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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Bread at Desk This entry brought to you by the letters "Sleep Deprivation."

  

  fire alarm in the middle of a deep sleep. Right. Back to what I was ... , there is the potential to create a community and find a sense of belonging ... emails like "pink lamp in 2-232" or "one and three quarters of a gallon of

  • by Karen F. '11
  • March 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  Olympic team, and he gossips about them to me). D-Entry is having a "Bacon ... with feet in the snow. Ahh, nothing more fun than a real Boston nor'easter to liven up a winter weekend. Questions: 1. Jay asked, "Hey Mollie

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / Events

  [joint post] we can’t hear you, you’re on mute another mystery hunt post

  

  accidentally trapped herself in a perpendicular universe, and we needed to power ... puzzles in the first round, and then I headed to Kendall/MIT to catch a Red ... . It was very cool to have such an MIT-based hunt, like a whole round “in

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  Maiden Voyages First years, welcome to MIT

  

  , which was covered in multiple layers of stickers. A woman who I assumed to ... so. Drenched in sweat, I tried to unbox my bedding and put it on a bed ... other bed. For a moment, we agreed to room together in Simmons (this never

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Events

  ROFLCON! ROFLMAO!

  

  wall in order to get slow internet, all I have to do is turn on my computer in order to get blazing fast internet. As such I was very rapidly ... to something called ROFLCON. ROFLCON? What's a ROFLCON? I read on: A

  • by Snively '11
  • May 2, 2008
• Blog / Advice

  tick tick tick and the euphoria of it stopping

  

  expressed being grateful to be in a city where music was like air; it was ... institute is always churning.  tick There's a constant sound in the back of my head, a whirring that keeps my mind thinking about what I need to do next

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • November 16, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer in San Francisco Interning at PlayStation Network

  

  to get practical experience in a software company before even having to ... down with me and explained to me, in a way that actually made sense, how to use git—which in itself would have justified the summer. I learned a

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 7, 2016
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  in my dives, due to consistent effort and practice. Also my sister is a ... a spot in the NEWMAC playoffs and it’s getting down to the wire! We ... court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Careers in biology Also known as "why on earth I'm applying to graduate school".

  

  undergraduate degree in the subject of your choice. You don't have to be a biology ... another "day in the life", only on a day when I have nothing to do. 2. Adnan ... 'd fill you guys in on some of the nuts and bolts of a life in science

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 5, 2005
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  Rise and Grind and Build *dolly parton voice* workin' 9 to 5

  

  ="things you'd find in a typical machine shop"]shop tools,[/annotation] like CNC ... a bit in laser cutting already, and the point of it is to minimize the ... 'd present at the end of May in a big Open House that anyone could attend

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Grades in Context Sometimes, B stands for "baller"

  

  -inscrutable concepts racked my brains to no end, had a few guest appearances in the 8 ... : because I never gave myself a break in that class, leading to numerous ... If you go to MIT, the odds are good that you'll get a B at some point

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 15, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Wake Up Calls because The Big Picture needs you

  

  . xD) 3.) No, you don't have to pull all nighters in order to finish ... these pathetic notes to the whole world and why I am painting a rather ... even. You start to think the dome is a mocking symbol of the work you

  • by Ana V. '15
  • October 23, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Slippery Slope: The Story of a Frazzled Sophomore How NOT to spend the first month of sophomore year

  

  nothing more than to sleep in a swathe of extra-soft blankets. So I did ... to write a humanities paper on fMRI usage in popular media ... tired. Tired. Exhausted. Bushed. Ready to curl up into a ball and sleep

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • October 14, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  Unity

  

  . Grades seven to twelve of my education in Nigeria were spent in a boarding ... headed by our religious studies teacher. For these six years in a cozy but ... . Early morning wakeups led to grumbling sounds and shuffling feet; a

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 30, 2017
• Blog / People & Identities

  fall semester in the form of those modern poem books you buy for $15 at Urban Outfitters

  

  desperate for sun. there was nothing to eat that wasn’t smothered in grease ... skeletal structures, glued pipes together. I can code a bit in Fusion now ... over work in the dark of my room. Better to do it in good company. This

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 30, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  and i am afraid of falling a long winded chess metaphor

  

  am just like everyone else. "You also like to be in control a lot of ... my hesitations, breaking off from the path to find me a sturdy walking ... to Mother, Mother a lot. Perhaps TikTok is to blame, snippets of their

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 21, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Knife fight with a biker gang Best blog entry EVER. If you think I'm kidding, let me just say: Gory photos…

  

  that is going to have to take a back seat in order for me to document to ... make a reference to the scene in Veronica Mars where Logan was attacked ... hole they prick in your finger to take a blood sample before you donate

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 18, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Drinking from the Firehose By: Teresa, '11

  

  education to a drink from a firehose? There is so much more than water at MIT ... to find Terminal E, and jet lagged. By that night, I was bouncing with glee and sugar in the elevator to the fifth floor. The chocolate and

  • by Bryan
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / People & Identities

  an anime fan’s dilemma am I a weeb? please GOD say yes

  

  being able to travel to Japan and stay with a host family in the summer of ... 's about a boy named Gon who wants to follow in his father's footsteps of ... shit, and also to find said father since he's a piece of trash who yeeted

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  *THE* double a room tour from an (only slightly) obnoxious duo

  

  love for a few square feet that I'll have to pack up in about six months ... the time we said our goodbyes in May, The Double was already a space in ... the chance, we borrowed a car and headed out to Cambridge Antiques and

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • November 17, 2024