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• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT or Bust Our story begins here...

  

  surrounding areas, I hope you all get an idea of what the community and life is ... . I'm a member of the Class of 2007. I was born here in Massachusetts ... , I'll give you three statements and at the end of this entry, I'll tell

  • by Bryan
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  “we have the winter olympics at home” the winter olympics at home:

  

  choice of MIT, I mean it. I'm on a mission to spread the New England winter ... shenanigans. Exhibit A: On the last day of finals, as if to celebrate the ... of snow. Even better, right outside of the dorm where Siyi and I live

  • by Allison E. '27
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... nerdiness on your chest for the viewing pleasure of small children and ... them for the last couple of months, by the way. College application time

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Music for Pre-decisions De-stressing manifesting calm and cozy vibes to get you through it

  

  Waiting for college decisions is difficult. Trust me, I've been there before. This is a collection of songs that helps calm me down before going into something stressful. Many of these were songs I listened to while I

  • by Jenny B. '25
  • December 8, 2023
• Blog / Decisions Day Threads

  Open Thread: Not Admitted

  

  time for you, but we ask that you converse civilly and with the best of intentions, as that is the spirit of our process. ... pebble. The place you want to be is farther than this, right? That’s why it

  • by Decisions
  • March 14, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Fancy Feast & Happy People an accumulation of details

  

  green house on Chestnut Street has a porch light on. This is pika, one of ... Friday night is Fancy Feast. The pikans eat together every night. There ... . Afterwards, basking in the glow of good conversation and satiety, I talked

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • March 19, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Analogies “Fill yourself up with musical lighter fluid and ignite your inner match.”

  

  inner pony!” or, “This part is when the baby stands up and takes his first ... also the words of the MIT Wind Ensemble (MITWE) director, Frederick Harris. Other times, another kind of life lesson comes from the calm and

  • by Ana V. '15
  • April 1, 2012
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Poetry from 5 AM This Morning Don't worry, I drank an entire MUG of espresso

  

  This girl is tired. Verrryyyyyyy tired. I had a lot of ideas for ... had today and failing pretty miserably. So, for the sake of my sanity, I ... hold, I kind of dropped it. Maybe the exhaustion kickstarted my creative

  • by Powers '23
  • September 30, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  5E Rush Photos

  

  of our favorite pasttimes is the simple act of sitting around in Black ... . :) He made an appearance on the side of the Green Building during Hall ... image is several stories tall.) He also chose to reveal himself in the

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Puzzled need a quick fix for your boredom? try this puzzle on for size.

  

  prepare one another. This is the one I came up with. I'll be posting puzzles ... remotely next IAP. -- Come and Ride It Lost in the jungle, Joe is ... this series of directions to follow to find the train home. START HERE

  • by Bryan
  • July 29, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  Liminal Activities Period IAP is a mindset and you can keep it forever

  

  from the calendar. Fall still feels like the start of the school year ... January, of course, is IAP. "Independent Activities Period" is a ... the spiritual opposite of summer - instead of escaping, it's about

  • by Joel G. '18
  • January 25, 2025
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decision Day Eve Your questions as the May 1 deadline approaches.

  

  Tomorrow is May 1, otherwise known as the Common Reply Date. This is ... concerns? I am available, as are all of the bloggers, to field questions ... tomorrow (May 1); the formal deadline is 11:59pm on May 1.  You have three

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 30, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  analysis And the list goes on and on. But of course, doing a UROP is a ... Fund which supports women UROP students pursing research in the School of ... on November 2, 2006. This is the easiest way to get a UROP, most people

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT PUMPKIN DROP 2012! chucking pumpkins off the highest building in cambridge. that's an exclamation mark, not a factorial.

  

  guilt, over to the east side of campus, and stood in a semicircle under ... Building, because it is full of grad students and grad students do not sleep ... off will be the day of the apocalypse) Some background: every October

  • by Michael C. '16
  • October 28, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Series of Embarrassing Events, Part 1 Zumba and putting pants on in lecture

  

  I wrote the post below on Tuesday. Because of weird formatting issues ... 's Part 1, unmodified. The last sentence is particularly cute and naive ... a bran flake when I saw that the first sentence of the description was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  Back Bay 5K Cool running... so cool that my legs were numb. (11 pictures)

  

  the bridge in flip-flops. For those of you who were not at MIT last ... had a very nice view of the Esplanade while running. Here, some of ... runners stuck around for awards, so Sam got one of the prizes. Have fun with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An MIT Week general structure and personal experience

  

  Parenthood. Content-wise, my work is close to the opposite of the general MIT ... What is the typical MIT weekly schedule? The answer varies wildly among students. On average, the time spent on work per week is between 23

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Replay… Who says you can't go home again? Or at least go back to school...

  

  I arrived on the MIT campus in August of 1982 with all my "stuff ... was the place where I would happily spend the next four years of my life ... ring and I got involved with lots and lots of activities. Over the years

  • by Kim Hunter '86
  • September 11, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Maybe later

  

  I was going to spend a couple of hours today formatting the many ... yesterday the first day of spring. I was promptly informed that I would soon ... the FIRST regional. But then Adelaide came by and informed me that it

  • by Laura N. '09
  • March 11, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Who needs Black Friday anyway? a slightly different take.

  

  the feast, so here is a photo of Simmons instead. Hope everyone had a ... ^"Every patch is a memory, every tear has a tale. These are the ... puffy jacket will always remind me of certain backpacking trips in the

  • by Michael C. '16
  • November 29, 2014