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• Blog / MISTI

  Three Months In Paris The MISTI experience of Jenny Nelson '09.

  

  been, and neither had anyone in my family, so when I told my parents that ... excited as I was. Ok, maybe not. That would have been pretty hard. I left ... that I knew no Americans in the city for the first week and a half or so

  • by MISTI Program
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Wild Parties, Vaginas and Suburbia Can you possibly guess where this entry is going? No. You can't.

  

  taken from the website. Again. So anyway, back to this semester, I saw ... , I really love all sorts of theater. I'm not talented in any way in ... held in the Stata Center in a large auditorium with soft red chairs, I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • February 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Never Calculate without Already Knowing the Answer!” xTalk about the "Art of Insight" by Prof Sanjoy Mahajan

  

  specifically integration. It’s complicated (so much so, in fact, that I ... (a factor we would normally not consider since it is so negligible in ... calculator addiction: What if we knew the solution before the calculation? In

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 1, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  On Essay Writing A guide to essay writing for the express purpose of obtaining admittance to an institute…

  

  brainstorming, I’m partial to lying on the carpet in my living room floor with a ... . I’ve learned in other aspects of life, too, that instead of agonizing ... phrases as my mind filled in the blanks. I think the same thing happens

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • July 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons Learned in Lab Applicable to life.

  

  in my head. And now, that mental blog entry is here :) I was thinking ... 've done some pretty stupid things in lab. Case in point: I've cracked ... out too much or too little of the volume in question. I've shamefacedly

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nobel Prize Week An exciting time for research, both noble and ignoble.

  

  early to check the website and see if any MIT folks won. I have to be honest: I was bummed yesterday when Prof. Alan Guth '68 was again shut out for the Nobel in Physics; his work on the inflationary universe is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 5, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Ringing in the second half of MIT The Class of 2019 gets their brass rats...at last

  

  where the whole sophomore class dresses up in everything from onesies to ... design. Every year, Ring Comm, the group of students in charge of ... details of the 2019 ring include the euro symbol in the background behind

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • April 23, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  him, no "Wayne Corp. makes my stuff, I just buy it", Tony Stark designs ...   Most of my entries center around things I've learned or experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It all comes to this The Senior Thesis (cue dramatic music)

  

  presentation.” (2.ThA website) Some people choose to begin their research in the ... Senior year. I began working in the Lab for Multiscale Regenerative Technologies in the fall of my senior year, and I’m spending most of my IAP here

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  winter in Brazil adventures in WGS.245: Race, Place, and Modernity

  

  the setting we’re learning about. I find myself swept up in the ... ’s summer in Brazil, so I brought mostly shorts and crop tops. I have not had time to open most of the books — I didn’t realize how much time I would

  • by Amber V. '24
  • February 10, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  More Milk Please And a cookie too. If by cookie you mean an awesome metaphor.

  

  struggling to take it all in. Don’t get me wrong. I love it here already. Sure ... around in bowls of milk. One day I too shall be an old, one eyed cat who ... listed on the Association of Student Activities website Unfortunately, I

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 7, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  Mine hands are broken reflections on many a year of carpal tunnel syndrome

  

  leaves. I would go on walks in the middle of the day, after work, and ask ... anyway, so I took a day off and hoped it would go away. But it didn't, and ... the thought of running five miles one morning. I would hope my roommates

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 14, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Zeno’s Paradox halfway there (again)

  

  Kay In high school, when I'd start to get bored of a class, I'd sit and stare at the clock, and I'd count down the time left in the class period ... out (if they haven't already), I implore you to read them. Take them in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • May 17, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to get around MIT hunger pangs [by Sadie Scheffer '10] Culinary art = delicious art.

  

  chemistry on your own! A quick introduction to my recent kitchen escapades: I have been cooking for a long time with food I buy from grocery stores ... and shirts and ties! What am I not prepared for? Nowadays, most high

  • by ARTalk
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  College Admissions and the Public Interest

  

  In 1966, B. Alden Thresher, an economist and the first ever Director ... more than 50 years ago. What I love about CAPI (as it's called) is the honesty and integrity with which B.A.T. wrote, which values I hope (and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 3, 2018
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Soymilk 豆浆

  

  , that she would make for me and serve hot. She soaked the dried beans in water for a whole night, and then she would prepare the soymilk machine in ... in a supermarket, I finally found the unsweetened kind, picked it up

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 7, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Please Read This Regarding the mail screw up.

  

  I know that you all hate us right now and I don't blame you. I would too. In fact I do. I know this doesn't make it any better, but we really ... say "post it in Ben's blog so they know." As soon as he told me I moved

  • by Ben Jones
  • December 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The School of Architecture + Planning What happened to "science"? "Engineering"? "Technology"?!

  

  ) major. I have recently completed my HASS Concentration in Course 11 (Urban ... MIT, fabricated a house featured in a MoMA exhibit last summer (there I ... . I don't know too much about it, but according to its website "its

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • December 28, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... placing it in the drying rack, I head back upstairs and grab my laptop ... house, looking for people to bother. I spot Noah in the basement. "What

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Experience with Real Analysis epsilons, delta, and the technique

  

  . Throughout my entire time in high school, I used to complain to my math teacher ... theorems. Well, in the most MIT fashion, I can defiently say that I got more ... due to that class in particular. Going into 18.100, I saw the material

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • June 10, 2018