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• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  . No, only with a pass. Please, this is the only thing I want to do in ... hitch. Inside, I was so happy that I almost had a sheer heart attack. In ... up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a

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

  The Next Generation Of College Campus Tours? My interview with Michael Epstein '04, covering his MIT experience and the genesis of his…

  

  that you may find useful. At least in the beginning, I'll focus on ... school for a Masters in Comparative Media Studies. Basically, there is no ... always have a really cool card in the hole. I.e., a theoretical

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wearing the apron This was written on an empty stomach

  

  . In the end, you get a finished product that is just the way that you ... printing mistake (which I keep as a reminder that good bed adhesion is ... .007 final competition intact. Rip. It hit me that I never in a million years

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • October 8, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  There’s More to Life Than Tooling You can, for example, write your mechanical engineering thesis and an original musical. At the…

  

  . is a senior in Mechanical Engineering, who arrived at MIT thinking that ... , in fact, a song called "Hardk0re*"), but learns that there is more to ... interest in music, and 2.674, which is a nanotechnology lab. Oh, and I'm in

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 9, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  about all of this is that I don’t know how bad I actually want a summer ... STEM/tech job that I would feel like a part of me is missing the work—I ... have to be SO much better than me in EVERY possible position that I’m not

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... week. Whenever I'm at a spot with any kind of cascading water (which is ... and doing other cool things, I spend every day staring a pool after pool

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  have to do it in a manual transmission car) and I was able to pass that ... still in Boston. To their third objection, I smugly pointed out that ... foreign license only if I’ve been in the country for less than a month. But

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Thoughts from the Other Side MIT through a different lens

  

  've adjusted to learning in the MIT system, but I do feel like there are more ... work is long and hard, but that's how you learn. As weird as it sounds, I ... little (but that might have been because I wasn't doing enough revision of

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • May 30, 2014
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  calling myself a writer, and that I've become much more interested in ... , there is a blog post associated with that day. This is in spite of a ... that things will be okay. In many ways, I will be a different person, but

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What an “OX” means on a transcript and why I currently have two of them

  

  ’t scheduled 21A.01 yet, but I will, uh, definitely do that as soon as possible ... in hopes that I would be better by Monday, but when that didn’t happen ... the “OX” in my grade report as a placeholder until then. I said I

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • January 25, 2016
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Things I Know to Be True: Addendum One A post I hate, and some truths from my first year at MIT

  

  if I ever encountered a stormy sea at MIT, which I often do, I could ... because it means I am a different person than I was in September. For many MIT students, that change is continuous, like paint gliding across a

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  two years after my book auction in retrospect

  

  make. I called my parents in a panic because I didn’t know what to do ... watched me do a lot of math about the amount of taxes I would have to pay ... algebraic combinatorics problem set instead. In some sense, I wish I’d been a

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 17, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  mathematics of people”. It just took a random idea when I was in 9th grade that ... varied it is, I do find myself drawn to the micro theory side. In ... spirtuality, and lives in his head. My mom is a former bartender and studied at

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  ;closer.” You’re welcome. Next up is a piece that I’m quite ... . This is in a really cool space that sort of encapsulates building 6C and ... Frank This is the best photo I got that captures the scale of this piece

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Time Out I attempt to top Emo Walt Whitman, even though I'm only taking a brief reprieve…

  

  expose that I didn't really belong here, I completed a year. This is it ... wailing children; why is that?). I am almost, kind-of sort-of, a sophomore ... , and posted it while I was on the plane, so basically Sam is a big

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 27, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  nothing & everything again & again my senior iap

  

  ! I also got started [annotation note="We're allowed to do this in EC ... , and I'm definitely gonna do a whole post about it later. [carousel image ... (reviews in a nutshell: excellent, okay but we screwed it up so that's on us

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 11, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  We open in Venice We next play Firenze, then on to Pisa (lots of laughs in Pisa), our next…

  

  tuning in, there is a reason that my blog consists mostly of me standing in ... doing that. I guess I'm not one to talk, since we passed two and a half ... check, I glanced in a vending machine and saw a mysterious brown

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  week passes so quickly, and the weekend is over in a flash. I don't know ... , shining weekends. I do know, definitely, for sure, that in either case, I ... 'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

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

  

  This is more of a mini-entry, a blogget if you will. I know that for ... on my application, do you think that's enough? Do you think I'll get in ... (it's 6. That's it. The answer is 6*), getting in based on a fabrication

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

  an unnecessarily detailed normal friday finding things to blog about when you're swept into normalcy

  

  have to do because this class is a CI-M, i.e. tons of writing ... in light [annotation note="i was fortunate to acquire both a waterproof jacket and a waterproof backpack this year, so rain is something i no

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 27, 2019