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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  clothes are allowed at this party. I'm not a big fan of public nudity, so I ... supportive of athletics, but at the same time, those are prime dinner hours ... idea. It's kind of hard to find a balance at first. I generally eat my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  The Coolest Thing I Bet You Didn’t Know Was Math (guest post by YQ L. ‘16) Clickbait title by me, not by YQ, because I really, really, really want you to…

  

  Lydia here: some of my favorite things I’ve learned at MIT, from my ... , were our special guests at our annual convention in November. And of ... ! Lots and lots of amazing math art on display at the Bridges conference

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 7, 2016
• Blog / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  every day, regardless of how busy or exhausted I am, I make at least one ... -growing compilation of “easy simple at-home noodles” recipe reels in my Instagram saved ... organize my entire life top to bottom at some ungodly time of night, I never

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  moon at NASA, imagining what the moon as the 8th continent of Earth would ... really happened to me before. Preschool through college, it was kind of ... going to. But still – at least I knew I’d be going to school somewhere

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  so i guess fall is happening kinda hard to believe, huh?

  

  scariness than any of them did. i've never felt quite like this before at the ... whatever shortlist of people were invited back to a de-densified campus. i ... waffled between taking a leave of absence to try to "get back" an extra

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • August 23, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  Picking A Southwest Flight Seat How to Make Flying Bearable

  

  Entering college has meant I fly at least 6-7 times a year and I sketched up this guide on one of my flights after 4 hours of intense analysis. Or maybe 20 minutes of doodling on napkins, you can decide.  

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 22, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  summer roommate from Bombay) enjoy a sampler of Belgian beers at one of the ... 't have any big news. But you know what I do have? Pictures of Brussels ... price of 50 € RT, with an included meal and up to three (3) beverages of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  The Undecideds VI: The Undiscovered Country Even more undecided students' questions & answers.

  

  acceptance forms to MIT at the beginning of this week. I was discussing my ... Financial Aid Office at 617-253-4971. Every time I've called during business hours, they've picked up and answered all of my questions. What if I don

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Communication Intensive Jumping on the semester-in-review blog train

  

  , not about the “at MIT” part.) As part of MIT’s general institute ... problem (and hopefully secure funding too). Within a few days of staring at ... convincing those arguments were. At 1000 words, this was also the shortest of

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  . Public art at MIT took off during the Cold War as a way of humanizing the ... ’d notice unless someone told you, or you spent a lot of time looking at the ... public art at MIT reflects how artists see our campus. MIT is a mishmash of

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Advocating for Science on Capitol Hill, Part 1 My name is Anna Ho, and I'm here representing the American Astronomical Society.

  

  Government Relations Liaison at the American Institute of Physics. With her, we ... My name is Anna Ho, and I am a student at – No, no. That’s not the ... am a student at MIT majoring in physics. Ugh, I sound like a robot

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2008: So I think I’ll go to Boston (Guest Entry) More pictures than your body has room for!

  

  sighting of the dome! We’re close. We arrive at the check in place in the ... drop it at 8 PM, but there were A LOT of bouncy balls. Sadly, I couldn ... By Ming Lu The Thursday morning of CPW, I woke up bright and early

  • by Snively '11
  • April 20, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  my partner Eric and I measured the brightness temperature of the sun at ... celebrate. I failed at blowing out the candles, and Sam made fun of my limited ... , two of the others, arrived at the hospital, having woken up their GRT

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  coming off the path is anyone there?

  

  I can begin to even explain where I've been. At the risk of sounding ... particularly hedonistic weekend in the desert of California at Coachella a couple ... stared at the blinding lights from the stage in front of me, I felt

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  when the world gets too heavy put it on my back

  

  acceptance of the inevitable. at its core, really, it was just the end of a ... , since it was at the paradise rock club on commave as opposed to one of ... music i've been listening to a lot of fall out boy, panic! at the disco

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 11, 2021
• Blog / Classes

  IAP thoughts two weeks late, but with an illustration!

  

  about a career: the size of the company (if I work at a company), the team ... originally wanted to do during IAP: A micro-internship at a civil ... the city and vibe, visit a ton of museums Clean my room and finally

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • February 15, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  't recall the names of these people except the guy right next to me (he's at ... them are now at MIT! (there are 7 here now, out of the entire program ... and being surprised at the amount of technical knowledge I acquired

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  been one of my favorite Christmas songs. You can read the lyrics here. Let me get this out of the way, first: I think this cover isn't great. I ... you're bad at them. And you shouldn't feel bad about being bad at things

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  Hesitations about Choosing MIT our experience

  

  this side of the coin paints an incomplete picture. At the same time that ... A couple days ago in the blogger slack, Petey sent a screenshot of a ... lot of ppl are concerned about choosing MIT due to it being more

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • April 28, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  setting things on fire and playing with flames

  

  positioning was most effective when directed at the plume of hot gases above the ... one of our weekly fire jams. I've been fire spinning since freshman fall ... teach fire techniques as they are to learn them together. One of my

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • May 18, 2025