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• Blog / MISTI

  ~*~Thoughts Are Like Traces of Birds In Heaven~*~ (P.S. I finally added pictures to my last entry - sorry about the delay!)

  

  've spent about two weeks at the Salem International School and a week in ... yesterday that I took a train from Berlin to Frankfurt - for what is ... , we were in Berlin for a Deutsche Bahn case study, so we took the

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 19, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Make Friends Disclaimer: Attempt at your own risk

  

  , in high school, in general, if freshman orientation is clique-y like ... , you have to put yourself out there in a lot of small ways. You have to ... from the week and taking a nap in my room, but Kevin really wanted to go

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 30, 2016
• Blog / Study Abroad

  One Life to Live In which I use the title of a soap opera as a motivational phrase

  

  otherwise I'd feel incredibly bad for spending my entire morning writing in ... , it's easier to believe that there was time in-between I spent studying ... sounds incredibly daunting, and to some people, even a little crazy or

  • by Karen F. '11
  • October 13, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  goes hand in hand with being a hopeless romantic. always mourning a ... around it, uneasily, like you're staring down a lion in a cage. (you carry ... you're still hurt, aren't you? it's a familiar ache in your chest, the

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Discuss Disqus launching our new commenting system

  

  example is Slashdot, which has a robust commenting community. It allows ... only those who don't have a Facebook account, but also those who would ... anonymized system for those who preferred it was definitely a prerequisite for

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 10, 2012
• Blog / Announcements

  The First-Year Application for the MIT Class of 2026 is now live

  

  “bump” to students who apply to MIT during Early Action. There is no ... possible  Something that is the same as last year, but a change from our ... depend on your email provider; in GMail, for example, you can write a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people who knew exactly what they want to do with life. I was terrified of the ... Dear MIT Protofrosh, If I had a time machine, I’d travel to my

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  's when I graduate!I've been, in a word, miserable. This sort of misery is ... why that is. Turns out, the combination of September starting on a Wednesday, and Christmas happening on a Saturday have culminated in a perfect

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  [The following is a collection of ramblings and memory unloadings ... efforts) immediately stuck and will forever hold a place in my heart.  I ... and half in his yard. I miss Sam’s death trap of a car, with dirty

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what ... concepts, including a "faster" moving sidewalk (no joke...): This thing is

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  And then Trogdor smote the Kerrek

  

  , compared with 22% who choose to have an interview. The reason for this is a ... actively prefer those students who have interviews? Or is it that the ... a bit of all three. But the numbers all point in one direction: you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 30, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Wahoo! MIT takes over Doonesbury! Alex Doonesbury is coming to a campus near you.

  

  . Basically, a hacker from Baker wrote up a script in Flash ActionScript in 15 ... For those of you who are closely following the Doonesbury comic strip ... #3 on it), Alex Doonesbury is officially going to MIT! Look out for

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 19, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  and is wrapping up his PhD in Astronomy. There’s also Mike Xiang, who ... me assure you that I graduated with a MechE/BME degree in 2008. I have ... lab is in the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT, and Harvard. Thinking back

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that are awesome being published, D-lab, and MISTI. Also cookies. But there are no cookies in this entry.

  

  's actually a Laura Nicholson who is my year at Harvard. I was not blessed with a unique name.) My influence is most clearly seen in the acceleration ... - energy storage is a tricky problem. How creative can you get in solving it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 20, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Classes about the Brain That Blew My Mind and I just had to share

  

  course Professor is also a really big deal in the field and he still hangs ... —and who knows who will visit next! As a result, we get the most accurate ... knows if I’ll also have to critique a speaker's paper in front of them

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 6, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Belonging Who belongs at MIT?

  

  I'm a little exhausted from answering questions right now, so this is ... into a discussion about the kind of person who's happy at MIT. It ... for students who have an interview or have an interview waived is higher

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 29, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  clarify a point or answer a question I had. I remember turning in my first ... I had three tests in a row, plus a problem set due that same Thursday ... Last Wednesday, somewhere between a biology test and a chemistry

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Gotterdammerung and The Barber of Seville [by Xenia '13] Art Scholars go to the Met!

  

  famous “Figaro, Figar-oooo”. A short summary: There is a Count, who falls ... Wagner was many years ago, in a summer novel: an elegant, cultured but ... overarching politics, although the former is on a grander scale. Turns out one

  • by ARTalk
  • March 20, 2012
• FAQ / Life and culture

  Does MIT offer Army, Air Force, Navy ROTC?

  . Any student may participate in the classroom training. Students who are ... MIT is proud to offer Army, Air Force, and Naval ROTC programs on ... opened its doors in 1865. Since then, more than 12,000 officers have been
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Peanut Butter Delusion Arguments as old as man.

  

  annoyed by these people who couldn't argue so I bought a burrito, ate it ... attended. In a room in the student center, the organization had put about thirty chairs in a circle so that anyone could stop by and ask the author a

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • September 13, 2008