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• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  I love being back in Simmons after a long break. I get to hang out ... dorm, so you wouldn’t find any furry friends (besides Kaito, the Heads of House’s dog) roaming the hallways. But we have plenty of cool stuff to

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  into the pi day verse 3/14/22 at 6:28 PM ET

  

  and then besides watching traversing the MIT-verse? I asked a bunch of ... never stepped foot into. Felix ’23- take a walk!! Alison ’23- Hang out ... type of juice, take a walk and get lost (safely??), climb a tree (safely

  • by Tim
  • March 7, 2022
• Blog / Events

  A Faculty Dinner We invited our favorite faculty and staff to our hall for an awesome dinner!

  

  ! Pictures of Food Deviled Eggs by Alex C. '15 Buffalo Chicken Mac & ... of our GRTs (Graduate Resident Tutors) who live on our hall.  She got special privileges such as first dibs on food and a special seat outside of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 3, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I painted a mural for Borderline! bird-erline mural

  

  get a hang of mixing wall paint. My first attempt here didn't quite ... Since coming here, I've had two items at the top of my bucket list ... finish one of these last night! Borderline is a project that started in

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • May 5, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  Rebound Rumble! Another year, another FIRST Robotics Competition!

  

  ). Last year was a game of hanging inner tubes and deploying last minute ... One of the defining experiences of my 3 years in high school(we had a 7-9, 10-12 system) was being a member of FIRST(For Inspiration and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • January 19, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  . Regardless of what you major in, or how many degrees you leave with, or what ... downtown to pick up the envelope, and the rush of feelings that went along ... MIT email addresses, and even then, you could only see the profiles of

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cue the montage music

  

  guy by the name of Matt McGann visited my poster at the Intel Science ... offered me a blog and the task of writing about my life at MIT and the research endeavors of my fellow undergrads. Today, little seems to have

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 6, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who’s that new kid? ANOTHER one?? Are you KIDDING me?! She doesn't even fit on the page!

  

  Is this thing on? Um, okay. Some of you are probably like me and come from one of those families where you are the only one who knows how to turn on the computer, change the height of your mom's office chair

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Juniors: MIT and other summer programs Juniors may want to start thinking about summer programs including MITES, RSI, and WTP.

  

  to one of these programs, don't procrastinate! The MIT programs are just three of many terrific math & science summer programs that high school juniors can consider. All of the below are national

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  A Week of Music Eight bands in nine days, and I still missed five performances.

  

  , I was seriously considering the University of Chicago. That city also ... One of my best friends from high school, Pablo, and I share the exact ... one of us should stumble upon an awesome band performing live, he should

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 28, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  My design won an MIT merch contest I don't know why

  

  grad student from each university. Each of the winners is going to win ... essence of their respective universities. But now, the MIT Coop had to ... merch design competition for the graduating Class of 2025 (that’s me

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Alan Guth and Day 1 on the Navajo Reservation Warning: this post may blow your mind

  

  ). Also known as the father of inflationary universe theory and, apparently ... Universe - which is pretty mind-blowing, since we owe much of our theories on ... donned my most comfortable pair of sweatpants (Manchester United sweatpants

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 3, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Meeting Michel Gondry Six MIT students and one Academy-award winning director have dinner in New York, and none…

  

  only is FAP one week of pure awesome (I mean, come on, you get to hang ... with each addition of enjoyment. This bucket probably exists somewhere under the tunnels of MIT, and when it fills up past its capacity it tips

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 30, 2008
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  into one of the best, most stimulating and resource-rich universities in ... required. The University of Chicago says it will grant deferrals for almost ... University of Pennsylvania: "Not wanting to break stride is the American way

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Library Battle: Harvard vs. MIT Harvard and MIT Libraries are given a theme topic and each an afternoon to compile…

  

  that the University of Texas, his alma mater, has its very own Gutenberg ... Hey again world, it's me, Ruth, friend of Sam. Regardless of Sam's recent entry, Sam is in fact an engineer, and I am queen of the humanities

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 10, 2005
• Blog / Blog Projects

  the blogs turn twenty 👴🏻 the posts start coming and they don't stop coming

  

  It is a venerable tradition of the blogs to begin a post by ... you get older, time has a way of sneaking up and past you, the way that, for many people, one's birthday shifts from being a moment of annual

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I went to the Arnold Arboretum!!! i become one with nature

  

  On Friday, I went to the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University for ... spent a couple of blissful hours there. The area is HUGE—281 acres, to be ... of order if you'd like. My friends and I mostly wandered through random

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 25, 2020
• Blog / MISTI

  The train in Spain is ungainly, take a plane I'm an MITblogger, get me out of here!

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Square wheels will roll if the road is in the shape of a catenary curve, which is the shape that a string hangs in when you ... there waiting for one of the two or three daily trains to get us into

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  stories and decision paralysis

  

  added me to it. i wasn’t friends with any of the other extras, but there were a lot of people whom i recognized from classes or activities a few ... friend-making perspective, but i really enjoy hearing new kinds of stories

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 8, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  Remember to Breathe Chicken Soup for the Applicant's Soul

  

  So many of you are starting off with college applications trying to ... million extracurriculars I was involved in. A word of advice: Take a deep ... mom in a frenzy exclaiming that I'm not going to get into any of the

  • by Bryan
  • September 17, 2006