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• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  interface for the pingball game) to set up Wednesday’s check-off meetings ... my family has migrated every winter for more than a decade. It ... ,” I say. 9:15 am: I wake up, 20 minutes before lecture. 9:45-ish am: 7

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... heading back to Cambridge for a quick apartment move before the start of classes. Whew. When I made the decision to come back to MIT for grad school

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  “Hello! I would like to schedule a meeting with Senator Markey.” Exciting spring break plans

  

  hardest part is just picking up the phone for the first time, and I ... Massachusetts resident and I divided up the labor so that I'm in charge of ... Representative Katherine Clark. Now, I'm normally very happy to pick up the phone

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 7, 2014
• Blog / Events

  CityDays and ClayNights Clay Aiken concert, CityDays volunteering, and West Campus luau (lots of pictures)

  

  almost 800 students sign up for CityDays to go work with 45 community ... . People hold up cell phones and stream the concert onto the web. It looks ... wrappers. (I'm not making this up.) ----- CityDays is an optional

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 30, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  fondness in my heart for that[annotation note="Lydia wrote about this once ... . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away ... until it was over. Fact 2: my parents would have to quarantine for 2

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  [Guest Post] Next Haunt 2024: The Haunters what it takes to scare MIT students

  

  messed-up and is still ok, what things can be messed-up for now but should ... staff members reply back to my request for a behind-the-scenes guest post. If you haven't read Part 1, I encourage going back and reading it for

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 27, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  You Prep, I Prep, We All Prep How to prepare--or at least, how I did.

  

  -minute cramming for that week of IB exams, SAT Subject tests, the June SAT (is that ... ’ve been thrown into a pit of tigers to fend for myself with a toothpick ... to gal for SAT tests, they are my forte in the world of arbitrary

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 13, 2015
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Thirteen Things To Do Over IAP: #6-13 Concerning the half I spent in Cambridge

  

  the river. I took advantage of my free time over IAP to sign-up for a ... morning and tennis practice from 5-7pm, I usually end up taking the ... with squishy sofas and bunk beds for sleeping. My plan for the last two

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • February 16, 2015
• Blog / Hacks

  “futility island” socially conscious hacking? in MY institution?

  

  art installation went up recently on "Walker Lawn", also known as the ... of just a few exceptions to MIT's preference for numbers), will now be ... 't just stop at bringing it up to all their friends like I did (maybe their

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 25, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  visual depictions of my summer i've been a busy, busy bee.

  

  first sighting of the Taj from the entrance chamber-- And a close-up;   We got up at 3 am to get to Nandi Hills for this view-- And this ... [/caption] Friday nights were for office dinners at scenic restaurants like these

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • September 3, 2019
• Blog / Featured Blogs

  Upside Down Gnomes From Wisconsin Always look up.

  

  behind in in 6.854 in the first week of the semester and never caught up ... when I left for college, which had been laying on a shelf since August ... weighed my options, called my mom, and dropped the class. For the past two

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 26, 2014
• Blog / Hacks

  A Battle Scene to Remember Construction zones are the perfect playgrounds for epic battles

  

  time of the year.  Flags for classes are being handed out for those of us ... it's not just me) are staying up way too late to finish projects and do ... waking up in the morning after a terribly stressful week to a new hack by

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 3, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What I just did You'll never believe it.

  

  should I do?"* *Why do I need to do 2.005? Kinda need to try to bring up ... for them to look like this before clicking "Go." After you click go ... ended up ordering my chicken wings and they should be here in about 1/2 an

  • by Snively '11
  • October 6, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  NM – u? Sometimes there just isn't that much crazy in my life. Splish splash.

  

  , so I curled up in Hayden with Moll Flanders. I usually sit up on the ... and trudged to the BPL (Boston Public Library) for the John Adams ... Ivy League drama at the exhibit: For present-day Ivy League drama

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 23, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Ah, TV… A super-sized value meal for the mind, not the body.

  

  funny! I crack me up!) I am stressed! Reviewing admissions applications is ... stressful! So we agree, we are all stressed. For this entry I propose that ... 's Anatomy. SPOILER ALERT! This entry assumes that you are up to date on all

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • January 23, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pictures of me

  

  '05. I dressed up as Indiana Jones for a friend's post ... One of the requested entries a while back was for me to post some ... my eyes during camera flash, so I usually end up looking ridiculous

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Images of Rush preparation

  

  leading up to Rush/Orientation. So I decided to bring you a few pictures of ... , Deirdre '08, that I took a while back for an entry that never happened. One ... it up, as in this message left by Phife '04 when I was a freshman

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 25, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... beating myself up over it last year, but I was right for being pissed off at ... old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Summer

  i visit Cape Cod and discover the most beautiful beach on Earth

  

  suggested that we spice up our orders by asking for four of what the person in ... we wouldn't end up with that order. and....you guessed it ... beach, we stopped by a Stop & Shop for some burger buns, patties, and

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • June 24, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Paths there are so many

  

  to MIT was the only future we saw for ourselves. Looking at the ... especially unpleasant for us. Those were the first time that some external ... , because the initial news still stings for us. But we will say that, after

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • December 19, 2018