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• Blog / MIT Life

  Snowed In at the Fraternity the blizzard is real.

  

  for Tuesday and Wednesday. My Momentum competition was pushed back to ... were making up words to sound cute. But apparently blustery means ... we were prepared for fun in the snow. With classes cancelled, we spent

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 28, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Adventure Coming full circle at MIT

  

  UpBeat, a modular attachment for a drumset that will help users become ... . Over the course of a short semester, 8 teams of 24 students came up with ideas for new products and developed alpha prototypes of their ideas. All

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 21, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  YO! -yo. Learning how to make more toys!!

  

  Junior year pretty much ws a gigantic ride on the struggle bus for me ... semester. 2.008 is a Design for Manufacturing class offered to Mechanical ... Space Jam. For those of you who aren't familiar with the movie (sad day

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • December 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Remembrance Another year of old people remembering things

  

  late for my work-study bookbinding job, but managed to get there a little ... realize that the news was playing on the radio. We pulled up a news site on ... the second tower. The most personal part of the day for me was what we

  • by Latasha Boyd
  • September 11, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  (K)onstantly not good enough baby's first sabremetrics

  

  . For example, the degree to which other teams match up against any given ... offense was setting records for scoring, the defense was setting records for ... they should have won handily. Then, last night, the defense stepped up

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • November 7, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  On Time That which I do not have.

  

  my weekend go?! Follow-up case in point: Where does every weekend go ... EMTs. Writing a short story for my HASS class was entirely entertaining and made me wish that every class I was enrolled in graded me for my

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Healthy reflections… I never know what to write here.

  

  question popping up on Facebook statuses lately. For me, 18.02A was the ... IAP sucked up nearly 9 hours every week, but thank god for it I ... (ABC’s) for the 2nd semester. I'm going to grade my IAP. The following

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 31, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s Monday Actually, I think I just made it to Tuesday.

  

  , Erons. Erons has to carry a wheelchair up the stairs when he pretends to ... 't escape until after finals. Tests pile up in the narrow, cramped margins of ... begins to creep up, and you consider adopting the simple, rustic life of a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 24, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Ben’s Final Farewell Thank you, Ben Jones.

  

  /Astro students playing volleyball with a net they had set up in the Building 33 ... longed for something I had once enjoyed but could no longer possess. And I ... buddy Ben, you see, has had - for as long as I've known him - a slight

  • by Paul B. '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life (3)… [Biochemistry] Another biochemist sharing his experience as an exchange student.

  

  . Moreover, this set is rather rigidly defined for undergrads; it's an old ... equiped to look pretty in the lab. For example, I can pour a gel, then set up a PCR and eat lunch before the gel sets. I understand not how or why

  • by Cambridge
  • May 13, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  A Hack and Advice Two entries smashed into one.

  

  ! Kudos hackers, well done. Now, for the advice. The summer before I came to MIT I spent working full time and trying to get ready for life on ... special traditions, but it's not so fun for the tourist and the non

  • by Snively '11
  • February 29, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  It’s not all happy I know, shocker!

  

  you just have to keep going and try to make up for it by working harder ... misery. That being said, hopefully you aren't signing up for MIT because ... for you. Hot dog contests, Toy Fair, snowball fights, the Ig Nobels, and

  • by Snively '11
  • February 26, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Memories My first two months at MIT, all wrapped up into one post.

  

  blogging for MIT. I remember all the ups and downs of these past eight weeks ... campus for the first time as an actual student - when I said that final goodbye to my parents. I remember my first days here: building robots for

  • by Paul B. '11
  • October 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Desired things a youthful aside.

  

  for the end of the period no one stood up; instead, heads bent to clear ... high school teacher who had high hopes for us. She owned not a small ... . For 35 ambitious Juniors in an average high school, this was our first

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 12, 2007
• 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 / Classes

  bucket lists, grocery lists, and a li(s)tany of other things this is actually just an excuse to make people list-en to me talk about minecraft

  

  attention for hours on end.  That being said, my favorite Hermitcrafter is ... that are already a part of the game, he’s come up with his own challenges ... getting struck by lightning (I hope), putting my goals for the year into a

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • November 3, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  In Our Bedroom After the Pandemic a bedroom is something that can actually be so personal

  

  .[/annotation] For those who grew up like me, it became the first mode of distinction ... these things up to make way for a summer subletter, and I spent a week ... For most of my adolescence, my bedroom was painted as close as I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • June 26, 2020
• Blog / Personal Travel

  F=-kx spring break in nova scotia, nyc, and dc

  

  -of-crowd, at least for this year. A week prior to our planning meet-up, I ... days swung wildly up and down. The more I pushed myself, the greater ... bags for a bustling East Coast adventure. This year, we went on a

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • March 31, 2024