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• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  bakery on the way to work.    I showered quickly, put on one of my ... disillusionment with code, in a positive way. Being left to my own devices to write ... someone who said to me, 'I don’t mean to be racist, but,' and I nodded, like

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Alpha Phi Omega Leadership, FRIENDSHIP, Service

  

  serve as Officers each semester, and people need to be leaders to lead ... sometimes we forget about the third one. We might be too busy to go to APO ... to walk rush from my 6.336 lecture in 10-250 to the 6.131 lecture in 34

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  . Being able to brush my teeth at 3:28am with no one walking in… sublime. My ... figuring out how to use those… It really wouldn’t be MIT if my room did not ... was on my plant though which was not terribly great. To be honest, I don

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / CPW

  From First Visit to First Week A Reflection on Independence and Making Decisions

  

  trip to this campus which I think really changed the way I’ve viewed my ... be submitted for a grade. Applying to MIT wasn’t even an expected ... alone sometimes. It’s okay to feel nervous about being independent and

  • by Richard O. '28
  • September 12, 2024
• Blog / Classes

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

  

  ’t have the “right personality” to be a physicist.  Enter JLab. For the ... apparatus were considered important, not details to be brushed off because ... and professors have, and continue to, think about the best way for

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

  Of MUN and Academia What is Course X in Chinese?

  

  rather quickly) in the beginning, I decided that it was to my advantage to ... credits will be appended onto your transcript. Moreover, you need to meet ... your first year at MIT, or you'll be considered to be in "non

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  comes to mind might be math competitions, chess matches, or some form of ... opportunity to continue playing the sport I love while also being able to devote ... engineering is also about being social! At 12:30, I went to the Stud with some

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  years. Also, I prefer to avoid it completely by (1) grocery shopping on a ... fed one way or another, even when I'm not around to take pictures. What ... I found chemistry to be even vaguely fascinating, so my newfound

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Transporting In & Around MIT Everything you need to know about how easy it is to get around MIT.

  

  into Boston and then the buses can be used to go places the subways don ... for getting to classes quickly when you live in the farthest dorm and it ... PRIVATE TRANSPORTATION This includes but is not limited to cars

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • September 28, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  around, or openly be on their phones during class, or talk to their friends ... earplugs underneath my hair, and it occurs to me that being able to casually ... how many students out there are doing just well enough to avoid being

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Toy Design Wrapup What am I going to do with all of my time now?

  

  Playsentations began. The first group to go was Tube Racers. followed by ... that can be snapped together to build real circuits. Each plushy, while ... little incentive to actually fill these forms out, but this being MIT and

  • by Snively '11
  • May 16, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Greek Way What I did for a Klondike Bar, caesar salad, chicken florentine, mushroom ravioli, chocolate torte,…

  

  Engineering. Today I decided to do start doing things the Greek way as I was ... actually called the ceremony, but it used the word "covenant" enough times to ... MIT's 27 fraternities or 5 sororities, but I still had to sign a non

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 18, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to back to back maybe i am doing too much

  

  students coming to MIT to take hour-long-ish classes taught by people in the ... want to spend more time being alone? Maybe the reason I’m doing so much ... The last post I made was kind of a lot. Even beginning to write this

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 27, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A Day In The Life [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP, and…

  

  I'm sure they all fell back to sleep. After a quick shave and a few ... phones of the MIT Entrepreneurship Center by 0615; just in time to catch ... [By MIDN 3/c Robert Block '10] It is 1200 on a Tuesday during IAP

  • by ROTC
  • February 12, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  [Joint Post] THE WORLD’S gREATEsT CROSSOVER EPISODE Jebby '25 is my flatmate

  

  to be a lot of stinkbugs and tiny little leafhoppers. We occasionally ... know I'm in the UK, but it's still surprising when I go to play a song ... culture[/caption] I'm scared to act as weirdly as I normally do in fear of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 4, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] Rediscovering en Plein Air Painting by Elisa X. '26, MEng '26

  

  popularized by the 19th century impressionists like Claude Monet due to the new ... allow me to add the smallest details by building up layer after layer, but ... decided to challenge myself by painting the iconic MIT dome with a limited

  • by Allison E. '27
  • September 17, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Derailment My Gap Year

  

  it might be of interest to you! Enjoy, and comment. Derailment ... ’t seem to be ticking as fast. Or as consistently. Or with as much purpose ... himself then I could ever even pretend to be about my own decisions, so I

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • September 18, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  's something that I've simply convinced myself to be true, but MIT in fact does ... . Even when you have somewhere you need to be, spend the extra 30 seconds ... to put a big emphasis on #8. Write often. In between learning to be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Events

  The State of Things Deflated, that about sums it up.

  

  me, CPW schedule right by my head. I finally just lost the ability to stay awake and died. The next thing I know I'm being woken up by my ... some guest blogs very soon (we'll be harassing prefrosh to get them

  • by Snively '11
  • April 13, 2008
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT Early Action Decisions Now Available Online

  

  portal and visit your Application Status page. There, you will be able to ... , so you should be sure you are prepared to receive your decision before ... be posted in mid-January to your application portal. We have posted

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 17, 2024