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• 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 / 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 / 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
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  summer lovin’ 🎶 🎶 had me a blast

  

  drawn up for land or property transfer, it was monks who did the writing ... fall, new classes, a new room, catching up with MIT friends... but for ... as the solstice came around"]summer!!![/annotation]Here's what I'm up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • July 2, 2019
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  It’s Possible To Have Too Much Nutella Wait, don't go away! Hear me out on this one

  

  walked up to the counter and asked for a banana and Nutella crepe, and one ... other places to drop some dough for a bite to eat. I'll leave the fun of ... ) or sweet (if you load up on fruits and sugary spreads). So far

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 24, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Last All-Nighter on mortarboards, machine shops, and graduating from MIT

  

  The night before graduation, I was about to turn in for a good night's sleep so that I could wake up early the next day to figure out how to pack for the event under my regalia. But a fateful gchat with Chris '09

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • June 13, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Happy Birthday! 1 in 365 readers are really pleased that I remembered their birthday! ...or creeped out…

  

  blogger is honoring them for their birthday, not to mention a little creeped ... her a cake. She was in one of the dorms in West Campus studying for most ... you’re stressed. Mashing up overripe bananas with a fork is such a good

  • by Kate R. '14
  • September 19, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The story of the most epic pset ever If you correct my problem set in the comments, I will get angry. And you…

  

  to give up on the circuit problem for a little while, even if just to ... library" (fancy name for a bookcase in the floor lounge where people stash old textbooks they don't want or need anymore for anyone on the floor to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  Sick of Being Sick On being sick at MIT.

  

  stood up - woah, REALLY dizzy - aaand they pretty much took care of me for ... for MIT students. That also includes ambulance rides to and from MIT ... drew some blood to do a blood test, put me in a bed, and set me up on an

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 22, 2008