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• Blog / Admissions

  Summertime Things to do with your 100 days in the Summertime

  

  work, you will probably not have just one job in the same location for 35 ... !!!! If not, don’t be afraid to do an internship for free. The experience ... ! Summertime is a great time for you to take a class in something that you have

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • July 22, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  SIMMONS GOT A TRAMPOLINE!!! it's awesome, possum!

  

  Hall. For the last few weeks, large boxes have been sitting in the lobby ... was passed to get an ice cream machine for Simmons, but the plumbing to install it would be a nightmare, so there’s an unused ice cream machine in

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What Are We Waiting For besides this video from the freshman arts program

  

  (appropriately) to the MIT Movies Emeritus page. In its place, you can find "What Are We Waiting For": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m18EE36Utb0 This

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 1, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fraternities @ MIT They're quite a Rush.

  

  When I was a freshman, an upperclassman friend of mine described MIT ... more and more about my own freshman year - in particular, the choices I ... freshman was choosing to join a fraternity. It was, in retrospect, also one

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 30, 2008
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  and projects, I had gotten an extension for a paper for my [annotation ... of science in an empty wing of Boston Logan airport around 10 pm. Odd ... landed in Louisiana, I was ready to not think about work for a week

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  lots of words and a tungsten cube monologues and dialogues.

  

  in the past couple of months, my floor has found itself back in the ... hear about the tungsten cube more than most other things.  i looked at ... before me, had a shiny cube on the table at the front of class. i looked at

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • December 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  people appreciation post <3

  

  my friends are genuinely the sole reason for my sanity in a time where ... in the past months, I have felt the impact of various people around ... enjoy being a "Greek chorus" in relativity with Feli, aggressive nodding

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • November 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  You know you’re in a sad place when you’re so desperate to procrastinate an assignment that you organize your life, clean your room, get a ... a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Unlike any other. [by Nathan Kipniss '14] "Welcome to the Gardner"

  

  the rest of the room in an alcove that is ornately carved in stone. Its ... attending MIT, you can even get into events for free. Last weekend, I took ... Stewart Gardner museum for free (you can also do the same at the nearby

  • by ARTalk
  • April 28, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Neglect Your Creative Side And I don't mean the side of you that thinks up math problems while you…

  

  't lock yourself in your room and run numerical simulations for your entire ... meet on MIT's campus, but hopefully I'll see you around in the real world ... sort of math and science. Walking through the new Center for Theoretical

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • March 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  I’m Poor!!! But I don't have to be!

  

  students, so if you have an interest in MIT or like dealing with the public ... papers for classes. You collect psets from the turn-in boxes, take them ... . I worked through the summer, kept my job for weekends during the

  • by Snively '11
  • April 5, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Signs of Life communication in a covid world

  

  In the past few months, communication with each other has been sparse and limited to being mostly textual: an email to an advisor, letting ... occasion, I’ve used Zoom or FaceTime to get a sense of realness in my

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • May 24, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017: Friends ❤, Food, and Flying Deloreans (Guest Post) Or maybe not quite that last one

  

  sample diagnoses using an app and attachable lens, and even an app for ... I took part in HackMIT last year, and it was a great deal of fun! I ... APIs, i.e. VR headsets, fitness bands, IoT devices, APIs for delivery

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Valentine’s Day Eve Day. What? Also. BEN FOLDS.

  

  them up tomorrow in an awesome collage. It'll be awesome. And before I ... IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR THE LAZY: You, email me, picture of you ... of a big deal- last I checked, 50% of men are in frats, and a little

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 13, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s new and exciting? You get to pick a blog topic! Yes, you! Definitely not me!

  

  This afternoon, as I was walking past the Center for Ultracold Atoms ... in order to obtain a pair of shoes on a tax holiday (Columbus would ... someone in our wide, mysterious world was once compelled to design a pair of

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 16, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Anatomy of a college student’s life My life consists of library visits and pizza delivery, because I'm totally original and stuff.

  

  have to order out. Thank God for credit cards and the internet. Within a few minutes I had placed an order for Hawaiian pizza and a side of ... hadn't been grocery shopping for weeks, and after making a meal out of

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 22, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt 2008 Begins! The annual campus-wide puzzle solving competition will be going on all weekend.

  

  finding a coin hidden somewhere on campus. For a more in-depth description ... One of IAP's most exciting activities is the annual Mystery Hunt. In ... , including bloggers, will be participating in the hunt, which begins at noon in

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  I have never been trick-or-treating, (until now) and how trick-or-treating relates to geography...???

  

  kid, not as a teenager, not even ironically in college.When I tell people that, they look at me shocked, jaw to the floor like a scream mask.In ... dirt driveway in our costumes, usually something my mother sewed for us

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Congrats Jenn Lai ‘11, Rhodes Scholar This blog entry does not contain video of Jenn playing "Rhapsody in Blue" with the…

  

  's "Rhapsody in Blue" at Boston's Symphony Hall with the Boston Pops. (For most ... oldest and best known award for international study," includes among its ... 44 Rhodes Scholars, and 7 in the last four years. Below, find Jenn

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / Blog Projects

  another day of spring when canvas went down and i fell prey to overcommitment (again)

  

  ’t touched grass in a week and was sleeping for 4-5 hours a night. Hmm! Perhaps ... This Thursday, as many Thursdays go, felt like another day in the ... immediately had to get ready for a meeting) and was running on 5 hours of sleep

  • by Janet G. '27
  • May 14, 2026