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• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... Bastille Day, France's national holiday, and Paris definitely did the holiday justice. From the firemen's ball to the spectacular fireworks by

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  Break New Ground Join the NEW MIT-Chile Program

  

  ,000,000 and one of the world’s highest economic growth rates, Chile is a ... , is home to the country’s most important universities and research ... country, where vineyards are cared for and some of the world’s best

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Uncategorized

  What Should I Do Next Semester? i'm making a list and checking it twice

  

  different audience and see a different set of responses.  Here's ... the list.) Fortunately, that's it; after this semester, I'll be ... could be doing too)? Help me out here! Here's some basic stuff I'

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • November 14, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day ... (like myself) who don’t know anyone participating, there’s quite the ... is a nice place to watch the marathon because there’s so much space and

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Decisions mailed;

  

  there's really nothing more I can say. I hope this blog has been ... Metro Boston by tomorrow's mail, so for most of you, decisions will ... , it's my birthday, etc.), but we won't release any decisions

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 11, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  Preparing for College or not*

  

  ’m not. And that’s exactly the problem. I do have a lot to do, I’m just ... prepare. It’s a special kind of self-delusion. So I’m here to highlight all ... will finally drag me back to reality. Let’s start with housing. I

  • by Hala K. '29
  • August 15, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Admissions Math Month, Part 1 – Duality There are two wolves inside you

  

  ]\LaTeX[/latex]. And they’re all Paolo’s! That changes today. MIT exposes us to so many ... non-mathematician, I think it’s hard to define duality succinctly yet intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  taste ai has no taste.

  

  mean by taste?” Me: “Like, having good judgment and discernment. It’s ... optimization and low-level programming languages during my master’s degree, which ended up as “programming that’s closer to the hardware”…) Recently, I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 20, 2023
• Blog / MISTI

  quiet moments out in the rural English countryside

  

  parish of st ives. it’s a town that’s around 10 miles outside of Cambridge ... located). in fact, it’s so small that it usually appears on the 2nd page of ... fields. and i love it   it’s quaint tucked away in an abundance of

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • July 19, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  from me to you burn it all down

  

  struggled with writing blogposts in the past few months. It’s not for a lack of things to write about—there’s always something going on in my life, but that’s the problem. I feel like I’m on a rollercoaster, or some

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 17, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Taking a Step Back Using Avatar: the Last Airbender to talk about my feelings

  

  's that** In the TV show Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko, the show’s main villain for the first two seasons, falls very ill after freeing avatar Aang’s ... prince of the Fire Nation. This has been his life’s goal on the order of

  • by Powers '23
  • September 23, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  Advice I give others that I don’t follow myself (yet)

  

  . Situations change. If you don’t have the energy for it, that’s fine. You ... mind don’t matter. It’s a cliche because it’s true, and we tend to ignore cliches, so take extra effort to remind yourself it’s true. In practice, it

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Thanksgiving Nostalgia if MIT == home

  

  10,968 hours. That’s 457 days, which is 1 year and 3 months since I ... rare observation because I think it’s often hard to notice change in ... what else has changed. D E S K  S P A C E As a student, I spend an

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • December 1, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Lilly Chin The Spiciest Memelord

  

  tacos and a reliably lively crowd at 2 A.M. on the weekends. It’s a place ... ” with “Who is the Spiciest Memelord?” Since her win, she’s been featured on multiple news outlets, and also appeared on a podcast run by MIT’s

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 27, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Lego Heroines interview with the amazing Maia Weinstock!

  

  Ideas competition, let me fill you in. MIT’s very own Maia Weinstock ... the deputy editor for MIT news and also helps manage MIT’s social media ... thank her. She has been busy interviewing around the U.S. and even in

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  Emab Plaza is a busy shopping mall located in the heart of Nigeria’s ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... its own life. There’s always a crawl of congested traffic at its

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking Shape

  

  It’s hard to believe the first month of sophomore year is already ... inform and stimulate conversation relevant to the day’s assigned reading ... software package called A la rencontre de Philippe. It’s an interactive

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 25, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Please, Mr. Postman A fair and balanced look at the inbox of a typical MIT student.

  

  's no better way to do that than to look at my webmail inbox--to see ... 's go through the past week or so: Monday, 7/11/05: 4 Tuesday, 7 ... barley soup in the cafeteria at her place of employment --Sam's Mom

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 21, 2005
• Blog / Classes

  happy LFDOC! my last semester of undergrad :)

  

  . Namely:  It’s my very last semester (still trying to wrap my head around ... it was going to go versus how it actually went when it’s all said and ... think it’s achievable because I have a lot more I still want to share with

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 3, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA decisions to be posted Saturday, 12/18/21, 3:14 PM ET i guess the title kind of says it all, huh?

  

  So, on Slack I asked Ella '25 and Jenny '25 to help me with this...and...well...here’s ... early action, and because you are the closest in age to the 2026s and I am ... : Minecraft roleplay? Like…how? jenny: so there’s this thing called dream smp

  • by kellen manning
  • December 13, 2021