Student Bloggers Offer Glimpses of College Life

Want to know what MIT students are thinking about? The Admissions bloggers offer a glimpse. These 12 students, who blog regularly about the heart of MIT life, provide tips for first year students, insights on living at MIT these days, and ponderings on college-era life choices.

Try Recent Entries for fresh stuff or Best of the Blogs for the evergreen commentaries.

To get you started, here are a few highlights:

Lydia K. ‘14 poses a math riddle:

A fun problem, from my 10-year-old brother’s Russian math textbook: The sum of three cats is a dog. It only works on female cats, and all three of the cats and the dog must be Russian. There are two solutions....

Natnael G. ’15 on growing an afro, finding his major, and meeting celebrities:

....These last few months have been interesting in the realm of seeing and meeting celebrities. My last blog post was about meeting the wonderful Walter Lewin, an academic hero of mine, but the excitement didn't end there. Earlier this year I was able to listen to GZA (founding member of the Wu-Tang clan) give a speech about the current state of hip hop around the world....

Jenny X. ’13 on be yourself or create yourself:

....So drastic and inevitable, the leap from high school to college seems like the perfect opportunity to change yourself and become the person you’ve always wanted to be—more outgoing, more aggressive, perhaps more generous. That hope was certainly true of me, and from chatting with friends, assuming a newer and better identity in college was a common aspiration....