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• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... it intriguing at best and perfectly frustrating at worst. I don’t have ... 'd flip if he knew I barely ate any fruit at school. That train of thought

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Public Statements

  The Class of 2019 Graduates from MIT

  

  , auspiciously, on Super Pi Day (3/14/15 at 9:26AM) to begin their MIT education ... short. If you're like me, when I was about to graduate from grad school at ... accomplishment at having completed one of the most difficult and rewarding

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 7, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  (Humanities, Arts, and Social Science) courses at a rigorous technical school ... code, hours of pulling my hair out at office hours, just trying to get ... transition time before you are fully able to focus on the task at hand. So, to

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  living the dream: UROP edition! in which i run experiments on children (well, kinda)

  

   linguistics UROP, which I think is super hecking cool. Right at the end of last ... ... and money is nice... but I felt like I had a lot of time left at MIT to ... make a website or add-on to make life at MIT easier, like Courseroad or

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 22, 2019
• Blog / Classes

  a semester i’m excited for to the tune of "a girl worth fighting for"

  

  At long last, I've finally reached a semester where at least half my ... look at this semester... Look at all those classes that I actually ... can actually do well in - all my years of being good at English class

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 7, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Seven Early Evenings it was a good week

  

  impressive the New York skyline was until I was looking at it again. The pizza ... when I finally got back to my dorm. My friends who stayed at MIT over the ... , recruit volunteers, and raise money. At our fundraiser, we'll be selling

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • December 3, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Experiencing Psycho in Full G(l)ory Sharon L. '21 joins the blogs to talk about movies and art by and large

  

  (1960) with the score performed lived by the Boston Pops at Symphony Hall ... Bartollo, Sam Magee, and the freshman from the Arts at MIT advising seminar to ... .   We met up with some more Arts Scholars at the Five Horses Tavern

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2018
• Blog / Advice

  November 1st is coming up! What not to do as it approaches (and after it passes)

  

  survive socially and academically at a school of geniuses? When I was ... at improving my application, I created a maker portfolio where I showed ... . Everyone there is going to be better than me at everything and I'm going to

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • October 26, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  at MIT, I am taking not one, but two PE classes, back-to-back: Fitness ... perfect 1/8 of a sphere, which allows it to be supported at only three ... flags at the front are part of the MIT Undergraduate Association's Red

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  classes you can only take at MIT. Every week, we get a new guest speaker for ... week, at least one of our reading assignments is co-authored by the speaker, and we’re all required to present at least one of the readings

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things A collective end-of-the-semester brain dump

  

  Maseeh Dining Yamatos - all you can eat sushi!! Domino’s at 2AM When ... ’t try Professors that are bad at teaching The MIT Administration ... cross-register at Harvard :) fly somewhere exotic with friends over

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • May 20, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Flow: Writing Like Yourself *insert prospective 2021 clickbait tagline*

  

  that I've experienced at MIT so far. Last Sunday, I knocked out two psets ... briefly thought that the "oxygen" at the end of the word CITGO on that ... similar to flow. I keep the objective at the back of my mind for a few days

  • by Abby H. '20
  • October 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Guest Post: Where to Buy Food: MIT Groceries Guide Because eating textbooks gets expensive.

  

  You should not do your primary grocery shopping at these locations ... bins for grains, but the prices are cheaper at the Harvest Co-op. Star ... that this guide helps you decide where to buy groceries at MIT. Have any

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 3, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... needs to be something substantial. Not "look, we got Killer Mike at MIT. I ... enforcement system. There is no neat solution at the end because there is no

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  The first sentence is always the hardest. At MIT, however, it came ... redoing problems about them over and over. I wouldn’t get frustrated at the ... of my seat with excitement at the latest chemistry breakthrough. Those

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  together and then sleep at last. After a walk past the rosy river that lasted ... . Then a second glance at the clock proved me wrong by twelve hours, and I ... savory teriyaki chicken, gazed longingly at adorable novelty items, and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Alum FAQs I'm baaaaaaaaack

  

  fall (after spending the summer at home), to make sure that I wasn’t just ... at the same time, it’s been a really amazing thing to have all these ... without p-sets. Spoiler alert: I don't. And at this point it all goes to

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 11, 2014
• Blog / Events

  Nate Silver visits MIT (or, do witches exist in real life?) No, he can't predict the outcome of your admissions decision. Probably.

  

  pundits so easily at their own game) "Romney was an interesting experiment in what happens if you have no long term consistency at all in your ... consulting job to go analyze baseball? A: "Well, most of my income at the time

  • by Michael C. '16
  • March 1, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Junior Fall Line-Up, Part 2: Extracurriculars My academic plans? I've got bigger plans. Better plans.

  

  Overheard at MIT (Fall 2012) [MIT Sophomore walks around in a circle ... cooking team. This means that, every Friday, I show up in the kitchen at 4pm, cook with my team-mates, serve dinner at 6:15pm sharp, eat, then clean up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Hardest Thing Ever FOP, family, and how I'm doing so far... plus some findings on frisbee and free…

  

  scattered. I spent a good part of the month here, at the Sufi Foundation of ... me. I wasn't at MIT: I was one of twentysome fresh MIT students ... plants at home. Only a few of them are growing here and the rest are new. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 4, 2012