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• Blog / MISTI

  A day at Seaborg Technologies interning at a nuclear startup in Denmark

  

  . I am an engineer now. It’s lucky I remember what a semi-colon is ... head upstairs, where I tuck myself in a mutebox, which is like an ... to all the graphs, remembered to breathe in between. Before I knew it

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 9, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  July and Unified O.O and lots of pictures

  

  ?                                               Before I go back to this summer, my life thus far has been a conglomoration ... ;:) In any case, I must return to my summer before winter rolls around ... design for a little over a month. Rising 8th graders. Did I even know what

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 14, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Room, A Short Story This story is somewhat weird and slightly dark. Reader's discretion is advised.

  

  plop. In that moment, just before something of a seizure grabbed him, Ted ... absolute, what always was, and what had always been, in a world that could be ... around his small, money-sucking apartment, a pinprick in the vast mix of

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 2, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  The Aftershock In memory of Kate Hunter ‘20 (1997-2017), who will always be remembered for her big…

  

  every few days. And I’m sure it all is a fraction of what her family is ... professionals on this one. I just finished A Gentleman in Moscow, as part of my ... how grief manifested itself in me. Instead, it was a tangled balloon of

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • January 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  Fifty Shades of Break or things to do other than pressing F5

  

  when I ran too much and got a stress fracture in my foot :/ ) 37) Cuddle ... towards the end of high school, my friends and I would religiously check the ... were usually left with a mixed bag of news (it turns out I am incredibly

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 12, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Navigating MIT is like flying a spacecraft* the most important things I've learned here so far

  

  hanging on my wall: I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in ... better prepared.  I knew what to expect in interviews now; I knew what my ... you going after you bomb a midterm, what keeps you hitting the books

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 16, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  E-mail It's like D-mail, only the next letter.

  

  type a couple of commands, which I detail in the next video. There you ... perks I was looking forward to if I got accepted. The first was a Brass ... 't have a brass rat yet (this year though!) I did get my MIT e-mail address

  • by Snively '11
  • September 30, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Impulsive Decisions as expected, have consequences

  

  during IAP. But one night in September, I was checking my emails, writing ... a lightbulb literally went off in my head. I could be learning Korean ... 'm very happy about it :) I was chatting with a friend in studio in the

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • December 25, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  baby steps something tender and new

  

  want about what i’m feeling and how that makes me a flawed person or whatever, but if i don’t take any steps to change that, even in a small way ... urop emails so i can find a place before the direct funding deadline, and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • August 25, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Food, Folks, and Fun…..but definitely not mcdonald’s Quinton makes friends at the Muslim Student Association

  

  , and staff as humanly possible in order to get a full taste of the true ... completing a doctoral program at Yale University, I was sold on the event and I ... after a full day of work, I made my way over to Sidney Pacific graduate

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Q&A Round Two Answers to some questions

  

  covering the material that it should be. Mugho Pine asked: If you come in ... what are some of the classes/teachers you've particularly enjoyed? I didn ... staff are allowed to take 1 course per term. Some professors may audit a

  • by Bryan
  • February 13, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What Am I Forgetting? A helpful guide.

  

  I'm leaving for Boston tomorrow this morning. As most of my friends and family could tell you, I'm just a little bit frazzled when packing to go to or from MIT...so I would, almost inevitably, forget one vital

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  judge. Remember what you learned in first-year composition? You need a ... in speech therapy. When I asked her why, Jennifer said she had taken a ... -and-ink self come alive. Don't just say, "I used to work on an assembly line in a

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Hack Punt Tool: The Musical Now, the music can be yours.

  

  I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED I'M SO EXCITED and you should be too ... been released! A little bit of background, in case you missed the ... . As part of their quest to be hardk0re, they get involved in a hack: a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Space Robots II: Attack of the Paradigm Shifts why undergraduate research is so much more than an opportunity

  

  , for all you haven't-learned-MITese folks), I UROP'd in a really amazing ... class in high school! This… is unimaginable, what else would I be?? I got ... printed to my screen. In a reckless, rash, and intuitive leap-of-faith, I

  • by Piper '13
  • January 27, 2012
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  in their dorm rooms. I have a vinyl cutter in my GRA apartment—I think ... heard of it before. It really fills me with a sense of wonder whenever I ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Culture Shock

  

  10 PM, which was glorious in a way, but just meant that I got far less ... So I'm back in the US, and it's weird. The first thing I noticed as I ... can hold moisture, I'd totally forgotten about that!" It was quite a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 21, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But ... . “What if… I just got a US driver’s license?” “Right now?” “Right now ... driving experience, I still needed to get a learner's permit before doing my

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In the Darkness of the Night one of the strangest things I have ever experienced

  

  had. In lieu of a proper picture, I have made a diagram to try and ... called by an emcee with a microphone; what he was actually saying, I have ... small children kicking a soccer ball or sitting in a circle. While in

  • by Becca H. '12
  • January 24, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesday on 16th Street A Day in the Life

  

  around the city so I go get a smoothie. These women in sundresses order ... . He said, “yeah, I don’t do a lot but just once in a while you know ... used to see him when I made solitary adventures downtown on Fridays in

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 11, 2015