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• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns Hopkins students interning in Beijing. This was my first opportunity to meet ... Michael Jackson to Katy Perry to LED shirts … ...as well as a whole shelf

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10: Another Fab Four Sarah Dupuis '10, Zachary Bjornson-Hooper '10 Emily Houston '10, and Renaldo Webb '10.

  

  . Renaldo Webb, a Marrero, La., native who plans to study subatomic physics, is the first person in his family to attend college. A graduate of MIT ... . It is a remarkable group who will bring a vibrant energy to this campus

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 28, 2006
• Blog / Classes

  Junior Year Sticky Notes mainly thoughts on post-grad life & friendship

  

  restricted elective that I get to pick from a relatively long list. In total ... students to take a certain combination of restricted electives to form a ... according to plan, I'll graduate with a degree in 20 and[annotation note

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • April 3, 2026
• Blog / Classes

  Up, Up, and Away how to get out of the 'tute (temporarily) and out into the world

  

  wanted to try living abroad, this is a good taste test because you can live and work anywhere between 3 months to a year. Most MISTI programs also have a language requirement to prepare you for a serious language

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 ... Studies, visited the class to show everyone how to make a German apple cake ... kitchens. It was a really cute and unique experience that would be hard to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... confused. Let me clarify: If today does happen to be your birthday, have a ... banana cake (Aside: making banana [blank] is a really good thing to do when

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What’s my age again? Spring semester so far

  

  ’m trying to figure out if I can be a grownup and still like comic books. Life feels a little like this right now (mouse over): I’m trying to take on ... Algebra Since I decided to be a math major I need to take this. Why not now

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 3, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  someone’s gotta do it, but not me is it cool not to care?

  

  students who've never touched a nerf gun before the opportunity to shoot one. i wanted to give middle school and high school students a chance to go ... ? they'd ask. i have a friend who used to live on floorpi, and he always

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Navigating Offcampus Housing 101 finding housing is a fucking nightmare

  

  between properties, and a giant tear in a friend's jeans as she tried to ... impression that finding a place to live during the school year would be easy ... occupants that was below 7, bedrooms too small to turn into doubles, a weird

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 11, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... to try to solve it. This year, we have to create a controller for a ... physical device itself, and has to make the flash look like a traditional

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Spirit of Competition [by MIDN Brendan McCord, '08] Every year, the Army, Navy, and Air Force duke it…

  

  coordinated a flanking attack of the enemy. They fought valiantly to repel our ... of people who will have to hang together, and there is a great sense of ... fellow men and women. It took a competition like that to remind me of it so

  • by ROTC
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Where Have I Been? Oh, what a bad blogger I have been.

  

  Oh, what a bad blogger I have been. I was lamenting to Matt last week that I haven't had a chance to think up any good entries - sorry guys. Hope to fix that soon! So what have I been doing... First, a variety of

  • by Ben Jones
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work Hard, Play Hard Me trying to find a balance between work and fun

  

  always put in my best effort to try to make it up to them; however, for a ... friends/free time has changed a lot since I got to MIT. One of the biggest ... spent a lot of my time going from place to place to place, but we were

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 6, 2017
• Blog / Advice

  tidbits pieces of advice

  

  this a lot, but I'd rather go to a hard school with a collaborative and ... just to make sure you get through that class a little easier or get to ... 'right' way to do MIT. I personally take 3-4 classes a semester and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  ’m working on a half-finished project i tend to assume a positive outcome for the part i have yet to finish, and as a result i am usually discontent ... summer i was working at a startup whose focus was to build infrastructure

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Techfair! tisn't ye olde renaissance faire, institvte

  

  not only refusing to snow for more than a few days, but by having ... made me want to wake up and go outside. In a manner not dissimilar to ... working on the software for. The Hobby Shop is a fun machine shop open to

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • February 19, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  In Memoriam: Professor Silbey

  

  finally worked up the nerves to ask a question in his class, only to confirm ... . Silbey let out a huge, surprised yawp before proceeding to lay on the desk ... relative, though it seems as though he was a great one to many other people

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • November 1, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT Alum Adam Riess ‘92 Wins Nobel Prize Riess was a Course 8 Phi Delt with a minor in History.

  

  addition to his major in Physics, Riess also picked up a minor in History. According to a Johns Hopkins Magazine story, capped off his history minor by ... -accelerating rate. The discovery came as a complete surprise even to the Laureates

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  BREAK MY BODY, LIBERATE MY SOUL a student-made installation in the Stata Center R&D pub

  

  least a decade, but has since been abandoned for wayfaring students to ... installation. a complex installation that would take several months to build, no less. the project, which Karyn refers to as a "20-channel Frankenstein

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 19, 2023
• Blog / How to MIT

  socializing safely ...but also leaving my room maybe once a day

  

  , and it's been...exhausting, in a sense; I miss being able to bump into ... went to campus recently to get a [annotation note="all students were ... Mocha Moves members to choreograph a piece for our virtual set a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 15, 2020