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• Blog / How to School

  Today Was A Long Day and it's not over yet.

  

  yet, here I am. My roommate is asleep. The lights are turned off.  I ... hall before it closed kind of a day. My alarm was set for 7:30 am this ... go back to my room to throw on something warmer. I'm not entirely sure

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • September 25, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  . Sushi rice: my roommates and I have a big bag of communal long-grain rice ... of us to have at least a shelf of our own personal stuff. Two of my roommates have their own shelf; one has their own small cabinet. None of them

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Time dilation to the Infinite, and beyond

  

  Every roommate I’ve lived with quickly discovers my hidden superpower ... . Accordingly, my Kryptonite is waking up super early (before 11am). I don’t even want to admit how many first period tardies I had in my senior year of

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • September 23, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Romance of Learning rainy days, language tests, and a book called Babel

  

  sandwich and a Honeycrisp apple that my roommate gave to me after apple ... I took a test early last week for my Japanese language and culture ... morning to study for it, scrubbing the sleep from my half-conscious brain

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • October 23, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.

  

  leisurely meal with my roommate. I maintain a very clean space, I’ve been ... you might find in a BuzzFeed headline. (I’ll do my best.) Since I ... version of it all. I think the theme of my first semester at MIT was

  • by Selam G. '18
  • January 29, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  This Post Has a Happy Ending dealing with obstacles @ MIT

  

  my last blog post in a desperate attempt to preserve inspiration, and ... incredibly difficult for me to complete my work.” Then I’d solve a problem or two, and the fever again would conquer my body. From that point, a

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 30, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets. QED: My own mother thinks that I have a stupendously boring life. On the contrary, I've had a stupendously excellent weekend while my sheets

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door ... alarm clock in high school - my sister always got up before me, so she

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  incremental game support group let's distract ourselves with games!

  

  Flash, by the way. Some of my favorite Flash games were incremental games ... the long waits, it's probably my least favorite game on this list ... -oriented theming makes this my second favorite game, after Universal Paperclips. Goes

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  in remembrance of my sticker collections for stickers are vessels for stories

  

  cute and therefore ended up on my laptop case. iHQ The Innovation ... Many months ago, I broke my water bottle cap. I tried to find a ... bottle. Story behind this is that I dropped my H2GO 20.9oz asi51197 from a

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 5, 2023
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  this with my roommate, we nearly set it on fire by running 60V through it ... as confident about my personality as I am about my kidneys — which just makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I should’ve started this earlier A statement exemplifying my first month as a Junior

  

  my work this semster.   So essentially, I've been hit hard with a lot of work all the sudden, and it's terrible. Ask my roommates, I ... semester, which explains my lack of blogging (not that that's unusual or

  • by Kirsten L. '15
  • October 5, 2013
• Blog / Admissions

  CP* restored my faith in the universe i read...My Immortal...with prefrosh

  

  event after seeing this shit lmaooo Anyway, my roommate and I hand ... 'm writing this after finishing my third and final CP* event, which was some of ... and wrote that my heart rate went from 60 to 144 after doing TWO

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 18, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  I Don’t Know where am i going to be a year from now?

  

  land for that long?!?"]promising my roommates we will go to sleep early ... ; high school –> college"]pretty much linear direction of my life ... think one year into the future, and there’s a fuzzy semblance of what my

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • September 27, 2024
• Blog / About Decisions

  Preparing for Pi Day MIT decisions come out this Friday: what to do between now and then...

  

  -long retreat with my church youth group with no Internet access. I also didn ... be focusing on my relationship with God), so my I gave my brother my My ... thrill of waiting for the admissions results page to load by proxy, via my

  • by Allan K. '17
  • March 10, 2014
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  friends, my parents, my roommate Liz (and Anji and Nicole three doors down ... saturate myself with sodium and MSG. It was not one of my better days ... effects is so paramount in my life that it surprises others and myself when

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Outside the box In which I start a new life at pika, etc.

  

  My top left desk drawer hates society, government, and everything ... drawer to desk every time I want to misplace my pen again. Yesterday I moved myself and three suitcases out of my dorm room, bidding soft silent

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • May 25, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  weekend to catch up, and my roommate makes fun of me for never being up ... wanted to do in life. After taking GIR’s and classes in my major, I feel ... prefrosh have a “need to find a best friend/roommate/friend group now or bust

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus No exams woohooooo

  

  my goals for this summer. After announcing to my roommates that I was ... Media Lab, (2) Going through MIT OpenCourseWare content to make my fall ... without any exams to worry about, I can now put my UROP in the center of my

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 8, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Halloweekend and the 7 weekends prior!

  

  , Pikachu, Olga the skate guard/my roommate, Portal Guy, and Princess Peach ... year been like?” Anastassia: “Oh hey, you! My freshwoman year has been ... .   Weekend 6 As already noted, parent weekend flew by and my mom

  • by Anastassia B. '16
  • October 28, 2012