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• Blog / MIT Life

  Over here things are different. Life is about the same.

  

  place at the end of finals week. Last night there was a dance party ... went for a walk. Freshman year I made a big deal about having a final on my birthday. Then sophomore year I had 2 finals on my birthday. Junior

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Livin’ la Vida Española (Pt. 2) Where the music is richer.

  

  dorm). I must admit, on the night of January 3 (I left for Spain on ... every Friday. Of course, I am still on Pass/No Record, so there goes my ... have on the Metro with Chinese emigrants to the city. 7. I love the 75

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 4, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-Campus Preview Weekend GET PUMPED.

  

  whether or not to come to MIT when really I kind of just want to eat liquid nitrogen ice cream. CPW apparently is one of the best times of the year - as ... ... and a sense of loss of the warmth inside of me... blah, blah, blah." And

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 11, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  By the numbers Who needs words to talk?

  

  indicative of true MIT students. They’re the things that aren’t necessarily true of all MIT students, but are certainly not true of people anywhere else that I know of. They’re the kind of thing that serve as a dead

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 7, 2007
• Blog / Events

  IAP & Mystery Hunt preview Four Mystery Hunt puzzles for you to try.

  

  on campus. The only prize for the winning team is the honor of writing ... Today is the beginning of IAP! IAP, or the Independent Activities Period, is a special four-week mini-term full of interesting, fun and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 8, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All my pasts and futures A blog entry about band and quiz bowl, to prove that I'm still hip.

  

  almost died in Boston traffic. Note the lack of a shoe on Kim '09. Kim is ... can come on our Marching Tour of Campus during CPW. Tennis elbow. ... these things! One of the questions was "What is the more common name for

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 19, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Twas the week before Thanksgiving ...and I'm not really feeling all that thankful. Yet.

  

  that refreshing. For some reason, instead of giving proportionally less ... reasonable to assign the same amount of work in a short week and just make it due earlier. I am not a huge fan of this logic, as it ends up feeling

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • November 21, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Long weekend It was a looooong weekend.

  

  So this weekend was a long weekend, in honor of Columbus Day and also in honor of student exhaustion, and therefore I would like to write a paean to the MIT long weekend. The abundance of long weekends is one of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 11, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  part of the week. "Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd..." MIT Musical ... where most of the action took place. Surgeon General's Warning: This musical is not for the weak stomached. It involves mild acts of cannibalism

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Meet the Admissions Officers: Jenny Rifken Name:Jenny Rifken; Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions; Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois

  

  . The fireworks on Fourth of July. The colors in and around the city ... Name:Jenny Rifken Job title: Director of Recruitment and Associate Director of Admissions Hometown: Elgin, Illlinois High school: Larkin High

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  The waiting is the hardest part

  

  arrival of an admit letter. Finally, a little after 3pm on December 19, 2003 ... I can see from the comments that many of you are, quite ... of being an admissions officer, and I'm not sure if during that time I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • December 13, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  over 24 hours working on one of the problem sets, 15 (hours) of which ... terrifying cyclones captured on a blank canvass might be beautiful—the kind of ... Sleeping at night has become one of those mythical concepts this IAP

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Round here we stay up very, very late Vignettes on my last day at lab, the Counting Crows, grad school, and pets.

  

  crying in front of people. On Thursday, my postdoc took me out to lunch ... tips on getting one of those NIH internships here; you have to fill out ... Last day of lab Friday was my last day at my UROP lab after three

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • July 30, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2 Classes For 0 Credit: Beethoven to Mahler and Paradise Lost That can be rearranged to say: Paradise lost to Beethoven and Mahler.

  

  22nd line of the poem, Milton calls on God to bless his work: "What in ... as you might guess it focuses on music spanning from Monteverdi (ca ... one of my physics classes. My friend Ben H. '14 was in a similarly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 17, 2014
• Blog / Residential Life

  meet the simmons elevators! aka me thinking wayyy too much about elevators

  

  of Simmons, so he’s constantly on the run. The first time I tried to ... . All three elevators have a board full of posters, and the floor ... series of dings whenever they open, but, like the distinct colors of their

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 12, 2025
• Blog / Announcements

  For those impacted by Hurricane Michael (and other disasters) clarifying our policies for applications affected by catastrophic events

  

  future, remember that: You should focus on taking care of yourself, your ... order first. On behalf of everyone at MIT Admissions, I want to reassure ... deprived thousands of  people of power and property across the American

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 22, 2018
• Blog / Events

  FUP!!! I spent my first official week at MIT as a FUPPER!!

  

  Vermonsters at Ben & Jerry's on Newbery Street.  One of my main concerns ... extreme lack of sleep, but I met so many amazing people and did so many cool ... Program, which is one of MIT's many pre-orientation programs.  FUP focuses

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • August 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Back to Boston My summer plans! And some things I wish weren't a part of them.

  

  (thank you, amma!), watching bits and pieces of "Family Ties" with my dad, sleeping a minimum of ten hours a night, and re-reading all my Harry Potter ... 'll be spending most of my summer days, chilling with centrifuges and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 29, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW 2011 Closing Remarks and Variety Show Singing, dancing, juggling, and more!

  

  also a lot of other cool performances going on throughout the weekend ... 5:30pm) Kresge Auditorium Dean of Admissions Stu Schmill and the MIT ... voices, no instruments. Rockapella is probably one of the most famous

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • April 6, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Dah noo-loo Hey kah ay-ay u-nye

  

  the Hyatt hotel where I got some one-on-one time with some of the ... hundreds of companies come and court hundreds of students. It's a time when ... people say is important. All of these skills are crucial when wooing the

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2008