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• Blog / MISTI

  Things got poopy in Beijing and edible.

  

  other interns…as well the quirky side of Beijing. A few days ago, an ... 's just say, at the bottom of everything was a turd. That would be me and ... This past weekend, I went to dinner with a group of MIT and Johns

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • June 28, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Feedback Works Warning: analogy ahead

  

  Lab, and those students are assessed by members of the program (staff or ... p-sets to test students' understanding of the material. But aren't we ... cheering squad, and MIT is no exception. I had the pleasure of being one of

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • November 14, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Writing is useful for science. Surprise!

  

  the pertinence of writing to science. The answer was: writing is an ... ; *         *         *   The days of partyboy/astronomer Tycho Brahe reclining in the quadrant he built into the wall of his palace are (regrettably) over. Tycho

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 30, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President of the Class of 2018 (and newly-elected member of the MIT Corporation

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  Mas33h Hall A quick look at life in the Castle

  

  questions about them feel free to ask in the comments! 3 Best Parts of living ... at the very least you can’t tell that thousands of ~20 year olds have lived here. 2) The proximity. All of my classes are just across Mass. Ave

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • April 9, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy: Continued This time, the title even makes sense.

  

  't know what happened to your week. Fortunately, it's not most weeks of the ... ; however, in the cold of winter, or the near-flash floods of September, some ... of orange juice. That's not all I keep the car around for; having

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 22, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  For the Love of Darties and ChemE An audio journey

  

  chemical engineering professor in hopes of resurrecting the audio-thing series that Petey started in the blogger days of yore. I didn’t really have ... I believe the saying goes “everything was all good just two weeks ago

  • by kellen manning
  • March 26, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  What YOU’RE Doing This Summer! Do yourself a favor and watch this! Make sure you're not doing anything for the…

  

  ), and applying to medical school. One of the most interesting things that ... America. At MIT, Dr. Lee said, the focus of science is to teach you to ... . This actually is a disadvantage during the first two years of med school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 24, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... of materials). Here are the five writing assignments I did for these ... a white paper about one of three topics from the perspective of a MIT

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Blog Projects

  24 Pumpkins a journey through the streets of Boston

  

  way. Amongst other things, I’ve been taking pictures of the changing ... of leaves (shoutout to the folks who are making these), and trying a variety of fall-themed Trader Joe’s snacks (the maple syrup fudge is

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick '09 and I had a marathon carpentry ... the side hallway of the 23 suite. I'm looking at it right now. Maybe we should get on that. Anyway, the point of this entry is the tables. I just

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music, Photography, and Two.js i am proficient at two (2) of these things.

  

  , and that's definitely been reflected in some of the music I've been ... besides music, I've also had the opportunity to take a ton of awesome photos ... evening we went out on to the Mass Ave. bridge and shot a bunch of photos of

  • by Joe B. '18
  • November 15, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Field Trip! I meant to blog this a long long time ago.

  

  Thanks to the carefree nature of my elementary and middle school ... to the Museum of Science, one to a theater production of "There's a Boy ... to think of at the moment. When high school came around, the notion of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 26, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Take THAT, Microsoft Firefox rules.

  

  Like you might have read on some of the other blogs, the EA Telethon ... of someone I knew from the blogs but had never actually met in real life. So I asked Marisa, one of the Admissions Counselors (recent MIT

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 19, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Peek at 8.033 – Relativity We think physics is pretty great.

  

  on my project since day one, but ALSO the week of our last mandatory ... gives out 1 pset a week of variable difficulty and length. The shortest ... stupider. The lectures are a lot of fun while generally the recitations are a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 6, 2006
• FAQ / First-year application

  What if I don’t have letter grades for some of my coursework or have chosen to take a class pass/fail?

  disruptions over the past few years. Some of these may have impacted your ... school can make available to us and consider them in the context of your ... choose the type of grades you want to send us. Numerical or letter grades
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  might be after the end of the semester']managing everything ... and learning psychology, but this feels a little like the zone of ... the standard sleep schedule of the past few semesters—2 AM to 10 AM, not

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  10,000 Ways That Won’t Work

  

  at MIT, but rather me filling out a particular section of the ... previous semester, I checked the “Other” box and moved on to the rest of the ... labs benefit from the (effectively free) labour of highly

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 27, 2023
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  instantly became acutely aware of the fact that I could not gauge the weather ... only did I become a bit more stylish with the aquisition of the peacoat ... ! And lots of them! So, as you now know, I am from Colorado and the area

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Hello world. All your blog are belong to me.

  

  Communications at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. However, like Dave, perhaps it is simpler to introduce myself as part of the team of people that ... one of the constitutive elements of this new borg-Ben newly arisen from

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2009