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• Blog / MIT Life

  0 Days Since Last Fire Alarm Oh noes! Simmons Hall on fire!

  

  alarms since orientation, one of which was a drill. Simmons, on the other ... knows more about this than I do, but the gist of it is that Simmons has ... 't help but laugh, because obviously the residents of Simmons were getting a

  • by Snively '11
  • October 29, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Updates exciting, exciting!

  

  screen, since they tend to crack. sitting in the very center of an exam ... strive to be the first to reach the city of Adelaide, 3000 km south of ... Wednesday morning in Australia and speaks excitedly about the experience of

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • November 17, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The MIT Blogarhythms! All-blogger a cappella? Nope -- a CPW event!

  

  Congratulations to the MIT Class of 2014! I'm a little late hopping ... worry (not that you were). Since I've gone and missed most of the period ... Action admits heard the good news -- two of my friends from Wayland High

  • by Cam T. '13
  • March 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Photo Contest, Round 2 The Boston skyline at night.

  

  to the right, you'd see MIT and the Cambridge side of the river), and ... 's Museum of Science, which features a lightning show by the world's largest ... everyone likes the panoramic photos! This picture was taken by Daniel '10

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Over is the Wait Just thoughts...

  

  since the age of womb-dom. Now that I look back on it, though, this ... pondering, and I liked the word just as much. I liked the idea of being an ... think of the one thing I do know. Good old freshman me. I know who I was

  • by Ana V. '15
  • March 18, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  fun. the band, but also the form

  

  pulse because it thinks you’re still alive. That’s the kind of sentence I ... is just because of distance, and maybe distance doesn’t really make the heart grow fonder. Or maybe this is part of the natural cycle of losing

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 11, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  the 13th, fate decided to rain upon Sam and me loads of good luck last ... tour of Columbus Circle a jaunt into the Time-Warner Center (where we ran ... ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Residential Life

  back in east campus, the sequel jiggity jig (again)

  

  four people who've lived in this room. many of the things in this room ... table, some of the posters. it's also right next to the lounge, which is a ... senior year at ec. but more to the point, all the history of this room, all

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • August 18, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  Still Alive! sorry, this has nothing to do with portal

  

  . Especially when all of one's massive programming labs are due at the beginning of the week. 3. I painted a bunch of murals. Actually, the time expended on these was negligible compared to most of the other items on this

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • October 22, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  The Real Deal no impostors here

  

  A few days ago a young man posted a confession to the Class of 2016 ... people!   In the comments some of his classmates shared similar ... they were admitted, once the glow of joy dimmed down, there lurked in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • March 27, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  distance of 77 Massachusetts Avenue uneaten at, pardon the grammatical ... see any more of those, really). Honestly, I can't count the nights when nothing was more satisfying than the mouth-drying sodium-shock of defrosted

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  in the car and took off along the scenic drive, the vehicle in front of ... was standing on the side of the road, and ambled into the forest as we ... reached the first of 75 overlooks; Raphael (the driver) pulled our car off

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Guess who can legally drive alone in Maine now? Learning to drive on hard mode (i.e., in Boston)

  

  friends objected. “Don’t people drive on the left side of the street in ... I wasn’t about to let anything get in the way of my Acadia trip ... the [annotation note="Short for “Registry of Motor Vehicles”, which is

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • January 19, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Prof. Junot Diaz on The Colbert Report! MIT Writing professor Junot Diaz, winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for fiction, appeared last…

  

  A week ago, Professor Junot Diaz of the MIT Department of Writing & Humanistic Studies, appeared on The Colbert Report. Certainly Prof ... of you who aren't familiar with The Colbert Report, there are some

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 24, 2008
• Blog / Uncategorized

  an infinite nine year old and the infinite nineteen year old he became

  

  because of something called ‘snow.’” That would, however, be the most false ... it multiple times before the day of this story. I was nine and grew up ... believed that one of the most important things that you could do was travel

  • by Caleb M. '27
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / Events

  hero’s journey with a splash teaching for ESP

  

  incident Some friends and I were sitting on the floor of MG’s room. I was ... , however, know a bit about writing, and came up with the novel idea of “How to Structure a Novel.”   resistance of the call Bilbo doesn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • December 2, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Chapter Closes To open another

  

  A little while ago, I was just heading out of the bathroom on my ... room, shut the door, and stood behind it for a couple of seconds. A moment later, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. The door swung

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • May 24, 2014
• Blog / Blog Projects

  A Comprehensive Guide to Crying on Campus It’s right about that time of year.

  

  condition in which the sole symptom is verbal/mental repetition of the phrase ... on campus. Most of the answers included fairly standard locations ... concentration of crying spots on the right of the map). We need all of you to help

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  towards the advancement of underserved communities. Alia Whitney-Johnson, a ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... language barrier and recalls discovering the power of non

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep debt that I've accumulated over the course of my entire life ... it snowed. So of course I had to get up and open the shade above my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005