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• Blog / MISTI

  MIT EECS students travel the world

  

  The host: I worked in a small software engineering team that are ... ;if you can survive in India, you can survive anywhere else ... conducted in my lab, I researched projector based AR systems, and eventually

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... roam free for hours upon hours. When I lived in Florida, this pet was ... make 4 movies in total (I stopped after watching #2) Yes, ladies and

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meeting our new president! my very brief foray into professional journalism

  

  to attend in person." I was now press! I straightened my coat and tried ... . In our brief conversation, we talked about how it can be difficult to ... ; I told her that MIT students will express their concerns in any avenue

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 20, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  king of boston -> king of the world? the only good fight there is

  

  find work I can absolutely lose myself in and put every beautiful thing I ... ceiling in the dark once again, overwhelmed by the feeling that, here, I ... , brilliant white, it towered over me in a way that seemed to say “ok, you can

  • by Angie F. '28
  • May 29, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  07/07/07 Speaking of numbers: the number seven in particular, brought to you by the birthday of…

  

  big in advance for my birthday - no one's ever around to celebrate, so I ... what?" "I dunno, seven.. meaningful things." With that helpful advice in ... Cafe: breakfast in PJs. After sleeping through half the day (what'd I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • July 9, 2007
• Blog / Personal Projects

  An emoji alethiometer to help you make decisions I'm not saying I will use this in committee, but I'm not saying I won't

  

  shaped how I move through the world, as you may have seen in my blog posts ... graduates might consider their obligations to their fellow humans. In a way, I ... compass in their pockets. While I didn't get as involved as I would have

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Other Side from prefrosh to cpw chair

  

  before our eyes, I can’t wait for all that is in store. My own prefrosh ... as I think about all of the prefrosh that will be checking-in throughout the course of the day. All the things I’ve taken for granted in a

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • April 12, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Tips from Me to You 15% is standard most places, but my tips are 100%! (awesome that is)

  

  on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in because I expressed my number in scientific notation? Do I need more Sig ... that one, even though when I was in your spot I probably wouldn't have

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 4, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Free-For-All Week! Movies, Music, and Baby Names.

  

  to my neck in applications (I just want to save my wrist watch!) For ... your responses I'm sure that if I put a piece of coal in a chair, and ... think and I'll post my favorites in a few days. Be prepared for vigorous

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  ’s nighttime when my eyes open, and the middle of the day when I go to bed. In ... that I can’t sleep an arbitrary number of hours per day, which I can ... something about snow. Now, I saw snow for the first time in November 2013

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  What My College Essays Were [Not] Unsolicited advice about writing.

  

  , I love my parents, but this was neither helpful nor encouraging1. In ... essays are not advice, or even guidelines. I can only tell you what I did ... ? Well, I’m not on any admissions committee, so I can only speculate

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 12, 2015
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  esoteric diagrams, numbers, and concepts than I can keep track. Exams are ... . Why I gave up the opportunity to go to school in the same department as ... sucks when instead I could've be basking in sun taking naps on the quad in

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  'd raise my SAT verbal scores through the roof - to this day I can't remember ... . Not really, but yeah, I'm getting paid. BUT in my defense, I blogged all ... -than-perfect SAT scores aren't in that category. Karen answered this pretty well: "I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  primes (if you can factor nine-digit composite numbers in your head -- and ... awe of Josh's ability to slip in the clue months beforehand. I feel bad ... important (such as the Mystery Hunt). Current music: Alice In Chains, "I Stay

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Feeling Good And mostly musing

  

  I’m in my room, clacking away on my laptop, my fingers slowly ... -set I turned in one Ed Sheeran song before the deadline. Needless to say ... time in MIT I had completed an exam with several minutes to spare. This

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • November 26, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  work // life trying to figure out the balance

  

  seems like i have to install or [annotation note="in the git sense ... team owns and controls, but it's too complex and i can't really ... , something i never thought i would do in week one. i still ask steven at least

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • June 17, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  The Latest Updates Updates about MyMIT and the EA interview deadline.

  

  . Sometimes a kind and gentle reminder can be helpful. Otherwise, I hope you ... at least as normal as things can be less than two weeks before the ... 23. I do recommend contacting your EC this weekend, if you haven't done

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 20, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Enrolled 09’s: Watch Your Mailbox I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM®). Here's the…

  

  enormous pile of folders they have waiting to go out. So here's what I can ... I've been getting a lot of questions about the Next Big Mailing (NBM ... by the ARC - so my knowledge thereof is a bit limited. I just spoke

  • by Ben Jones
  • May 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Blog: Kevin’s reflections after an IAP externship at a start-up company Kevin '08 takes a step back and re-evaluates his goals after an IAP externship at…

  

  interested in, and, now after working for one, I am convinced that it is the ... tools that will be essential in building a successful startup, and I have ... , who I'll get to later. So clearly, you can tell Adam’s been

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  US News & World Report… Just Save Your Wrist Watch. If I were to create a minority-based ranking of colleges, here are some of the…

  

  this meant: "I'm already up to my neck in BS, I just want to save my ... with social and cultural adjustments to campus? (Can I get my dreads done? Can I get ethnic food? Is there a decent radio station?) How do

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • August 24, 2005