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• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  documentary, and was inspired to act quickly. Except that, initially, Emmanuel ... Program) Emmanuel was most moved by how many Ghanaians were quick to help ... of Sakata Afrique, in a photoshoot to publicize their spring show

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee With a title like that, it has to be good!var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol)…

  

  short, I removed the entry, but I think it's time to explain why. Why was this the first (or second?) entry that's ever had to be removed from the MIT blogs? Here's the official Ben Jones reason: I asked Snively to

  • by Snively '11
  • May 31, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  an outlook on emails a week of my inbox’s pain and suffering, compartmentalized

  

  signed up for forwarding all my MIT emails to my Gmail, made [annotation ... was interesting to see directly the amount of outreach that’s been done to MIT students generally and first-years like me. Since starting this

  • by Waly N. '24
  • September 21, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Matt Damon’s Commencement Speech to the Class of 2016 Turn towards the problems you see

  

  he said was that he didn't deserve to be speaking up there. "Let ... to tell, and it was one we can all relate to: the story of falling in love with a problem and wanting to do something about it. Most people

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  A niche on the third floor of MIT’s Building 8 leads to two glass ... cup and peers contemplatively off to his left. John Negele, who studies ... between their heads: a ~ sign, which means “is approximately equal to." The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  rather quickly) in the beginning, I decided that it was to my advantage to ... to a 9-credit exploratory class, but quickly began disliking the class ... Sometime in the last month, I was forwarded a request to blog about

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Week in My Life of My Final Week of My Junior Fall i have no finals

  

  ate a quick dinner at McCormick and headed to 2.009 presentations. 2 ... quick break and then sent the script over to some friends to edit. Then ... : [annotation note="Intro to Videogame Critique"]CMS.300,[/annotation] [annotation

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 15, 2021
• Blog / Events

  I’m embarrassed to be writing this entry. The one where Matt regresses back to being a 12 year old boy.

  

  ). I hope you don't think less of me for going to a talk about ... intrigued. When I came to MIT, I knew there would be lots of famous ... 'd expect to hear talk at MIT. But there have been lots of speakers here on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 23, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  MIT. Sometimes when I find myself not believing it, I go to Google ... to convince myself that this hasn’t just been one long extended fever ... ’ll sometimes just get random flashbacks to absolutely random things that have

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  making space in my schedule to go to the maker space and 100 other things I was bad at this semester

  

  Welcome to the first of the many blogs I have meant to write but just not had the energy to do so this semester! Let's get right into it ... training. For this, you had to do different modules based on which track you

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 5, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s Making Me Happy: Week 2 TableTop, Net Neutrality, Complexity Theory And More

  

  by the United Front and the Taliban regime continued to conquer all of Afghanistan?" "What would allow the Roman Empire to last until today?" Table ... to try to Crowdfund season 3. After a few weeks of doing just that

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Christmas in December and July

  

  Longfellow Bridge to check out the Stata Center at MIT, which they hadn't seen before. We had planned to cap Saturday with dinner at Fire & Ice, but the wait was an hour and a half, so we headed down to Cafe of India

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 21, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ABCs of Senior Year friends, jobz, cats, "eight-oh-two"... + AMA!

  

  the clubs I have gained access to. Brain and Cognitive Sciences ... about the Brain to appreciate humankind and the self. Cats: specifically ... want to write to finally put my social science skills to good use. My

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 23, 2017
• 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 ... questions and comments at the Early Action webcast. I've enjoyed getting to ... around 4am, I sat down to finally write down all the thoughts and pieces of

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  completed as quickly as possible to give them out as gifts, I've opted for the ... direction to that of the circle traced out by your arm, hence the term ... . It's fun to nerd out about the mathematical intricacies of poi spinning

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Advice

  Hey International Kids! Press 'Submit' already!

  

  important as well. After rush, I settled in my dorm pretty quickly and got to ... for recreational purposes, and when I decided to apply I went back, but ... liked what I saw so much that I decided to submit my application. Yes, I

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 25, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO #tbt #behindonblogging #seniorspring

  

  goes by so quickly. However, I've felt inspired to maximize my remaining ... Fear Of Missing Out or FOMO. I think that's the best way to describe ... outside. Yes, you might not be able to feel your face or fingers. But you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 12, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Celena in CPW-Land (Guest Entry) Skipping school to have fun, duh!

  

  of touring turned out to be quick and efficient. At McCormick, we ... one of the students that matriculated before coming to CPW; so I came to CPW with two needs: 1) To have fun and 2) To skip school. Needless to

  • by Snively '11
  • April 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  If I had a nickel for every class I was taking this semester… I’d have 4.5 nickels.

  

  I'm a crusty senior now, so I have no fun and sparkly adventures to ... this week). However, what I do have as a senior is the freedom to choose ... because they contribute so much to my enjoyment of MIT, so here's what I

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Schedilemmas Schedule + dilemma = most incompetent-sounding portmanteau ever

  

  Google calendarism: [See legend at end of post to decode course numbers ... , preheated an oven to the wrong temperature in Fahrenheit but exactly the right ... suitcases, moved from pika into Random Hall, walked back to pika anyway, drank

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 7, 2009