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  The most beautiful class schedule yes. good

  

  predict that those late nights you’ll be up doing work till 4 a.m. will ... ” made me think about the nature of them. I ended up reading like 20 books ... forces me to get up in the mornings, but I think (with dedication) I can

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • February 3, 2016
• Blog / Events

  Beantown, H-Town, Blue Hills, House of Blues With cameos by home, beatboxing, and happiness

  

  was MIT's Family Weekend; my parents drove up from Philadelphia to visit ... have a lot of relatives living in Boston. I ended up spending the bulk of ... began, we stood up to do an icebreaker: Say your name. Make one sound you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • November 5, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  #scretious and bunnies!

  

  catch up. To start off, I’m completing some blog post requests from ... to the bushes, never catching up to befriend them. Day or night, we ... time to catch up on that, as by the MIT Law of Conservation of Frosh, I

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 11, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Jupiter’s Moons, Doge, and a Tub of Icing how to CPW from Yuliya the Undecided HS Senior

  

  stayed up until midnight yesterday to review the MIT CPW (Campus Preview ... , but have a “20's Burger Bonanza.” Together, these make up the 600ish ... following up with Tangled at 4 am (after a Seven-Eleven store trip for

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 6, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  Behind The Drones the making of the pi day drone delivery video

  

  , last October 5th, Loren and I met up on campus with my uncle Andy and my ... some drone footage. We set up in the loading dock beneath the Stata ... degree. During his freshman orientation, Loren and I met up to talk about

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 1, 2015
• Blog / Challenges

  Life, IHTFP, and Everything answer: 42 (and snow!)

  

  I’d never stayed up later than 4 am during school years. I had eleven ... fall semester, the fuel from Orientation leaked, and I couldn’t keep up a ... , things would improve. Even sooner than that, I would catch up on sleep

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Do You Wanna Build A Snowman? And thanks to an awesome friend, I built my first one!

  

  . Thankfully, MIT never sleeps. So while I was up last morning at seven a ... —was up and about. Suddenly, he burst into the kitchen excitedly, saying ... up a thick clump of snow and flung them at Kevin, but they scattered

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • January 25, 2015
• Blog / Life after MIT

  One new blog, three post-college thoughts just popping by to say hello

  

  in the morning, up a hill, past a castle, into a forest. Then I take ... followed up on a friend's suggestion to read American Gods, finally ... about the skills that I use as a scientist, and how lucky I was to wind up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Touring an IS&T Datacenter, and How My Dad Crashed the Internet I promise they're related.

  

  up through floor vents inside of those cordoned-off areas, and chills the racks. Hot air exits the other side, and rises up into the AC intake ... guidance. In the decades hence, he's built up a huge collection of stories

  • by Danny B.D. '15
  • November 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  up for. McCormick, Simmons, Baker, and Next houses all require that their freshmen sign up for at least a “Basic 14” meal plan, which includes ... meal plan or not. However, regardless of the price, I signed up for the

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Re-Froshening A Story of Cynicism and Optimism

  

  time off from MIT. I ended up attending classes at a local university in ... mode - did a little work, chilled out a lot, ended up on the Dean's List ... took up the hobby of exploring the ocean. I spent a weekend with hippies

  • by Piper '13
  • August 10, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Imbibing the Nostalgia Punch More akin to jumping on the bandwagon than drinking the kool-aid in that it is…

  

  washing machine up stairs? why doesn't my apartment have a pot rack?), her ... preserved here in overwhelming clarity. A warm fuzzy feeling wells up in my ... triumphing over evil at the end. I grew up in part reading this particular

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  MIT: Round 2

  

  transportation and city planning in a few weeks. I am rushing to finish up my ... . Finishing up undergrad was the end of an era, and I knew I needed a break ... work are looking a little daunting! I have a few more adventures up my

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summer Classes (or, Gettin’ Classy) I made a series of Biology videos about blood and learned about digital education!

  

  . There were 13 display screens set up in Lobby 10, one for each of our ... either confirms you were right or clears up what you got wrong. I guess I ... , that's mostly what I've been up to this summer--odd jobs on top of one of

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • July 31, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Hwæt! Did you know that you can study Old English at MIT? The language of Beowulf and J.R.R. Tolkien's Rohan

  

  will be lost when you are old. We shed as we pick up, like travelers who ... up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short ... can be lost to it. The missing plays of Sophocles will turn up piece by

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 9, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Catalogue of Fridays Like the unsolicited kind you get in the mail, but with more pictures!

  

  , November 22nd Waking up on Fridays involves quite a few glassy-eyed stares ... to wake up two and a half hours earlier than usual without collapsing ... up and it’s nice to know that there’s an entire group of people out

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 10, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Milk, Cookies and Dangerous Secrets Somewhere at the cloying helm of exponential senselessness (weird post incoming)

  

  visible. Up ahead, he sees the lights from a gleaming building. Maybe a few ... wealth of disciplined persistence he’d built up over the months had come ... action and build-ups of pressurized gas? Maybe they would have kids, little

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • October 29, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Two Truths and a Lie Because we all definitely love playing icebreakers

  

  be.  You could be too.  Or you could be something else.  It's up to you ... get up nice and early but I will have misplaced my MIT ID and not only ... , MIT kids are human beings. Go ahead and open one up – we have the same

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 17, 2013
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT.01: Intro to the Institute, part 1 And maybe a problem set

  

  ? Eternal freedom. No homework. Staying up past midnight every night. The ... this unusual freedom were rife with extravagant eating, curling up in ... of the Institute keeping my morale up. As my gap year drew closer to

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • September 8, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The second-to-last first two days of class Having classes 3 days a week rocks.

  

  totally a deliberate choice. How does that end up happening? If you ... department, and the two sections share the same material up until past the ... how these choices of mine hold up over the semester.

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 6, 2013