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• 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 / 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 / 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 / Admissions

  Open Thread: Admitted Early

  

  won't be long now until we get to meet you in the Class of 2030 Discord or at CPW, and we’ll have some additional, cylindrical information for ... Filled with mystery and people I can loveI know out there on the road of life, I

  • by Decisions
  • December 16, 2025
• 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
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Engineers Assemble! It's not a double-post, it's a franchise

  

  's golf ball plan to stop the oil leak off the coast of Louisiana? He said ... assistance. Chu, in turn, has assembled a team of five “extraordinarily ... Slocum, MIT Professor of Mechanical Engineering (and 2.007 Design and

  • by Dave McOwen
  • May 16, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW on the Web CPW comes to you...ON THE INTERNET

  

  attendees novel-length directories of the events and important stuff at CPW ... spent most of the last week working on stuff for Campus Preview Weekend ... well over 600 events over the course of a few days, and the prefrosh add

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  We’re Linux! "Aha, Linux beats paper!"

  

  video, Challenges at the Office, was produced by a alum friend of mine ... Congratulations to the future class of 2013! I'm looking forward to meeting you over the coming weeks through the blogs and, of course, CPW

  • by Paul B. '11
  • March 16, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Blogging Scholarship Go out and Vote!

  

  , and all sorts of MIT's lesser known tidbits. Sometimes I get yelled at ... bumped me out of the running. This year, however, I applied and after about a week of waiting the finalists were announced. With five times as

  • by Snively '11
  • November 7, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Woot! My t-shirt is funnier than your t-shirt.

  

  ordered for myself online, I really do love getting mail. At this point ... of getting mail. Well, for one, I wanted something to take my mind off of linear algebra and eigenvalues for a little bit by blogging. And

  • by Paul B. '11
  • November 6, 2008