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• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  had such a high fever I couldn't make it back from campus to my dorm. So ... 'm seated on a double-decker 8-hour night bus from Tokyo to Kyoto called ... everything happens for a reason. And so I'm trying to convince myself I am out

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Classes

  [Guest Post] This is Junior Lab, not Junior Theory By Jorian B. '25

  

  calibrations to earn a certain grade. Rather, you must make a defensible ... lines “I’m going to try to make a step function in your data” – my ... ’t have the “right personality” to be a physicist.  Enter JLab. For the

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • September 1, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  April Questions Omnibus 1 Recent questions, answered.

  

  applying to a school that I already sent the scores to? (of course MIT isn ... , sending scores to a school does not mean that you must apply to the school ... be to take a math, a chemistry, and a physics test. Yes, it would mean

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Murals of Senior Haus "find where you thrive"

  

  a particularly shocking corner for me. I used to walk along Memorial Drive to the Kendall T stop a lot (back in my PNR daze) and this sign was ... makes MIT unique, and it's disappointing (to me, at the very least) how

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Telethon FAQs from a small but enthusiastic sample of prefroshies

  

  a few calls, but ended up making hundreds of calls for over four hours ... through to a handful of people, but you seemed really cool! Thanks for your ... together in a concentrated burst of effort to do everything that lies at the

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 5, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  born again freshman too junior for this

  

  't have enough experiences to warrant me being a junior. why am i perceived ... to integrate into the culture, and since i'm a [annotation note ... them. it makes me feel old. i wonder what it'll take for me to feel like

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 4, 2021
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  best pic I got. Feel free to try to make your guesses. On ... packed boxes: many, many boxes. I'm moving to a different room next year ... night and made me extremely excited, so I now have a compulsion to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s getting colder and i’m getting older on fall, friendship, and growing up

  

  ="course 6 (EECS) has a nice program that allows you to work towards your ... want to do. In a way, things do feel a bit lighter though. I’m only ... on my research and to [annotation note="to be a teaching assistant

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Introducing the Class of 2013: Merritt ‘13, Carlos ‘13, Edward ‘13, and John ‘13 The final edition of a nine-part series of articles about the incoming MIT class.

  

  the stars so I think astrophysics would be a lot of fun to study," said Boyd. Boyd says he's looking forward to studying at such a challenging ... Hidalgo June 6, 2009 Just moving to a new apartment can be tough for some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  apartment to South End has become a weekend routine that consists of a thirty ... Frogger without even batting an eyelash. Please try not to get hit by a car ... into the wilderness on your own, but after a few rides, you start to get

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber Brkich. A friendly janitor directed us to the subway station and we took an

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest ... spent a lot of my time going from place to place to place, but we were

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Nuns, fret not! Like baby alligators in the sewers, you too will grow up fast.

  

  . What better way to get to know your hall? So a lot of you have ... that focus on science and math? Can I make a baking soda volcano and ... online are a good place to start. And there are plenty of research

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vaccine Externalities Health economics applied to the decreased odds of my getting the flu, courtesy of my…

  

  vaccine. (Open up the images in a new browser to see larger versions of ... ; by consuming a certain kind of medicine, I am making others worse off ... .21J: Health Economics, a class in which I had an exam today, we recently

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  dress to make a seductive geometric statement." Created by Madhurima Das ... raffle tickets to win prizes like a Patagonia backpack or a Hubway ... were able to incorporate a variety of textures and patterns by weaving

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  is that YOU make the place. So you want to be a hacker? Hey, guys ... . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... 'm too disoriented to figure out when that was), I dreamt about a certain

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  been a slacker blogger, stuck deep in procrastination universe. Time to ... way to describe it is as the new cultural phenomenon. It is a word ... secretious (for a very negative scretious). Feel free to invent your own (and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Role You Play in the Admissions Process by Jenny Rifken, Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions @ MIT.

  to apply (I'll explain this in a minute) and honest with yourself in ... important to me? What did a school need to have in order for me to be happy ... selective a college was because I knew that some would be harder to get into

  • by mitblogs
  • October 26, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  to practice with me makes her happy. (Aside: My mom was a cheerleader ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh ... , and I have to write a paper for 21A.260 and a pset for 5.60. And lead a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005