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• Blog / Challenges

  everyone i know goes away in the end why i've never done misti

  

  . i was given the chance, in april 2021, to spend the first half of 2022 ... any new friends i made by now. that doesn't mean it's not worth it ... , and i enjoyed my summer camps. but part of me yearns for relationships

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  process thing as they happen. But all of a sudden I'm at home again, with no ... The semester is over and I'm back at home, spread out on my much too familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In the Jungle, the Mighty Jungle @NatGeo, pls hire me

  

  Game Reserve. We stayed on the very top of a hill in Hluhluwe , sleeping ... magnificient. Oh and there were lots of baboons too. We drove into the game reserve at sunrise and sunset to experience the animals in their natural

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  excitedly spoke of internships at Microsoft, Google, or MISTI, I frantically ... job at the US Consulate where my parents live for the first part of ... my alley. However, when I arrived at the Consulate, horror of horrors

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  From Charlottesville to Cambridge photos from a gathering for solidarity

  

  We're at a strange point in the political climate where white ... publicize their misconceptions in broad daylight. The people of Cambridge ... City Hall     Mayor E. Denise Simmons condemns acts of

  • by Abby H. '20
  • August 15, 2017
• Blog / IAP

  Sunrise If a picture is worth a thousand words (minus inflation), that makes this post much…

  

  IAP, for those who are just tuning in, is one of the greatest times to be at MIT. It's all the geek-culture, learning cool things, without so much of the "frak it's 4am and I don't understand the material I

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 22, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  A Fool’s Holiday How MIT celebrates April Fool's Day

  

  . Specifically, let's look at 1998. 1998 Disney has bought MIT for $6.9 billion. The School of Engineering will be renamed the School of Imagineering and ... cluster. From the MIT Hack Gallery: On April Fools Day of 1998, hackers

  • by Bryan
  • April 1, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  “Who Needs Harvard?” Generating your college list based on which schools fit your personality, not your ideas of…

  

  , my interviewer was pretty surprised at the range of colleges that I was ... at the buildings, the location, and the strength of the engineering and ... schools may be the smartest applicants of all" http

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT ‘10s in the news A series of newspaper articles about incoming MIT freshmen.

  

  a week's worth to follow. At the conclusion of this series, I plan to answer all of the questions you've left in the comments. ... 've collected from across the web (via newsfeeds) about members of the Class of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Reading Some final notes before decisions are posted.

  

  Imagination, Laura The Moment of Truth And a few numbers: we received a record number of applications this year, up 9% from last year. At the same time, due to an increased yield (the percentage of admitted students who

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Meets The OC Be sure to watch the April 6 episode!

  

  Oh, so good. Joanne witnessed the convergence of two of her loves a ... : Ben From: Monica Subject: MIT and one of your favorite shows... Hello ... received an inquiry this week that (as an occasional reader of your blog

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Randomness

  

  " event. I probably called fifty or more people, though many of those calls ... was pretty fun, and there was a lot of free pizza and stuff to drink ... composition due in nine hours that has me adopting the identity of someone

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chicken with my head cut off What I've been up to since last Friday. In case you want the Cliff's Notes…

  

  perpetual state of running around and doing five things at once.   ... hours of cheerleading camp and practice. Thanks to some amazing coaches we flew in from Texas, we now have the beginnings of a competition routine

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 4, 2005
• FAQ / Academics and research

  What are Psets?

  psets. Problem sets are the backbone of our teaching in many subjects; for many, problem-solving is the essence of the MIT education. Faculty vary as to the portion of course credit derived from psets. In some cases
• Blog / Challenges

  Teaching Splash (and Overcoming the Impostor Syndrome) guest post by Haley C. '18

  

  Set Theory. After 4 hours of teaching at that point, I was quite tired ... come to campus and learn a variety of topics from MIT students. Hope you ... , then, one of my favorite weekends of the year is Splash weekend, when I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 18, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Next House (on Wheels) *vroom vroom*

  

  lot of yelling. I got chewed out (and was really sad about it) during at ... ML at this hour, and all of them were busy PSETting, so Ayyub rolled me ... its rehearsals here, Next Act uses it for shows at the end of the

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • September 24, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [joint post] give us your words you have words. we want your words.

  

  invariably in some new form, as the class requires. Every Sunday, I bring a ... of six sestets, having the same six end words in each of the stanzas, but in a different order. The poem ends with a tercet which has two of

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Snow! Getting out and saving your sanity

  

  though, it's tragic. Snow is one of my favorite things, and winter is ... , skis in hand, and it never happens. After the massive amounts of snow we ... more than "terrible" (no offense New England, just not my scene), it

  • by Chris M. '12
  • March 2, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hooked on a Feeling High on believing everyone's in love with me.

  

  I should make good use of the .25 Euro I just spent. So, a blog entry ... , I was having a lovely dinner of weinerschnitzel (no, really) this ... talking about the leader of the Catholic religion and not a can of beer. So

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Maine, Episode III: Ain’t No Mountain The one with more pictures than text.

  

  the low 80's, so I got to hike the Baldface Circle Trail in New ... picture of it? Hey, look, I was really hiking. Joe notices that on a nearby mountainside, a patch of particularly dense foliage has assumed the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2005