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• Blog / MIT Life

  disinterprerto! a centennial, a harry potter dream, a made-up spell, a corny metaphor

  

  I will admit: I've been in a bit of a rut. Don't get me wrong. Life as an AeroAstro is amazing in a lot of respects. 9AM classes for ... my hall and making new friends with hallmates. I no longer tool alone

  • by Allan K. '17
  • October 28, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Update – Featuring Tim the Beaver as Miley Cyrus Everything is awesome!

  

  new hall is responsible for providing some sort of food substance for ... I am sitting in the coolest little corner of our courtyard I've ever ... was tired, I don't regret a second of it.  I love learning more about

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • April 12, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Coworker Shenanigans Summer friends

  

  Today, I walked into my office (cup of iced tea in hand), logged onto ... IN THE HELL?" Giggles floated across the hall from the other summer student office. About half an hour later, I found more pictures of Raphael

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 5, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Two Days in the Life In which I overuse Instagram.

  

  . SENIOR. I walk down the halls of Simmons and see freshman frantically p ... n00bs" and then immediate proceed thinking, "Wait I'm not one of you ... feeling like P.Diddy, then realize, "Ermegerd, this is my last sixth day of

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • September 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  On the Coming of Winter in Boston November peels away like buttery sheathes of apple-crisp, sizzled brown skin off a roasted turkey that your grandmother accidentally stuffed with snow As you can see, the existence of the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Danger Danger! Listen to Burt, duck and cover!

  

  it]!!!!!" Another 20 feet down the hall you run into one of these I ... MIT, being at the forefront of a lot of things, is a very neat place ... there is high voltage on the other sides of those signs, right? That

  • by Snively '11
  • January 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  More Odds & Ends Concerts (on & off campus), doors (on campus), and lectures (also on campus).

  

  , at Morss Hall in MIT's Walker Memorial. Ford International Professor of ... they put on a darn good show. Of course, this being Boston, lots of bands come through. Within 2 miles of MIT (and within 5 subway stops), you

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 25, 2005
• Blog / Hacks

  I feel the need, the need for speed!

  

  current residents of the hall went to Six Flags". I mean, "the 5th East ... before, because 5th East was going to Six Flags New England, courtesy of ... before we left to go take some pictures. Apparently, Lord Voldemort (of

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  “But I’m not cool…” Dr. Suess but shitty? Dr. Suess but angsty?

  

  universe and did the impossible and fell in and out of love in a million ... "] Me on my actual first day of high school! T-minus two months to the beginning of my ~emo phase~...[/caption] “I am not cool” said a teenage girl

  • by Powers '23
  • August 18, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  I “less than 3” the Chorallaries My relaxing and enjoyable vaction draws to a close. *sigh*

  

  Well, it's been quite a week of spring break adventures! I basically ... on Tuesday night. I spent the rest of the week showing her how the real ... seniors all made fun of me and my blog, which makes them so uncool. Tsk tsk

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  There Are Too Many HASS Classes I Want To Take What’s a Boy to Do

  

  I’m out of class, which means I’m naturally thinking about only one thing—what classes I’m going to take next! This is not because of a deep internal love of school or academia, nor a longing for summer to end and be

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • June 29, 2026
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bruno Recalibration

  

  front of the Senior House dormitory Now, I'm in New Jersey for the wedding of an MIT roommate. Lots of old friends from across the country are coming in for the festivities. Most of us know each other as we chose to

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  Zoom University. On top of setting stuff up in my apartment (unpacking ... view out of my kitchen window every day, featuring the moon, the Charles ... some sort of [annotation note="i watched lady bird (2017) a few days

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  i don’t know how to comfort people

  

  support. people here are so painfully kind. within two months of staying here, i already feel indebted to nearly everyone on hall. when all is ... of something to say instead. but what do i say? what do i say to my

  • by Anika H. '26, MEng '27
  • November 22, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  Tips for a Pleasant Olfactory Experience how to make your room smell good

  

  little things like how my room smells. My definition of good ... a dorm where there are kitchens down the hall from every room. If ... sources of bad smells by regularly maintaining the general hygiene of your

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • February 9, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  ; instead, I slept. Land in Houston. Now, here was one of the most exciting parts of the trip. I exit baggage claim, and there someone is holding a sign that reads: "Mr. Bryan O." I wanted to take a picture of him and

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

  A Week in the Life of a Student-Athlete feat. women's soccer & meche

  

  . The season is flying by, and we’ve played a whopping total of 18 games — 4 of which were the past week. I’m going to take you along for the journey of that week, and what it's like to have both a mix of soccer and

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 31, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hits from the ‘90s ♪ Why can't we be friends? ♫

  

  and potentially prompting them to not apply to MIT. The truth of the ... use all of them. They're just good to have in case of an emergency. That ... twitter. Facebook, I do use, as many of you have discovered. I get about 2

  • by Snively '11
  • July 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  O’Reilly Primes?

  

  to really like it, for a few reasons. Certainly, it is a swiping of the nomenclature of a certain telecaster's forum. Now I don't care much for that ... recall how the topic came up, but as we were talking, I was applying

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 12, 2004
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Got any threes? Go fish!

  

  TV. As such, yesterday evening found a large majority of the residents of Conner 2 sitting in the floor lounge, eating Hsin Hsin (a great ... is that e-mail mailing lists are the lifeblood of this place. They

  • by Snively '11
  • September 12, 2008