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• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday, Simmons Hall! 20 things I’m grateful for in my dorm

  

  a different dorm – and still go to the lounge and fit in. 9 ... the only air-conditioned room in Simmons – a great place to be at the ... crashes more often than I’d like to admit, but it still gets the job done

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • December 4, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  T-Minus Six Days Ready for the best four days of your life? CPW 2010 ftw!!

  

  you get on campus! It's going to be EPIC. As those of you who tuned ... idea to exchange e-mails with your host before you get here, just to get ... the events I wanted to attend at last year's CPW by ranking them in

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • April 2, 2010
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  Update #1 (1:40 PM) Currently in 13-4101 trying to solve our first puzzle before I have to go to lab meeting in 20 minutes ... ahh! Update #2 ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Fears and Hopes how to move forward

  

  don't know how to feel. We will be sitting quietly in Lobby 7 all day ... the way forward. In the afternoon we might open up to discussion, feel ... fears do not really grow. It is just a new day, and we should be able to

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • November 9, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Snow-bama Snow? Obama? At MIT? AHH.

  

  snow-that-can-barely-be-called-snow deigns to appear about once in ten ... exciting is that??! They TALKED to us. And we didn't get arrested! Or shot by ... various other locations in the building, hoping to continue following Obama

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 23, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Last Night What I did last night, on my last night. CambridgeSide Galleria & Brokeback Mountain

  

  unintentionally danced around in black ice before getting back to our dorm. (In ... "Last Night" -- get it?! I took my 14.41: Public Economics final in ... waited in line and saved me a good seat. (How dare they call me inefficient

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • December 17, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  masterpiece of breathlessly-paced storytelling, trying to scan in every color-saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest ... .: Drowning in tired while clinging to last shreds of willpower to floss

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  that isn't even there get in your way. You want to be challenged more ... . When we blog things, we get a drop-down list of categories to choose from ... fire alarm in the middle of a deep sleep. Right. Back to what I was

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Cancer life-changing.

  

  time I do something CK-related, I’m reminded of how lucky I am to have a ... my MIT career that I started to do a little more digging. In trying to ... . About fifty percent of HDGC cases can be linked to a gene mutation in CDH1

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  No more school, no more books Professors are people, too. Importantly, they're people who give free food.

  

  had no idea that he was so distinguished. You get a little numb to ... of year for end-of-the-term dinners, and I've been to two in the past ... seems to have taken a rather enthusiastic interest in mentoring the course

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 17, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Cool Classes

  

  , and in general how have you experiences been with the classes at MIT ... Course 9 majors, with a heavy systems neuroscience focus. You get to play ... a variety of departments, have been... 9.00 Intro to Psychology (Fall

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 20, 2005
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions Are Beginning To Arrive Some thoughts for everyone.

  

  very, very proud of your accomplishment. To those of you who didn't get in, please continue to hold your heads up high. We didn't have room for ... . To even be in the applicant pool means that you are among the best of

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ring Committee Wrap Up For those interested . . .

  

  possible to do so, we would conduct this interview process in the Fall, when ... debate and class-wide discussion about why this happened and how it could be rectified continued for a number of days, and due to finals and

  • by Snively '11
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  You Are LUSCIOUS I lusciously answer some of your questions

  

  always struck me as a tad odd that I should be "getting to know" a college ... deciding what schools to apply to, how to fill out your application, and eventually, how to decide which school to attend. At each stage, a school

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 13, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Come in, we’re open

  

  as a living room and study area, meaning that we get to watch TV in it ... living in A-Entry for my first three years at MIT. But I'm moving to D ... suite door. Adam and I are living in a two-person suite, and we even get

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 14, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  This is it. the last "what classes I'm taking" blog

  

  , I still have to get through all of the following classes in order to ... break is in 4 weeks and graduation is looming on the horizon and real life is about to catch up to me (just kidding, I'll most likely still be a

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Ponderings of a lifeguard Why are white water rapids white?

  

  back in puzzlement and continued to stare at the water, thinking. I ... there's nothing in the water that is white, how does it suddenly turn ... . Come on, help me out. In other news, I finally figured out how I'll be

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Introduction To MIT World ...and my blog's first feature: Akamai, Clever and Cool!

  

  one to be the first one to reflect on in this new forum. So, I thought ... My first blog entry! Let me begin by introducing you to MIT World, a ... lectures at MIT. MIT World has been in operation since 2001 and today has a

  • by Laurie Everett
  • January 11, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Telethon Fun…Squared The amount of fun experienced at an event grows exponentially as a function of bloggers…

  

  helping out from 6:00 to 11:00, with maybe a half-hour break in between to ... to comment below. ;-) All in all, about 60 students - a record turnout ... , it was pretty much anyone's guess as to how the conversation would go

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 17, 2008