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• Blog / MIT Life

  Small talk How about that weather?

  

  Well my friends, yesterday I took a little bit of a nap on the bus on the way home from my field hockey game, and when I awoke, what to my ... , despite the fact that there was definitely a layer of snow on the ground

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 30, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  to stop for me as I ran across the street to catch it. Lost a ... players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the ... something awesome to the first person who can figure out the origin of our

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Fariborz Maseeh Hall The Phoenix Group would rise from the the "ashes" of Ashdown...

  

  needed to renovate W1 just wasn't as easy to get our hands on. So the whole ... the crowding in undergraduate dorms, and to increase the undergraduate population to the glorious size it once was (sometime back in the 90's). Their

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-wedding update

  

  , admissions officer. At the reception, I got to sit next to Julian Wheatley, a ... on serious issues like stress, depression, sexuality, etc, but to ... the Economics Deprtment and Athletics Department. And to the person who

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

  Mailing Tomorrow; Yo-Yo Tonight Verify your MyMIT username and password.

  

  After a week of checking, double checking, and checking-to-the ... online on Saturday. I want to urge you one final time: if you have not ... website right now. On the off chance that you no longer remember your

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 16, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Life Tokens the currency of joy

  

  ability to look back on all the interesting life experiences we’ve had will ... ), buying a house, and eventually retiring. The goal is to collect as much ... donating to a charity. Sometimes, though, you land on a “LIFE” square. Each

  • by Allison E. '27
  • July 6, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Blogger’s Block a hiatus from writing (but not memeing)

  

  challenge because I never had the mental space to reflect on my situation. I ... away sleep, progress on my UROP, and writing blog posts in order to ... the perspective and tools needed to achieve it. I want to be kind to

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 23, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Happy 4th of July! Glorious red, white, and blue

  

  doesn't look like this: Well I may not go to see the fireworks today ... 've got my money on Germany. Good thing the weather conditions are better in ... Ah, glorious government holidays! Happy Fourth of July! Enjoy the day

  • by Melis A. '08
  • July 4, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Don’t believe everything that you read

  

  found the secret on guarenteed [sic] Admissions to MIT This comes ... 's mad as hell because he didn't need to waste 2 months on ISEF research ... Someone emailed to me a funny post from one of those rumor

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Antics! The title is pretty self-explanatory, isn't it?

  

  pictures...) I did manage to take some pretty pictures on the walk back to ... considerably so that it was snowing for real. On the way back to the dorm an hour ... decided to go skiing. It had snowed earlier in the week, but most of the

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 11, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Month of Novembeard a cultural exchange

  

  , Movember, an Australian variant of the practice that focuses exclusively on ... a dank bread mold on the underside of a loaf hidden at the back of the ... blonder than the hair on my head. I do not know why this happens, but my

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Art Imitating Art well, at least blogs.

  

  awake one morning to find the zombie apocalypse hath begun. You are in ... excerpted on the entry announcing new bloggers: The smell of decomposing ... to rise. The shrewd cretins had shut down roadways and laid waste to

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 5, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hi, (gasp!) I’m Kim Kimd's first post as an admissions blogger!

  

  've found some people to work with on some of the classes. Late nights always ... , I've gotten to a point where the workload will be manageable from here ... as time went on. Eventually I had a power amplifier that I could use to

  • by Kim D. '09
  • September 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  May we offer you a drink of water? Because you're just so thirsty for what I have to say and all.

  

  . More importantly, it was the day on which early action decisions came out. (Only 23 hundredths of a year for the same time to come around already, yikes!) I went to an all-girls Catholic high school in the south side of

  • by Ana V. '15
  • September 25, 2011
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Remnants of Four Years What happens when you have to start packing

  

  have to pack up your life from the past four years.  No more of this, "I ... .  I tended to wear three different sets of rowing clothes, throw them on ... had to finally empty out my locker for the first time in four years, it

  • by Becca H. '12
  • June 6, 2012
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Full Circle Professor Anna

  

  I’m sitting on the floor of my living room in Ithaca, New York. It ... the external examiner (“extern”) for a PhD Viva, and now I’m trying to get my act together before the semester starts on Tuesday.  The last

  • by Anna H. '14
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  happy singles awareness day

  

  restaurant that day. I wasn’t opposed to the restaurant, although it was ... interest clear and I would have to turn him down. And didn’t I owe Mike the ... spend Valentine’s Day with somebody on the same wavelength? “Let’s meet

  • by Rona W. '23
  • February 21, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  Thank You for unity and kindness

  

  feeling on the inside. As if goosebumps are embedded deep into my skin ... , I was unfazed. Not shocked at all. The first thought that came to my mind was again. It's happened again. And so I set my phone to the side

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • March 18, 2019
• Blog / Admissions

  Weekend Update A couple FAQs and others tidbits.

  

  , and to await the Next Big Mailing (NBM) in May. 2. Yes, I will be ... in on all of the details soon. Relatedly, I will also be doing a small ... where I give props to the folks behind the blogging platform (Movable Type

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 14, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Carnival A glorious carnival is marred by the passing of a beloved goldfish. (24 pictures)

  

  Last night, we went to a carnival that was sponsored by the ... task, I went over to the cooler and received my prize from Ian '06. As I ... ." Sam actually was referring to the goldfish, so we decided to name the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 3, 2005