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• Blog / MIT Life

  Forget that Or, "Why I won't be posting next week"

  

  On Tuesday night, Diana ’08 baked a cake. Since she borrowed a bunch of my kitchen stuff (bowls and spoons and so on), she promised to save me a piece.…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 20, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT is going to pump you up! A bit about a cool new fitness program called getfit@mit

  

  participants voted on the winner, which ended up being “Buns’n Burners.” I guess

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Community Projects

  Ducks vs. Army Men! Remember the good old days when you used to play in the sandbox?

  

  At the beginning of the year, Rick ’09 and I had a marathon carpentry session. We built a loft for James ’11, and a table for each of us. Okay,…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  IHTFP Warning: Bitterness Ahead! (And why IHTFP can mean so many different things.)

  

  There is a whiteboard in Ben’s office which was apparently once used for admissions work, but for years it has been taken over by students. It is now covered in…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 20, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mechanical Sense of Humor My Course 2 lab instructor is amazing.

  

  This will be short, because I’m about to start another 2.671 (Mechanical Engineering Institute Lab Class) experiment, but I had to share with you the following, which was the first…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 29, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  The best way to kill zombies… is by shooting them in the head....they can't eat you if you make them dead.…

  

  Hey guys! Remember me? I used to blog and stuff, until I became so hosed I could barely remember what day of the week it is. No, really. Several times…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • May 15, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  A blog post about blog posts Superstar blogger emeritus Mollie gives us some of her favorite entries [now its own post!].

  

  ://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...ifestyle.shtml What MIT students do on Friday nights (Laura) http://www.mitadmissions.org/topics/...n

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 9, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Delayed Reaction A day in the life.

  

  Hey, remember that job I got six months ago? I start this week! (I got a job working at the computing help desk last semester- you know, I’d be the…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 7, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Nightlife, Part II ABC, easy as duct tape, zip ties, Athena headers and packing tape.

  

  Email lists can be the burden of my existence sometimes. I get all kinds of spam- the actual kind, telling me I need a degree from some on-line university (….hello,…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 5, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Bay Area wrap-up The scoop from MIT meetings in San Jose, San Francisco, and Lafayette, CA.

  

  an In-N-Out, settling for Jack in the Box (with the scary mascot and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Pluto replies ThinkGeek.com rocks my effing socks.

  

  So I was wandering around facebook today and I discovered this new group called “When I was your age, Pluto was a planet,” which I found excessively amusing. The creator…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There’s antimony, arsenic, aluminum, selenium… ...and hydrogen and oxygen and nitrogen and rhenium...

  

  Whew! I ran back from my field hockey game today (we won, 3-1! ya!) just in time to help the 213 suite put together a study break. Every Thursday, some…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The Rapids My last day at work was bittersweet. And if there's one thing I've learned from…

  

  Today was my last day at work, which was very sad. Well, let’s go with bittersweet. Trust me when I say that I deal with all kinds of insanity at…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Crazy admissions stories A story about craziness from both sides of the college admissions process.

  

  visiting colleges in the Northeast last year, Andrew N. Lazar had the kind of ... , who recently graduated from Irvington High School, in Irvington, N ... , a graduate of Clarkstown South Senior High School, in West Nyack, N

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  Another hack Snow and hacks and exams.

  

  Responses to Comments: A: Hey Laura,stupid question : I just wanted to know if you have to buy the TV, or do you rent it or… ? The TV is…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  EA Telethon! Yay for the class of 2010!

  

  Whew. I just spent the last 4 and a half hours calling up as many of the Early Admits to the class of ’10 as I possibly could. And it…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  I Am Prepared! Getting ready for IAP! (Find out how to join our mystery hunt team, too!)

  

  , Stephanie Hartman Thu Jan 12, 12-1:00pm, 14N-132 Enrollment limited: first

  • by Bryan
  • January 5, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An MIT Apprentice!!!!!! MIT Alum Randal Pinkett has won The Apprentice!

  

  Somerset, N.J., where he resides and is happily married to his wife Zahara

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  Today was going to be my sleep day. I was going to go to sleep on Saturday night (ok, so it was actually really early Sunday morning) and sleep through…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Spectacle I was going to title this entry "Spectacle of Light," because I mention MIThenge. Then…

  

  The other day I realized that I’m always bragging about the one time a month that I get my act together and cook real food for myself, even if it…

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 13, 2005