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• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  to think, to really process things, to take a breather and, in the ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and ... 9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Dating Research A news story today looks at Media Lab research on dating.

  

  There's a story on the AP wire today (look for it in your local paper ... presented in first-year subjects; to involve students in the Media Lab ... patterns and voice tones to rate people -- on a scale of 0 to 100 percent

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 11, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Which I Get Schooled By My Professor This video does not contain an improvised song, but it does contain Peter Reddien.

  

  are caught up in their research, maybe just want to show off how smart ... (I know you’re tempted to stop reading after the video, but keep ... on genetic silencing. And yes, in case you were wondering, I thought

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  away sleep, progress on my UROP, and writing blog posts in order to ... think in general it came down to (1) being hosed and (2) wanting to avoid ... year. In one of my first ever blog posts I wrote as a freshman – titled

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  To the Class of 2016 General life advice

  

  'm finally free to come back to the blogs (: It's not that I haven't been thinking of them. In fact, I even wrote a little outline of this blog down on ... how you decide it'll be. Here's just some things to keep in mind as you

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • September 12, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  to write a humanities paper on fMRI usage in popular media ... I had trained myself to overcome last year. Instead, I sat in the ... nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Katrina I can't stop thinking about it.

  

  whatsoever, do not hesitate to call or email anyone in our office. As you may have noticed, we had to cancel our central meeting (info session) in ... source. If you've found other things like this, feel free to add them in

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bachelor’s & Master’s in 5 Years An attractive option offered to undergraduates in the Department of Urban Studies and Planning.

  

  's all about how you want to structure things. In DUSP, there are four ... you have the chance to explore offerings in any field and see how you'd like to focus in the future. The topics are wide-ranging and can be

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • November 15, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Selection notes A brief update from selection.

  

  deferred to regular action, and which students will be denied during this stage.In parallel, we are preparing to mail out decisions. All decisions ... . (including blogging, questions omnibus, replying to comments, et al.). I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 8, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Snot, Livers, and Fractals What a world.

  

  've made my triumphant - but temporary - return to the blogs because 1 ... Lydia is a kind shepherd of the blogs who puts too much trust in my sense ... essentially figuring out ways to coat drugs to sneak past the mucus in your body

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • May 25, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Thoughts On The MIT Interview ...from the perspective of an MIT interviewer.

  

  decisions. We are just people who once went to MIT (maybe in a time when it ... 't be summed up on a few sheets of paper. And I get to meet lots of young ... . In my opinion, it will work against you. Remember that should you go to

  • by John DeTore '80
  • October 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Venturing to far living groups

  

  , with airholes poked in the end to keep it soft. These guys were moving ... good friend Dave '06, who has been leaving snarky comments in this blog ... all freshmen to live in dorms (as has been done since 2002), I want to

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Recap; New Bloggers Announced Philly, Jersey, Wilmington. Jess, Keri, Lulu.

  

  to present the MIT admissions blogging program for a second year in a ... here so long that I've forgotten what it's like to be in love with a ... so long to finalize decisions. This is the first year in which the

  • by Ben Jones
  • October 3, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  June and Flaky Biscuits The first part of an epic summer and food, bien sur.

  

  joys of running bridge loops in Boston. Afterwards, I decided to take a ... surely deserves a blog post of its own, and so we commence... Backtrack to ... drained. I needed to re-discover why I needed to be at MIT in the first

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 16, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  Likelihood

  

  not go out until April. So, in a sense, I can understand the urge to not ... in mid-March to give students more time before the May 1 reply deadline ... day to make my decision...). I do think these likely letters, though, in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 19, 2005
• Blog / Personal Projects

  reflecting on 2020 goals and planning for 2021

  

  goals in 2019, I specified my reading list, the blogs that I wanted to ... In high school, I neglected many of my personal interests to make ... books is nothing to the number of books I used to read in middle school

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • March 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  02139. My flight was set to leave in the morning from the B terminal of ... , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... . Coincidentally, the room I was placed in (I later moved up to the 8th floor in C

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Short Answers to Big Questions Stolen from the MIT Housing Panel.

  

  that they're important ideas to have in my toolkit of Answers To ... , a living group in New House. 2) To be perfectly honest, I don't know ... to be a supportive friend. I remember a conversation back in London

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 18, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  the things you want to do outside of classes. In my case, I want to blog ... . This frees me to spend Monday, Wednesday, and Friday in lab, and blog ... baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  I can tell that we are gonna be friends (part 1) I'm talking to you, Alan Guth.

  

  assigned, at least in the physics department. I had to send in a form and ... . course requirements, how to plan a career in physics, finding a UROP) I ... that I receive my exam paper. Another friend responded to my news with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 2, 2011