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• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  is actually more beautiful, if you can believe it. And Saturday I ... DID YOU KNOW? Resistance is measured in Ohms, which are represented ... really needed to get started with before Friday and almost no time to do it

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

  TMI WRT MIT TLA’s Wonderful things happen that I can organize around a coherent theme. Also, I didn't lose…

  

  sousaphone (where were you, Jeff?). As an added perk, the nine of us got the ... . Also, there were game booths where you could try your luck for the chance ... This was a great day. Take my word for it. What, do you want me to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  the top of my head: You get brownie points if you can name this. The ... Science: You may remember 5.111 as the class where I threw ping pong balls ... tell you where it might react. Why? Molecules with pi bonds or

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  stories tall - I'm never really sure because, as you can see, the first ... Cambridge. You may be wondering where this is going. Bad Ideas? Green ... many times as you can in four hours (bananas and Gatorade provided at the

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  from studying that I can't help but share with all of you - the first thing I did upon getting home was log onto the admissions blogger ... the second category, so you may wonder why I'm posting and not studying

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Row, row, row your boat aka varsity sports at MIT

  

  sport at all), there can be a place for you. For some more well ... -stress (and you get a great view of Boston from the river). Photo Credit: Tony ... I always seem to know I’m back at MIT when I can vaguely hear my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 27, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Look At Stagecraft [by Susan Shepherd '11] And axes!

  

  available as well, including specialized ones where you can learn how to make ... as their titles would suggest. As you can imagine, stagecraft entails a ... [by Susan Shepherd '11] As some of you might already know, the MIT

  • by ARTalk
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  Take Deep Breaths :) Deep breaths.

  

  place that I love. Make sure that you remember that all you can do is know ... . You'll all get in somewhere, and whether you get in or you don't, it ... For now, I'll refer you to this blog entry, but I'll be back

  • by Bryan
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Not in my own words. 90% of this entry = not written by me.

  

  blogging - where you can write whatever you want, however you want. No ... statement of purpose, will get it wrong. Much of what you have learned about ... is a place where I will be challenged and I can hone my writing skills

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 1, 2012
• Blog / Classes

  plastic knives spraypainted silver and other poems from 21W.762

  

  hope you can forever see and remember that I love you  ------- This ... how stupid you must be to let that get to you again your rage is useless in the night your screams will only carry empty words you can

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • December 26, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Ben’s Farewell The conclusion to the Ben tribute entries, and a little advice.

  

  can't begin to tell you how quickly these past two years have gone by ... you'd get to meet and interact with your adviser every week. But this ... bit, it'll just take a second- really, I'm serious, where are you going

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 28, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Introducing…Stan! Passing the blogger torch

  

  ’t get dates. If you phrase my high school life like that, it may seem less surprising that I ended up at MIT. I mean, if you replace all ... cognitive sciences). If you can’t find me in class, I’m commonly found with my

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • June 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  3.A03 Metalsmithing Throughout Time come to MIT, get to forge metal with your bare hands!! (and a hammer)

  

  selections, so that you can introduce yourself, get acquainted, and check in. In freshman year, you can choose between either "traditional" advising ... get a major-specific advisor (or two if you double major :0). I like

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 27, 2018
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  to decide and no one can tell you otherwise.  Anyways, it’s great to ... frying pan until you have a Eureka moment where life and the universe suddenly makes sense.  You'll get this a lot from doing PSets.  Those moments

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / IAP

  Why I’m Baking Cookies Tonight. IAP is a beautiful time to do lots of something or lots of nothing. Or…

  

  family’s better parties. You can do these sorts of things when you don ... again. And if you just want to work on a UROP, like me, you can, without ... I am the type of person that occasionally gets carried away with what

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 15, 2010
• Blog / Challenges

  zero bandwidth it’s not burnout if you have to keep going

  

  couldn't save the world, even if you tried. You can't be the sink node for other people's pain. Not a hundred, not ten, not even one. All you can do is dampen it. To catch someone who is falling over, you can't just

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 17, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  engineers at a theme park waiting in line to get on a roller coaster and you ... birthplace of Anne Sullivan, tutor of Helen Keller, but I'll tell you this, I ... tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  your school library or something if you get the chance--it's a nicely-done article. Plus, if you buy the actual magazine, you can see pictures of ... DID YOU KNOW? America's fastest competitive eater is Sonya Thomas, a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Living la vida lab rat So the moral of the story is that freedom is relative in science. And that…

  

  A few entries back, Lena asked "How did you get the job in the lab ... to be my biology advisor (if you have two majors, you get two advisors ... . Generally, you'll get more freedom as you work longer in the lab and prove

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • March 25, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  VI-A Course 6? Work experience and a Masters degree all at once!

  

  comes with a voice that can read text to you. But, you can almost ... , because she had frankly reached the point where if she saw one more mastadon ... occasionally want to get out and see the world. In the last year and a half, MIT

  • by Kim D. '09
  • October 3, 2008