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• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  Andrea Orji, '21 There is a common phrase in Hindi: ठीके (“teek-hey”) meaning “all is well”. Many times in my discussions with people at work, at the market or anywhere else I found myself at some point in the

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2018 Diaries what the weekend was like for me

  

  Exploration for freshmen in the fall), and Bad Ideas Weekend. I associate rush burgers with my first time in the EC courtyard, when I dyed my hair in ... weekend. In previous years, I’ve been woken by everything from Fall Out Boy

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 17, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  2.009: the product engineering process the best class at mit

  

  covered in this liveblog by Janet and Kayode, and you can watch the ... . Your experience in 2.009 can depend a lot on your team, so I feel super ... powered respirator for wildland firefighters, in MIT's biggest auditorium

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • January 16, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Flashback 1.0 What was I like as freshman? Wouldn't you like to know.

  

  am I? I'm Laura, and in my first entry ever, I introduced myself to the ... you've got the time.) What did prefrosh Laura think she'd major in ... Engineering) as a major and possibly minor in Course 17 (Political Science

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s 2017! highlight reels from the new year

  

  to do with the meme--at least not in any clear way--I realize that I ... ’t pretend, in spite of the last year, to not be excited about 2017. In fact, I ... space and time and see the forthcoming events from the year, in at least

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 1, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  what we mean when we say the people why we like “the people”

  

  people at mit"? i think it's mostly undergrads, people in related friend ... would answer differently in theory because what i like is my personal ... much more grounded in facticity, but for every dashed bit of romanticism

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 25, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  the perfect choice doesn’t exist not the same river, not the same you

  

  , regularly scheduled programming. one. as i alluded to in my last post, i was ... living with other people in a dorm, the experience of being closely ... . everything that i expected it would be before coming in wasn't at all what it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 22, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Recapping Trashion 2015 sustainable fashion == trashion

  

  reduction and sustainability. Student designers from MIT and other schools in ... , which are then modeled on our runway. Trashion was founded in 2011, is an ... teaches in STS.   Trashion Show 2015 Promo Video from MIT UA on

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MOMENTOS IMPRESIONANTES Because this place is full of them.

  

  I remember the first time I went to a market in my hometown. It was ... I’ve ever had to, an effect self-evident in me staying up late on several nights to finish aggravating p-sets, and in me having to think more

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I’m a Muslim Woman and… on this #MuslimWomensDay, meet some p cool ppl

  

  away from my dorm? Do I talk about the halal food that’s served in Mc ... in my hijab? When I found out about Muslim Women’s Day, I immediately ... , because faith is something that is very much within a person. It is in the

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 27, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  October Questions Omnibus 1 More Q, and more A.

  

  condensed it to a 8-page report? Where can I add it in the MIT application? Can I add it in Section 13 of the MIT Application ?(where they ask you ... 've created. However, rather than sending in the 8-page report, write a new

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  checked off 101 things to do before you graduate...

  

  This blog has been in the works for a… long time. I first started ... grad dorms are pretty easy for me to forget. Participate in a UROP… or ... freshman year, the first one jointly being in Course 15 (Management) and 22

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  everything, all at once thoughts on science, ambition, and obsession

  

  Earlier this summer, sitting at a bar in Berlin, a friend and I made ... desire to stay in academia at least for a while yet. Hearing me talk, he ... read an article about you in twenty years." That caught my ear, though

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 2, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A (Not At All) Comprehensive Guide to Your First Year what i've learned as an associate advisor

  

  First Year (OFY) who is in charge of these things. note that as the years ... , so I don't know just how universal everything in this blogpost would be, but I hope this is helpful in some capacity. Table of Contents GIRs

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 10, 2022
• Blog / About Decisions

  Raskolnikov as an Odd Metaphor on angst and deferral

  

  too well. If you get in, here's a virtual mug of my favorite [annotation ... and stay clear of the clutches of procrastination.  Well… I did start ... Caltech, which I was also applying to EA. I was completely in love with MIT

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 3 (Finals) You may begin at the sound of my voice. You have an hour to answer…

  

  clear that I had always felt at ease with my family and friends in Nigeria ... enzymes is called Ihtfpase, why are you still reading this? – Running in ... one freshman in the eye without freaking him or her out to begin a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 26, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Airplane boy strikes again Adam writes about his UROP.

  

  have a test tomorrow?] So I, the gallant boyfriend, am stepping in to write the much anticipated UROP explanation thing. In my three years at ... sophomore year I worked in the Aerospace Controls Labratory (ACL) and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 12, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  on knowing what I’m doing in which I decide to go to grad school

  

  , like I’m in the middle of a field and there used to be a road I was following and now there isn't.... I remember this feeling very clearly, it ... sophomore fall. I wasn't really certain in what I wanted to do after college

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Flood, an Ark, a Third Word I Am Missing Sophomore year starts out a little wet, and what is a community, really?

  

  !) (and also hands and feet, in case that wasn’t clear). I speak Chinese fluently; I can communicate pretty well in my dad’s regional language, Kafa ... roots in my father’s nation, Ethiopia, and my mother’s, China. I consider

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 21, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  was clear. I would get all As in school, continue learning programming ... myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so ... computer screen in the coming weeks. For the record, it's virtually unheard

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009