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• Blog / MIT Life

  A waffle house is not a waffle home This is actually an entry about modern Chinese cinema.

  

  of Music The Sound of Music went up against a bye in the first round ... 't know exactly how the runner-up ended up winning so thoroughly, but I ... was beloved by all, even though we did end up going a little MST3K on it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 16, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Save a tree… ...eat a Beaver. MIT makes me fill out lots of paperwork. Get it? Beaver? Oh…

  

  are required to take it. You sign up on-line, access the required ... results and panicked about the possibility that I had messed up the lottery ... . I was nervous that I messed up (maybe I was required to take a CI

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 2, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reactors are my friends. Four things you would never expect to find in a real MIT laboratory.

  

  a pot, grind it up, heat it up to 250 C and 40 atmospheres, dehydrate it, then heat it up to about 500 C, and BAM! distill off some usable ... meant to simulate turkey waste, which still ends up smelling pretty rank

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A quick one, while he’s away I write reviews of things that I know nothing about.

  

  's style and themes. Also, growing up only 20 minutes from Hershey, PA ... books. After running four blocks to catch up to the #1 bus, we ended up ... merchandise. H****** Coop--They had a bunch of people dressed up as Harry

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  dear past me stay kind

  

  uncertainty, trying to keep my GPA up and balancing a variety of ... person--growing up, my mom signed me up for a million different sports ... winter sport. I signed up, and it was definitely fun, but I still wasn't an

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 26, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  7 / Pressure is a privilege Training for my last hurrah, the US Championships

  

  third week of IAP. As the stress of final projects and exams piled up ... lead up to the 2018 US Champs crippled my preparation, mentally and ... internship, I still wasn't exactly sure I would compete again. But I signed up

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • February 15, 2019
• Blog / Advice

  an essay writing journey one of my MIT essays, as told through revision history

  

  end, it wound up being my favorite essay out of all the ones I wrote for ... to any Common App schools in that round, so I wound up using this essay ... Exeter in history bowl - not once, but twice. Wherever I may end up, I

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 25, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  California Love a week in the life of an admissions officer on the road

  

  ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;I woke up at 5:30AM and caught a taxi to Logan Airport for my 7:30AM flight ... of the New Yorker. I landed in LAX around 11:30AM PT and picked up my ... ;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;gt;The next morning I woke up at 6AM and began a full day of school visits. How

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 12, 2014
• Blog / Rural and Small-Town

  [Guest Post] Take Me *Home* to the Ballgame By Claire S. '25

  

  I grew up in. But it actually wasn’t until I left Missouri for college ... overnight camps during my summers for up to three weeks at a time. But ... different college. I knew MIT was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up and that

  • by Nicole Cooper
  • July 31, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Day in the Life of a MIT Mechanical Engineering UROP Student I built an underwater robot :p

  

  parts.    9:38 - Wake up really late because my alarm didn’t go off ... vibrating alarm clocks to wake up. I unfortunately set mine incorrectly and did not wake up on time. Whoops. [carousel image1="116815" image2

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • July 14, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  for change in (expected + unexpected): print(change.get_thoughts())

  

  all added up to a lot of expectations—both conscious and subconscious ... place without seasons] probably brings up way too much. I’m exceptionally ... Schedule In high school I went to sleep around 10:30 pm, and woke up at

  • by Allison E. '27
  • June 19, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tour de Frat house tours of pbe, dke, and sig chi!

  

  total! A lot of my friends ended up joining frats freshman year, so I ... further ado, let’s embark on our Tour de Frat! Phi Beta Epsilon First up is ... (Back Bay) And with that, we wrap up our Tour de Frat! I hope everyone

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 28, 2025
• Blog / IAP

  small changes feeling big my winter in Armenia

  

  't have access to them growing up. I dreamt of seeing worlds beyond my own ... project was very cute and a good means to pick up skills. The experience was fun for what it was, though an unexpected hurdle came up. Caitlin

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 17, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  notes from a week of new classes the prettiest peril of higher education

  

  of doing it logically by introducing a definition as it comes up in the ... catch-up than a comprehensive guide. 7.03 - Genetics [carousel image1 ... normally don't have that much to write, but I end up having just enough to

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • February 15, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  Learning how to be a human being, not a human doing After 6 years of adulting post MIT, these are the things I value now

  

  , partly because I wake up at 8:55am to get to a 9am class. Every morning I ... when strap my skates up to meet someone else in 15 minutes, I know he ... friends picks me up from the hospital in a torrential rain that floods

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Repilot A 10th vlogiversary for the 20th blogiversary

  

  bed in the morning...I will be cranky. So when I needed to stay up to ... habit has persisted when I need to stay up on a long road trip or, y ... . Look. I could only do so much at 2am when I had to wake up at 6am to

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • January 24, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  That rings a bell Made of brass?

  

  interviews, or sometimes just casually at work, my time at MIT still comes up ... , a man spotted my ring from another table and struck up a conversation ... Francisco, I went to pick up a robot vacuum for sale on Facebook Marketplace

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • January 21, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  The [REDACTED] Family Dinner 🥟 family matters. very tasty family matters.

  

  end, somebody brings up that we should continue the tradition of ... delight, 12 people showed up.[annotation note="Twice as many as last time ... ’m excited to see all the faces, new and old, who will show up, there to

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • November 4, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Changes that I’m making this semester wow it's already March isn't that crazy or what

  

  old pen and paper notes this semester. I'm still writing up problem ... than my peers, so I decided to make up for less experience with more time ... beating myself up over it last year, but I was right for being pissed off at

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  the pnr mindset vs. the grindset mindset pnr shall be missed

  

  extent to which I ended up adopting my friend’s terminology into my own ... on PNR,” they’d say, to be met with a chorus of denial and “shut up”s ... keep up with personal projects and care even without classwork, I’ve been

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • January 15, 2023