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• Blog / MIT Life

  Friday Night at Random Beautiful people at a beautiful hour.

  

  For the past almost four and a half years, which is just under a fifth of my life so far, I have lived in Random Hall, MIT’s smallest and nerdiest dorm. Right now I am in Florida for winter break, and as often

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It rocks to be me. I put on my Sunday clothes and see the whale!

  

  lottery (for Avenue Q), gourmet French Fries, Taboo, Mitra and I got TO SEE ... great to be only a 10 minutes walk from Boston and then have another whole ... ordered a $288 Chinese New Year party platter in the Singapore Cafe and

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  least once a week, and my life is awesome. Case in point. During the ... Boston. Freshman year, I could literally lie in bed and know whether or not ... , though, I was lucky to make it into Boston (and I’m excluding visiting the

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  [Guest Post] A Journey to the W I D E by Wide Tim (Margaret Z. ‘23, MEng ‘24)

  

  good hopes and  Imaginations of the universe,  Digits, letters, and ... his 3rd birthday, and he's celebrating some of it right here on the ... do you mean  “I could choose to Double major in  Eating and sleeping

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 13, 2024
• Blog / Uncategorized

  albums i like and why i like them pov: i ramble about music and won't shut up

  

  is like a little universe, and every time I listen this album never ... I like music. A lot. And I like telling other people about the music ... to [insert mildly obscure musician here], and their random album from

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • September 8, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  MIT Festival of Learning a hackathon for students and instructors connecting technology with education

  

  around the idea that we need to bring technology and pedagogy together for ... is not always interactive nor designed with educators and learners in ... platform that allowed students all over the world to access Institute course

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 17, 2017
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  crazy, amazing Institute. And to some extent, I'm still working on ... about the time commitment. My on-campus job is 6-10 hours per week, and I plan on continuing studio art, photo, and dance. I got into F/ASIP and

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  facebook group you all know and love) helps me make signs for the dorm. Go ... house manager, Ken, noticed this and sent someone to fix it. (The house ... something and did a double take. "Why does the milk look so funny?" I thought

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  gone was any trace of you i think i am finally clean

  

  the country and leave you stranded in a city you do not know in a state ... holding in my freshman year of high school, giggles behind lockers and ... periods. I've been in love before, where love was 18 hour phone calls and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  walking mechanics how to walk faster using Facts and Science

  

  anatomy and mechanics, which most mit students possess but have not yet ... in ways that impair walking, i’m sorry and i have no idea what it ... new Ultra Fast Walking Form that tires you out and makes your joints

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 15, 2021
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  we named 2124 cities of the world fridays with 4W

  

  declare their exhaustion with the current state of the website and say they ... Nicole H. ’22 and I quote, “Do you have time to waste?” He pulled up the ... completely decimated west New York and Jess H. ’24 named the craziest cities in

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • September 29, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  The Importance of Wasting Time lessons learned over Thanksgiving break

  

  rolling out the MIT bubble and into an alien world. For the few on hall, the prospect of four days of academic freedom exhilarated, and our evening ... a capella group and promptly proceeded preparing material for our

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • December 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Better Late than Never I wrote this post a week and a half ago. Note that the "better late…

  

  I woke up Friday morning and felt like it could have been Monday all over again. I felt fresh and the week looked new. Considering that I'd been awake and p-setting until 4 a.m. that morning, I decided not to look

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Events

  This is the end I couldn‘t decide whether to put "They‘re beautiful, aren‘t they? The stars" here, or to…

  

  not a perfect place, and making sure applicants know this adds a degree ... 've graduated!!! Holy smokes, four years of MIT and now it's over. It seems like ... moment, all of the episodes, and you realize that it didn't go fast, that

  • by Snively '11
  • June 19, 2011
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Get Home from the Airport for Free For prefrosh who are like me and terrified of entering dank underground tunnels they haven’t…

  

  Microsoft. MIT is behind you. After the stairs make a 180-degree turn and look ... racks to store your luggage and a scrolling neon sign announcing the next ... the terminal and the airlines that use that terminal.) You want to stay

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 18, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  uncertainty becoming a boring adult

  

  college recently, and i realized that all of them seem less interesting to ... where i’m attracted to uncertainty. blog ideas and unfinished drafts ... removes uncertainty, and in doing so shrinks the realm of possibility for

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • December 31, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Centimeters to Inches A Guest Post by the talented Antonella Masini '21

  

  kisses on the cheek, they were all gone. Replaced by grey handshakes and ... stepped down from the plane and learned how to laugh Typing “h”s instead of ... but got used to the imperial inches and screwed up a recipe or two

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A typical first semester more or less

  

  It's 3am and I should probably be studying for my first 8.01 exam ... Infinite is filled with excited chatter and slowly walking walls of tourists, and I haven't been to 6.0001 lecture in two weeks. Actually, most of

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Bit About Me Growing up on a healthy diet of prime time television and MMORPGs

  

  household my sister and I planned out our days based on television shows. I ... ) and lounged on the couch through Judge Mathis. Around the beginning of ... time I had before my brother woke up and kicked me off. Grinding off some

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • July 22, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  4 Years advice from a freshly minted alum

  

  year in Burton Conner, as I was still settling in and still used to monotonously repeating my name, dorm, potential major, and what state I was from ... ". I'm about 95% sure that the specific question was about politics and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • June 8, 2013