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• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  was close. So it goes. We felt the insane energy of a world writhing ... the raw scale of man fill my view only when I choose to see it. Seeing ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  to finish the book by the end of last week, but I think I’ll be able to ... a week to do them. I just hate the feeling of finishing a pset and the ... okay:("]pset cycle.[/annotation] For now, here’s a brief overview of what

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Recollections of a Stranded Traveler IHTFP: I Have To Find a Plane. In the meantime, I reflect on happier interpretations…

  

  stairs to soak up the rising founts of ambrosia for the ears, by which I ... blurred in the radioactive sheen of green lamplight, amplified by the ... of Random-Hall-minus-Random-Residents. Unperturbed by the usual sounds

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 23, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  You oughta know Answers to many, many questions.

  

  . Thanks! I stopped by the Academic Resource Center the other day to ask ... out right.) I feel like the purpose of a class plan is really more to decide if a given set of two majors is feasible, rather than setting out a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  double the colors of the rainbow. In a class that I was in today, a ... slightly, her calendar almost resembles the pointillist works of Seurat ... this lack of organization was partly due to never getting used to having

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Amazin’ The Mets clinched the NL East. *happy dance*

  

  longest stage of the whole process by far): And then, after some painting ... 'm slowly making my way through descriptions of classes, I might as well talk about 2.001. 2.001, Mechanics of Materials, is pretty straightforward

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  spring notes resilience, change, warm weather, Santa Fe

  

  intellectual energy, and the endless spring of opportunity. There is also ... , evidenced below, and made even better by the visit of Harini S. '16, who ...   In the midst of some version of the thesis struggle described in

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 18, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Trouble with External Validation Which came first? The admit or the awesome...

  

  particularly conscious of the magnitude of this selection process, given the ... essential aspect of the college admissions process, it is somewhat problematic ... they achieve by taking advantage of the opportunity. The flip side of

  • by David duKor-Jackson
  • January 9, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  temporarily. Still, I think suspending our waste funnel by the strings of two ... heating oil. Not only do you get rid of agricultural waste (without feeding ... of it as well as some fertilizer and coal byproducts if you're lucky

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  *written by Sheila B. '21 as a part of the 8,726,400 Seconds of ... long process of updating our crusty ancient constitution, and started the ... plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one of those

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  resources in drama/theater, including an academic section of Theater Arts and ... over 600 people in attendance! Of our 70+ meetings that we'll so this ... . At most of our meetings, we'll see somewhere in the 75-300 people range

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  time? — but I love the process of writing a first draft. The world is as ... flower pressed between pages. Here’s a snapshot of a week: https ... plays, there’s always at least one free table, and most of the clientele

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Blog Graveyard skeletons in my google docs

  

  people. When you invest so much of your energy into what feels like love ... of friends as the days have gone by. The friends I left behind are ... even despite the cool shade. The sounds of life are drowned out by the

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • February 12, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freshman FAQs and a cliffhanger or two.

  

  limited Internet access: (trust me, the lack of reliable wifi was by far ... resource. Time. is. everything.  How you allocate it will be one of the ... Hey there!  Haven't seen you in a while.  And by "seen" I mean "you

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 7, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Lessons Learned from (Watching) D&D thank you brennan lee mulligan

  

  've been watching a lot of Dimension 20, a tabletop RPG game show produced by ... character creation. In fact, I used a lot of D&D resources to write a lot ... players had to their characters. A lot of D&D is determined by rolling

  • by Cami M. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Big Dreams, Small Mind The troubles of being in school and doing research for too long.

  

  (except for you... you know who you are...) For those of you who don’t know, I spent the last year of my life in Shanghai studying Chinese at Fudan University. I am currently working on a number of blog posts that will be

  • by Ben O. '19
  • September 24, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  the type of student who is defined by the world in which he lives. Lets ... dishonored him by stepping on his sneakers in a crowded auditorium. Why do I mention that now? You may be surprised by how many first year students at

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  All the 2023 i3 videos megapost

  

  As a part of MIT’s unconventional housing assignment process, rising ... Institute (I3) videos, which are produced by students to show off their life and culture of their residence halls. In the ’90s and early ’00s, these

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 3, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  the day by which admitted students need to let colleges know their ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... MIT Class of 2017!), that you're declining our offer of admission (it

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  information released by the admissions office of almost any other university ... " the admissions process chunk by chunk. We think this will help ... website we've launched today. Our "old" site, which was launched by our

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011