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• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  contemplative lately. In my first few weeks here I had tons of questions, but they were “easy” ones: how do I register for classes? If I use the last of the ... fastest way to get from Building 2 to E25? At the same time, too, there was

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Admissions Decisions and Mystery Hunt A few thoughts and a lot of puzzles.

  

  King, Jr., weekend during IAP. Teams of people at MIT and people who just ... puzzles of puzzles, and there are also puzzles of puzzles of puzzles. At the ... decision for me and I might have hunted for wifi at intersections. When we

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 12, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Greetings from Cambodia: D-Lab students in the field Janet Li from D-Lab blogs from Cambodia

  

  technology at the end of our field trials. Compost bin support: Following our ... with trash: At our third session at at A New Day Cambodia, the team of ... D-Lab is an interdisciplinary program at MIT committed to working

  • by OEL
  • January 25, 2012
• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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. '26
  • May 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  5 / The final countdown A month of stress and relief

  

  th at 4:30p, I breathed a sigh of relief alongside my study buddies ... few weeks of every semester is chaotic, nerve-wracking, and stressful. As I took my last midterms, handed in my last rounds of psets, and

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 3, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  PSA: the app is live for freshman

  

  The MIT freshman application for the prospective Class of 2022 is now available at     > > > my.mit.edu < < <      You know what to do. Be yourself. Be good to others. Take care of

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  What is Simmons Hall Like? part of my freshman year experience

  

  met on Facebook over the summer, arrived at the end of the week, just ... cardboard). One of the others was holding up a picture of my high school ... of my soon-to-be home: Simmons. Let's talk a bit about this lovable

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 16, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Real, live MIT students * IN HD* A look inside the world of MIT Admissions Interns

  

  you like to have a glimpse into the life of current, MIT students and ... interested in working at the Admissions Office Randomness Seriously, though, check out the page. They work on a lot of great projects in the office

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • September 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Live from the Glass Lab! it's...tuesday afternoon??

  

  One of my favorite MIT organizations is the Glass Lab, where students ... for the holidays at MIT. I'm on their mailing list, and this morning they sent out the following blast: Dear Glass Lab followers, One of the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 19, 2010