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• Blog / MISTI

  Wouldn’t it be Nice? ...actually, I'm kind of glad that I'm not older.

  

  named after Nike, the god of victory. So, according to the German work ... would like..." So going to restaurants pretty much consisted of "Je ... most of the vendors in a French resort town to speak a little English

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 19, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  cruel summer ok it's actually, like, fine i guess

  

  . I've been listening to a lot of Lover lately 😛 There is also a ... Toronto, on a corporate laptop overnighted to my house. Because of security concerns, none of us are allowed to work on my company's actual codebase, so

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 20, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab ... reasonable and succinct list of requirements to fulfill. 9.00, Intro to ... scholarship. Premeds are, of course, advised to major in something they like for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  trying to figure it out an attempt at a goodbye

  

  to write about. Over the course of this flight, I’ve written and rewritten thousands of words, but every time I got close to finishing a draft ... ’t working for me. Those kinds of introspections can’t be forced. They will

  • by Paolo A. '21
  • May 31, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to Fail: Part 1 Dealing with failure and trying to move past it.

  

  know what I thought was my shining glory, my thing to be proud of, the ... school and work achievements. I talked to a lot of people whenever I was ... tons of paths to success. People often go to community college or a

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 21, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us ... : And scenes of the Old Town: (From left to right: me, Sophie '14 ... advertised selling "worms and crawlers"): We hiked up to the summit of Mount

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  it is the escape living a second life as an art student

  

  wandered around the area just to sort of take in the ambience. Our group ... rest of us, left with nothing else to do, ended up standing at the stage ... dropping something, but I haven't done it yet, as some corner of me clings to

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 26, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  think the true definition of drinking from a firehose is to be learning ... development of calculus to emphasize that there were brilliant people who ... back to the early 1600s, way before Newton’s time. The birth of calculus

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Time To Have A Sit-Down With Your GC. Can we tawk?

  

  the identity of your GC, be sure to introduce yourself post haste. In ... will in turn tell us. When it comes to the details of your college ... is to be respected and taken seriously. There is no doubt in my mind

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • September 24, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  can to travel alone internationally for the first time. Of course I ... attempt to grasp harder leads to doubts of whether the memory had been real ... haven’t really tried to articulate this thought in anticipation of my trip

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Ode to the New, Part 3 "Your calendar looks like a clown threw up on it!" -my friend Jordan

  

  Here is what Google Calendar has to say about my first two months at ... like a shame to not try anything new. So, I had to adopt some kind of ... would have to be made, given the axiom “Anna is physically incapable of

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  myself, I want to say that this summer was one of the most meaningful and rewarding summers of my life, and a lot of it was thanks to MIT. I spent the ... to a group of awesome middle schoolers and officially discovered the

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Virtual Reality, Startups, and Donuts in a particular order

  

  whirlwind of hardships, from Grace cutting their investment in half to having ... during their startup (Elon Musk and Noah Glass of Twitter come to mind ... I got to see build this community out of scratch.   I think a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 15, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  climbing and becoming a perspective on moving to the US for MIT and the slow journey towards adulthood

  

  while being forced to face the consequences is a big part of becoming an ... objective: "Get to the top of this wall, in any way possible". This flavor of activity reminds me of the mental motions to solving a math or programming

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • September 16, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  that Alex was going to MIT. In light of this complaint, MIT and Cornell ... , even non-humans aspire to grace the halls of the 'tvte. No word on where ... of humor and charm, and genius enough to build a compact fusion reactor

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  When You Yourself Are Far Away Donuts, used books, and some wonderful/terrible recipes you need not try.

  

  , to bring to Paula J. '13's birthday/ANTM and Star vs. the Forces of ... stuff, the jobful and the seeking return to MIT and I get to see some of ... they run out of donuts. That day we got to get a lot of donuts to share

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 16, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  presence of an unimpressed hunger. It’s a hunger he plans to fix soon, the ... resolution to his stomach’s plight: a carton of Milk. In that moment, he has ... carton of milk couldn’t possibly hurt, he made his way to Shaw’s, a grocery

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  to business. Find below the best 23 Chuck Norris MIT appropriate jokes. I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... of a deadly asteroid. - It is believed dinosaurs are extinct due to a

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Final Projects Some examples of some projects you might see in MIT writing classes

  

  the class by listening to, looking at, or talking about an example of ... which involved using a constraint, such as one from the Table of Forms, to ... very interesting. The purpose of the project was to create some sort of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • December 13, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Sam Survey I'M HOSED.

  

  never wanted to ask, like my favorite kind of chocolate bite-sized candy ... Burger King commercial: This one Anticipated method of death: "In a ... elections meeting, an overnight shift, a trip to New York, another exam

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2008