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• Blog / MIT Life

  Dorm Bathrooms Always look on the bright, side of life

  

  Every so often I am begged to write a blog entry about a specific ... up having to explain how bathrooms work here, so I guess I could give ... for all the dorm bathrooms (which I'll leave to blog readers to describe

  • by Snively '11
  • March 2, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  How I got mugged in the frozen foods section. So, MIT is kind of like a turkey and provolone Subway sandwich.

  

  Potter, and I had to get Dumbledore’s help because I was hiding in a broom ... organization, and we needed his help to keep Voldemort from getting in because the blue paint on our walls wasn’t magic enough. And then I had to blog

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • January 5, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Overheard at MIT Vote vote vote!

  

  Don't forget to vote for me in the 2008 blogging scholarship competition! Thanks! One of the biggest culture shocks coming to MIT for me, a ... likely to hear things like ". . . at 6 and then head to the game . . ." or

  • by Snively '11
  • November 11, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Boston Marathon ‘08 I'm back!

  

  way the trees look from my dorm room and exactly how long it takes me to ... material, either (it takes me 6.2 seconds to tie my shoes). I've got the ... while listening to Kelis under a sign labeled "THE YARD". I have all of

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Steer Roast 2008 We Sport Death like it's never been done before

  

  . If your initial reaction to that was "...um, what?", then I'll fill you in: Steer Roast is Senior House's claim to fame - it's our annual ... ; instead of getting a band or two to perform, we hire a dozen bands to play

  • by Keri G. '10
  • May 5, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Parent’s Perspective (Guest Entry) A Parent's Perspective of MIT

  

  Barton Rogers’ alma mater (10 points to anyone who knows without ... supportive of my children’s right to choose, so I bought him a “Nerd Pride” shirt at the Coop, went to the MIT Admissions Road Show

  • by Bryan
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Scratches On My Mind A brief introduction, so you'll know why I see MIT the way I do.

  

  just like yours is. However, we come to different conclusions because we ... me a bottle. Fast forward to 1991, and I'm a little boy playing outside ... spring of my senior year. I'm accepted to MIT and decide to go. My parents

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 20, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Value added You are not the same person you'll be at the end of undergrad, and your…

  

  several problems with this logic: Not everybody wants to go to grad ... to grad school. You are not the same person you'll be at the end of ... school applications (particularly in getting into my perfect program) to my

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 25, 2006
• Blog / MISTI

  Bonn, Games, Bonn Wherein we teach the world the true meaning of democracy.

  

  economics, therefore I try to take the bus home every day instead of waiting around for my French friends to give me rides, and I go to Köln as much as ... travel to Bonn, so I went down there with my roommate Kunal and every

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  NACAC Conference Wrap-up from the national admissions conference.

  

  !Helping Students with Asperger's and Nonverbal Learning Disabilities Go To College ... : The Good, the Bad, and the Oh-So-Stale I am drawn to sessions with ... the pressures to be admitted to the "right" college. The sign

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • September 26, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  Visualize whirled peas

  

  I don't want to alarm those of you in California, Texas, Florida ... much at peace. Last night I went to see the opening night premiere of ... juiced was for The Matrix: Revolutions, and don't expect to be in one again

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 12, 2004
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  moving on, as shown through free t-shirts some spring cleaning

  

  I have never read any of Marie Kondo's books, nor have I claimed to ... wanted my room to be as clean as possible, with everything straightened and as little stuff to trip over as possible. When we moved apartments

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 10, 2025
• Blog / Classes

  contradictions too much, not enough

  

  to? good question. right now, i'm sitting on my chair in a weird ... midwestern genes. and it's really cool to look at a basket of fruit and be like ... describe my courseload to people their eyes kind of widen and they're like

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • October 8, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  2,024 liked songs spotify is my favorite social media

  

  , she also really likes penguins, and she’s very similar to another person ... daytime so there was nothing to observe, but I couldn’t stop thinking about what she said, because she read me to filth. Spotify and I have a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 23, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  who else is watching infinity train?!?! *a fangirling hub that we will update every day this week*

  

  signatures, was made to turn Infinity Train into its own show!!! The power of ... ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=atutlhoyc_Q[/embed] THIS WAS RELEASED! One thing that struck out to us was the I N C R E D I ... wall!!! THE DETAILS OF THE DESK from the stickers to the paper clip to

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • August 6, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  Sooo, I'm back in Boston. And, to be really honest, I miss Japan a ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... /serious injury to the person (these are usually suicides). Perhaps not too

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  township was large enough to need two high schools, there was only Middletown High School. When the district decided to expand, the original building ... was a little kid. That's not to say I accepted it, of course. When my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome MIT Class of 2015 This week, the new freshmen arrive on campus!

  

  students who have served in the armed forces and students who have spent the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 22, 2011
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  Reading is one of the few real hobbies I've managed to hold onto throughout my time at MIT, not that I have much time to read during the semesters. Still, it's nice to look back at the past year, which has been a

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  the umpteenth post about balancing art and tech version: slightly jaded

  

  today, while my friends and I were walking down the river to Trader Joe’s. [I’ve been planning for a while to have a midlife crisis and switch to ... sufficient 2A credits,” to which I respond, “You’re right,” and submit my 21E

  • by Amber V. '24
  • January 30, 2022