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• Blog / Internships & Externships

  From East to West: An American’s Cross-Atlantic Voyage The start of my MISTI UK experience

  

  Madagascar and the first half of Pee-wee as Himself, and then I dozed off ... was asleep for the first half of it. But when I woke up, the English ... I’m currently in the exotic land of England. Over a week ago, I flew

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 10, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  It’s All Going To Be Okay I won The Game!

  

  get back to my p-set. First, as the title of this entry suggests ... Have you ever heard of The Game? I've referenced it several times in ... of the game is to forget that it exists. It's one of the most popular

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Numbers Sigh.

  

  First of all: my apologies! Junior year has seized me, spun me around ... write about something special: numbers. See if you can make sense of the ... numbers meant more to me than all others. One of the most common questions

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  On my first day at MIT, I fell flat on my back in the Student Center ... , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... pulled. I sprinted ahead, ready to receive the first pass. My team

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Events

  DATA FOR BLACK LIVES this weekend at the media lab

  

  Thomas Jefferson as the first President-elect of the United States and ensured that a Southern slave owner won 12 of the first 16 elections, is an ... most importantly, to be represented in the first place. In the absence of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • November 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Hacking Story poetry, guitars, a hardware hackathon, and the time-to-pee scheduling metric

  

  schedule packed-ness, and works quite simply. First, count up the number of ... Some of you may be wondering why I dropped off the face of the ... my next class?" The number of "yes" answers to that question divided by

  • by Allan K. '17
  • February 26, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Zambia Ate My Neighbors We only get 20 minutes on the internet every night and I spend 15 of…

  

  during the day, and although I wore a hat and drank lots of water I got ... optimization problem for a group of five to select which bus out of the 10 waiting will fill up first once they get on it. And then once you think the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Advising @ MIT The little question that could.

  

  'll answer the second question, first. For upperclassmen, they chose their classes by preregistering on WebSIS before the beginning of the next ... where you can pick up a poster of the LSC schedule. As for freshmen, when

  • by Bryan
  • June 3, 2006
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  On election day Practicing an applied civic education

  

  , the result of student activism in the 1990s to demand better access to ... staff dashboards, which, as part of the broader MITVote initiative, has helped substantially raise the registration and voting rate of MIT students

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 3, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  On schools & context

  

  /character oriented, which I agree with, but why do so many of the kids at certain ... the first thing I need to say is that our process is individual-based. That is, we consider each applicant on their own, within the context of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 23, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  What do you want? the story of college fit and how i stole from jeremy

  

  out of the college experience, and not every environment is conducive to ... [annotation note="you know, the ihtfp of it all"]person's abyss ... do you want?” That should be the first thing you ask yourself. From

  • by kellen manning
  • August 19, 2021
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to travel very far then); so this year, I knew I wanted to make the most of my ... essentially the best of both worlds because we got the price of a hostel but the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  planning on it, before the pandemic hit. One of the big reasons that I ... times and be cognizant of them. I don't even remember what the last East ... , and they've sort of just passed into the mist of my memory because of

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  [/annotation]so I got first dibs on a lot of cute clothes. The entire event overall ... most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  was wearing a sort-of suit because it was the first day of my internship ... of the city where I was born. I felt the calling. Actually, I also ... high school. I take the free bus down to the other end of 16th Street

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / MISTI

  MISTI-India: Community Health Internship The MISTI experience of Gilad Evrony '07.

  

  first trip in India and he handed me Jeffrey Sachs' book The End of ... occurred to me that although MIT is one of the best places in the world to learn how to solve problems, many of the world's most pressing problems

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 15, 2007
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MIT students launch Camp Kesem Camp Kesem is a five-day overnight summer camp for children whose parents have had cancer.

  

  . For first-year camps like ours, the factor that limits the number of ... Huang and Vivian Tang, works under the supervision of Camp Kesem National ... camp. The remainder of the money we raise is used to cover counselor

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 1, 2007
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  this time I read them imagining myself as one of the students here. I ... list some of the fears you may have (which I had) about going to college ... at The Institute totally drives homesickness out of your mind simply

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  touch sensors embedded inside. Outside of the drawing canvas, the brush can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the ... " digital palette the software provides. The idea of I/O Brush is to let the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  of the first to bring up the gender discrimination in academia. He was ... former MIT Dean of the School of Science, passed away after battling cancer ... there on the lecture handout). That being said, he was - and is - one of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011