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• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... out my visa wasn't a long enough period for me to buy the phone under my ... , I think, and I start to get defensive. What's in it for her? Why is

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Behind the Scenes of Thirty Pies aka i ramble about logistics at for a Very Long Time

  

  to make some sort of bad ideas flavored blog for our Pi Day ... for me. Then I forgot all about it. Monday, Feb. 2nd to Saturday, Feb ... , I drafted up a dormspam calling for my classmates to pitch their own

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • April 13, 2026
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story behind TIMtalks In other words, a story about stories

  

  motivated for the summer! According to Anjali ‘12, the Director and Founder ... just pushed out so much work to get the website ready for the launch. We ... concerned with the lack of forums for undergrads to come together to share

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 5, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  FOMO: Fear of Mis-Optimizing ice cream teaches me a thing or two

  

  tangible ways. for now, i’m just going to take Scott’s advice and do ... shoulders sag against the railing behind me and throw my backpack to the ground; it falls with a feeble “clunk.” exhaling, i attempt to mentally

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Community Projects

  dormspam-the-game (Part 2) may the data be ever in my favor

  

  select 5 integers in the range 1 to 50, inclusive. For each integer k you ... based. However, this game stood out to me as different for two reasons ... ended up 42nd. For Round 2 and 3, which were chosen to be school and

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 15, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  : learn how to cook For someone living in a [annotation note ... actually cooking for myself. But I really want to crack down on the ever ... /learning community for frosh that aims to connect first-years with design opportunities

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Checking in with EA Applicants because I just saw Chris' post, and you probably did, too

  

  . Sometimes, students here live for weeks on a deadline-to-deadline schedule, so ... archives to the posts from mid-December. There's a post every year for EA ... to waste. We are all better for having read and heard your stories. So

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 8, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  ! my decision to audition for Kinematix was pretty random. I respected ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three ... have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  summer, for me to build and test batteries that wouldn't explode or melt or ... valuable way to learn relevant skills for your field while getting rich at a ... evidence shows that more women tend to wake up in time for lecture. (At least

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  lessons learned this summer reflecting back on a summer that flew by

  

  my summer is coming to an end. i think shuli mentioned this in a ... through them. sometimes it's fine to take a weekend off and not be ... tastes just as good as regular boba i want to be a designer, not a coder

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • August 2, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next administration's agenda ... to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia' to Empower Problem Solvers" was among them! I owe that victory to you

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  So Sam and Mollie have both introduced you to their interesting ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to ... possibly interesting to me. Not having much exposure to a lot of research

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Embarrassing One Minute everything that can go wrong...will find a worse way to manifest itself

  

  problem they want to solve, the users for which that problem exists, and ... decided to meet a day earlier (a Thursday, the only day that worked out for ... ’d already figured out what we wanted to build, a web-app for letting kids draw

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  Surprisingly enjoyable experiences exactly what it sounds like

  

  just scary, because how do you talk to people? How do you ask for help ... role was looking for items I wanted, which were in packets taped to the ... the caller asks for the sides to promenade, but even if you and your

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 15, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  and unexpectedly with no other plans for Friday night, I decided to use ... my luck, I happened to pick the day of the Montreux Grand Prix for my ... except for the teams. So, I planned a 17-hour trip to Switzerland to see a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Haiti Day 2: DINEPA and mosquito bites

  

  interested in helping us distribute them but needed to call around for us ... elections. From Dale's cousin's house, we returned to the hotel for our last ... weeks. We spoke to them for over an hour about their stories from working

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 27, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Wise Words From Mikey A good thing to read as you prepare to arrive on campus and begin your…

  

  -overdue things. I found an entry that Mikey wrote for me that I had intended to ... . For example, almost all the people I've talked to have been to the IMO ... 't even close to being considered for that test). And I felt exactly like

  • by Ben Jones
  • August 15, 2007
• Blog / Community Projects

  MINECRAFT MIT!!! our most remarkable feat of engineering since...mit

  

  monsters and you don't have to look for resources to stay alive. survival ... the walls are difficult to mimic in Minecraft; people had to account for ... excited about all the possibilities for expansion it brings. Stay tuned to

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 10, 2020
• Blog / Denied by MIT, Now [X]

  Denied by MIT, now a PhD student at CSAIL

  

  write me, years later, to tell me how things worked out for them ... would be the next opportunity for me to apply to MIT. I promptly forgot ... . I'm excited to continue lurking around them for the adventure ahead

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 16, 2021
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Playing Doctor… Are people REALLY impressed by big words? You be the judge.

  

  files at the moment and I'm too lazy to really search for them, so I ... and everything, I'll be able to join MIT's EMS squad for the spring ... off for no reason. =) A sphygmomanometer is the device you use to take a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2006