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• Blog / MISTI

  Publishing abroad A taste of an MIT-Russia student's blog

  

  English that I wrote it in to the typical Russian they publish in, but the editor wanted to have it online immediately (i.e. this morning), so they decided to just run it as is. (It’s sort of funny, since I don

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 17, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Digital Anxieties: A Conversation with Bo Burnham and Jonny Sun i cried for ten minutes after watching eighth grade

  

  . As a long-time fan of Bo Burnham, it was absolutely surreal to see him ... , nothing quite clicked immediately. After a quick Google search, I was almost ... to see it in its final season. I also was too shy to go up to say hi to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 28, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger Application 2013! this is how i do this

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I remember that I need to hire new bloggers 2) I frantically Google for the old application posts to remember how to hire bloggers 3) oh right

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What do Alums do? Are you exceptionally forward minded? Already thinking about what you'll be doing as an alumni?…

  

  . For those too lazy to google it, LiveScribe is a pen that does something ... record and it records audio while you're writing, which means you can slow ... 's usefulness in action. But what's REALLY cool about the company is that it was

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 29, 2009
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  we're asking it, to help you get the information you need as quickly as ... do with email:  To the extent you can, you should try to use one ... -year undergraduate admission to MIT for the aspiring Class of 2026 is now live. You can

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  that brings something to you. It's true that giving can be a part of love ... choke on it. you need to be wanted so badly that you think you might keel ... ; you carry so much hurt that it's hard to talk about. you keep circling

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Hello Blogosphere! My dirty little secret...(I've never taken calculus)

  work at MIT Admissions!? The kid who used to complain about how much you ... and the people in it as I am. MIT isn't this cut-throat battle to have ... students are developing methods to improve emergency transportation services

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 8, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Balancing Act… ...or not

  

  sometimes hard to maintain, and I live in perpetual fear of messing it up even ... decide to wing it anyway. We make it to Davis, but then get on a bus headed ... it to Market Basket eventually. No happy ending here. I’m sorry. We

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  Me and the Firehose on balancing classes, and choosing next year’s schedule

  

  to take six classes, bitch about it, have no time…  [caption id ... usual method for choosing classes is to sign up for 12 of them, the ... tendency to try and take as many classes as I can, then promise to drop some

  • by Amber V. '24
  • May 30, 2022
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why I do too much stuff at MIT 1)My mom doesn't have a problem with it.

  

  -time, having a show at WMBR (you can listen to streams of everyone's shows! Do it ... top 25 albums of 2007?! Come on, Blender.), when it occurred to me that it would be a really good idea to write a post. My dentist doesn

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Swiss Miss "The archangel Michael descends riding a triceratops."

  

  to #2, and it only went to #94 in Japan. And I am SO SICK OF HEARING IT ... umbrella--it had a big button that you could press to open it, fit perfectly ... were becoming apparent after three years of use. But anyway, I left it on

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catching up What's new? Lots of things. I just haven't told you about them yet, because finals…

  

  design is cool. I used to be pretty good at it, but then I stopped learning ... working with it again- it's one of those things I like to do for...what's the word? Oh yeah, fun. To tell the truth, it can be a really

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  clay crash course one month of wheelthrowing later…

  

  , and slowly “pruned” (idk how else to describe it). Here, potters can add ... something, you can either keep it (to be trimmed, fired, glazed, etc.), or you can slice it in half with your wire tool to see the cross section. This

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • February 10, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  trips and transit i'm spending obscene amounts of money on uber god dang it

  

  [/caption] this is my daily commute to work. it usually takes about 5-10 minutes ... [/annotation] and get to work around 8:20 so i can [annotation note="for free because ... far according to google maps[/caption] i was really excited about being

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 10, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT gave my pod free art supplies!! and despite being hosed, we used them

  

  first. I wanted to try painting in gouache since it was an unfamiliar ... is a painting I created to explore the use of color, light, and shadow. I used gouache paints because I wanted to have the ability to blend

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 7, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Typhoon, Wedding Highlights from my trip to Asia.

  

  Floating Market itself has become touristy, but it was still very cool to see ... protocol? And you can't go to Thailand without seeing some of their ... From Singapore it was across the Straits of Johor to Malaysia. This

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Learning about the ABCs Apple Bake Competition, At Burton Conner

  

  . It’s a competition where people bake a lot of goods with apples, to celebrate the bountiful fall harvest of apples and give us all a reason to use ... event, they pulled together to bake a lovely little apple pie; it was an

  • by Janet G. '27
  • October 29, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  [annotation note="i just googled this and found out i’ve been calling it the ... ?!? which is a patently inferior term. i refuse to use that name, so i will ... value of their memories later in life. It’s led me to incredible

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  MIT is just another place An article from The Tech - MIT's school newspaper

  

  of how I could use the course material to design it. Stress, beam ... at MIT. I was told prior to arriving at MIT that it was going to be ... effort to enjoy MIT, and that is when it all got better. I started to

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • February 29, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MCAT Advice For the pre-meds out there, MIT or otherwise

  

  are! Courses are useful to some; I just like independence a little too ... the best: (1) Examkrackers - I didn't get to use their "1001 Questions ... taking the MCAT, definitely use Examkrackers to study! (2) Princeton

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • August 15, 2011