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• Blog / MIT Life

  It happens to Helen Life is just a series of awkward moments sometimes.

  

  wage. Nice!" verb -- to work in a UROP "I'm UROPping until 5 today, but I ... DID YOU KNOW? Homemade mayonnaise is actually acidic enough to kill any salmonella bacteria that might grow in it. Thus, you can actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 16, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Commencement 2009 Oh hey, I'm an alum.

  

  , back in the day, we used to get our decision letters in the mail. I'm a ... the details of the day explained to us. No such luck. We checked in at a ... all stayed in the right order. Not a single thing was ever explained to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 28, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  A Q&A for Deferred Students

  

  . Anyway, on to the questions: "It's over! No one gets in RA ... already strong enough to make you a contender in the Regular Action round ... you do decide that you absolutely need to send something in, other than

  • by Chris LaBounty
  • December 17, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  End-of-Summer Camping Temporary escape from my “cruel, insufficiently damp world"

  

  emailed a friend in lab to put away the agarose gel I’d poured the night ... already boarded. I rolled up to the driver. “Can I get on this bus?” He ... reservation was still open in Firefox. “Alright! Get on.” Seven hours, four

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 28, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  leaving season blue blue blue

  

  into the homeliness that seems impossible to find in ten days. a few ... really because every time, you think there is still a lot to get done ... , what to expect of it, how i was failing at expecting and on the other

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • August 21, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Lea-der! Lea-der! Bat-man! ...I mean, Lea-der!

  

  the reasons I have an interest in journalism today. What’s incredible to ... newsrooms are full of women, all those women are less likely to be in top ... careers in a time when women just didn’t do that. I decided to attend this

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • July 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Results of My Summer cookies, web usability, and painting

  

  I get to think about what goes on through an increasingly tech savvy ... get to make them! But what do I actually do? I've been learning a lot of Ruby on Rails to figure out how all the data actually works together

  • by Connie H. '15
  • September 10, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  Don’t Worry, Be Happy A few words of advice.

  

  college applications and thought to myself that I wasn't going to get in ... here. I'm also glad just to know I'm in college getting an education, so ... school." To me at that point, it was like this castle in the sky. I didn

  • by Bryan
  • March 17, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In ... athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... you hundreds, perhaps thousands, on labor) to get checked out. The

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  gets done, but you worry some, I know But who wants to live forever, babe ... HOZIER, KING OF IRELAND, IS HERE TO SPEAK:  It can't be said I'm an early birdIt's ten o'clock before I say a wordBaby, I can never tellHow do you

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things That Happened! Since I've been gone~

  

  (sigh). But, I did get to hang out with my friends in House 1/Chocolate ... ’t want to run in the hall because who does that, but then also you feel ... somewhat similar to junior year of high school, in that I feel I’ve somewhat

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 6, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  The Decisions Are Not In The Mail Bad language on MyMIT.

  

  language didn't get updated as it was supposed to. Hopefully this will be ... Hi folks, I see in the comments from my last entry that MyMIT is telling people that decisions have been mailed. I've asked the tech folks to

  • by Ben Jones
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  parallels or juxtapositions in one sitting at flour cafe

  

  but couldn’t get myself to decide what that was; i promised myself i ... and i am running out of time. when i was in barcelona, i talked about how happy i was that life felt like an abundant tree of gleaming vibrant

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • February 26, 2025
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  See, I Am! (CI-M) Communication-intensive economics research. (If that sentence doesn't make you want to read this entry, I…

  

  ?) paper was due on Friday. In addition to the two communication ... CI classes in your major: CI-Ms. I invite you to join me on this ... -run newspaper, the Piled Higher and Deeper comic was joking about how to grade

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • November 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  what’s on my desk? creative furniture

  

  quick post to check in and say happy tuesday. it's 52 degrees and ... on how the internet isn't all it's hyped up to be. excerpt from the ... accompanied by the irresistible urge to enlist Silicon Valley start-ups in the

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 8, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  What is weather? ...and what is rain?

  

  had my umbrella in hand, poncho over my backpack. I was ready to conquer ... weather works when you’re not in California? Every morning I've resorted to ... amazing as the icon makes it out to be. Last Tuesday the high was 84

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • October 9, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  College Interviews a survival guide for the high school senior

  

  basic getting-to-know-you questions. Here are some things to keep in mind ... , these were all questions that were nice to have answered in advance, but ... preparing, think about why you did the things you did in high school and how

  • by Connie H. '15
  • October 15, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Monologuing a mock-up for the MITMonologues

  

  number of reasons, I really like how this turned out. In this piece, I talk ... resulted in "weird" conflicting feelings I think are interesting to hear ... ="emails sent to all dorms"] dormspam,[/annotation] emails that were flooding in

  • by Paige B. '24
  • December 13, 2022
• Blog / IAP

  Bright IAP a post in two, kind of unrelated, parts

  

  to do this for me. Later (in a silvery package) I received an official ... change from a D to a B, shhhhhh.) I'm excited to see how the institute ... 're interested in and excited about that don't have to do with classes. The

  • by Paige B. '24
  • January 14, 2023