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• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  I’m on a train right now, speeding away from Darmstadt and towards ... Friday, Linh ’13 and I took a train to a nearby city, R√ºdesheim, where Di ... look in the mirror and see a face that’s much darker than it usually is

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  Seven Years of Good Luck MISTI paid for all the MIT Japan interns to meet up this weekend in Kyoto.…

  

  up in Kyoto for a whirlwind tour of the temples, food, and more temples ... somewhere in Tokyo, it was a great opportunity to get out of the city and ... the free tour and food you'll all have to hang out naked together for a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 3, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Birthday Boy Ben Birthday explosion inside.

  

  story of how my friends and I unleashed a birthday explosion in his office ... Matt and Nance and all the other admissions officers, of course.) Not ... an ego-boost, or even to crash on his couch. And so a few of my friends

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Guest Blog: From the Life and Times of Cam

  

  kinds of opportunities MIT offers – and these only to a local high school ... CAMbridge, the owner of a CAMera, and an early action acceptee to the MIT ... myself in a mudslide of classwork and undergrad research this January, so

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 6, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  infinite corridors can’t believe there are no posts with this title yet

  

  saw lots of friends and an eclipse and ten new states, my boss helped me ... where to live and who to spend time with and career choices and so on. i thought the world became less malleable the moment you left school, and you

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  sometimes when it rains I feel seventeen and seventy all at once

  

  My first impression of MIT was through Math Prize for Girls, and it was mainly just that MIT is cold. And drizzly.  Which was then followed by “I have never seen anywhere as crowded as Flour is, and also these

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dyslexia at MIT Living with dyslexia, and the current state of dyslexia research, at MIT and otherwise

  

  class I took last semester. Reading the literature and interviewing people ... people’s lives but about which I knew almost nothing when I started, and maybe even more about myself as a writer and a person. I thought you might

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 7, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Creating the MIT-verse behind the scenes of this year’s pi day video!

  

  cuz we really like the animation style and multiple universes would let ... do! Angela ‘24, Karthik ‘22, Emily ‘22, and I spent who knows how many hours working on it starting from last fall, throughout IAP, and all the

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • March 10, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Notes on the Interview (the EC edition!) in which you receive advice and an alum surreptitiously gets to blog again

  

  awhile I do get that itch to come back and write something. And thus I ... about MIT now and then :P So, I'm sitting in NYU's Bobst Library (there ... Washington Sq Park and an entire street of yummy treats (aka. St Marks) nearby

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  That time MIT was almost rebuilt on an artificial island in the middle of the Charles River we were THIS CLOSE to being a pirate fortress university

  

  ," which allowed it to move to Cambridge and build the core of the ... of the Institute wanted to make a new interconnected technology complex ... undeveloped, unappealing, and industrial. “So it made some sense from a

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 22, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Setting up a Global Warming Research Center…in Antarctica Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your…

  

  -fledged business proposals, submit them to various Institute competitions, and ... with that logic. Meet Zahir Dossa ’08 (Courses 6 and 15; Nu Delta), who could sell you your own shirt and convince you that he’s going

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  My Brass Rat The Brass Rat is not a subtle thing.

  

  Brief note: I am currently in Ohio, shopping for wedding dresses. And ... 2007 Brass Rat, and Matt has written briefly about the Brass Rats for the ... opportunity to dine -- they don't serve hamburgers and fries there, you know

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  seriously, yesterday was almost the coolest day of my life, ever, and it just ... , "The Man With The Screaming Brain," and what better place to premiere it ... independent theater located a scant mile and a half from MIT? But wait, there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  completing 2 essays, the math section, and a verbal section, I am offered to do ... . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan ... parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Moving On, Moving Out, and the Conservation of Freshmen Reflections of a (kinda) sophomore.

  

  sunshine - and that was it. Part of me is still wondering when my next problem set is due and why I'm not stressing out about it. The other part of ... 'm heading home to South Bend for a week to recover and recharge before

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 22, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy Belated Hearts Day copy/paste irl, afk and everything

  

  precious I’ve stripped away hobbies and for-fun activities and learned what I can and cannot leave behind. I’ve realized over the past year that some ... to reconnect with the good parts of the person I was before MIT and

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Happy Birthday, ‘Murica! (Even though Boston celebrated Independence Day Eve)

  

  On this day celebrating eagles, barbeque, and the adoption of the ... ), the City of Boston is shrouded in fog and a light sprinkle of rain. This ... yesterday and the streets around campus as well as the Harvard Bridge were

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 4, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  On Mens et Manus The realizations one has whilst building improvised flotation devices.

  

  Name the first thing that comes to mind when you think “MIT” and ... -building. Taking apart and reconstructing various household appliances. Screwing around with computers, and circuits, and microchips (oh my!). Yeah, I

  • by Natanya K. '14
  • October 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Gerald Fink’s “What Is a Gene?” one of those cool talks that happen at MIT all the time

  

  In 1981, Gerald Fink was a professor at Cornell and a member of a visiting committee at MIT. At the time, MIT faculty and administration were ... research facility on campus that would be known as the Whitehead Institute

  • by Abby H. '20
  • April 11, 2019
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  The truth I learned about Japan, as a Korean a translation

  

  post.) I was born in America, but my parents and grandparents were born ... MIT and traveled to Japan." "That's good! But... why did you go to Japan ... thought] led me to study Japanese, in order to learn about its history and

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 17, 2018