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• Blog / MIT Life

  Quad Life four girls become roommates, hilarity ensues

  

  paired up for their room assignments within Baker. "Want to be my roommate ... pretty smoothly until she brought up that she would be waking up for crew ... from class. We know that when we try not to turn on the lights and end up

  • by Connie H. '15
  • May 13, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT Outing Club: Ice Climbing tl;dr Ice climbing is nuts

  

  something like trying to get up cold vertical stuff using axes and crampons ... hands and feet to get up not-that-cold vertical stuff. The gist of it is you swing these ice axes up over your head, sinking them into an ice

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 23, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Making an Entrance On being helped to my feet.

  

  , casually tossed a disc around, then lined up at our respective ends of the ... , the next, and then - slipped. Crutches flew up, legs flailed, landed ... people instantly jumped up and rushed over to me. They spoke very slowly

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 17, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  roommate picked up the following gem on sale for 50 cents at the grocery market last Thursday. It passes for a can of Crayons until you pick it up ... ended up doing most of the planning and shopping. Thus, I authoritatively

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

  Fall Formal My Saturday evening.

  

  chairs, the rest of the house always pitches in to set things up and ensure ... 've set things up so that each class "works" one of the formals and puts in ... worked in the dining room being waiters. I wanted to dress up, so I asked

  • by Paul B. '11
  • September 24, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Comfort Matters A unique application process

  

  hall, but 10-250 is very put-up-with-able. A little over a month ago an ... doesn't make up for the uncomfortable seat. Red Squishy Chair The red ... enjoyable because it is HARDER THAN GRANITE! This is very nearly made up for

  • by Snively '11
  • January 10, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making Things Fly for a living.

  

  Unified Engineering your sophomore year. Mostly, you get to wake up at ... at the launch pad. Will it live up to its name? Will it make it through ... way I take pictures. A close-up: A glamour shot: Jesse explains

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Jeux sans frontieres Who knows how to have fun better than I do? Oh, nobody.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? There are pop-up ads even in other languages, as I ... year at my friend Jacob's house, as I usually do, and caught up with a ... MIT students play. Incidentally, after finishing up the games, we went

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Maine, Episode I: Hey Joe The one with the game of ultimate frisbee in the rain.

  

  hundred. However, sometimes other friends like Joe '08 let friends come up ... well as a fantastic place to spend a weekend. So, I ended up taking ... I assume to be "Be Cool" on the bus ride up and I saw a brief where

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Food

  [guest post] crumbly fruit and the importance of keeping at it by Caleb M. '27

  

  sorbet is incredibly easy to make. You freeze some cut up fruit, and then ... up, move the fruit around with a utensil to get some air and space to ... processor. You open it up. You move the fruit around with a utensil. You close

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • August 13, 2024
• Blog / Challenges

  Hold your breath my first CPW

  

  when things don't go as planned? You slip up, you forget a sentence, the ... Talbot, the lounge next to EC's front desk, and set up the projector. I was ... between five different booths, calling people to show up. Rain. There was a

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 13, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  romanticize a quiet life i want to be okay

  

  up these unrealistic expectations in your head, and you have the nerve to get disappointed when reality doesn’t match up with your dreams. you ... ghost haunting the corridors, and you make your way up to barker, the 24

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • December 28, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  I’m Awesome (at) Parkour! and other fun things i'm doing this Independent Activities Period

  

  internships, travel, take classes, and/or just have fun. Here's what I'm up to ... up with cute names for everything else I'm doing, too ... wishing that the semester would hurry up and come already, or that I could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 22, 2019
• Blog / Study Abroad

  Studying At Cambridge 101 An Expert's Guide To Tackling The Revision Process

  

  Waking Up It's crucial that I wake up early because while I won't BE ... Getting Up After the umpteenth alarm goes off I'll finally muster up the ... to catch up on all the wonderful video content the Americans have

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • April 8, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fanboying at the Career Fair SpaceX, CubeSats, and free stuff, oh my!

  

  and work for them. People are dressing to the nines and lining up around ... anyway, because, hey, why not? There's no reason to pass up a chance to chat up celebrities. I had a lengthy discussion with Aurora Flight

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  into the van as they showed up. Eventually the van was full. A girl came up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached ... ninteenth seat, without a back or a seatbelt, filling up the aisle. The girl

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Big Questions and Small Scientists The kids I volunteer with are magical.

  

  guilty for bringing such a lame demonstration, I filled up a film canister ... jumped up and down and grabbed each other and tried to climb on the table ... !!!!!" I was stunned. One kid sidled up next to me, and gazed up in awe

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Summer to Remember – Interphase or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Institvte!

  

  grades where life is at its best. Where one stays up until 4am, not out of necessity but out of enjoyment, and wakes up when it can no longer be ... particular order. While my last summer was spent cooped up in a cubicle for 40

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 5, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Talking About Dining There's been a lot of talk on campus about one thing – dining.

  

  up for preferred dining at a cost of $300 per semester, which simply ... administrators and students, was set up to explore new options. At the end of this past spring term, they came up with a plan – a plan that has been met

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • November 21, 2010
• Blog / MISTI

  This Entry is Really Long. And my pictures won't upload :(Edit: Actually, they finally did! Yay!

  

  elegant stone terraces, we trekked up a mountain, at the top of which was a ... on gyroscopes, gas theory, and Gauss’s law. Gyroscopes make up one of ... ’s really rewarding to see kids’ eyes light up with interest and understanding

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • June 28, 2010