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• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  architecture, elaborate artistic displays and blissfully warm beaches. The second ... ocean. And the third day was not supposed to exist, but I had a ... ticket for the Super Special Hotel Train, leaving Ling '07 and I stranded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  a postcard from GTL Spain finding myself or something like that

  

  the stairs and a flurry of multilingual exclamations: pon tu pie aquí ... up through the shower window and came to the rescue. Freedom at last ... , my age and still a few days shy from returning to his college in the US

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • January 9, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a text convo on failure and other stuff i guess

  

  My friend Miguel T. '25 and I were texting about random stuff this morning, and failure came up. I thought to share some excerpts with you ... global experience/travel abroad program']MISTI[/annotation]essays and stuff

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • December 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  WordPress"]only four[/annotation] contain equations typeset in [latex]\LaTeX[/latex]. And ... beautiful mathematical concepts, so Paige and Fatima have challenged us ... intuitively. I usually just kind of wave my hands and say, “Uhh, it’s like when

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  DRAW TIM (the beaver) behold the artistic talents of MIT staff

  

  group of people—especially people I don't know. And if, on top of that, I ... saved in my phone with various truth and lie options, because I've been ... guard again"]come up with two truths and a lie,[/annotation] I'm gonna be

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • April 5, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  W.M.

  

  Symbolic and Mathematical Computing). They didn’t speak much and expressed a ... instead of 0"]array indexing[/annotation] and [annotation note ... expressions and all things computational – I heard they could list the first

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 23, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  (Guest Post) how can it be home when it’s not finding a sense of belonging away from home

  

  home for weeks before and never felt homesick. looking back, that was ... had been feeling homesick and realizing what it was and that we had been going through similar things made it easier to talk about it and easier to

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  My Favorite (Kitchen) Things cue julie andrews singing

  

  , i only knew how to make scrambled eggs and boil pasta"]how to cook for ... inspiration. These days I am pretty [annotation note="my friends and family say ... kitchen stuff. Some of them have been gifted to me, others I purchased, and

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • January 7, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  snowfall as the snowflakes fall, they remind me of home

  

  article, "never in Boston’s long and storied weather history (since 1872 ... forecast the night before, and, when the call or text finally comes, the relief and joy in knowing that the day ahead of you has suddenly cleared

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 31, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  okay. i'm super behind on this and that's my bad. but... when you ... ="aligncenter" width="585"] the long and arduous journey from burton conner to building ... 've left around 10 and gotten to class in time!! what about the infamous 15

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  How to Perform an Organ Transplant Doctors agree! "This is really the only guide we could find online."

  

  Step 1: Wait and Hope You have to wait. Not a week. Not a month. At least a year! Check your emails frequently. If you wait and hope hard ... people in your community are ok with this new addition to the family and

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • August 4, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seattle was gorgeous until the smoke came in

  

  . Drive any direction out of downtown Seattle, and in 3 hours or less you'll find a gorgeous trail coiling through crests of evergreen trees and ... . [caption id="attachment_38589" align="aligncenter" width="1000"] Me and my

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 22, 2018
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Proposed: MITAdmissions Labs a wonderful, terrible, awful idea

  

  MITAdmissions.org. We still are, and it's going well. I think we're ... head:  how to help prospective students (and their parents) more clearly envision their potential experience at and after MIT   As I

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 10, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First UROP Initiating a Life of Research

  

  just give me the facts in lecture and challenges in the homework, but an ... will stay in academia and become a professor someday, so I suppose I ... a UROP, and I am now pretty confident in sticking with physics

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 14, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Play Labs yay an accelerator for VR startups

  

  Students and Alumni Awesome! I love that MIT is putting more of a focus on virtual reality and augmented reality technology. So what is Play Labs? Play ... , and artificial intelligence to improve video games, e-sports, healthcare

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 18, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  blocks and periods of crushing inability to blag.   But of course ... Succumbed To. 1. sloth We mustn’t forget regular old laziness and urges to do ... and said, “so...scrolling through memes on the internet? Idk about that

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wish I Joined the MIT 100K as a Freshman four years of this would've been great

  

  building a database of alumni, so last day and night I spent a lot of time ... -Shyduroff, Douglas Ling, and Peter Mui. They envisioned a cross-campus event that brought MIT's varied schools together to identify and support innovative

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 8, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons on How to Start a Hard Tech Startup, with Sam Altman hard tech is hard(er).

  

  and Airbnb, and shows no signs of slowing down.  A common criticism of ... about why "hard tech" startups are hard, and why they're still worth it ... established companies and other startups. Far better is to think of a new idea

  • by Michael C. '16
  • April 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  “What Should I Bring To College?” (partly) answered my everyday carry

  

  working to optimize what I carry, so this is a work-in-progress and (2) that title wouldn't fit on the image below. Paper and pencil Antiquated, I ... .  Equations, diagrams, and graphs are no fun to try to reproduce on a laptop or

  • by Michael C. '16
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  Mandatory: MIT Mid Year Report What you need to know.

  

  (including those admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed ... newest grades, and give you an opportunity to mention other updates since ... ? Students often get excited and fill out the form before their grades are

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • January 16, 2013