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• Blog / MIT Life

  What Your Campus Wheels Say About You skrt skrt

  

  wake up at 8:50 am and frantically dash from my dorm to class. Nothing will ever feel as far as that walk [annotation note="Looking it up now ... had to come up with some ways of getting around campus a bit faster

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 20, 2024
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  In which I “get a life” again reclaiming my childhood hobbies

  

  things were coming up. It was so exciting—MIT things!! They were already ... hobbies?? As hard as I tried to think, I couldn’t come up with anything ... not touch it for seven years. I thought about picking knitting back up

  • by Allison E. '27
  • January 12, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fall Adventures a day in rhode island, maine, and boston

  

  woke up after we stopped by a small coffee shop. Rhode Island has a ... the extended weekend! I slept for most of the drive up to Maine, but we ... marshmallow roasting stick into the ground I gave up rather quickly but some

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • November 6, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  this is the real life I love in-person MIT eom

  

  pieces of problems to finish up on Friday morning. I wake up, make coffee ... cookies or brownies or mini muffins – whatever the baking chairs had come up ... Fridays, I spend a while at skooks, soaking up the sun, talking to people as

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 9, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  and gave me strong female and nonbinary role models I still look up to ... everything MIT. I miss Evelyn, an incredibly hardworking soul that put up with ... frosh, taking us out for ice cream or staying up until 3 in the morning to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  A Running Journey ft. running 13 miles in the middle of nowhere with petey

  

  Great Campus Exodus in March, I decided to pick up running again. I ... grade because I very distinctly running up the road near my house to the ... year. I've tried to pick up running a couple of times in college, most

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • October 19, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  Seattle The siren call of real adult life

  

  love the way the evergreens seem to stretch up to the sky, and enclosed ... associate with growing up in New England. There's excellent coffee, beautiful ... Boston, there's no wonder in it anymore. I grew up near by, and the city

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Doing research 277 feet off the ground A tour of the Green Building roof with the MIT Radio Society!

  

  -cool things they're doing up there. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="450 ... Boston and Cambridge from 21 floors up (we had to take TWO elevators). The ... dome (once you've hauled yourself up the extremely cold metal ladder

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • January 27, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  71 More Things to Do Before You Graduate the 101 things expansion pack

  

  .[/annotation] Attempt a Long Distance Relationship. Break up with your partner from back ... manufacturers and software cultists. Wake up at exactly 7:55 am to mentally and ... /Start a company. Think about starting/Start up. Think about dropping

  • by Abby H. '20
  • January 10, 2020
• Blog / Events

  Flu shots optimizing literally everything

  

  numbered stickers for each person they shot, going from 00001 and counting up ... residents put up: Seven thousand. Eight thousand. In fact, the last number ... the queueing system. The entire thing is a single queue up until step 5

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 8, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  College Life Changes, Described by a Frosh Yultide Day 3

  

  classes here do not teach formulas, but rather teach concepts and open up ... can no longer go to bed earlier than 1am, and waking up at 7am seems ... —when I visit, I realize that I’ll never catch up with the latest news

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • January 28, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... time to build up enough courage to send important emails. I just feel ... application just because I was scared of screwing up the interview. I didn

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... MIT 2017 was the perfect time to let loose and code up my first blockchain ... . Saturday, September 16th. I woke up early in the morning and waited three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  into Lilly C. '17 at the conference, and she was willing to write up her ... in their workplace to stand up and be recognized. I was really surprised by how many women stood up. Although I had been aware of these

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  structural integrity, and circled up spiral staircases. You know those ladders ... reached. The staircases and ladders took us up to beautiful views. Of course, the feeling of being up there can't be captured on camera, but here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... or fellowships, so let me bring you up to speed: Astronomy Graduate ... will hopefully lead up to an assistant faculty position, then (hopefully

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  help clean up. There were less than 24 hours before the barbecue, and I ... signing up to volunteer, or e-mailing me offering their support. i ... , following the Shaw's trip. My body is not designed to get up at 5am. To my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  classes up in 100 words or less: 5.111 - Principles of Chemical ... , we constantly drafted up ideas for short films in an informal setting ... try something new, but it was hard to keep up with those assignments on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  , coming up with some ideas but telling myself there would more time during ... shown, two made-up words are stated. The video cycles through different ... . Each has two big buttons, and when both are pressed, the box lights up

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start-up ... freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... by spending that summer setting up a computer lab for a primary school

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009