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• Blog / MIT Life

  Sunday in the Park With chemistry

  

  :00 . . . that's AM, in case this isn't clear, which it probably isn't to my ... Boston, drowning in an exhilarating expresso of sunlight and sharp cold air ... prior to my nap. All in all, it wasn't a bad way to wake up, suffer a

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 26, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  with free food you want to go to in your CPW booklet. A sleeping bag, and a willingness to sleep in things that are not beds. Not homework ... stop by Random Hall (and I happen to be home, and you recognize me) I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Lot Can Happen in 365 Days 8,760 hours of work, sleep, and play

  

  wasn't getting out of campus enough. I knew I wanted to start a company ... I saved to travel and pursue my goal of getting myself out there ... plane for a Phi Kappa Sigma conference and spent a week getting to know my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 31, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  food and cold pizza that I found in the Student Center, having gone to ... much to say in this entry other than to give a brief update of how my ... , with medical school acceptances in hand, ready to begin the next chapter

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Travelogue: Part Une Trip to Bath and meeting an MIT professor thousands of miles away from MIT

  

  assignments, I decided to take a break by traveling to Bath in Somerset, UK. I ... and walking to the Cambridge train station in sub-zero temperature, say ... cold, but still!) Then I took a train to London at 6am and another train

  • by Linh V. '13
  • February 16, 2012
• Blog / UROP & Other Research

  UROPing research, science, and throwing big funnels in lakes

  

  , or, in some cases, freshman year.  The differences meant little to me then. I knew I wanted to get into a lab at some point, but I wasn't in a ... . There are other ways to get UROPs, too—one of my friends cold-emailed a

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Physics in the MIT No bacon apple pies here.

  

  in order of importance if you don't have time to answer them all. It ... UROP in the Plasma and Fusion Center writing scripts to decipher NASA ... . After one month, I started to think in MATLAB instead of in English, but

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 1, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

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

  

  first one to wake up. I curse the morning air for being too cold to go 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

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

  A Three-part IAP sababa* in more than one way

  

  great time to bond with teammates and get some sun in the middle of a ... Old City in Jerusalem is exactly the type of place I love—easy to get ... (other than that stubborn Israeli cold). It was great to get out of the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • February 17, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  being able to shut the door and get a good night of sleep. (Or, point in ... 's nice to get in early, get everything done, and get home around 3 PM. And ... , which will take a lot more thought and I will get to at a later date

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry ... to run in. But it’s getting closer, and each uptick in temperature is ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  getting rather long. My research experience will have to be represented in ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me ... that made all the difference in the world to me, or none at all

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The sun is out but why is it so cold outside?

  

  went to rehearsal for the final project in dance, played in a badminton ... . Dupont Gymnastics Room Today, I went to get a drop form signed and fell ... actually enrolled in, and to a pretty good degree of certainty we think we

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 20, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Emily Levesque- How megastars evolve Emily spent the summer of 2004 conducting astronomy research at the Kitt Peak National Observatory…

  

  participates in the concert choir. Finally, in the future, Emily plans to get a ... to be in attendance. Emily's connection to outer space is not the ... meter telescope to observe 74 red supergiants, which are massive, cold

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 20, 2005
• 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 Boston and Beyond

  Snow! there is (was) snow and it's freezing (or is it?)

  

  , I realized that it would probably be in my best interest to take the ... might reach 55 degrees. And then it'll probably get cold again, and then ... I returned back to campus on December 29th, and as the Amtrak

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • January 9, 2016
• 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 / MIT Life

  Tetazoo Goes Camping An adventure to the top of a mountain and a little cabin in the woods

  

  around the fire to take in the heat on the really cold night. We all ... hiking in the snow. My car on the way to the cabin consisted of Duncan T ... arrived with her car full of people. She brought us up to the tiny cabin in

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • September 20, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  in the world of sleep statistics.) 2. It really is better to get a ... to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... the going got tough. And the going can get tough in a lot of different

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  d-d-d-d-drop date late is good sometimes

  

  the one that gets sent to people"]internal transcript.[/annotation] In ... many hours and in one more hour (it's midnight rn) I will drive to ... -necessary, non-lecture classes to get to on Tuesday. This was my first year not

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 27, 2018