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  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  [by Jenny Nelson '09] What's the craziest thing that you've ever ... I was heading to Paris for all 3 months of blissful problem set ... . Of course not, I responded. You see, there's this program called MISTI

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Events

  1 Month, 0 Classes IAP tomorrow and an opportunity to mystery hunt!

  

  ...well only if I choose to. Tomorrow marks the beginning of IAP (Independent Activities Period)...It's one of my favorite times of the year ... . During January, a lot of people do externships, some go to Zambia, some

  • by Bryan
  • January 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Paul Farmer at the Broad Lander update October 28

  

  named by the US News & World Report as one of the world's 20 best ... I try to attend at least one guest speaker talk a week (many of them ... lot of this together. Okay, deep breath. Here we go. Remember the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  They may take our lives… ...but they'll never take our free Celtics tickets.

  

  whatnot. MORAL OF THE ENTRY: You can be pre-med at MIT, but you'll have to ... like something out of The Running Man, except without Richard Dawson ... are mostly low, with a few are flashing in a miasma of neon, and then

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Questionable Views Questions and views, and questions about views. The views are not necessarily questionable, although you…

  

  sitting on the bed is Ace, April's friend who came to watch us do all of the ... with us. About the number of people who share a room, freshmen generally do most of the sharing. (I don't know much about how it works after

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 18, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Rush and Hall Rush

  

  the chapel and it lasted five minutes instead of 25), East Campus built a wooden Godzilla monster that carried jugs of water. By the time the ... homemade blades and etchings of Krotus in the handles, and were done by Dany

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  “Exactly” the Same We're not being too critical! We're MIT students!

  

  're supposed to use the nth letter of each Latin fish name, as dictated by the ... ultimately how everything ended. Unfortunately, I'm still so overloaded by ... discussion of one of the puzzles. In about a month all of the puzzles will be

  • by Snively '11
  • January 28, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  A Fashion Free For All like the hunger games but we love each other

  

  Friday, I rushed out of my dorm with my friend Caroline, knowing that I was most definitely not the only undergraduate excited at the prospect of free things. By the time we got there, there was a large mass of people

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 26, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  You only got in because you’re a… how to cope when good news unexpectedly gives you the blues

  

  This is a blog post for those of you who are struggling with the social implications of getting into colleges. It's such good news, you ... ostrich got me through senior year pretty well, although I was helped by the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 16, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Life during IAP i dump my brain a little

  

  , clone, et cetera was confusing at first, but by the end of the first week ... Japanese textbook for beginners. My goal is to finish Genki II by the end of ... ordering of things during IAP that stuck out to me. 6.178 - Introduction

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • February 5, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  A suite surprise My suitemates find out I'm a blogger

  

  a day's worth of classes and found this printout of my blogger bio ... ” OF MY BLOGGER PHOTO WITH HEARTS ALL AROUND IT. HAHAHHAHAHAHAHA… I ... dorm. And if that wasn’t enough of a surprise, the next evening, I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 19, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DarkMatters, Green and Wild, Chocolate Cake and Raspberries around here lately (with pictures)

  

  ," a night of spoken word, collective art, and informative camaraderie. I ... months. It heartened me to be in that room, with the coolest collection of ... justice instead of problem sets for a night. The week continued. I

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 6, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As we hurtle towards Pi Day… A post of posts.

  

  've already had a lot of "bleary eyed" moments in the last few weeks (my eyes are actually pretty sore as I type this), which reminded me of the post ... 's recent post, around this time of year there are usually a bunch of "pre

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / How to Food

  I came, I saw, I stirfried Foray into non-ramen cooking

  

  School has already started, but I have one last part of summer to ... with full kitchens, which I haven't really taken advantage of save for ... journey of "Non-Ramen Cooking in the Kitchen".  The beginning of the summer

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 7, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Multidimensional Showcasing an aspiring physicist with amazing musical talent

  

  that is so typical of life here at MIT, I hear piano chords playing on ... together in our chapter house on Beacon Street on the Boston side of the ... . He helped write the band's music and played shows in front of hundreds

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • November 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Punting

  

  freshers from Gonville and Caius College (one of the 31 colleges at Cambridge ... , and avoid pseting (the opposite of punting is tooling). But here in the ... river, in a boat, moving along through the use of a big stick. The punter

  • by Cambridge
  • October 3, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  One of my five classes this term is sponsored by RATP, the metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Vivek Venkatachalam- Constructing a Very Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscope Vivek Venkatachalam worked with researchers in the Low Temperature Scanning Tunneling Microscopy Lab at MIT's…

  

  surface of high-temperature superconductors in an attempt to understand how ... years under the guidance of Dr. Eric Hudson. Scanning tunneling ... -powered sound system to test the acoustic properties of their vibration isolation

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More humanities than a humanities major Bitter complaining and fond reminiscing. Can't beat that with a stick.

  

  Connecticut with Mitra to see Abyssinia, an inspiring musical written by a friend of a friend of Sam's Mom Because I am a fool, I also bought the ... moments before our departure. That should be stress-free. The moral of the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Laura Stonehill: Designing Italian Pedestrian Bridges Laura Stonehill spent a summer working at a civil engineering company in Venice, Italy.

  

  engineers spoke English, but by the end of the summer she was working with two ... program. As the daughter of Italian immigrants, she was very excited about ... the weekends and spent a week at the end of her internship traveling to

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 24, 2005