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• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  who are fluent in both -- those who simply upon hearing my accent switch seamlessly into English. But also, those people are incredibly interesting in how they interact, particularly in the lab. Unsurprisingly, Germans

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  all the magic in-between dealing with proposals, funding, and listings ... 're interested in a professor's research, just go ask about it and see if they have ... , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Sacred Space and why it matters to unplug once in awhile

  

  in the long awaited spring sun streaming through the windshield and ... for all of us in this technological age to occasionally turn off our phones and unplug our Ipods at key moments in the day to fully engage in

  • by Kris Guay
  • April 11, 2011
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  sleeping marathons. Per tradition, I partook in the first of the three, as The Tech hosted its annual retreat in Maine. Maine seems to have a lot ... , Mexico, Naples, Vienna, Belfast, and Lisbon are all names of towns in the

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  To Defeat the Huns ...as Hamsika said, there's major business to get down to this semester.

  

  further ado, let me tell you why. In no particular order, my classes: 7 ... track in American schools. I had learned some basic biology in 6th grade, some more in 7th grade, for a whole year in 9th (including some intense

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 3, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  The Grandest of Road Trips Reflections on a cross-country road trip, on an international plane flight, on a full bladder.

  

  'm sitting in the emergency exit row directly behind a bathroom - but rather to decrease the suspicion of the two other people in the emergency exit row with me, who have not gone to the restroom once yet in the first three hours

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Scholarship Opportunity: Davidson Fellows A look at a scholarship worth up to $50,000, and some past MIT winners.

  

  for good opportunities, and when one recently appeared in my inbox, I ... accompanied by a $50,000, $25,000 or $10,000 scholarship in recognition of a significant piece of work in Science, Technology, Mathematics, Music, Literature

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  One Student’s Crusade to Stop Genocide I confess to regarding the phrase “never again” with cynicism. It offers a rhetorical smokescreen…

  

  the 1960s. In 1968, a coalition that included 48 MIT faculty members protested “the militarization of university research,” and in ... Studies [CIS]). In 1971, following Daniel Ellsberg’s leak of the

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • November 26, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  On Supplemental Materials Further information about application supplements.

  

  required or even expected. In general, you should not send supplemental ... send in a CD/DVD or score (or mp3/pdf email attachment) containing 2 ... talents in your application. Send this via US Mail to MIT, Room 4-243, 77

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 24, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Freedom costs a buck-oh-five Question: What are two broke twenty-somethings to do on a pristine summer day in Boston?Answer:…

  

  Despite the fact that I've lived in the Boston area for the past four ... was in college, but I had just never done it. Mostly I use the city for a) sitting in the Common reading the newspaper on my lunch break and b

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... 't ready for this to be a new year already, but it is. I rang in this new ... ; our lives have diverged enough that I'm starting to think of them in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  My mom is here! ...and she's critiquing my cheerleading skills.

  

  himself) back in Ohio to fend for themselves. Perhaps they will have to hunt ... just sounds cool.) My mom arrived in Boston at 5 PM, just in time to eat ... we haven't had time to go grocery shopping in a while, and fresh

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Paint Work VII The triumphant conclusion! Plus, the CIA is watching me.

  

  my trademark bunny hat. Don't worry, nobody dies in this entry ... down in her hometown of Covington GA to see a football game and a free ... four colors of paint in my hair. Anyway, it wasn't a problem because my

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  The other day, I had a little epiphany that came to me in the shape ... surprisingly large part in my conception of self over the past two years. I ... . February 20, 2020: I write my name on a little piece of paper, sit in 10

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and sneaking out of classrooms, sitting next to each other at lunch in between periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Visualize this! My new UROP We've got some really cool stuff going on this semester

  

  It’s a new school year, and I’ve started UROPing in a new lab! For ... ) program gives MIT undergrads a chance to do meaningful research in cutting ... year I'm starting in a new lab. The group is in MIT CSAIL (the Computer

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

  Re-introduction A summary, for those of you just tuning in.

  

  rough draft of my paper. This is my last week in the lab, and I'm trying ... around in Excel so much that my hands hurt, and when I close my eyes I see ... full name in it like I did last time, thus enabling every internet

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Announcements

  FYI: Undergraduates with family income below $200,000 can expect to attend MIT tuition-free starting in 2025 what it says on the tin

  

  like [annotation note='In fact, now that I think of it, many aspects of ... . I am still Tarnished but no longer maidenless. Meanwhile, in Ceri I have a spirit summons (mimic tear?) to assist me in various challenges as

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2024
• Blog / Life after MIT

  [guest post] on undergrad by laura c. '23

  

  pursuing a Ph.D. in quantum information next year! probably because I haven ... advice and self-help content, whether in the form of long-form blogs by ... some of my thoughts about my time in college and what I’ll do after for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 16, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  Every day, I realize more and more that I live in a privileged bubble ... what a lot of black people live through in this country. The fact remains ... before me, both in this country and in mine, the difference being that the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020