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• Blog / MISTI

  I jumped into the river ...black-haired Asians swam with me.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Oprah Winfrey once dated Roger Ebert. So the Isar River also runs through the English Garden. It's scenic. And people line up to surf in it. Kind of like the swan boats in Boston Common

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 30, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Burning Question Part 2 An extension of the previous thread, which grew quite long.

  

  Quoting Prashant from the last thread, "Number of ways to compare two applicants from a pool of 10,500 is 10500(C)2 = (10500!)/(2!*(10498!))" I don't need to win the USAMO to know that's a lot of ways. What a lively

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 17, 2005
• FAQ / Interview

  What is the interview deadline?

  There isn't a specific deadline for the interview. Students submit their application by November 1 for Early Action or January 6 for Regular ... Educational Counselor (EC) if there’s one available. ECs will typically use the
• Blog / Classes

  Little Pieces of Living january & february & march & now, april

  

  innovation internship at the Boston Veteran Affairs (VA) Medical Center through one of the MIT Priscilla King Gray (PKG) Public Service Center programs ... -centered design interview methodology, all in the span of the month. I shadowed a

  • by Sara N. '28
  • April 2, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Is This, a Crossover Episode? Jacob Collier and Yo-Yo Ma come to MIT

  

  During the first MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) rehearsal this semester, Fred Harris (the director of MITWE) was going through the semester’s important dates and logistics. It was all the typical stuff – CPW concert in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • February 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Guest blog: “Me, Marvel, and MIT” Jade's experience working on a SHASS UROP for me

  

  Cami '23 and Shayna '23 —  spent the last few years working on a UROP that I supervised about MIT in the Marvel Multiverse. Jade just published ... went into the making of an article like this, and what it's like to do a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 2, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  conference or to the EECS department at large.” What would I have told them? That my experiments didn’t work? That the effect I investigated is likely ... at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / Classes

  writing and faeries reflections on my classes at Harvard

  

  worthwhile.   I took The Folklore of Gaelic Ireland for the fairies and ... who has been raised to mythical proportions. We also dipped into the Fenian Cycle, stories about the hero Finn mac Cumhaill, famous across all

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  I encountered the Next House moving carts on my first day at MIT. I remember walking up to the front desk, stomach full of butterflies and a ... ="Freshman Shorna was punching the air"]obtaining my key,[/annotation] I grabbed one

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Filling an Empty Nest my parents tried to replace me with literal birds

  

  Long Island while I took the train to Boston with a friend from my high school. The days I spent at CPW felt intense – MIT is a unique place and ... was not ready for it.[/annotation] The intensity of the weekend didn

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 10, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  This week, hands down, has been the most chaotic one of my life. I ... note = "the lawn in front of the big dome"]Killian Court,[/annotation] got a spontaneous tattoo of a bomber plane on my arm, perfected the art

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  ," where we write poems to the inktober prompts. We're both not really ... really like a lot of the poems that came out of these. It was interesting ... -- since the prompts were intended for art rather than poems (and I think

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sentimental Objects (part two) sophomore trinkets

  

  the 'tvte (for the first part, go here). Throughout the school year, we ... inevitably does), we pile the stuff next to it. At the end of the year, we like to go through all of the stuff we collected, and reflect on the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • May 25, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mexico things my MISTI experience

  

  pretty lazy past two weeks, indulging in Netflix and the sun and a near ... research at a tiny university on the outskirts of Mexico City, which was a ... this from the MISTI web site) over 850 students participate in the

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 10, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  Midnight. We switched off the generator and the glaring light died. A flurry of moths, freed from the beacon that had attracted them, flew off into the darkness. Three thousand feet below us, fireworks were going off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 28, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Three Guys, Six Degrees almost better than a five guys burger...almost.

  

  QUOTE: “I think MIT is the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet...you’re taking all of these kids from around the country and the world...they’re all a little bit off-the-charts in one way or another. And you

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 1, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  H0sed Psets, exams, and being "mediocre" at MIT.

  

  typing "hosed" into the title bar), but then I decided to finish exporting ... (which was very exciting, by the way - I have never been in a country with daylight savings! - watching the clock on my computer go from 1:59 AM to 3

  • by Chris S. '11
  • March 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... I am graduating (at the time of this being posted, graduated), I ... the course and building numbers ✅ This one I was able to accomplish

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Reflections from the “other side” of the desk Even when you are gone, you can't really get away

  

  official member of the broader MIT community, I find that it is difficult for ... simultaneously disconnected from this place that I spent the last several years. To some degree, the disconnect is easier to explain.  I no longer live

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 5, 2012
• Blog / Events

  An Interview with the Tetris Grand Champion Meet Fractal161, an MIT Student who's the second person ever to beat Tetris.

  

  I Love Tetris.  I think it was the first videogame I ever played at the age of 3, and I thought the goal was to stack up the tallest tower ... -to game to avoid doing work, and I go pretty good at the tetris.com version

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • February 19, 2024