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• Blog / MISTI

  Ich Spreche Kein Deutsch. Apparently that's how you say "I don't speak German"...not that I would know.

  

  two words of the language native to the country you'll be traveling to ... with no idea where anyone or anything is. Despite my complaints and lack ... country for a litttle while: Look familiar? To summarize ~ (1) Ahhh, I

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 3, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  For Those Weeks When You Just Cannot We all have those weeks, sometimes you need a break

  

  okay, it is really hard to actually feel okay. So I took a break. I only ... you sit or stand with both feet on the ground and remind yourself where you are. You remind yourself that you aren't amidst a tragedy, that you

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  think it was edited from a two-hour movie down to the point where it was ... me at all, unlike Spiderman 2, where the value of an eigenvector can be ... Juggernaut, b****!" Also, there was a preview for Snakes on a Plane. Between

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  A Few Lessons from FLL

  

  Higher Ed, the best thing a student can do is whatever will advance his or ... solution to a real world problem. Each year there is a theme to the robot ... Spring is the season when students across the country are making

  • by Stu Schmill '86
  • April 23, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  decision. Everything is A LOT. I just wish there would be more minutes in ... will say a couple things I realized about my job and ETS. 1) This is ... their lives… 2) This is really hard… a question is not just a question

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Guest Entry: Engineers Without Borders Environmental engineering major Tiffany'12 fills in on international development

  

  . Even where there is water, many, especially women, avoid going to ... innovation going on here is through the roof! You can view all the teams here. Since the competition is ongoing, you can vote for five teams that you

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • April 14, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  to guess. Sometimes it is hard because you have a lot of stories ... being able to write well is important. You will never encounter a ... word where a short one will do. If it is possible to cut a word out

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Twenty-One Days Abroad in Twenty-One Photographs a curated photo dump of an IAP in Spain

  

  a convent where we would proceed to buy a box of marzipan from a nun ... definition of luxury. There is even a room with porcelain walls. What.  #11 ... -Bornemisza Museum. Madrid is home to quite a few excellent museums, including the

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 8, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Question me an answer. I try to help somebody, for the first time ever.

  

  doomsday devices)...so Chemcials + engineering...can you tell me what a real ... to do an entry introducing myself in a survey-type format. If you have any personal questions you'd like me to answer, just leave them in a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 27, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  be fair, the dining halls are all-you-can-eat (and-maybe-even-smuggle-out-in-a ... stability of always having a meal ready, every day, no work required. There is ... efficient system. I still visit the dining halls frequently - you can buy

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... , but because this is an MIT blog and there is a magic square in the ... the catenary curve, which is the shape a string hangs in when you hold

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics

  

  eight. You say, “Mom, can I buy that entire cake and eat it?” Of course ... you ask to get a cookie she is more likely to say yes. My [annotation ... where the lowest level of a class will still challenge you and teach you

  • by Amber V. '24
  • September 25, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen: The Sequel! I've written about it before, and now I'm writing about it again!

  

  to start a long day of pen training. You can see Chris there in the ... Tuesday. Is this a blog entry about my trip there? Of course! On Friday I ... Francisco and fart around there. A nice homeless guy taught us how to buy

  • by Snively '11
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Deadline: Your Questions [Updated] With the Early Action deadline fast approaching, I'll try to answer some last minute questions.

  

  to apply with the research abstract? Is there a competitive edge in ... international applicants. [...] Also, there is a cap on the maximum number of ... MIT, not because we like how well you can throw/kick a ball. And you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 31, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  [Guest Post] Olivia S. ‘20 en Monterrey teaching algorithmic thinking to girls in México

  

  flee the country, which is what I did through the Big Dreams program. I ... be used to maximize happiness, called Gale-Shapley. Here is a picture ... science education, especially to young girls, is a cause that everyone

  • by Abby H. '20
  • June 4, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a ... buy you a burrito.’ Ok. Hmmm. So maybe Chris has it right after all ... Ok, so you know how Chris is always talking about free food? Well, I

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  [/annotation] held a Craft Market where student artists could sell a variety of ... 's a lot of fiber artists. (There's also an interestingly large ... , though, because there was a wide range of skill levels, and everyone at the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  , departments, resources and culture. It turns out where you live can strongly ... sunk a frosh! Play a game of battleship where you're the ships and the ... . Unlike Michaelangelo though, you can just take a ceiling tile down at

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Why was I up so early this weekend? Reaffirming my faith in humanity and destroying my confidence with computers

  

  is even legal in Massachusetts, less than a block from some cops who ... riding a bike without a helmet is only illegal in Massachusetts if you are ... to work. And I failed. Getting the check scanner to work is a tricky

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 20, 2011
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  ¡Es-pa-ña! ¡Campeones!

  

  you can see just how many people where there. It's incredible.) Enjoy ... So. I know a lot of you reading this are Americans, which means that ... resembling a normally shaped ball. But, to the rest of the world, football is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 5, 2008