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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  from the University of Minnesota, that humans swim equally fast in syrup ... Posthumous isn't the right word, but it's among my favorite in the ... in heaven. Last Thursday, I had the pleasure of attending the Ig Nobel

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10 / Field trip Art, science, and agriculture in Palestine

  

  , offered under the MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT). I ...  projects. After the first class, I was sold. I even passed up an offer to skate in a ... To set the mood: Feeling Blue   "When I'm in New York I listen

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • April 29, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  Sophomore Slump Last semester was not so great

  

  seniors and juniors, so my sophomore friend and I did not get in. So I was ... tutor in the class. My tutor was awesome and helped me through the material, and she helped me understand that what I am going through in the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... my computer back on for the first time in weeks yesterday, and luckily ... /Treasurers/Important People in student groups on campus, where they will discuss how to apply

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  "The author has filed this entry in the 'Life After MIT (Careers ... Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I ... ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting

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

  Many Ways To Define “The Best” A long response to a CC thread in which I offer my opinions on AP…

  

  enough to post it here as well: As with most of my posts in the parents ... qualified in those terms. Based on the thousands of apps I saw last year both in selection committee and as a reader, I can tell you that the average

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Yes, we care about your stories Reflections from the road

  officers at many colleges and universities will travel across the country to ... obstacle that has affected my educational journey?” However, it was asked in ... we started a Black Student Union in our school to build community, but

  • by DJ Rock
  • October 10, 2019
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  undergraduates with my last name. Through ~careful analysis~ of the cuisine in the ... ="aligncenter" width="1920"] the first family dinner![/caption] That dinner occurred in ... –at Su-Miao Hunanese Restaurant. [annotation note="In true Hunanese fashion

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  is leadership the same as management buzzword alert

  

  the department in charge of student groups, sole, describes their ... else to do it. in esp we have a saying, which is "your job is not to do ... people tend to be universally okay with using spreadsheets. how to do

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Makibaka! Huwag matakot! black lives matter! junk terror bill!

  

  I feel like I have stake both in what is happening here and what is happening back in the Philippines. Here, it’s ever present: news of gruesome ... . This, of course, is only one blow in a long and sustained campaign

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 8, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  Manage Your Future

  

  to work in their chosen field. In 2010 & 2011, we sent 66 Management students to 9 different countries to intern in companies such as ... the curriculum of the university: worked on syllabus design, reading

  • by MISTI Program
  • November 30, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Ethnicity Information (Optional) No easy way in.

  

  , this can be seen like a trick question. In a conversation I had with a ... bright student had to drop out her junior year in college because of dad ... deportation procedures. In short, we can come with a lot of baggage; baggage

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 2, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Hawk Flies High Spontaneous jazz improv at 77 Massachusetts Avenue.

  

  over our footsteps and shouting in an otherwise silent and uneventful ... his tones. I was in New York, 1940. 52nd Street. I took a gulp of my ... Boston university, the Berklee College of Music, plays tenor and soprano

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • August 7, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  FIRST POST! You guys are totally right.. that WAS really tempting.

  

  unfortunately it was all Spam's idea. Thanks, Spam. Unfortunately, in the mean time, I've forgotten how to blog. So in true "first post" style.. there ... , the application process in general, and moving forward. All of your

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 7, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Big MIT Career Fair Lots of companies are on campus today recruiting MIT students.

  

  As I write this, droves of MIT students, sharply dressed in suits ... -Royce Harvard University National Security Agency (NSA) Bank of America ... are popular, but so are opportunities in finance, the federal government

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 21, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  fresh sweat and tears exuded by seniors everywhere in the midst of their ... in. And if you’re like most every regular action college applicant ... week and next. I remember this week in late March as a very scary time

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• Blog / Classes

  A Week in the Life of My MIT Sophomore Spring this time, with on-campus features!

  

  -S requirement and luckily for me 9.00 is offered in the spring time! I'm really ... -paying and bigger internship offers and I feel like I've sold myself short in ... I am taking. In fact, this is actually the last GIR I need in order to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 24, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  screenings of movies and projects them in 26-100. I've gone to a couple of screenings and events in the past in an effort to see more movies (I watched ... generational trauma, being queer in a traditional Asian family, nihilism and the

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  Language (die Sprache) MIT-Germany student discusses language

  

  who are fluent in both -- those who simply upon hearing my accent switch seamlessly into English. But also, those people are incredibly interesting in how they interact, particularly in the lab. Unsurprisingly, Germans

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 10, 2012