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• Blog / MIT Life

  10 Things I Miss About MIT that i didn't think i would

  

  of Mocha Show the other day and could only marvel at how fulfilling it ... of bed at 8:45 am, briefly consider shirking my duties to get more ... !! sprinting across Briggs Field at 2 am one of my closest friends at MIT lives

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • August 3, 2020
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

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

  

  treat” into the night and it’d just echo back at you. The idea of going ... . Kids laughing.  Fun costumes. Some kids crying at the sight of a skeleton ... how it connects us. At MIT, we read applications from every kind of

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • November 4, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  best places to sleep on campus for when your bed is far far away

  

  because classrooms are never this full at 9 am, or indeed any other hour of ... appear in your notebook but you have no memory of writing them. they are ... ire of your professor and thereafter you feel guilty whenever he’s nice

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 20, 2022
• Blog / Public Service & Activism

  Boston’s Climate Strike youthful activism

  

  speakers at the event (which could get hard to hear with all of the noise of ... 's hard not to be hopeful. At the rally, one of the speakers had said that ... 's Fall Career Fair, but also the day of the Global Climate Strike. All

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 20, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  2 AM Destiny An early evening snapshot of an MIT kitchen

  

  major at the end of this year, when freshmen at MIT declare their majors ... looking at pictures of agarose gels for my UROP, doing my 6.042 (Math for ... of the first floor of Random Hall. One of three all-male floors in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 12, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  October potpourri rambling about college admissions, stress, fun, etc.

  

  , college applications were at the forefront of my mind. I scrapped essays ... with all the members of Toons at that callback, I really enjoyed it. It ... feared that colleges would reject me on basis of senior fall grades alone

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • October 16, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  What has carcinogenic chemicals, alum bloggers, and ~art~? embracing my inner hipster

  

  fabulous "artistic representation" (read: picture) of our Google+ hangout ... like to photograph a lot, and in fact I've done quite a lot of it in the ... . While I've done a ton of digital photography, though, I've (literally

  • by Michael C. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  You Are Welcome Here (and at Elmhurst College too)

  

  of teens at his school. It is about gender and how kids are choosing to ... taking a look at it. Here’s the statement. But I think one of the best ... this week welcoming members of the freshman class at a couple of

  • by Kris Guay
  • August 29, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  Networking is important. Probably one of the most important skills ... number of students who got their job through networking, on-campus recruiting, direct applications etc. Less than 20% of students got their job

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  LSC: A Brief Summary [by Ashley Nash '11] Who wouldn’t want to join?

  

  [by Ashley Nash '11] I am a member of LSC, the Lecture Series Committee. It's one of the larger student groups at MIT bringing films and ... now and then there will be a free showing of a movie that is either in

  • by ARTalk
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fixing a hole First figuratively, then literally.

  

  at the time because I had to finish this problem, due in less than four ... stunningly brilliant example of a diatonic descending 5ths progression in A Minor, making special note of the soprano's oblique motion against the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Cats!! I love where I live!!

  

  East Campus is the best home I could have ever asked for. Dorms at MIT are kind of different from most other colleges. Each dorm has its ... fantastically different culture and feeling of community!  My absolute favorite

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 29, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  Boston tradition – 115 years running (no pun intended). Of course, I ... record time). A number of MIT students run each year, but even for those ... around 11:20 am; thanks to the number of spectators heading that direction

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Impossible Design Project See what it's like to be a Course VI student.

  

  giving you one of my problems to take a look at. 6.033 is Computer Systems ... any questions - I know it's kind of hard to follow at first. (And as ... Ok. Well, I've been kind of busy these days. Taking 5 classes (2 CIs

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 27, 2008
• Blog / Events

  So much to do, so little time There's always something exciting going on at MIT.

  

  write this, there are a whole bunch of really cool things going on at MIT ... night of Live Action Anime 2007: Madness at Mokuba. Yes, you read that ... '73 PhD '76, one of the seven members of the Board of Governors of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  three shows as of January 22nd. Proceed at your own risk... Battlestar ... As you know, we are hunkered down reviewing all of the MIT Regular ... of the idea of technological blowback? In other words, machines

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  , both of which are something far too common here at MIT. One problem with ... concert (although this was more of a sound-quality issue, even at MIT it ... from the Winter Logs concert, first: At the end of the concert, the Logs

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  butterfly season the very tired caterpillar

  

  knowing these sorts of details about someone to not talking at all? I ... at all. I think I need to channel that part of her—how well she ... In late May, I wrapped up my second semester at MIT and moved back

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • July 31, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  of grapes -- turns out they weren't even hers -- or realizing that at ... at the top of our lungs and paint our nails. Our weeks start with a ... I was confused when I was put into a room with three strangers at the

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I’m sitting on a bus and am SO sleep-deprived.

  

  to the front of the line at 3:50pm. My bus was at 5:05pm. I still ... Driver looked at his watch, and his grimace brought on another wave of ... -long nap I took at the beginning of my flight, and to the various panic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 15, 2013