technology

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snapshot of a Week Food, radio, James Bond, and soccer in an unusually eventful week.

  

  're smart. I'm not, so I spent most of the vacation on Reddit or Facebook ... leave my computer. In Next, wings are halves of floors, either the East or ... help build a sense of community by ensuring that everyone is friendly

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  I disappeared into the battlefield of the semester, not to be heard ... harder, driven by a lack of breaks and the persistence of pandemic ... than both of those already difficult semesters. It is the most difficult

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Summer

  this summer a recap of sorts

  

  applied[/caption] Continuing my UROP On top of my internship with NASA, I ... . So before that happens, and before the feeling of summer slips away ... of the summer living in a tiny apartment in Boston on the fourth floor

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • September 14, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  As the final hours of my first semester at MIT come to a close, I ... meant to me. I have truly met some of the greatest and most incredible ... the majority of my days with them. It's an incredible feeling knowing

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Application question: scholastic and non-scholastic distinctions? Answering FAQs about the awards section in the MIT application.

  

  One new section of our application this year distinguishes between ... the level of distinction. List any non-scholastic distinctions you have won since entering high school and indicate the level of distinction

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 8, 2009
• Blog / IAP

  A salty IAP post Taking a moment to be bitter

  

  SoOoOoOOooooo it’s the most wonderful time of the year: IAP! That time of year where every MIT student can choose to do whatever they ... the crushing guilt that comes with not using every moment of your free

  • by Powers '23
  • January 22, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Climb Every Mountain: a Guest Blog Post by Davie R. ‘12 Davie R.: MOTH HUNTER.

  

  . I don’t. But anything in the interests of science, right? Together ... flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off ... .. - - - First, an explanation of who I am and why I’m posting on Anna’s blog. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  [Guest Post] Duolingo Champion How to immerse in education while learning nothing

  

  semester of a university college course so if anyone knows a way I can get ... crazy or stupid or maybe even a little bit of both and i b e g g e d him ... ’t know, Duolingo is the result of some talented programmers and language

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 29, 2020