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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Conditioner For My Face "The dot product is the solution to all the problems of the universe. Even the…

  

  in that world where you just left. I just got this message out of the ... keeps track of funny quotes. Two years ago when I was in South Caicos for ... when he said "I've never been to Iceland, but I do believe it would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • November 18, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Another Journey Planned How to go abroad 101

  

  focus. I looked at many programs, but in the end decided that IHP would ... program I am applying to is called “Cities in the 21st Century”, which looks ... that affect cities. I had always expected to study abroad in college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 21, 2011
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  . I managed to squeeze some time in to go into Boston in between picking ... - what I - hoped for. I had felt the despair sinking in for months now ... began to feel hopeful. For one of the first times in my life, I stopped in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  Admitted Students Parties Followup

  

  of amazing as well. First thing in the Fall, I'm trying out for both ... student from Houston who was visiting his brother in Austin who I happened ... is not a "one size fits all" school. As a current student, I would

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 30, 2005
• Blog / Events

  The Blogger’s Cut, Year One Some other first year memories captured in photos

  

  The first year is finally done! Woo! I'd put that text in some <marquee> tags, but I'm afraid that if I did, my boss would laugh me out of the ... was also one of the more surreal mornings I've ever had in recent memory

  • by Emad T. '14
  • May 25, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  DNA-mazing Lots of tidbits about the biology program at MIT.

  

  them seem to be very interested in undergrads -- I think they find us ... in Biology. I wonder if vocabulary will be a hard job for students who ... years of science)and plan to apply to MIT to major in biology. How would

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 26, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Getting Stronger the never ending cycle of trying and failing and trying again

  

  person who would come as we were finishing. In the quiet of the building ... better. In the two years I was gone, I[annotation note="unless you count ... a pre-lifting state. But, I’m doing it. Again. My first day back, in

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 13, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Recap (Guest Entry) "a perfect introduction to MIT"

  

  Hey everyone! My name's Allison.Well, I officially arrived in Boston ... Providence to Boston (I'm actually from San Diego, but our plane landed in ... ?). Unfortunately, I lost this card after the first day (Christina would probably roll

  • by Bryan
  • April 19, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Starting over sucks but sometimes you have to do it

  

  I competed in a lot of robotics competitions throughout high school ... ’ll finally be on the right track to succeed in my classes, I keep banging into ... 't major in something I had prior knowledge in, compared to my pitiful

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 16, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  IAΠ wherein another blogger deposits her January photos (but this time it's in late February)

  

  For a good portion of my first ever IAP, I explored ancient sites in ... horses and other quadrupeds (note: these were in every museum. I took ... ;     this was in nafplio and I just thought it looked pretty

  • by Abby H. '20
  • February 22, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  panicked when I called her as I was leaving my house in the morning. But when ... reasons I would go to one of those. *rolls eyes* The Chorallaries were there ... , and answered questions. In the middle of all this, I found out that

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Psets from hell Sometimes learning can be painful

  

  good at math. I was practically a math prodigy back in the day. Like back in preschool and kindergarden, I was adding and subtracting way before ... older, I still loved math, and so did my dad. He works in construction

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 18, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Day at the Forge blacksmithing!

  

  In the middle of an already-packed IAP, I received an email: I’d gotten off the waitlist for blacksmithing!  I was in a phase of trying to ... important task in my life, such as a semester, ends, and I am adrift

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  mask on, mask off my used-to-be-virtual, and now post-virtual-but-still-neurodivergent life at MIT

  

  the ear in which it was played. I couldn’t have told you where “left ... . There was the year I read almost everything in the school library. The ... started doing things the right way, and only then would I have Grown Up

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 22, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  Mussels and Brussels Lessons in engineering and culture from a nation of kindness

  

  participate in MISTI. When senior year rolled around, I decided that a 5-month internship in another nation would be a perfect post-graduation, pre-rest-of-my-life opportunity. It was a great idea in my opinion! So there I am, sitting on the

  • by MISTI Program
  • August 6, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Supporting our DACA Students MIT’s commitment to the safety and well-being of all students has not changed and will…

  

  citizen. I have the particular patriotism of an immigrant, rooted in deep ... support for undocumented students, and, in this uncertain time, I wanted to ... conditions to work and study in the United States. This reevaluation has been

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2017
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  the lying lives of adults by elena ferrante

  

  . When I was in high school, our English teacher wanted us to write essays ... certain criticisms in The Lying Lives of Adults. I sense that Ferrante is ... A few weeks ago, I was reading Conversations with Friends by Sally

  • by Rona W. '23
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Community Projects

  [joint post] A Map of MIT Makerspaces ft MechE grad student and mapmaker Rima Das

  

  as they discover and interact with more spaces. Eventually, I would ... in their dorm rooms. I have a vinyl cutter in my GRA apartment—I think ... drills in many dorms, a wonky woodshop under EC, and even bio and nuclear

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  It was the blurst of times? I'm a stupid monkey.

  

  Much like my one-time alter-ego Javert, I've always seen things in a ... ... with Pine I can go through spam in like a third of the time of webmail ... least I didn't make any egregious spelling errors like I do in all of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 3, 2005
• Blog / Travel

  [liveblog] morbing at the airport the flight is delayed for several hours because of toilet issues

  

  I'm doing a misti internship in the uk this summer, so I'm at the airport to fly out. I have been stuck in purgatory (aka. boston logan ... update 7:05pm EST) Am I there yet: Yes! Hours in the airport: ~17 Hours on

  • by Anika H. '26
  • June 1, 2025