#Rain sounds for sleeping boston full#

And in spite of being part of MIT’s exceptionally vibrant Greek community, I’m as proud to live in Simmons Hall as any other Sim – it’s simply that I’m part of another living group in addition to Simmons.

#Rain sounds for sleeping boston full#

In the interest of full disclosure, I should point out (for the parents’ sake, if nothing else) that all MIT students live in dormitories for their entire freshman year, regardless of whether they join any particular fraternity, sorority, or other independent living group. Unfortunately, my excess of umbrellas was of no help to me Friday, because I wasn’t in my dorm room last night. In case you’re curious, and I’m sure you are (not), I brought one from home, and I ended up buying the other two from LaVerde’s – MIT’s on-campus mini-mart, basically – during the fall term when it spontaneously started raining during the day. Normally, I wouldn’t really mind a little rain, because like most people I kept a pretty good pair of rain boots in my dorm room, not to mention three (count ’em) umbrellas. Rain, on the other hand, just gets everybody wet. Which makes me sound like a fifth-grader, but it’s true, so there you go. (Who can argue with that?) And whenever I see those first flakes falling from the sky, I won’t deny that I always took a certain pleasure in running around trying to taste a few. After all, snow isn’t only picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for life.

For a variety of reasons, this made me less than happy. Despite being the middle of winter, on Friday the entire Boston area ended up getting drenched in an unexpected deluge of rain.