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• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  lit, with LED lights on the ceiling that ease through the rainbow. I am ... , on the plane to [annotation note = "actually Reykjavik, after Seattle ... Danish bus system on six hours of sleep in the last seventy-some, gave up

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  My Rejection Resume working up the courage to look failure in the eye

  

  return offer. Obviously, it's nice to be on the other side of things ... row, has sort of worn down on my self esteem over the years. But this is ... deal with this particular drain on my self esteem. So what is this post

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 12, 2020
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  In the week following our last few days on campus due to the COVID-19 ... from campus. After Jeffery Yu '22 set up a small server on his home ... things within the game but mostly focuses on server development: automated

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  51 Things I Want to Say to 2022s one senior's autumn thoughts

  

  have any questions. Also, I'd love to hear your thoughts on any of the ... foremost resource on “how to MIT.” Actually get to know us—first impressions ... ’d stand behind them and learn little. But as the semester went on, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • May 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Skullhouse Road Trip Seattle, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Austin, New Orleans, North Carolina, Delaware, New Jersey, and New…

  

  on a cross rountry road trip between finals week and Commencement. The ... brother going on the trip. This means we have two weeks to travel to Seattle ... /24: Leaving Boston I finished my finals on Tuesday, so my flight out of Seattle

  • by Erick P. '17
  • June 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT’s Fight against Gender Discrimination in STEM an excerpt from a fall class paper

  

  on immigrant students at the Institute (more here). The 1890 yearbook ... Institute on perfectly equal footing with the young men” (though admittedly, that was not exactly the case in practice). I wanted to learn more on the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 6, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Summer Reading List The exciting hobby that I never have time for during the school year...

  

  shorter wait time on popular books! Here’s my reading list for this year ... --ambitious, since I’m leaving for Ethiopia on August 6th and was in China until June ... ’t move from the couch much. Here are my thoughts on the books I’ve read so

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 5, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  (An Incomplete Guide to) Summer Opportunities for MIT Students Pantsuits, stress, hyperlinks.

  

  , résumés: I was having none of it--my focus was on adjusting to the new ... , it dawned on me that I would actually be eligible for many internships ... early finish; I’d really like to have more time to focus more on classes

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • September 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  with teaching the class, but this year I’ve been on my own. MIT Hillel ... especially useful for anyone planning on doing MISTI Israel. In one of the ... IAP in a nutshell! Hebrew students hard at work on their vocab

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Public’s Biggest Fear ...is no longer one of mine.

  

  't hear anything you said" on their feedback forms, so I guess it's possible ... , to do research on pulsars at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory ... Virginia) to give a talk on his pulsar research. The fifth grader clutching

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  than getting problem sets finished on a Friday night instead of chewing ... oz., depending on the cook), reheating homemade cooking experiments from last weekend (1-10 units of bragging rights per 16 oz., depending on

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  . I'm just trying to be honest. 2. When I explain what goes on in fraternities, I'm basing everything primarily on my fraternity. The two dozen ... 21 students (and I'm not planning on moving out anytime soon). Not to

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Sixth Semi-Annual Q&A Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12/22/05.

  

  Answers to questions received through 2PM on 12 ... wasn't planning on taking the SAT on January 28th. After seeing that we ... ..the top 10 in the whole of india, i guess...it somehow doesnt show on my

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 22, 2005
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  on. Heavy coursework. Abundant extracurriculars. Boston festivities ... necessary resources and have to scrounge for them on their own. Lectures can ... challenge, and I still want one. But I want to focus on learning how to solve

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / People & Identities

  someday fate of friends

  

  ago when on weeknights I would make a lava cake and he would pull up Attack on Titan and we would watch and do our calculus homework and talk ... .) In the morning when his mom saw me she began reminiscing on my and A

  • by Kai V. '25
  • November 10, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Secret Lives of Machines 🤖 In which the machines in my life get the spotlight they deserve.

  

  Impact on them, and when I used their Apple Pencil to draw the Among Us ... believes in my ability to improve, despite my chronic inability to focus on ... parents dropped you on the head as a baby. Now picture that resentment

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • September 22, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  , variations on the basic flower pattern encompasses a whole family of poi tricks ... organic, inspiring me to recreate this pattern as LEDs on a printed circuit ... connected by a trace (copper wiring) later on. The symbols on the schematic

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT Gala a premiere event celebrating fashion, arts, and culture

  

  , it has released an issue once per semester with full-page spreads on a ... welcoming environment for students seeking greater arts visibility on campus ... reservations, and safety plans. Even with years of detailed instructions on how

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 1, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  feeling old and coming home

  

  "]GTL,[/annotation] like so many of my friends had, but my desire to spend time working on my ... old, and about coming home. I flew back from Europe on February 3rd ... had already been a couple of hours since landing. I said I was on my way

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 12, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  difficult difficult lemon difficult the end of senior fall

  

  on the time commitment, albeit somewhat less rigorously than usual, and ... -related justifications: the first, a class on the fundamentals of computer security, was just not quite as exciting as my other two classes on computer systems

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 29, 2022