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• Blog / MISTI

  a day in my life as a MISTI student ft. research and friends

  

  support to live and work abroad for a summer or a semester, without worrying ... apartment. Sometimes, I get lucky and I only wait for a couple minutes; other ... learning approach is overkill for the problem and datasets at hand. In the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 17, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  when apocalypse strikes… on being preemptively torn from my home, living group, and nearly everything i love at…

  

  theorist hats and started to rapidly oscillate between wanting to wait until ... final blow. I was determined to stay for the last two floor events, and ... morning, for which I am eternally grateful. And honestly, I have no more

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 16, 2020
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  way for you to get involved - just download, log on, and get saving ... and an instant good deed for the planet.  How it works is that participating stores list surplus meals, you use the app to reserve and pay for

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt begins tomorrow A fun puzzle to solve.

  

  The annual Mystery Hunt (history here) begins tomorrow at 12:17pm in MIT's Lobby 7. To give you a flavor of the Hunt, I decided I'd post ... way, will be a six-letter word. Good luck, have fun, don't cheat, and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  a fun bet spicing up the admissions process

  

  . MIT was my dream. Between the being able to make whatever you want and ... . Then we were jumping around and screaming for a solid five minutes. I screamed because I was terrified and overjoyed for the future. My sister

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • December 3, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  question the high point of my life, and probably for all of human existence ... consciousness between an otherwise unbroken day of naps to share with you ... your house, the car is at the shop, and you don't have any firearms. What

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  to buy as a gift for their family, friends, and loved ones. (continued ... that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  CMS.621: Fans & Fan Culture the class that changed my career trajectory?

  

  rebellion against the dictatorship in the Philippines and a metaphor for the end of martial law. Then, it became a vehicle for social interaction and ... for having girlish interests, and it was a really difficult thing to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 17, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  “I’ve Got 99 Problems… Admissions Is Not One” Really 52, but who's counting? I know that you love numbers, stats and checklists, so…

  

  doesn't work for pro athletes and it won't work for you. Don't use the ... younger brother a mistake, and stop taking the cable box apart for poops and ... of your document.) NEVER CUT AND PASTE BETWEEN COLLEGE ESSAYS. If we

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • October 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  The Life Rationing Problem how do you save a life

  

  being rationed) and will argue for how to resolve the life allocation ... principle may account for these intuitions—and whatever refinement our maximum ... portion of it can account for our intuitions in the train and scarce

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 15, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  24 Hours From sleeping in a homeless shelter to waltzing in La Sala

  

  in time. Somewhere between Central Square and Harvard, the train sat ... through a ceiling panel and hiding up there. Midnight: time for business. Kirstyn and I volunteered ourselves for the 3am-6am shift (oh, boy) so after

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 24, 2013
• Blog / Majors & Minors

  What is engineering, anyways? i promise it's more than just math

  

  cognitive sciences as my major for one simple reason: because it was cool, and ... wandering to new things – I wanted to do something that mattered, and for me ... problems and change the world. Maybe everything I was looking for was waiting

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things I Learned From Freshman Year Overanalyzing all my bad habits.

  

  that and putting it together into what works for me. I hate those cliche ... . Summer is a good time for planning and reflection. My nerdy corner of ... student "studyblrs" on tumblr, and I applaud them for being very specific

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 23, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Nerd Camp tales from TDI

  

  glasses cleaner and wax for my braces. While other kids did their fifth ... TDI 2011. Hence my radio silence on the blogs (and Facebook) for the ... this one week. But because TDI has been going on for so long, and because

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • June 27, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  from roads and sidewalks, and are about 5 feet wide, so there’s space for ... and miserable for several months. For all of those months I would ... : cheaper than a car, good for people-watching, and much cheaper than ubering

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  A FAPulous Start On how I’ve spent 0.0016% of my life at MIT so far.

  

  be broken up into two sizeable chunks: the first 6,681 days, and the ... algorithm for getting into MIT. Hopefully these general guidelines can help ... YOU really want. I went to an art and design high school initially on

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • August 27, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Undercover Admissions Officer ...or how I saw the campus through "fresh eyes".

  

  need a tour for, I was "living the dream" and could find everything I ... . And of course, the story of Oliver Smoot never gets old for me ... makes sense when you think about it. I arrived on campus for freshman

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • August 5, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  A lively Dead Week what i've been up to

  

  a luxurious full week off between the end of classes and the start of ... discuss how we felt about this semester and plan for next semester to be ... plans for IAP and the spring semester, and talk about how their fall

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  [Guest Post] Love Is Hard (A Sequel) wherein anon feels different from how he felt seven months ago

  

  Continued reflections on love at the Institvte (and really just love ... trials and tribulations with dating, which includes the many times I have felt like I was in love and similarly the many times that I was wrong

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 3, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Shelby’s Amazing CPW Adventure A CPW Guest Entry by Shelby '13

  

  be next year. Between Friday and Saturday, I attended three fairs: the ... thrilling. The opportunities seemed endless, and for that, I knew at this ... Symphony Orchestra, and make time for the literary club. On Saturday I toured

  • by Snively '11
  • April 29, 2009