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• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  was at the MISTI Gala Dinner for all interns going to foreign countries ... . You know you're at MIT when you would consider forgoing a Nobel laureate ... , they pronounce diphthongs backwards. We'll be going to Switzerland at the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  There is still no magic formula ...but there are a few key ingredients

  

  takeaway address the most important (or at least a sufficiently important ... 'll know what to write about, but at this point you probably need to start

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • October 13, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

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

  

  identify and select them. As I reflect about my experience at MIT, I am ... (including me) changes it. At the time, I don't think I fully appreciated what

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

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  say about you? So even at the most fundamental level, external ... bachelors degrees elsewhere, and is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at Oxford on a

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Parental Advice Sometimes you just need to get out of the way

  

  to grandma, and a certain jolly old elf that lives at the North Pole ... children, but at the end of the day they are generally heading in the right

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • September 11, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  And we leave it all behindCan't you see we need some time? at a camp ... in tents outdoors. at meals, we would gather around the heater and melt ... , there are still weeks, and then, days left.    at some point, it

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  What is the value of college? Food for thought in your college search

  

  means to an end, many seem to have lost the plot. At MIT, we are mission

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • May 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  *Independent* Activities Period an IAP apart!

  

  and tips if YOU want to take a stab at AI! Google Colaboratory - This ... to implement recursion entirely correctly by myself, or at least not ... ! Look at how charming! On one of my last days, I went to explore the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • February 18, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  transferring student culture online virtual rush? it's more likely than you'd think

  

  bit of time working on Burton Conner's website, which is a true work of ... decided to not include it in the final version of the website... burton ... people who'll stick by you for your entire time at MIT. and living groups

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 8, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  What is DTYD? Dance 'Til You Drop is an annual party hosted by my ... , back in April 2019. I had no conception of what the Bombers were at this ... students talking about the ongoing party. I had no interest in parties at the

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why didn’t MIT have a logo until 2003? tracing the history of MIT's logo and graphic identity

  

  mentions that this is a "new identity", despite the website existing since at ... was the manager at MIT PSB, and it launched in 2003, that website. The ... graphic identity website, which I knew had information about MIT's colors

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2021
• FAQ / Life and culture

  How do I contact a current student?

  on our site learning about academics and life at MIT. Through our website, you may follow the adventures of our student bloggers as they
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  practice at 9, stayed after to tumble til about 11. Went to sleep about 6am ... game at 8, which officially put us into the playoffs (yeah!) [which ... the final drafts of my essays looked at by the writing department staff

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Even More for Admitted Students: Share Your Story Another open thread for '11s.

  

  other people where I'd applied early, or that I'd applied early at all ... wanted at least some way to mentally prepare before I read the words on the ... letter, and stood at the door when my parents came home. My dad walked in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 13, 2006
• Blog / Events

  A Couple of Firsts With a picture game

  

  , Google, Tumblr, Twitter, Yelp, and Google! (I spent a lot of time at the ... do a great job of describing life at MIT. They’re all creatively ... some of a few of my "firsts" here at MIT (There's many more, but this is

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 17, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Fonts of MIT a typographical tour

  

  the poster to its left. I thought, at first, that the font was FF DIN. But the website for the Atlas Service Center uses Flama, and the Atlas ... Helvetica. Look at the "16-128" [annotation note='In case you were wondering

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 2, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Richard III: Behind-the-scenes [by Grace Kane '11, Guest Blogger] What does it take to put on Shakespeare at…

  

  Ensemble in general, visit our website at http://web.mit.edu/ensemble/www/. ... at the process of bringing our collective baby, Richard III to the ... ruffs reciting iambic pentameter at arm's length to a skull. Nothing could

  • by ARTalk
  • March 11, 2010
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Kids These Days Don’t Know How Good They’ve Got It and they need to get off my lawn

  

  something and have access to the Internet, you can Google it, which will ... even have to be at MIT to do it.  Art of Problem Solving My ... math. I never felt at any point that I was doing work; in fact, I used to

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • October 26, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I-Rop, U-Rop my contribution to the future of medicine

  

  (Pictures coming soon) One of the Google features I use the most is the Google Alert. You can set it to email you whenever a certain keyphrase comes up in any of the news sources that Google accesses. So

  • by Bryan
  • July 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See your name among the stars… Forget having your name written in lights, get it written on a spacecraft!

  

  image into orbit." Check out their website, at http ... they need! (image from the YNIS website)

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 3, 2006