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• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  back to sleep, and after checking my phone for five minutes, I get out of ... doors to the rooms were open, and the light was streaming in from the ... guess happens when people keep pulling in friends they want to live with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  my shattered laptop in the midst of pre-finals season

  

  there. When I returned, I was surprised to see someone in my seat. I ... audacity to sit in a seat that's clearly someone else's, but could sympathize a bit since he came in late and was just scrambling for somewhere to

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • December 7, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Day of Classes Published exactly 4 weeks after the first day of classes. My bad.

  

  mathematician, he means that he took 2 years to get a Ph.D. in pure theoretical ... handwriting. In sixth grade, Megan P. sat next to me in science class and had ... penmanship now bear little resemblance to Megan's. And I can write much more

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 2, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  Reasons I haven’t blagged… hint: "I'm Busy" isn't one of them

  

  or two of some idea that I ‘keep meaning to get back to writing’, I ... ...inspiring. I mean yes, I could go to that talk about “In Vitro Vascularized ... all have the same amount of time and get to choose how we spend it. We

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 29, 2017
• 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 ... and used to let my cat in and out when I was away, tumbled all these plans, only to build loftier ones in their place. As we reminisced over

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

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  government) asking if we wanted to host a community barbecue in our dormitory ... how to grill. I needed people to help carry all the meat in, and store ... fortunate coincidence) so I was able to get the individual house presidents on

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  GET A BIKE very important psa

  

  "]Lobby 7,[/annotation] so if i needed to get to a class in Building 16 by 10 ... get to MTC in under five. WILD. this is so revolutionary for me ... with my ~beautiful new bike~ in hand. reasons why i didn't want to get a

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 28, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  get to look towards the right and soak in the beautiful Boston skyline ... scribbles in my journal, but to the world. I get to share the blessing I have ... today. I get to be bold in choosing what to write about. I get to be

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  .86 in Euro. Then, in reference to the quote, "When I get a little money, I ... in my last entry. I wanted to title this entry "Now I'm a little boy ... 't get to go around Europe hearing about people's awesome jobs and taking

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living the MEng life same, different, same

  

  decorate the living room and what kitchen utensils to buy or get rid of. In ... team, a little overwhelmed, nagging each other in the chat to get their ... semester goes on; this post is my attempt to get them all organized and

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • October 27, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Struggles Starring a broken scanner and the Urban Dictionary

  

  ! Once the scanner gets fixed, another post shall materialize, filled to ... work. They make no efforts to spare the gory details. In comparison, my ... , but that’s beside the point) I found myself sitting in front of my desk

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 2, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  More Psets! This starts out artsy, but I promise it's going to go downhill really fast.

  

  trudge through the rain to Sunny's, the greatest breakfast joint in ... property to put off writing about last semester even longer in favor of the ... of classwork this year. In theory, one unit corresponds to one hour of

  • by Evan B. '10
  • February 7, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  back in east campus jiggity jig

  

  i moved back to east campus last weekend, and to continue the kinda ... slightly less smooth than last time, because i had to carry boxes up three ... helped with transportation again, and i had the foresight to distribute the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • February 13, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  I am a hapless klutz Stories about Nobel laureates.

  

  , April, I had to hunt elsewhere (we're moving to a new building in October ... dropped my ice bucket. (Luckily it didn't spill, so I managed to get out of ... was cool in the first place, to sit and listen to Professor Sheng talk

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  FREE FOOD! FREE FOOD! EVERYWHERE!! AM I YELLING??

  

  , I've already returned my MIT mug to the Coop. MOM: THAT'S NOT FUNNY. Okay, so, in retrospect it may not have been the best idea to freak my ... . After we toured, we were put in random order from 1-136 and allowed to

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Photographic evidence Warning: trig ahead.

  

  while part of me desperately wants him to get the girl, he’s way too good for her. I mean, don’t get me wrong, I basically aspire to be Veronica ... So I thought I’d show you just what I was talking about in my last

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 10, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Get It Done Keep On Keeping "On"

  

  you must get in touch with your alumni interviewer by October 20th to ... in a play, and organizing a student rock concert to raise money for the ... love to do - great. But sometimes you need to just take a nap in the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 10, 2010
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  old. You do not need to finish every problem in the Big Game to get to ... I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... to make the numbers add up right in many different ways at the same

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Hi, My Name Is: (insert name here) name my newest pet and win BIG! prizes and fame included!

  

  night in November, the fish all died and my mom had to get rid of them ... what they were getting ready for) Now I've had pets in the past, but ... ended up getting a Beta Fish. Pictures I managed to snap anyway

  • by Bryan
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  -packaged Indian food and high fiber cereal at 3 AM in the morning, and I survive to ... Killian on the last day of orientation in order to be photographed and ... friends in New House at 11 PM to sprint past Dorm Row, down the Infinite

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008