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• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... days, table tennis on others, code some more, come back to my hotel room ... to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  biology class that they need to pass in order to graduate. What could this guest lecture actually be about? Brief sidebar here to mention that it is an incredibly nerdy thing to go to an optional lecture in my spare time

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• 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

  

  aversion to enjoying “mainstream” culture, but I always shied away whenever ... winners. I didn’t quite understand the draw of film buffs to the black and ... stuffy.   Somewhere in high school, I decided that I needed to

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

  Quizbowl adventuring knowledge is (*) power !

  

  course I had to say, "Now I'm definitely writing a blog post about ... quizbowl is, you can probably skip this intro paragraph and go straight to ... and listen to questions, and you hit a buzzer when you know the answer

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 29, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Spotlight: MIT stands with the people of all nations we are one MIT

  

  weekend.     The purpose of this homepage is to reaffirm MIT ... , President Maclaurin began his tenure at MIT with a vision to build a more ... the world.” To achieve this ideal, MIT provided admissions pamphlets in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Third times the charm or so I hope

  

  The past few weeks have been quite the welcome-back-to-MIT-and-the-firehose-oh-havent-you-missed-me-dearly kind of back-to-school welcome. Before having much time to recharge from ... weekend, Seattle to visit friends, twice to Colorado Springs for training

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 1, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  to be anxious about returning to school for my last semester. there was ... an airport and i was in the second-to-last row window seat on a redeye ... dragged two friends to a book talk at the harvard coop, where we learned

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Trashion Show from rubbish to runway

  

  semester to create an outfit out of––you guessed it––trash. From collecting vintage curtains from their grandparents in Poland to repurposing old ... donated clothes that audience members brought to donate for charity and for

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 6, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  and loved to do were likeable enough, whether I was even an interesting ... 's almost impossible to tell you not to worry as much as you are right now ... size of the header corresponding to things of more subjective importance

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Distance and Displacement "how are you swamped if it's only been a month?"

  

  slide a book across a table, its displacement is equal to the distance it ... maximum height (minus its initial height, the distance from the ground to ... go back to the book example, what if I were to pick up that book and

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 26, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Mac4Change MIT students raising money to feed the homeless on Veteran's day

  

  I wanted to give everyone an update on our campaign to feed the ... dormitories, Maseeh Hall, from 7 to 9, to fundraise and spread awareness. Our goal was to raise at least $100 but more importantly to spread our

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 23, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  I went back to downtown Denver after work today, back to the center ... needed to exchange last year’s light-rail tickets for current ones because ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A White Christmas Escaping Boston to go to more snow

  

  packed up our winter clothing and headed to Colorado to spend a week in the snowy mountains. (I always find it funny that I look forward to going home over break to escape the Boston weather, but spend half of the break in

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 25, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A UROP or Two In which I ramble about how lucky I am to have such awesome UROPs

  

  Quite a few people have blogged about their UROPs (aka MIT's Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program), so I decided to add my voice to the mix! I currently have two UROPs, one in Biology and one in CMS. It takes

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • November 24, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Career Fair Thoughts In which I didn't try to acquire 50 different company shirts

  

  throughout the Z-Center. This year, I didn't succumb to the frenzy of: This is mostly because I've given away far too many company shirts to ... tried to approach the career fair with hesitant optimism and figuring out

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 21, 2014
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred Early

  

  students shortly. In the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat

  • by Decisions
  • December 14, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An End A whirlwind.

  

  research mentor to see if he was smiling or frowning. He was usually smiling ... fellowships (AHHHHHH!!!!!!), and said goodbye to the NRAO, and the building in which I decided to become an astronomer insteaad of a neurologist. I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • August 20, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  “There is No Place Like Home” ...especially when you are a long way from home

  

  goodbye post to share with you… When I was an undergraduate at MIT I spent four years living in Baker House and I loved it there. When I returned to campus six years ago I took every opportunity to talk with current students

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • July 12, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  (ExpressionEngine hates me) I decided to hold off on publishing until Wednesday ... original story, so I decided to write a post with both stories and hold off ... wouldn't do justice to any of them, so I'm going to write three posts. Here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Deferred in EA

  

  the meantime, please feel free to use this forum to chat.

  • by Decisions
  • December 15, 2012