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• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  he agreed to do it. I stand by the truth of that claim. He might not 😆 ... When I was younger, one of my favorite board games to play with my ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Are you sure you don’t want to cancel? Double whammy.

  

  . Careers AND Grad School. Thursday: Wake up at 5:05 AM. Board taxi to Logan Airport. Fly to Houston, TX for a day long interview. Now keep in mind, I have the GRE on Saturday. So I intended to study the entire flight

  • by Bryan
  • October 23, 2006
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Questions about Blogging Some friendly advice.

  

  hate to bug you with a blog-related question, but you seem to be the best person to ask. I'm considering applying to be a blogger, but I'm concerned ... learning communities). I'm hoping to do a spring UROP, too. I'm pretty

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 30, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Some F Words ****!!!

  

  a dress to an interview or to work will make me seem too feminine to ... Lately I’ve struggled to blog, due to being in the middle (!!!) of ... click bait-y title lol)   Feminine What does it mean to be a woman

  • by Selam G. '18
  • October 15, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  On Being an Upperclassman Less than two years left

  

  away, I really want to make sure I get an internship with a company I ... summer of my undergraduate career, and I want to make it count. I enjoyed ... It’s hard to believe that I am now in the latter half of my college

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Turkey Time MIT Admissions will be closed for the Thanksgiving holiday.

  

  Thanksgiving holiday weekend (see below if you'd like to learn more about one of ... or responding to any e-mails or phone calls during this period; email ... to answer questions in the comments of this blog entry in the meantime

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 21, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Nightmarket Two (unrelated) celebrations of low-priced office supplies and Asian culture. (~15 pictures)

  

  bus back to MIT for Nightmarket. This event is co-sponsored by lots of ... ) and I went to Harvard Square for some errands and dinner. Weywey dug ... for 18 cents each! Needless to say, I was thrilled. (I bought 12

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Into the Unknown with bravery

  

  voice. But by the end of the song, she enthusiastically decides to go ... The precipice of change is an unsettling place to be. We were there ... of you are there now. We find ourselves here again, trying to figure

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 17, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Welcoming Environment Because the best way to feel at home at MIT is to know that you…

  

  about how campaigns like these honor MIT's commitment to diversity by ... You Are Welcome Here campaign aims to increase the visibility of LGBQT facilities and programs with small cards to denote an LGBQT student's first

  • by Emad T. '14
  • December 22, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer days, driftin’ away

  

  A parent posted a great comment on my last entry, with too much to talk about for one entry (especially since I have a hockey game to play in quite soon), but I'll do what I can for now and try to cover other

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 9, 2004
• Blog / Admissions

  quiz: what halloween candy are you? based on your college applicant personality

  

  does? just make sure to choose before it’s too late and you’re left only ... just for fun! What colleges are you applying to? I have like ... I do at a nearby lab, or the volunteer trip I took to Africa. or

  • by Rona W. '23
  • October 22, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Four Weeks of Freedom What I'm doing for my last 4 weeks in the US!

  

  a flight to the U.K and embark on the second half of my college ... contained this bit of dialogue Friend: Hey Nat, when do you head over to ... long time. What are you going to do? Me: Hmm, I don't know, chill and

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • September 2, 2013
• Blog / Blogs That Aren't in English

  Comfort and College Scared of applying to colleges far from home? Then read this!

  

  and familiar, but college is a chance to pave your own way and make your ... you bear to be without them? Can you imagine embarking on a journey in ... the familiar faces you have grown accustomed to? Most importantly, would

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • November 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  feet happy. I also happen to think it makes a great fashion statement...) ... Now, I know I’ve had a tendency to bury the lede a bit, (although I’d argue the sample size, n=2, is too small to draw conclusions from), so

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Events

  The Deep Breath Before the Plunge THIS IS . . . wait, this isn't Sparta. Wha-? Aw, shoot, I took a…

  

  : Dear Undergraduates, Have you ever wanted to make a difference? Have you ever wanted to show people that you have some power? Have you ever wanted ... Committee on Student Life is proud to present to you a new initiative

  • by Snively '11
  • March 8, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The land of the free and the home of the internet Back to life, back to the internet

  

  , I need to make travel arrangements. I'm supposed to be in LA in two ... finally back from Maine, where I managed to survive on only dialup AOL ... to Jamaica for a week sophomore year with my friends Rose '05 and

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 9, 2006
• Blog / Advice

  No Snow, and on singing badly me? singing? and posting it online?!

  

  't have to listen to how embarrassing I sound? Well, I'm trying to make a ... wrangle with six different tracks in Audacity to make this. But so what? I ... 'm listening it right now and I don't like it. Do yourself a favor and listen to

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • December 24, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Why So Serious? On Keeping Life in Perspective

  

  It's been a while since I've had time to sit down for a long period ... . If you're wondering what it's like to go to MIT, it's pretty much like ... treadmill. The treadmill just keeps going and going. You're trying to reach

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • March 25, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  of Thursday evening, so we had time to make her an awesome chocolate banana cake (Aside: making banana [blank] is a really good thing to do when ... blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  Reno/Sacramento wrap-up The latest from the West Coast.

  

  potential to make a positive contribution to society; and GT-Cybersource, a ... 't have to be. What makes that so difficult to process? People are complex ... Reno, and took a drive downtown: I drove on to my meeting with the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 10, 2006