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• Blog / About Decisions

  (beginnings in which I say hello, and explain that unclosed parenthesis.

  

  On December 17, 2011* at 12:17pm EST**, I was accepted to MIT. After slamming my laptop lid shut, running around the house screaming, and ... looking at colleges couldn't have gleaned from a glossy brochure. That

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 28, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  are not just the free coffee machine at work (requires daily self ... é” (health food) aisle at the grocery store (REALLY requires daily self

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Total immersion An MIT-Italy student finds her way around Rome

  

  pretty empty, and partially because there was never anyone waiting at my ... ago, I discovered that all five of the other buses that stop at my bus

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2012! how is blog formed

  

  expected to: Update their blogs at least once every week or two ... dot peterson at mit dot edu) by July 22nd.  Your application must

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 9, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  the most creative analogies I’ve ever heard. I’m at wind ensemble ... falls down once more.” At our last concert on March 17, we premiered

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  . There's a big open box at the bottom of each entry, with fields for name ... comments at the end of the blog. See, e.g.,        

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Events

  The Making of a Mystery A James Grimmelmann Guest Blog

  

  , unabashed law and policy geek. Before I began working at MIT, I was a Research Assistant at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, and I still stay ... organizations. While some people curl up at night with a copy of Sports

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fun Times @ MIT (Pt. 1) Life's gotta be fun.

  

  's possible to be inundated with work yet happy at the same time. (5) It's my ... , for two hours at a time, has no midterms, no final, and 6.2 out of 7 (i

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas Because not all ideas can be good

  

  is an annual event at East Campus every IAP where  people get the ... at MIT. My weekend was unfortunately engulfed by other plans (one of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Honduras: D-Lab students in the field D-Lab students Chelsie, Miho and Nina report from Honduras

  

  D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working with people around the world to create and disseminate affordable ... projects at la Fundacion, then we will be living in Miramontes and Brisas del

  • by OEL
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  say about you? So even at the most fundamental level, external ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy New Year! how i celebrated the coming apocalypse

  

  dad and two brothers for a few days of skiing at Breckenridge. It was ... ejected the potatoes at a safe speed. Ken worked with glee over the coming

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 3, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Post-MIT Trajectory College is not a destination.

  

  no one wants to open. Except I tend to be the one prying at it until ... -responsible!? Does the arrival at this "perfect" combination finally constitute

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 4, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Labs throughout the world open their doors to MIT Biology students

  

  brief look at some of those internhips: Samin Houshyar Class of 2011 ... activation of the immune system. Every year 350 people are at risk of

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 16, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Melancholia [by Faye '11] A beautiful movie about the end of the world.

  

  [by Faye '11] Photo Credit: cmagz.com tldr; version: pretty to look at and nice to listen to (the tagline says it all), 5 out of ... article on the Degas exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts (MFA), but I saw

  • by ARTalk
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MISTI

  Need help choosing a MISTI program? MIT-Germany alum Nina Sinatra advises incoming interns to keep an open mind

  

  consider the Spain and Mexico programs at first, I ended up choosing Germany ... military laboratories, I had never been involved in a project at a national

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  One of the things I love about the Boston area is that being a college student gets you all sorts of discounts at cultural institutions. By ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool People. And Lunch! visiting committees = awesome.

  

  Govern of the the McGovern Institute for Brain Research at MIT or maybe the ... whether or not to enroll here at MIT. Though I have no awe-inspiring advice

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 26, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Love Affair: 11.027 & New Orleans [by Janet Li '12] Spring break in NOLA.

  

  one of the smaller majors at MIT, and it is an absolutely awesome field ... New Orleans, but especially on Frenchmen, and we had a lovely dinner at

  • by ARTalk
  • March 27, 2011