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• Blog / MISTI

  Springtime for Interns in Germany Watch out, Europe: I'm going on tour.

  

  , where I'll learn how to open a bank account in Germany, why not to call ... shouldn't walk out on a Nobel laureate just to slap some inductors together ... Choir. We've even invited a Swiss choir from Lausanne to come sing along

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  It Lives. can i be nostalgic yet?

  

  to wherever they had to go. Tentatively, I took a step. And another ... difficult to follow, too hard to keep in time with. Erratic. Flighty. I stumbled as I walked, tripping over my feet a couple of times. In a panic, I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • September 2, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Trip to AfroTech My Recap of the AfroTech Conference in Houston

  

  check our stuff in so me and a group of others made a lunch trip to Chick-fil-A ... in the evening to finish up an assignment for a class I had that day ... [/caption] Later in the night, we all decided to finish off the trip with a group

  • by Richard O. '28
  • November 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in My Summer Life Starts at 5 AM, ends at 10:30 PM, and go-go-go in between.

  

  , and since all of us are used to showering in the morning instead of at night, my mornings tend to (1) start early, and (2) be a little hectic ... order. Time to make lunch! Salad + fruit + almonds + a roll orrr PB

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • July 15, 2012
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  finding a MIT alum in Tokyo (!), I realized that I forgot to ask for his ... Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... cause big traffic delays to the train line in question. When a major

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Epilogue An open letter about blogging, growing up, and the end of my first year at…

  

  wish: to pluck the wings of a fleeting moment, spread it out in the ... Building 4 to Building 3 in a brief whirl of disorientation during ... mercifully scarce in a job that regularly involves glorifying the trivialities

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 21, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  . Provincetown in the dark was a stunning approximation to the iconical New England ... with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down ... ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.

  

  turning a funny mix of pink and orange. You (and everyone else in your ... whiteboard in French House; they're always covered with a combination of ... QUESTIONS!" Seriously. I’m not making this up. People here love to teach. A

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  ! Apple Bake has been a fall culinary tradition in Burton-Conner for the ... investment anyway It's truly glorious to see the floor in the hours ... organized and had an extra day to bake, so although I became a little stressed

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  I’m still here (and MIT’s still hard) The little comment that wasn't. (This isn't edited. It sounds awkward at times. Deal.)

  

  .) In response to all of these comments, I'd like to deliver a poorly ... I started writing a brief response to some of the comments on Chris ... Mr. Antunez, a new teacher who had grown up in Spain and Argentina and

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  August Questions Omnibus 1 In this entry, I answer your recent questions left in the comments of previous entries.

  

  asked (in response to this article), "That's a cute story. Is 17 really ... look into and what kind of a performance i should maintain in college to ... wrote (in response to this article), "Nice, he must have been a great

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 8, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back to School If you go to school in Missouri City (TX), I might see you this week!

  

  staff in Anaikatti, I also got a chance to interact with some of the ... I'm back in the U.S. of A and have recovered enough from jet lag for ... laziness. So ~ my time in India is over :( No longer do I wake to the sound

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • January 23, 2011
• Blog / Events

  MITHenge Blinded by the light.

  

  Every June 21st, thousands of people flock to Stonehenge to watch a ... perfectly positioned to shine through the narrow opening between the heel ... religious or scientific purposes. Image from the BBC. A similar phenomenon

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 31, 2007
• Blog / IAP

  breathing in and out

  

   thinking about how i would go to college in a place like this, and now i’m here ... a lot to do. and yes, i’m hosed in that respect, but i’m not sure that ... specks, burying everything in dust. a phreatic eruption, we would learn

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • January 12, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Making the Pi Day Video the experiment, part 2

  

  ."]middle school.[/annotation]. After these revelations, we knew we needed to find a ... message to Angela asking if she would be interested in potentially working ... talking about. Despite that little hiccup, Angela was excited to be a part

  • by kellen manning
  • March 12, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me, what might be my short term and long term goals, it's important to go a little ways back in my history (what history I have), not too far, just a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Dorms: Burton Conner House Why is BC awesome? Because three bloggers live there. Plus, lots of other stuff too.…

  

  about BC? I'll throw in a response to a question I got via email here- yes ... checks in and out. The front desk is also where you can get your mail, find ... dorm collection, or borrow the pool cues/ping pong paddles/etc to use in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The One Where I’m in Russia a brain/photo dump of me running away from school

  

  , MISTI opens doors to opportunities like this one that are really once-in-a ... lofty goal in mind, I’d like to end with a picture that is metaphorically ... app prototypes in the span of just a few weeks. Their companies ranged

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • September 28, 2017
• Blog / Personal Travel

  welcome to new york went to nyc & all i got was this blog post

  

  scholarship to attend a business conference held in Manhattan, I immediately ... "Welcome to New York" as the musical version of a peppermint latte. It was ... it was the one I could relate to the most. In ninth grade, my dream

  • by Rona W. '23
  • July 12, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I’m Not Normal About Friends (Part 1) i lost six nights of sleep to perform amateur data analysis on a sitcom

  

  show. Sure, it's a sitcom, and it's in the nature of a sitcom to rely ... I started watching Friends a few weeks ago. I thought it was going to ... , 10+ weeks of non-stop assignments gave way to a week of utter

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 25, 2023