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• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  aforementioned cancellation of my Friday night plans, I set out at 11 PM for a 10 ... 't listed on any of the maps, so I looked at some postcards in a gift shop and ... "of." Now, the rent-a-cops there didn't seem too imposing, and at that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  career fair was kind of like being the twelve-year-old at your big brother's birthday party. You're kind of cute and everyone smiles at you and gives you ... be too. So, to wrap it up, a summary of the career fair. At the cost

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  9 / Headache 68 days to go

  

  the Head of Product Design at Continuum. *** This is the class I ... in the HCI Engineering group at CSAIL led by Prof. Stefanie Mueller who ... ; Suddenly, I started having headaches that wouldn't go away. At first I

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • March 31, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Ben’s Third Semi-Annual Q&A More answers to your questions.

  

  department at MIT interests you and why?'" First, I should note that it has no bearing on your application, as ~50% of our admits end up majoring in ... to the context of your overall app - what you're interested in, what

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 2, 2005
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  my rights violated by the Massassassachisetts Institvte of Technology ... ’s finally the weekend—a four-day weekend at that—but MIT has another thing ... calm my fiery sense of injustice. So I’m probably just having some

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  “the worst they can say is no” the costs of trying

  

  entire summer at an internship and didn't get a return offer, and that ... fun of by everyone in the grade. You'd exposed your own vulnerability and hadn't even gotten any benefit out of it. And middle school students

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 10, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  beauty is overrated

  

  adjacent to beauty, but beauty does not give others the feeling of an elastic ... about the kind of beauty that arose from symmetry, from clear skin or a ... ’s overused, I think, to the point of meaninglessness. I don’t want my

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost ... in the right direction….. ……eventually found the Hollywood Walk of Fame and saw the stars of some of my favorite actors….. He graduated

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How hard is it, really? Let down

  

  had nothing to offer me but to tell me to practice. At the start of the semester I had been assigned a seat at a table in the very back of the ... frustrated, failing everything, and can't see the light at the end of the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  Research Fellowship (SURF) program at the National Institute of Standards of ... picture? Those are zinc oxide nanowires growing on the edge of a silicon ... building block of the simple nanoscale world. Nanowires can be used as a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Class of 2012 Night at the Movies '21,' the MIT Blackjack Team movie, opens this weekend... who's in?

  

  MIT Class of 2012 Weekend at the Movies So how's it work? Well, the most ... movie or favorite scenes/lines. I'll post the results of the "Weekend at ... As you probably know, the movie 21, based on the true story of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Jill Biden waved at me D.C. during inauguration

  

  spread the word of Jesus recently. Everyone around us at the restaurant was ... of January where students can take a long winter break, take unique ... [/annotation] of the weekend: inauguration. Here's a cluster of weird and very

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On being at college MIT, specifically.

  

  there were only a couple of hallways and none of them had any forks; walking from one side of campus to the other took less than 4 minutes. MIT ... , I expected to get lost at some point. Everything is so new! Psets

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • September 15, 2016
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [Joint Post] Interviewing Two MIT Physics Heroes An Interview with Two MIT Physics Professors that are Departing from MIT.

  

  would be leaving the institute at the end of the year. Professor Peter ... supported the education of physics at MIT in a myriad of ways. From developing ... attaining his PhD, Peter began working at MIT in 1984 in a number of different

  • by Richard O. '28
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  I’ve been reading applications And I'm still reading them

  

  officers at MIT are expected to work 6 days out of the week, to meet our ... where it happens Since I spend most of my day reading files at my desk, I ... context requires the reader to collocate a lot of information at once

  • by Jeremy W.
  • November 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  My Final Blogpost With a heavy heart, I say goodbye to the MIT blogosphere. The journey was all…

  

  must have written at least a hundred different stories, most of them ... staring at the face of the killer, you’ve forgotten the wash of emotions ... compliments she had to offer, despite the overall morbidity of the characters

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 1, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  wikipedia-rabbit-hole-inducing one being offered, so of course I took it. It ... the crew calling out a phrase or 2 at the end of each section, to ... at a graph of people looking up “sea shanty” on google, the

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  busy, busy, busy screaming into the void

  

  really excited for it at first. the first day of golf class is tomorrow ... uk, for the first half of 2022. wouldn't that be exciting? except ... to study somewhere else, but this isn't it. in a stroke of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 12, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  lookin’ at the blur of this semester and ahead at the next one!

  

  course of the semester, I finished it later and later. First it was done at ... in at 6 am and promptly went to sleep. This wasn’t a great use of time ... performance While writing this blog, I had a look-see at some of the goals I

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 30, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  This past Sunday, I walked out of an early screening of Everything Everywhere All At Once hosted by MIT Lecture Series Committee (LSC). MIT LSC hosts a lot of very cool early screenings as well as just high quality

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022