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• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  Kayla E. '15 and I decided that it was a great idea to go out for a run ... could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... moved off campus. More on that another time. We went up to one of the

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  tuesday another blog about an ordinary day

  

  motivation. ??:?? it's a good idea to wake up for work tomorrow, so i guess it ... 8:00 AM wake up. check my clock and go back to sleep. 9:00 AM actually wake up. i take a shower, stop being naked, and am ready to head out

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • August 7, 2019
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider taking a year before entering college.

  

  taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the ... . We will grant a deferral for almost any reason (but generally not for

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 21, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  . Pulling up to the speaker, Eric ordered two baked-not-fried apple pies for a ... physics problem sets, sketches for a full-length blues arrangement for jazz ... elusive nature, up above the world so high, appearing like diamonds in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  On taking a ‘Gap Year’ Consider deferring college for a year.

  

  you plan to do. We will grant a deferral for almost any reason. Come up ... taking a gap year. My hope is that you will at least consider, just for a moment, taking a gap year (read on for details). If you are a member of the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  It’s the terror of knowing Ten dollars for my thoughts on grad school.

  

  , but we'll see what I think when I wake up tomorrow. For now, I've been ... thinking about doing for grad school?" ...and the emphatic answer is I DON ... for the one-semester class 10.26: Project Laboratory in Chemical

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 20, 2006
• Blog / How to MIT

  Wandering through the Infinite 3.5ish years of wandering MIT, squeezed into like one month

  

  things that caught my eye. The Infinite, for those of you who haven ... of traffic to try and catch up with them, and then inevitably promise ... day to go to the Stud for quarantine meal plan food. [carousel image1

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • December 22, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  Life Lessons From Pistol Class But they don't buy pajamas / For pistol packin' mamas!

  

  . Here are four life lessons from pistol class, typed up (ironically) while ... , Mike verbally directs our warm-up routine: "Remove the magazine. Replace ... with a very familiar soundtrack: my brain knows what's coming up, it has

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 7, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... way into the lobby, pausing for a moment to catch my breath, a puddle ... , the next, and then - slipped. Crutches flew up, legs flailed, landed

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / Athletics

  Fall Sports at MIT Roll Tech!

  

  day for my classes."  Men’s soccer student-athlete: "I wake up at 10 am ... dining for lunch, each team welcoming its new first-years and catching up ... team championships, and lead the [annotation note="This stands for the

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 15, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  my semester in a word: oof or perhaps "oof: the party, the lifestyle"

  

  concept. for the final project, we get to play around with (or come up with ... ! wish me luck! hopefully i'll come up for air sometime soon. ... 't have much to show for it, except notably a fat C in 6.006, MIT's intro to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 14, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Semester II: v. hosed tl;dr: *loud screaming*

  

  preregister for a bunch of them and hope you get into one), so I wound up in ... plan for, this may not actually end up happening. A Cappella I finally ... .03 happens to be a requirement for both of those options, so hopefully it

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • February 14, 2018
• Blog / How to Human

  at the South Asian Youth Initiative a New Haven adventure

  

  /11/23  8:16 am - I wake up and start to get ready for our panels in the ... Battell Chapel for 'Up Close with Sima Taparia.' There is a moderator asking ... their dining halls so we go to one for lunch. We catch up on classes

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • February 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  How to miss deadlines at MIT Policies for late assignments, and ways to keep your grades afloat when life inevitably happens

  

  I had to wake up again for a mandatory-attendance class. I don’t know ... . *sleeps for 13 hours* So I ended up just doing the pset during the ... per day for work handed in late, up to a maximum of 20%. Which in my

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • October 12, 2016
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture [annotation note="21G.S55: Japanese V"]class.[/annotation] I woke up early that morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Taking 3 math classes this semester as someone who isn't a fan of math

  

  intelligence, which means that I'm signing myself up for a ton of math. It ... consistently meet up with my former roomie Nora, so psetting for this class ... amount of logic and reasoning. It's satisfying to see things line up with a

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • October 3, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  papurgatory I am demolishing my print budget and my solitary working habits

  

  myself up for this SuperUROP, and they gave me the freedom to choose where ... papers for [annotation note="seminar in advanced undergraduate research"]6 ... floor in despair and baking cookies for my [annotation note

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 17, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  up dropping my UROP--a story for another time--I started cooking. A lot ... at making actual food. It usually ends up being a lot more [annotation ... nutritious meals up my sleeve. If all else fails and the hosage monster gets me

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Everything Everywhere All At Once a free early screening from lsc and a q&a with the directors

  

  popcorn and refreshments which was really great and so many people showed up to watch the movie! As for the movie itself, I sobbed like a little ... movie since I think everyone should see it for themselves but this movie

  • by Cami M. '23
  • March 29, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Regular-ing Or: Over-justifying how much I eat out

  

  one of the guys working there comes up to me and says. “Caroline, right?” I look up and he’s holding this cup. So I’m like “Yeah, that’s me ... at a restaurant here in Cambridge! This might not be a big deal for

  • by Powers '23
  • January 26, 2020