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• Blog / MIT Life

  musings on duty and purpose brought to you by slow ambles through lobby 10 at twilight

  

  work and to live with a goal, to plan for a job in which I can help other ... do again. I used to feel that to myself, at least, I was a predictable ... about this place I would call home, and I felt a drive to be social, to

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do you have class? A view of my classes for the fall semester, with some photos from their first…

  

  getting to know each other through some applied meeting of the minds, in a ... Engineering. 1.A24 meets every Monday at 3:30, and promises to personally ... eyes of a potential civil engineering student. Though the seminar ends in

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  , Becky did find a random piece of metal in her food...yikes. But Becky ... out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  7 Reasons MIT Is Special reflecting on the Institute at the end of four years

  

  that you need to come in a rocket scientist, not at all. But you will ... , but I had to include it separately as a fun "warning." You will find ... Admissions and commute to campus every weekday. But it’s a summer arrangement

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 15, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  one, except jump really high. My family used to have one in our backyard ... There’s a trampoline in Simmons!!!! [caption id="attachment_94960 ... (which was only supposed to have like 2 kids at a time but we put around 8

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics professors have a charming sense of humour Excerpts from relativity problem sets

  

  .033, Relativity. Relativity is a great class to teach, if you enjoy designing ... that your uncle is in fact crazy.) Cutest observer ever: A note ... 's what I like to see on a problem set. :)

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 23, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  stupider than ever come with me for a week in 🔥HELL🔥

  

  me in limbo for what to do over the summer. The options are: a) Stay in Boston and try and find a UROP, making only $16/hr IF I get approved for funding. This requires me finding somewhere to live in the next four

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 5, 2026
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  tote bag tour i have so many things to carry

  

  ’s the perfect size for my A5 notebook, and that one’s big enough to hold my winter jacket… Each one just a little different, just enough to ... hide no longer–I was in it for good, and I wasn’t going to stop. And that

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • May 2, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it ... directions to a list of int'l admits. It was posted to some non-MIT sites ... bumping threads on the third-party sites in an effort to minimize the damage

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  you can find him walking from his residence in East Campus to class ... about keeping a car in the city and commuting to work this summer :) I ... reason why you shouldn't think about bringing a car to MIT! Once upon a

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bertie Bott’s Every Flavor Beans + Peanuts + Crackerjacks i practically pulled another all-nighter, and again, for a non-academic reason.

  

  in time for half-price burgers. After that, I went over to visit with a ... pretty much the weekend in a nutshell. Tomorrow, it's back to work and I ... getting ready for casual Friday at work where I get to wear flip-flops and a

  • by Bryan
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / CPW

  I’m nervous to meet you A letter to the prefrosh at the dawn of CP*

  

  in person. I’ve been looking forward to being a Blogger at the “Meet ... with. To my surprise, it’s a little easier than it used to be. Maybe it ... have a really fun time in the process. I just have to remind myself that

  • by Powers '23
  • April 17, 2020
• Blog / Events

  East Campus Rush 2014: RAW SCIENCE There shall be no entertainment or amusement in our courtyard, only roller coasters

  

  . Prefrosh will have the opportunity to battle in a giant wrestling pit made of ... next week can be found in the Daily Confusion, which is actually just a ... construction in the courtyard is pretty incredible. Here are a collection of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 22, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  to fund ourselves. The revenue from these pumpkins is a big reason why ... teams of glassblowers who gather for a few hours a day to make batches of ... [/annotation] pumpkins at a time. And we usually only need to start making pumpkins a few

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  magicians trying to learn magic

  

  they asked me what i would want to become a magician in, and for a while ... in a more active manner, through direct words and actions, that to me ... in april my friend recommended the excellent article becoming a

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • September 9, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  New stuff on MyMIT, and more

  

  I'm back in Boston now after two trips to Washington, DC in the past week and a half. As always, my recent trip meant missing some cool events ... weekend, I hope to answer the backlog of questions, talk a bit about the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  21M.712: Choreography — Making Dances theater arts classes >>>

  

  BASTE concepts in mind, we moved to our first assignment, which was a solo ... confined to a literal box, or having to use different body parts to make ... . nothing in this piece seemed familiar to me as a dancer, which only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ask Yourself Can you really LTFP?

  

  pursue a career in advertising, then you might be able to find someplace ... to feel like some "other" major (I'm in such a major!). That said, the ... weird now because my boyfriend, a sophomore in mechanical engineering, has

  • by Cristen C. '10
  • November 2, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  help to explain a bit more. July Fourth My Summer, In Words Whee ... answer is just this - In college, you have an amazing opportunity to try a ... fruitful one for me. To recap: Late May -> Early July: Back in Taiwan

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is why we can’t have nice things harmless things that irritate me

  

  don’t need to have a “We’re off to see the wizard” moment in the middle ... .   To no surprise, I'm not the only person who's experienced this. In ... this happens. "Typically a bus will be out of service going to the start

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 29, 2022