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• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  , apparently, is a lot of much bigger questions. Questions like, “what does it ... away from my time here at MIT?” Spoiler alert: unlike the other ... knew I wanted to go to MIT. This gave me dual purposes: I wrote club

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 13, 2018
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  princess, and at 7 this morning I was being stretchered to MIT medical's x ... moral of this story, as you will learn, is that you should NEVER FORGET TO ... showing you two more pictures from the evening. The first is of me with my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam’s Hair Two parables of personal hygiene.

  

  Stanford laundry is free but printing costs money, while at MIT printing is ... machines? How many are there? How much do they cost? At MIT, at least in Burton-Conner, laundry machines accept both quarters and MIT TechCash, so

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 27, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I Went To The Ballet! 💎 color me refined 💎

  

  opera house is enough for me to be taken completely out of the MIT bubble ... only live ballet I have ever been to is my [annotation note="my sister ... word, completely and utterly GAGGED me. The show we saw is called

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • November 18, 2025
• Blog / Residential Life

  rush wilg bunnies inside this blog post

  

  with their lives after MIT. And this is still true, yes, but I've also ... plan. WILG also has a meal plan, but it is all cooked by us! We get ... talk about what WILG means to me, I would say something like: it is

  • by Rona W. '23
  • September 13, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  549,033 words how do you measure, measure a year?

  

  is not a particularly interesting age, and the past year itself has ... on my current streak; that is to say, for each of the past 1000 days, there is a blog post associated with that day. This is in spite of a

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • May 7, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  (FLC) hosted by the Global Languages department and MISTI (MIT ... semester, is designed to offer freshman community and expose them to new cultures and languages, as well as international opportunities at MIT. It

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  setting up a house will it take an entire semester? stay tuned

  

  minutes away from MIT by foot and dope as hell. There's an upstairs and ... September 1st, which is the day classes started. Yeah, it was pretty unideal ... classes despite working on my bed all day, which is quite an incredible feat

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • October 5, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  21 i don't know about you but i'm feeling 21...

  

  your core values. For example, picking a restaurant is probably not the ... and empathy. When my mind is foggy, workout, write, or go to sleep. I ... . Doing challenging things outside my comfort zone is the only way to grow

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Go Read Some Science Fiction You'll see why in a bit

  

  I love going to the MIT Media Lab. Being part of the MAS Freshman ... Episode V? He replaced it with a robot arm. And guess what. This is a robot ... scenes. Just like those 4D movies where the chairs move and wind is blown

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 16, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when ... perspective for at least 45 seconds. Here it is, if you've missed it: "When

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  Yup, it's true: CPW 2010 IS ALMOST HERE!!! My poor inbox is ... study is slowly but surely slipping away. I can't wait until all 1100+ of ... list of things to pack. Notice that one of the items listed is a camera

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  More Information on the Waitlist Some answers for those offered a place on MIT's waitlist.

  

  uncertainties, we also keep a waitlist of students. Is the waitlist ranked? No ... on the waitlist? As I've said, the waitlist is not ranked. We will ... waitlist. How many people will you admit from the waitlist this year? It is

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  AFROTC = stress, and why that’s okay Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps: "what do you do every week?"

  

  C/4C Claire Nieman '13 On Sunday, 25 October, the cadets of MIT's Air ... most often about AFROTC is "but what do you do every week?" Cadets in Det ... , which is where we really get to practice our skills. LLAB is run by the

  • by ROTC
  • November 4, 2009
• Blog / Community Projects

  Phew! BUSY BUSY BUSY BUSY!

  

  sense to anybody at MIT right now, but potentially not to people at home ... . I'm pretty content with what we ended up with. Trevor '13 is seen here ... nobody is complaining. After orientation was over it was time for Floor

  • by Snively '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2008 Summer (Pics!) Photo overload. eep.

  

  , relaxing after a year of MIT. Took a short family vacation to Nagoya, Japan ... Taiwan. Early July -> Early August: Back in MIT, working on a UROP ... medical group from Taiwan. The medical group is essentially a medical

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

  At What Cost A summary of my fall semester

  

  doing well at MIT is figuring out what costs you can bear. I had a lot of class this semester. Here’s a snapshot of my registration: 69 units is ... much at all. I didn’t have enough time. That’s what this post is about

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • December 21, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Benzene Back Take it to the lab!

  

  (What is it with me blogging about Justin Timberlake? Seriously.) I ... to say, though, is inversely proportional to the amount of energy I ... and is now well on his way to fame and fortune. And by fame and fortune

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 24, 2007
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Wonder what an Amtrak station in the middle o’nowhere looks like? Pulling an Anthony on you: pictures of train stations, followed by my IAP so far.

  

  your left is the Lake City Amtrak Station." "Where?" I asked. "You missed ... joking - this is my father we're talking about. (Hi, Dad.) I drove back to ... not putting up a new blog post since I left MIT. </sarcasm> My

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Varied states of the basement A roundabout trek to an underground level of Building 7 leads me into areas very…

  

  that window shade! I don't know why a printer cable is dangling from ... is a TechCash reader. Most vending machines aren't so handily equipped ... ... :- On a safety-themed bulletin board intended for MIT employees, this

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 20, 2005