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• Blog / MISTI

  [JOINT POST] Travelling as a black female "Alexa, play Brown Skin Girl..."

  

  later on in life. Context matters- not to serve as an excuse for how ... conversation they would nod their heads (side to side, not up and down) and ... continue to be definitely did not come to me very easily in the beginning but

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 3, 2019
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  stood out to me"]I do not speak the language fluently[/annotation] was ... vacation and not having to figure out immigration processes or government ... discussion around gentrification in the city and how to approach the city

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Ethics, AI, and the College of Computing some student voices in a campus controversy

  

  we choose to uphold The areas that they feel the Admin has not held ... buying, even when they do not have any say in how it is used. This goes for ... , we are not confident the school will be able to do so without a

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • April 5, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Aged And Confused thoughts from a fossil

  

  shovel then they are not going to help. (Still working on this one ... but no one knows it yet. The important thing is to know how to recognize ... Spaghettios to make them not worth eating on a Saturday afternoon in your

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  The November Rule 2: Electric Boogaloo the one rule you should not break (take it from me, kids)

  

  , you may not realize how weird it is for upperclassmen to want to date ... promptly thrown into a slew of new experiences; they have to learn how to ... how to be an independent person in your first semester at MIT is

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 23, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye 2023, Hello 2024 looking backwards and looking forward

  

  : I'm not necessarily sure how to quantify this resolution since the project ... without any concrete plans on how to achieve those goals. In the spirit of ... /or computer science mixed with biology and 2.) learn how to organize an

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • January 1, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Emergency Application Extension for students affected by the storm

  

  ) Although you may not yet know what you want to major in, which department or ... 've faced or something important that didn't go according to plan. How did you ... without power now will not be able to read this blog post, so I would ask

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 31, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  Pi Day Eve A doodle and some old advice

  

  To everyone who's waiting for a pi(e) day decision: It's all going to be okay. It may not feel like it right now, with t-12(ish) hours until that fated time, but it will be. I tried to think of what high

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • March 13, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  For Applicants Admitsphere.org, four hens, two ducks, best wishes and high regard from Mac-town, Oregon

  

  in order to learn how to win at high school, college applications, and ... to say, take a look at admitsphere.org. Admitsphere was devised by a ... '16, to sustain high school students through the application process

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • December 27, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Tour of an MIT student’s notebook my brain is a mess so my pages have everything

  

  Note: This is not a guide to keeping a notebook because everyone has ... to include diagrams to help with understanding. They’re not the best ... little funny in hindsight how crass some of them turned out to be (usually

  • by Anika H. '26
  • July 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Last First Month Because I procrastinated too long to say 'day' or 'week'

  

  've been in a while. Sometimes I'm afraid that I'm not 'MIT' enough to blog ... , focusing on how organisms relate to each other and their environment instead ... out how to teach molecular biology is, for some reason, far more

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • October 3, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Browser Wars Hee. The title makes me think of Super Mario Bros. Oh how I miss my…

  

  you get used to how awesome Firefox is, you can never go back to IE ... of my complacent-but-not-really-exciting marriage to Windows.) I ... -up number that represents my vague opinion about how likely you are to be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  New Decade, New Me? some reflections, some resolutions, some hopes,

  

  "not suffering from burnout" and I'd like to return to it. This ... often. Last but definitely not least, I'm resolving to figure out what I ... . In many ways, I am now, since coming to MIT, more like my fifth grade

  • by Alex M. '21
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Straight from the Dean’s mouth Time magazine readers chat with the MIT Dean of Admissions, Marilee Jones.

  

  shocked to find out how many colleges put real emphasis on whether or not a ... powerful pulpit to write and speak extensively about how to navigate the ... advice is to ask colleges directly how much weight they place on

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My night with 8.03 MONSTER ENTRY AHHHH

  

  times a second. However, Wikipedia is not going to tell me how to do ... hours worth of work? God I hope not. Come to think of it, a part of that ... backlight, (not to be confused with) the background light. Key light is the

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 11, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Your February Notes and Updates Form every applicant needs to do this

  

  . I know that’s not a lot, but do your best to be concise. Remember, the final date to submit the FUN form is February 15th. 
 How do ... admitted or deferred in Early Action), and is to be completed by you, the

  • by Kris Guay
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  into oil. How do you turn a turkey into oil? Well, Chester, according to ... in this Discover article. Not to brag, but I got to have dinner with ... the Unistrut and it's not going anywhere. So, if you ever need to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  MIT-ish on being MIT enough

  

  I've been thinking a lot about what it means to be a student here at MIT, and whether or not I made the right decision in coming to this ... a role model or for a reminder of what not to be. Parts of me want to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  flowers of fire and light making art with printed circuit boards!

  

  to learn how to fix them. Laying out the PCB Having learned how to use ... I'm using. Here we also specify how each component is connected to ... footprint for my USB-C port anywhere on the Internet, so I figure out how to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 16, 2023
• Blog / Announcements

  MIT EA Decisions to be Posted Saturday, 12/17/22, 12:17 PM ET

  

  the time to make something without worrying how good or complete it is ... This year, the illustrious EA decision blog has been passed to me! My ... when I'm not overflowing with creativity, I've found that being sincere

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • December 12, 2022