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• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  , as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM ... pass out into an incomprehensibly deep sleep, waking up only occasionally ... it. So whenever I end up having an interesting dream, I do one of two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure ... numbering system because Campus Preview Weekend is coming up soon. I love CPW, and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  , I mean, it's actual free money. As a result, most people end up ... . So, to encourage bonding between floors, the housemaster set up an ... nation's economy (by ensuring that people actually get up and go to work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  . There are just 2 things I would like to clear up. Number one: New Jersey ... ) and I have horror movie marathons where we stay up all night watching ... friends. Now, one last thought before I wrap up this first entry. It's a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... ."]toothpick holders,[/annotation] blowing up balloons and fluffing up decorative pom ... dress rehearsals and setting up decorations. All that was left for the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

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

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... athletes have at MIT is pretty vast, especially because Greek life is made up

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... would show up after work with pizza or cookies or whatever small town fast ... Father Song, and Solid as a Rock, and TGIF. I miss Picking Up the Pieces

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide ... they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 ... like 2 hours before we all had to wake up before dawn to pile onto the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  up entirely—so I ignored it as much as I could. Which was hard, because ... piazza notifications, but the bio list is always filling up my inbox ... willing to learn. One of the people I talked to, Matias, ended up reaching

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  friends for each trip. I also ended up getting a ton of photos ... then swung back up to the Fenway Victory Garden, where Shuli and I ... Samuel Eliot Morison, so I searched them up—the former was a prominent

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  intake, I follow a good, healthy sleep schedule, I keep up with [annotation ... , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... Women This is a pretty big one for me actually. I grew up really hating

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  critical time in my life, growing up, separated from my family and in a high ... . Now, a common rhetoric that arises whenever Taylor Swift comes up is ... Grow Up. I can’t listen to Never Grow Up for long without tearing up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has ... finish the very first PSET. Up, up, up the stairs she goes, and it’s go ... through the five questions that make up the exam and realizing they can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... ago in our shoes, was made up of a majority of women. While

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Embracing Change How I came to be a cook in a professional kitchen this summer

  

  curl up in forever. What if I did poorly in my classes? What if I couldn ... growing up, or so I’m told), freshman year I joined a handful of new clubs ... applying for summer research positions, finishing up classes, and winding

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • September 20, 2015
• Blog / Athletics

  My IAP All the snow has melted since I took these pictures.

  

  What am I up to? My Thesis This is probably any grad student’s answer ... lot of trouble sitting still at work. I like to get up and get tea and ... bothering it and I wonder what it’s been up to and whom it is working for

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 19, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  I Wrote an MIT Application Essay on Getting a B in Calculus College Search 2KChel, how I found MIT, and how I turned the B around

  

  cultural climate in which I grew up. All those internalized standards became ... my town and we have family friends in the area who were happy to put up with us put us up for a few days, so I headed back to campus about a year

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • October 12, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  A Pythagorean Triple of Awesome Otherwise known as the weekend of the 4th of July. Just another long weekend in…

  

  for the holiday weekend, and Jen ’13 came up with the awesome idea of ... —use this information wisely), and headed home to shower up. Because remember ... just catching up. Robin took a year off last year and went to Paris for a

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • July 18, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Second Day of Class Course shopping and such.

  

  classmate next to me opened up her Google Calendar (complete with tabbed ... explore the classes that I've signed up for (but also many others which I ... , so maybe I will end up giving this a try. 1 PM - 2:30 PM Lunch break

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 10, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Third Side of Fraternities The way I see it...

  

  the different fraternities), you might end up with no bids at all by the ... something that you get just because you show up to all the Rush events for a ... . I remember staying up till 6 in the morning doing my 5.111 homework

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 6, 2008