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• Blog / MISTI

  Africans@MIT: The Accra Experiment This week in the series: a Ghanaian research initiative by a dedicated MIT senior

  

  other MIT community members. He was partly inspired by Bruke K. ‘19, for

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 8, 2018
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Spring break in Canada Snowboarding ramps, waterfalls, poutine, butterflies, and lots of noodles.

  

  This year, for spring break my friend Yida and I decided to head to Canada! My friend Yida, showing off the giant ramp of the snowboarding Jamboree in Quebec City.…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 4, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  One Week Robot and sports and owls, oh my

  

  It’s been a whirlwind of a week. I initially planned for this post to have some sort of structure, but it’s become a bit of a brain dump of everything…

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • December 9, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In case you want to travel over IAP… You have a lot of options!

  

  Barcelona, IAP 2017   College study abroad programs are really great. You get to travel and experience living in another country, and it’s possible to do so on a college…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 11, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Slump and an unexpected summer

  

  My second year of college just ended. I’ve been trying to think of a good post to write on the occasion, or some significant reflection on my halfway point at…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • June 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  It’s been a stressful last few weeks. The weekend before Thanksgiving, though, was another one of those IHTFP, !!! IHTFP !!!, weeks. The same day I left for the 2017 Eastern Sectional…

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dreams How MIT has helped me keep a life long promise

  

  For many people, the idea of “what do I want to be when I grow up” is a question that is easily answered when we are five or six (princess,…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • August 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  I love food. This is no secret. Here at MIT, I cook for myself during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other…

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes from the Road: NorCal, Netherlands, Nick Cannon, and Nerd Camp where I've been, what I've been doing

  

  stuff. Week of June 13-June 19 On Wednesday I got my copy of Civic Media

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 22, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  My “Normal” High School What it was like going to an ordinary high school

  

  Now, I can be pretty sure that most everyone applying to MIT has a number of things that they are worried about. Grades, SAT scores, the amount of extracurricular classes…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • January 16, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Questions for 2016 And what I gained after a semester at MIT

  

  I have something of a love-hate relationship with 2015. Last year was defined by its discontinuities. The first half of the year was spent trying not to fall asleep in…

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 3, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  Tips and Tricks to MIT What I have learned in my first semester at MIT

  

  Honestly, I think if you ask anyone at MIT, there is something of a learning curve. By learning curve I don’t mean “oh snap it is going to take me…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • December 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  When Friends Become Family How MIT has become my home (with some beautiful pics to accompany)

  

  I am not sure about the rest of you guys, but when it comes to me I have a good amount of friends, but more often than not they are…

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  . There’s a book launch on June 19th, but more details about that later. I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Events

  A Brief History of Thursday I met Kip Thorne.

  

  I’m the type of person who never wins the lottery. Were this a persuasive five-paragraph essay, my three thesis-support arguments would be: (1) prior to Monday, I was under the…

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 9, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  New York A break from Cambridge.

  

  the bowels of Chinatown, Ben and I took our luggage and walked about 19

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 26, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall 2024 🍂 aka, things settle down.

  

  ways to think about chance as a function. (12 units) 21W.774 [The Art of ... ="attachment_112262" align="aligncenter" width="1400"] an assignment for 21W.744 ... succeeding in converting people to 21W at a SHASS event :( -The time I saw a

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • February 21, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  lord, it is time for a blog post the huge semester has gone halfway by

  

  semester or so, and I'm really enjoying doing problems like that again. 21M ... hours a week, but, as expected, I am still thoroughly enjoying it. 21M ... concert this semester was beautiful. 21M.780, Writing the Full-Length Play

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 13, 2021
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  Choosing a Major there are so many

  

  asked me during CPW back in 2019. “21E,” I said, thinking that every ... , similar to 21E"]21S,[/annotation] [annotation note="physics!"]8,[/annotation

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 20, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Food, glorious food In which I learn that Simmons Dining is not, in fact, the best that Boston's…

  

  eggs, plantain, salad, rice, beans, and an arepa (all for $14). "Corn ... me ~$14). I went here on Jebby '25's suggestion. My order: Peach

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 6, 2025