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• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so ... mates on a retreat in June. I never knew that French people liked the YMCA ... been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  what’s the point? on impact, art, external validation, and remembering to be kind

  

  ," at least in the way that phrase is typically meant. I think it is very ... , I do think there is a meaning of life. I wrote three years ago, back ... collaborate in a way that actually creates positive progress. And, although I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 21, 2024
• Blog / Advice

  Two Years and how it's changed me

  

  is time? I keep trying to type about things that are different, but ... much everything around me has. How do I begin? I found myself ... the first place, I decided to stay. I lived in East Campus for a year

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 28, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  throughlines some things never change (but thankfully, only some)

  

  i will never be a student again, that there is a world in which in 2 ... is still wild to me that i'm a grad student at MIT, that i've been ... killian and up to the big dome, and think about how wild it is that i'm here

  • by Phi A. '21
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Questions and answers

  

  you that you feel get you closer to your goal in life? So I guess what I am asking is, specifically, how has MIT helped you come closer to ... what can be found in most universities?" Wow, that's quite a question

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  In which I show no restraint whatsoever But don't worry, you'll all probably benefit from it (unless, you know, you don't).

  

  comfortable, is really not necessary for your bed. In fact, I fear that it may ... is not that important. I ranked Baker first in my housing lottery three ... at home ever since. I've been in my house for what I think is going on

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 11, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in ... lineart second, since that's the opposite of how I usually draw. Doing it ... that's been fine with me—this is my first academic year where I

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summers spending three at home

  

  this person is doing xyz, I should also be doing xyz”) and an internal desire (“omg this person is doing xyz, wouldn’t it be so cool if I could ... ="aligncenter" width="500"] On a side note, UM's campus is really pretty and green and

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • June 22, 2019
• Blog / Challenges

  Immaterial Girl in a Material World There is an imposter among us

  

  . Polina Anikeeva) is a big comic book fan and uses that passion in her ... appendix for a more detailed account. The TL;DR is that I needed a major ... disoriented. How could I do all the exciting course 3 things while still being a

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 1, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Delicious Things Mmmmm.

  

  Verde's. (In fact, the only time I even ever use TechCash is to do laundry. I ... here you really have to pick and choose what is important to you. I do ... Despite how many mailing lists I'm on, I'm not an active member of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 26, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  experiences and be a person in a city doing all of the things that one can. Each ... , questioning why I do things like MIT in the first place. But then it's that city ... want that mystical, unrealistic, I'm-upper-middle-class-and-happily-live-in-a

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  We’re Only Getting Older

  

  twenty in four days.  I always cry on my birthday. I think this is a ... often. Believing in one’s own infallibility is a dangerous drug. I’m far ... that my life is, in many ways, like a mediocre TV show. They

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • February 5, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I Never Thought I Would Join a Sorority ...but here I am?

  

  many questions about making friends in college that I even wrote a blog ... , if you told me that I would join a sorority in college, I would laugh ... reputation, especially for us nerds. In particular, as a multiracial woman, I

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 6, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pass No Record, Oh How I Loved Thee. A quick look at first semester!

  

  semester is a time to make that daily fire hose drinking session a little bit ... I enjoy them all,  I learned a metric ton of material in a ... information in a 3 hour test. It was a level of understanding that my high

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  need to do after that is a HASS concentration and another HASS-D, and all ... preparing in the summer hols. I am doing AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / How to MIT

  New Year; New Me! (Two Months Late Oops) I’ve been thinking a lot about what I want to do in my last semester…

  

  sink in. That is a problem I didn’t touch on enough in my original ... tell this story so that you can see just how far I spiral. The truth is ... chance.[/visually_hidden] This is a goal, a vague one, that I’ve already

  • by ana~
  • March 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Post: Who You Vote for May Not Matter that you vote most certainly does!

  

  so low that casting a vote is a waste of my time. But what if the value of voting lies not in who wins, but how they treat you once they do? A ... That you vote most certainly does! The following is a guest entry

  • by Erick P. '17
  • October 13, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  and harmonies that don’t exist in the original song to create a thicker ... arrangements. the pros are that learning new music for each concert is a lot of ... are that rehearsing new music from scratch is hard, and arranging is a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan ... all the food I ate for a week, because I thought that would be a cool ... made some breadsticks rolled around in crushed corn flakes. I eat that

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Life after MIT

  11 Reasons Why Senior Haus is Awesome Twelve, if you count me once living there. That's pretty awesome, right?

  

  post on dyslexia!). As a student, I lived in Senior Haus. Matt once said that I was Senior Haus; I was president in 2008, ran Steer Roast in 2009 ... , I’m a freshman from Binghamton in upstate New York, interested in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 17, 2012