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• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  discussed our most memorable experiences in Beijing so far.  I talked about ... make eye-contact, she starts advertising in Chinese, "Buy some lotus seeds!". Every time I see her, i want to stop by and buy some, but I haven

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  of the covid restrictions at the time (not that I would've wanted to ... it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I ... MIT knowing about math and science and nothing else? Would attending a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2020 Reflections & 2021 Resolutions

  

  was home in October, I spedread a bunch of different books that were set in Boston/Cambridge because I was curious and I read American Panda by ... - Accomplished...in a bit. I'm signed up for PearlHacks happening in February

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 3, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Closer Calls and rising unease

  

  places. I would be stuck in a traffic jam, and my mind would imagine a ... or buy new paper sheets, to upgrade my iPad’s internet plan and most ... funny teachers and weird classes. I would have made all the right absent

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 28, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Outside of a dog, a book is man’s best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

  

  How else would I know about all the awesome hacking that happens at MIT ... present. I hate physics, so of course my family buys me a book about physics ... they talk about in the book because I see it every day! Little Red book

  • by Snively '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Construction Thoughts on a major.

  

  surprisre: he bought an app, on the spot, that would use the iPod's built-in ... would suggest, or in other fields -- perhaps algorithms? -- but I do know ... I wanted to have a bike for when I came to campus in the fall. I didn

  • by Cam T. '13
  • December 26, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Rekindling and how mit is actually going to save my art career

  

  elementary school, and for a long while I would draw things by hand on paper ... could color them digitally. In middle school, I’d saved up money from birthdays, holidays, and what allowance I got, so that I could buy myself a

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • October 7, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Ten Years (On Dreams) Ten years ago, I was exactly where I wanted to be.

  

  I would have been in Random Hall, on BMF, at my desk with the door ... me an excellent view of anyone coming or going. In January 2015 I would ... your occupation or field that you work in? I am a computational

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  There is a bench it’s a nice bench

  

  buy lunch, and work on my problem set in the lounge at our floor. Head ... one of these events. Or I’m going to one of my discovery classes in the ... rolled in: I joined a LARP, watched a play, played some board games. Sunday

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 19, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  , "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... gonna- "I'm gonna buy that book." But what about another example- "I'm going to the baseball game." Would you ever say "I'm gonna the baseball

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  bc I got his name verbally) is an ABSOLUTE GEM!! His energy would brighten up my day immensely. I'd buy an ($8.00) sandwich from him just to ... someone who hasn’t changed their Chipotle order in years, I appreciate how

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I ... one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  explanation; I had crafted it carefully while waiting in line. What would his ... spent walking through one of new chapters in the book, which I won ... .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Some comforting blogs to read while you await decisions

  

  Shuli J. '22 (2018): I knew I would be nervous when the time came, because ... kind of situation) is to make lots of plans, so I had ’em ready in spades: I imagined, as realistically as I could, how it would feel to be

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

  Answers to some questions

  

  Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... /call my EC? Just "Hi, my name is Kathleen and I'm applying to MIT... I would ... gone an hour and a half after I put it in the freezer). On 5th East, I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Summer

  and they were roommates living with "randos"

  

  logo. This was before we knew that the internship would be in-person. We ... Park. And on the Discord server us interns were in, I looked for others ... , and it's not like I wanted to put in any effort. I told the other two

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 6, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  Center) in building 16 for an interview. I worked at the LLARC 8 hours a ... than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer ... school after being in DC all summer, I went about finding a UROP for the

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  The Interview…Part IV This should tie up the loose ends...for now.

  

  The deadline for Early Action has come and gone. I hope all of you ... to talk about what goes into an interview report. What we won't see in ... everything that you've already told us in the application. If we did, what

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • November 4, 2008