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• Blog / MISTI

  Summer at last and my last days as a teenager...D:

  

  Jersey, which is very close to home. Planning for summer 2011, I knew I ... Initiatives) matches MIT students with all-expenses paid internship and research ... , I have friends going to India, Japan, China, France, and Spain. As

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • May 31, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  South American Oak called Roble. Neat. After trying and failing to rent a ... You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to ... a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT History Makes MIT Spotlight! Again, bringing you live reporting from the underappreciated MIT History department.

  

  she would have failed as an instructor if we are not able to contribute ... research on colonial United States up to the Declaration of Independence and the formation of the Constitution, and yet she was willing to sit down

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life during finals season It's always darkest before the holidays.

  

  Dinnerware: Total Stealth fails due to lack of volunteers. This is the ... , MA 02139. Please mail excess pillows to address above. 9:20 AM ... . Selected approach is to go for a long run in sub-zero weather and the sort of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 13, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Kiss the Frog Charm School and Nerdy Pick Up Lines. What can I say?

  

  , do you want a fail proof way to know which bread and drink are yours ... So the annual no-problem-set-fest known as IAP really comes to an end ... Time Machine and jump back 9 years to when I was in 6th grade, every weekend, I

  • by Bryan
  • February 3, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Laptop Stickers of MIT and their stories~

  

  failed by a good amount) to vaccinate 10k people (I was 3 thousand ... It doesn't take long being on MIT's campus to notice all the laptop ... for hours if you let me. The "fly the W" sticker also relates to the

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • March 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  The Lessons I’ve Learned and it only took three full semesters and a summer

  

  intended to keep them that way. As the first exam week came, I failed the ... afraid of failing too. In that, I learned another lesson. I used to get mad ... devoted hours and hours each day to psets as well as textbook reading

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  The MIT Public Service Center provides fellowships for students to travel around the world to allow them apply their talent and knowledge ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tuesdays with Linda It's kind of like making smoothies but not.

  

  's. Today, I presented my initial ideas about how I'm going to try and tackle ... So Sam and Mollie have both introduced you to their interesting ... their UROP. Basically, in a nutshell, I spent 2 hours sending emails to

  • by Bryan
  • January 31, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2009 note #1

  

  While we are still waiting to hear from everyone, and hence it is too early to know anything about the waitlist, the Next Big Mailing (NBM) is on its way to those who replied to us before the deadline. One of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 5, 2005
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  a pass/fail system. (Similar to 6.005 but labs are all or nothing ... Disclaimer: This blog post is fairly specific to Computer Scientists ... your benefit and doesn't contribute to your final grade. With that said

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Athletics

  Unveiling the New Varsity Weight Room let's get buff !!!

  

  Athletics Department took the initiative to build a new weight room that will ... now open! Accessible to all those who participate in a varsity sport at ... vwr[/caption] It was super cool to get to lift in the new VWR. In the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • November 23, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Chasing Roots, Part One During an overnight stay in Milan, I traversed several generations to explore musical history in…

  

  . During my overnight stay in Milan, I travelled the roads of time to meet ... Fondazione Giuseppe Verdi, was established at the turn of the century to ... Parma Conservatory. Me and a large likeness of Arrigo (to give you an

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  8,726,400 SOS: Self-Discovery Within An Internship guest post by Grace C. '21

  

  finally hit me. "While it is hard to see this initially and as selfish as ... hard to see this initially and as selfish as this may sound, this summer ... as I stare at my completed 7.014 exam. I get up to hand the thick

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • June 27, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / Events

  Splish Splash ♪ ♫ great programs at MIT and beyond!

  

  Listen to this awesome, late 1950s song. Now try to picture me ... . over. and. over. Like I am now, except now I'm not dancing to it. After ... pretending to be becoming the master of a new kind of swing/slide-jazzy dance

  • by Ana V. '15
  • November 19, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  of things I planned to accomplish this IAP. And now, I’m going to practice saying goodbye to Pass-No Record and start embracing real grades (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  So let’s build a snowman. In the moat. One of the better ideas I’ve had in a while.

  

  ’m from Michigan, so Boston cold is still no big deal. To be honest, if it ... personal enthusiasm levels inversely proportional to the temperature, though this kind of breaks down once it gets below 0, because I kind of like to

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 25, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sophomore Fall Recap Entropy, Research, and Other Out-of-Class Happenings

  

  ’s exciting too. UROP Project: How to Fail Six Imaginary Students In out ... ’s harder to create a set of terrible questions and failing student ... . Life’s entropy continues to increase. It’s a paradox: the more time I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • February 17, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What I’ve Been Up To No, not back around finals week - still not thinking about it... DURING IAP! When…

  

  giving you a large, apologetic explanation which would do nothing to redeem myself to you applicants and prefroshers and even preapplicants out there, I'm going to go right in and cover everything interesting I've seen

  • by Marcela R. '13
  • February 9, 2010