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• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  ’10 had told us there were several castles we could look at. Apparently, we fail at finding them though, so instead of gazing open-mouthed at elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  22 Hiatus Adventures stories from my time away and my first semester back!

  

  interned at the Patrick J. McGovern Foundation. Of the four different ... interns from another one of my internships. At first, I was falling all over ... September 2020. My attempts at concisely expressing this difference left me

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 2, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Engineering Digital Communities reflecting on the start of the zoomester and the months prior

  

  be fair, no one could have seen anything this damn year threw at us coming.  Starting this semester at the internationally acclaimed Zoom ... imagining a sample day at my future college. At that point in time, I had no

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  seattle (again) home and away

  

  'm sharing a place with three other interns, two of them also from MIT. so it's a time for new friends and new experiences and new places. at the same ... pie. a few weeks ago we went to see a musical at the paramount

  • by Allan K. '17
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  Boston sometime. All you SF MIT folks and NY MIT folks and international ... right now, or at least at NASA. Definitely SpaceX and Tesla. Google and ... startups fail but at MIT that number is more like 50%. I bet another one of

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its ... unremarkable day. It’s the middle of the school week. Adults are adrift at work. And this past Wednesday should have been no different. I spent it at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Things That Aren’t Studying If you think about it, I get paid to procrastinate

  

  department, has its own fMRI machine, and at MIT, there always needs to be at ... . Despite the complex internal rhymes and references, the stiff competition ... at MIT.But here's a fun fact: both my roommate and I are performing

  • by Emad T. '14
  • March 7, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Preparing for the real world An alum's perspective!

  

  ! ================================================= It could have been any number of early mornings my freshman year at MIT. There I was, slaving over a 18.02 or 8.012 pset at 3AM, being really no ... sentiment echoed many times during my years at MIT from anyone from second

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 18, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW roundup Meet the Bloggers, dinner with a physics professor, and a photography contest for those of…

  

  consists of at least 40% actual humans, leaving an estimated 58% for spambots ... opportunity to purchase cheap pharmaceuticals and improve my credit rating at ... obstacles like CAPTCHAs and hyperlink filters. Take a close look at this

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • April 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Global Poverty Initiative Because you’re reading this while 1/6 of the world is illiterate.

  

  offering pizza at its 7 pm meeting? Tough luck, Chess club, Debate’s offering ... of looking at it), the Stand Up Rally is at Harvard at 7pm this Friday ... Oxfam International, lots of people who are interested in making a change

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  What to expect when you’re expecting CPW Some thoughts and advice in advance of Campus Preview Weekend.

  

  't representative of a typical weekend at MIT. It is true that CPW isn't a typical ... because so many groups at MIT are excited about your presence. What you won ... studying is done before you arrive, or while you're at other events. Again

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Samuel Maurer’s Day Off MIT moves pretty fast.

  

  international panel at 4 PM. I think it's in 34-101 on Thursday and 32-141 on ... awesome school-skipping adventure of all time. Actually, Senior Skip Day at ... at least since I wrote my biography for this blog, it's been my dream

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 12, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Be Our Guest, Take 2 Not to name drop, but... Steven Levitt, Paul Polak, Iqbal Quadir, and Brigitte Madrian all…

  

  campus on Monday and spent two hours at events for undergraduates 2. Iqbal ... of IDE: International Development Enterprises) spoke to my D-Lab class ... (Aetna Professor of Public Policy and Corporate Management at the Kennedy

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Everything’s coming up Milhouse! This one goes out to the Class of 2010. Fire!

  

  most of the interns who have been here for three to five months are heading home at the end of August. It's been great getting to know all these ... . Tomorrow all six hundred people at my site have to go to some workshop, so my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 28, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I AM CONNECTED! Finally arriving on campus was way less exciting than finally getting my wireless connection to…

  

  ) and arrived on campus around 5:30. I checked in at the front desk of my ... either doing FPOPS, or they're international students or athletes. Everyone ... Characters, the bar/restaurant at the Kendall Square Marriot via the Infinite

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Helps the Red Sox’ Keith Foulke Every Sunday ESPN nationally televises one baseball game, and last night they showed the final…

  

  . Glenn Fleisig. That was a name that caught my ear. At left, Red Sox relief pitcher Keith Foulke; at right, biomechanics researcher and MIT alum ... + Nephew Chair of Research at the American Sports Medicine Institute, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 30, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  since i’ve been home

  

  advance them at a snail's pace. i made a point last fall in only bringing ... .[annotation note="they're all good books: i don't know why i'm so bad at finishing ... ."][/annotation] doodling on my bass that i bought used at the local sam-ash three months ago

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 3, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  , I watch the transit of Mercury. Or at least, attempt to watch ... really fun, strongly recommend."]DEAPS[/annotation] reunion at Naco Taco, a ... . It’s nothing spectacular, but at this point, I’ve been conditioned to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  good at dealing with it, and so my typical strategy was to pretend that ... my face, so instead they hinted at me and, I'm guessing, waited until I ... school); I was an American citizen, uncommon at my Canadian high school. I

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  21 Reasons to Join ESG A Look at MIT's Freshman Learning Communities

  

  Freshman Learning Communities Your first year at MIT is all about ... to Concourse in that what they look at is an intersection, the ... through Wednesday, for at least 3 hours a day. This forces you to get into

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 4, 2012