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• Blog / MISTI

  “Heroes” The second in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Michael Jackson.

  

  everybody knows happened there really got to me. But as our English-language tour guide said, "You can tell the new architecture from the old ... . Somebody remarked that it was impossible to get by the Brandenburger Tor

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 14, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  It’s Nice to Meet You Finding my confidence through inline skating.

  

  until I got to MIT my freshman year. I got a pair for $25 with kneepads, elbowpads, and wristguards at Goodwill. I had always wanted to learn, but living near hills made it too intimidating to learn. The area around MIT

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • March 29, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  which finding and committing yourself to work you love is like romantic ... lingering doubts about going to grad school dissipated. there was a moment ... enough to stay in the department, but i never felt totally sure about it. i

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Campos on Campus A True Westside Story

  

  to do a good job and impress everyone. I worked 12 hours a day and was ... officer, I think that I would have had fun trying to be a journalist. I like to think of myself as someone who asks the tough questions and is not

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • June 20, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Not my college essay It's Blog Action Day and the topic is poverty.

  

  which my tour guide responded, “Oh, those belong to a member who started ... grossly underpaid and need your donations (PayPal preferred) to buy space heaters and electric blankets for the coming winter. Although I'd love to

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 14, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool UROP position UROP opportunity: helping people fight obesity using robots

  

  -- Hardware The Robotic Life group in the Media Lab is looking for a UROP to help with a project applying sociable robots to the real-world problem of obesity. This project intends to help people who are trying to lose weight

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 20, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  all the classes I took freshman year feeling scholarly, part 1/2

  

  …"]year.[/annotation] I’d rather focus on subjects important to my research/career path ... . Instead, once I discovered the concept of office hours, I went to those ... can count on one hand the number of times I went to office hours for any

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • June 18, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  what i am taking in spring 26 because i'm stuck at the airport right now. NOT ranked in terms of edibility (sorry)

  

  the worst one being 19 hours straight"]a lot. [/annotation] I also had ... , the point is that I seem to be catching some of my bad luck again (my ... ="as in, i drank a matcha this morning that i'm somehow reacting to right

  • by Janet G. '27
  • February 8, 2026
• Blog / About Decisions

  Should I include my ethnicity on the MIT Application? As a minority, how many times have you heard some off-handed comment about someone of…

  

  be hesitant to report your ethnicity because you don't want to be ... rumors to the contrary, being Black, Latino, Native, or any other minority is not enough to get you into any college or university, let alone MIT

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Theory of Actual Reality

  

  importance of oil. But also, he put the challenge to the freshmen, the Class of ... to go to 3.091 (Intro Chemistry, solid state version) today, to see for ... musicals (not to mention a brief mention of MIT). Soon after, we were wading

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 22, 2004
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  measures to combat it. I spent hours sorting through documents, reading ... I moved to campus this past weekend! It’s super exciting! I will ... anyway. Also, read to the end for a really special surprise :) Things I

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-Italy: Working With Ferrari The MISTI experience of Patrik Kunzler.

  

  [by Patrik Kunzler] Over the summer I had the good fortune to spend ... readiness to dream, this made for a working environment one could only dream ... very easy to talk to people, make connections, and work together to get

  • by MISTI Program
  • March 27, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A lot about course 9

  

  Today was supposed to be my first day of lab work in our new lab space in the gorgeous new building, but it's taking longer to get the lab up and running than everyone thought it would, so I decided to come

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Shortest Blog Ever (update 3 =p) 19 days till Taiwan!

  

  ! lookee - The 2009/Class of 2013 Guide to Residences were packed with ... goodbye With one test, Adieu to five point oh I can study my heart out With ... ashamed Just one test sets my head inflamed Silent music starts to play One

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 4, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  Rules and who sets them

  

  ’re in. For MIT, this number is meant to coincide with the number of hours ... the audience I am directly talking to is meant to be members of the MIT ... stereotypically like rules. They provide formal systems with which to navigate the

  • by Paige B. '24
  • November 28, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  hours spread over three days to trim down my bookshelf, and I'm still not ... ?” -Anne Fadiman, in the preface to her essay collection Ex Libris ... begin. I started with my bookshelf, since that seems to be where clutter

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Let It Bleed There will be an answer, let it bleed.

  

  blood to get extra credit in AP Bio (no, really) and she passed out in the middle of it, in the process missing the first hour of our ultra-important ... was being collected into a lower than my arm in order to establish a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 5, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC’s Q&A with Dean Kelley of Pixar’s Coco (he also worked on Avatar: The Last Airbender, Monsters University, and The Incredibles 2)

  

  people to shape us and keep us on the right track like tour guides ... A couple of Fridays ago I had the opportunity to sit in on an LSC ... Kelley. Though I am not allowed to share details about the film itself (no

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 8, 2017
• Blog / About Decisions

  The Undecideds VII: Decided? T-minus one day until the reply form postmark deadline.

  

  -analysis - what is important to you?: You may have done one before, or avoided it ... helpful before deciding which college to attend. Ask yourself the important ... extracurricular opportunities. Which is more important to me - academics or social

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  How does MIT use my name and preferred name?

  out those fields on the application. This is important so that your ... would like us to call you—preferred first name. Preferred first name is ... first name. If you have any concerns or questions, please reach out to us