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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Class of 2009 Ring Delivery The '09s get our brass rats. We think this makes us like, so cool.

  

  to come pick up their rings. The Class of '09 Ring Delivery was held last Thursday, and while I'm not big on getting dressed up, semiformal attire was "encouraged," so I sucked it up and put on a dress. I left

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 24, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Entrepreneurship invasion I love it when students start useful companies.

  

  So yesterday, I'm in my office trying to catch up on email when a ... of catching up, he asks me about how one takes a year off from MIT ... devote himself fully to the start-up. And he's trying to get a freshman I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 19, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Bio? My sort-of bio, but not the Course 7 kind.

  

  power crisis. My family still lives in the Bay Area, so I am racking up ... , efficiency, brown paper packages tied up with strings, pomegranates ... .C. Escher, dorky pick-up lines general dislikes: the green line, split

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Saturday at the water park

  

  my boyfriend and I ended up at the water park in the first place is ... nicknames everyone in his life.) showed up at the dorm and picked up me, Adam ... our floor. We drove up to Water Country while blasting Boston

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  a perfect long weekend in other words: i did no work and now am kind of a mess

  

  day went to setting up decorations, doing some last-minute rehearsal ... and set-up had all led up to a two-hour performance, and i really didn’t want to fuck it up. also, my parents were coming from New Hampshire to

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

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  Part of the Up-Goer-Five Game. This Eye-A-Piece, I did a lot of ... doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling ... that i ended up buying. It's called "What's the Furthest Place From Here

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Guest Post: Started From the Dorm Room Now We Here starting a startup while at MIT

  

  guys in the control room screaming with joy. I had just finished up an ... environment brimming with opportunity, I ended up trying more than just ... science--’Course 6’. So much so, that about a third of my class ended up

  • by Erick P. '17
  • February 13, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Finals Week at MIT Free food, procrastination, cats, free food...

  

  number, and the time they have to be up in the morning. Usually there is ... favorite food?). The first person who wakes up (which is usually someone who was up the whole night) has the duty to wake up the next person who

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • May 19, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  It isn’t what you know, it’s who you know The rules of the networking game

  

  yourself out there It's up to you to start forming relationships. Ask the ... of time to talk you right then, but you can always follow up with them ... afraid to speak up and talk to people. Ever heard of the elevator pitch

  • by Becca H. '12
  • July 12, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Snow On working in a winter wonderland.

  

  Though born in Massachusetts, I grew up in the wintry hinterlands of ... composite history of the year's blizzards. In New Hampshire, up in the White ... 's -51C) wind chill. A few friends and I bundled up and traipsed around the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 21, 2009
• Blog / Events

  When Friday Arrives… A glimpse into my social life, among other things.

  

  week of spring classes has come and gone. I spent last night finishing up ... awesome feeling. All that's left to finish up this semester is the final ... baked or otherwise encountered recently. Around ten, I met up with another

  • by Paul B. '11
  • May 10, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... . Unfortunately, I woke up around 1 PM anyway and was about to go back to sleep when

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  take a nap. 1.5 hours later, I wake up and start frantically packing. I ... suitcase. Oops. I end up just looking through my notes and thinking through ... for bed.   Thursday 9:45am. My alarm wakes me up, and I snooze

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by [annotation note="a cooking club that hosts pop-up restaurants around campus, with a unique theme and ... extremely excited when I heard about the upcoming pop-up from Gilford T '26

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  whipped up sign-up sheets for all our hall members to help with cooking ... food!! Kerry N. '14 and I stayed up really late the night before the BBQ ... ended up lasting us over a week!  There were potatoes and salads and green

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... object around two axes of rotation – left-right and up-down, each in 45 ... no sooner had I picked up my pencil than I heard a notification ping

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... I happened to find myself looking at - OH, WAIT! He just brought up ... used, and gradually pick up on vocabulary as you make your way through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more ... consulting externship ended up being the perfect way for me to satisfy that curiosity - and it didn't hurt that the MIT alumnus I got matched up with was

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front ... -captain and fellow blogger Maggie drew up: You see, after every away meet our cross-country team goes to, our coach has us shower and dress up

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010