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• Blog / MISTI

  Low The first in a trilogy of Berlin photo entries, featuring Zinedine Zidane.

  

  don't try to sit in the seats at Haagen Dazs, or this one lady who works ... destination. In the 36 hours we spent there, I think we got to see about one ... built a special second stadium in addition to the Olympic Stadium, with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 13, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Blogger selection 2008 results We have completed the selection of this year's bloggers!

  

  : "In a paragraph or two, describe to us a YouTube video, and why it is ... more interesting submissions were in response to short answer question #2 ... In My Tummy Korean Breakdancing to a Modern Remix of Canon in D by

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 26, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  The Cloud i live there now

  

  I just restored my laptop to factory condition to get rid of an annoying virus or something that was preventing me from seeing my desktop and taskbar. Here's what I had to back up before doing this: My

  • by Qiaochu Y. '12
  • February 8, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Decisive Battle The one examining "Turkey vs. Spam" on the almost-literal level.

  

  Today, of all days, in Jonestown, PA, eight members of my family bore witness to the ultimate showdown between Turkey and Spam. Despite a two-hour food coma immediately after dinner, I think it's pretty safe to say that

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 24, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  live - It's nice to feel like I live in a city, instead of feeling like ... and in bed - Newsflash: I have time to read! I rarely read for fun ... down on my knee in order to put a hand over my mouth and stifle my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story ... a bit of a different spin, bringing in guest speakers every class to ... long before you want to punch someone, and learned that snow is, despite

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  half, actually, or 66 units, which number turns out to feel like a ... high school days--not because I wanted to be in high school again, but ... school, a mile from the old city plaza. In the days leading up to Christmas

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Some recommendations about recommendations Some things to think about as you look for letters from teachers.

  

  At MIT, we require all applicants to send in two letters of ... some face-to-face time alone with each teacher to ask them in person to ... its own form, or if teachers want to use the Common App's paper

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 24, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Some comments on topics of interest

  

  classes to get into an in-state school. Believe it or not, AP mania hasn ... , just to see what's happening in the exciting world of high schoolers and ... scheduling so that it was impossible for students to take more than 2 or 3 AP

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • January 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Person Who Inspired Me to Start this Blog The girls of Sri Lanka have in Alia an incredible beacon of hope and defender…

  

  in response to this degradation – degradation of a noble activity – that I decided never to wear political clothing or attend ... folly of my cynicism. In fact, she is the person who inspired me to start

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • December 9, 2007
• Blog / Study Abroad

  The Cambridge-MIT Exchange

  

  experience. I think in some ways I've been able to develop a healthier ... to pubs or formal halls (formal dinners where students and professors ... you should come to MIT or not. I would say that the Cambridge

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2005
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

   and type in the password: mit-covid. Miss a class? You’ll be able to view a ... Course 7 is making this resource available to the public in real-time and ... Today is Registration Day, or Reg Day, the day that MIT students sign

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Killing Time…Not Really guest post by Sheila B.'21

  

  already--3,974,400 seconds--and here I am, back in the States, ready to ... plan. Or improvise. After end of IAP rolled around, I was one of those ... (go EAPS), picking up free swag like Trick or Treat. As friends

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • July 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  children, Matt is in Southeast Asia, and I don't think that either Spencer or ... . If any qualified man in the Boston area reading this would like to ... this curious flyer outside of the Athena cluster in building 24 (aka "a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2017 it's never too early to start reminiscing

  

  school in the fall. Anyways, remember to reminisce, even in something that ... wasn't given a ticket to Commencement. So I went with my friend in the ... Commencement day, I almost got grabbed by police for getting too close to the

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 9, 2017
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  published on MIT World, however no talk has influenced me more or stayed in my ... use about moving on. Closure has become an amazingly overused word in ... what others should do in the face of tragedy. Whether thinking about

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  ungestalt twenty-one years of wandering

  

  't perceived, and broken down to its component parts. in a general sense, maybe ... to see the gestalt, please look at this. in this sense gestalt and ... a figure of the form, or of the splotches? that one is trickier to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • September 4, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Fall Hits MIT In other words: Kate dumps all the pictures she's been meaning to post.

  

  Sarah, '12 decided that, in addition to our delicious rice and chicken ... classic image of a cat sleeping on the couch in the sun. ...or, sleeping on ... events spanning the last week of which I took pictures. To whet your

  • by Kate R. '14
  • October 27, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The End of SURFing at NIST Using a tiny tractor beam to manipulate nanowires

  

  and then arrange them to create a nanodevice. Exciting, eh? In order to ... conductor, or even as a waveguide to conduct light. We have many different ... ! My research was on Using Optical Tweezers to Create Nanowire Based

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  up earlier and earlier or go to bed later and later in order to finish ... exactly sure what I had, but I was basically either in bed or at MIT Medical for four days straight (and therefore, not in class, lab, or recitation

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016