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• 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 / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  take it." Which makes sense, given that we were all showing up for a ... pointers for our work. It was quite relaxing, sitting up on the terrace above ... pole on Florey a couple times, but despite living in East Campus for a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• 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 / Academics & Research

  MIT IS … reflections of a bright sunday afternoon

  

  ’ve stood in line at Maseeh’s dining hall at 12 pm for a halal burger. I ... ). I’ve woken up to emails about student deaths. I’ve woken up to emails ... much you simply just do not know. It’s building yourself up to where you

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • October 22, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hey Erick, You Awake? Not gonna call it a night just yet

  

  the semester, like staying up all night because spontaneous.   ... what it was, I opened up Twitter and within seconds found out that a fire ... browse Reddit for another hour. Then I heard Hugo say "Hey Erick, you

  • by Erick P. '17
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  off for thanksgiving). And one of those is just a rando ... freshman year we had 4 (again, not counting the days we got off for ... few weeks I've felt pretty beat up. My brain feels like goo. I'm hungry

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... class focuses on developing the basic skills of a researcher: coming up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  That school up the river, you know, the one with the brick buildings ... the souvenir racks, leaving room for one MIT shirt? That school who ... 's main entrance. As I walked up the steps I noticed a white sign tied up

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• 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 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 / 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