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  Sophomore Fall Goals So you can bully me when I write a post saying they didn't work out

  

  , and then I'll fall asleep at a desk. It's ruined me. Wake Up Earlier Maybe I'm fully able to wake up early if I need to. I've never struggled with waking up to an alarm, and once I'm actually out of bed, I feel

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • August 11, 2022
• Blog / MISTI

  pole dancing and punching things trying out new classes in Copenhagen

  

  yourself up far easier. I thought the issue at hand was my grip strength ... yourself up with your legs and body, keeping friction between yourself and ... fight class. Everyone looked confused. Then we paired up to fight, and

  • by Amber V. '24
  • July 16, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  a peek in a week of my summer trying to enjoy it while it lasts

  

  have tried multiple times to fix my sleep schedule and wake up earlier, but I usually end up waking up between 10 and 11 AM. I even pulled an ... sometimes we end up talking before or after the prayer for an hour or more

  • by Kidist A. '22
  • August 30, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  love or lust

  

  would think about the other things i enjoyed, worry that i was giving up ... altogether. but as i came up with ideas for my thesis and thought about ... those beautiful moments when everything seems to line up perfectly and you

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • October 18, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting en route to North Carolina Sectionals vs. Midterms

  

  of itself, but preparing for that one exam--and finshing up my other ... evening. My short ended up going well. Aside from a minor deduction on ... practiced. I ended up getting a personal-best score and tied with the skater

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • December 13, 2016
• Blog / Challenges

  Broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken I'm broken (but not actually)

  

  could barely make it up the stairs I was in so much pain. I promised to go ... moved off campus. More on that another time. We went up to one of the ... everyone that I was okay, and I tried to get up. I couldn't get up at first

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • November 8, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Waterfall Camping in Shenandoah National Park Snakes and fireflies.

  

  reminded us to string up our food away from our tents, in case it drew ... pulled up. Survive bear encounter: check! A couple minutes later, we ... his own son's face," we cruised up to a high flat area called

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  . Actually, I take that back. Two of those days were taken up by a wedding ... clown threw up on it." You get the idea. There are classes and clubs and ... : white. I could wake up in the morning and think: "what do I feel like doing

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  price that you end up paying. In short, this is my brief, informal guide ... final day of freshman orientation, you can sign yourself up for as many ... Live, install it, and open everything up. What if you don't know how it

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Athletics

  Learning more than just math MIT will help you discover other decidedly non-academic passions too.

  

  probably the light bar on top of someone's jacked-up pickup truck. Driving ... whole way up. Which is why when I found myself out in Oregon for the ... up for one last hurrah and I set out to do it. To scale Monkey Face

  • by Chris M. '12
  • September 3, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Boing! Boing! Maybe not the best writing ever, but the pictures are awesome!

  

  ! The Moonbounce showed up Saturday morning, all wrapped up and deflated ... you could end up looking like if you bounce on a full stomach. After ... wind held the toilet paper up against the netting. We took the

  • by Snively '11
  • November 24, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  A Woman and Her Lute An epic tale across three centuries. (includes poor fanfic-style prose)

  

  up!" An attractive young woman clad in a white cotton dress nudged the ... . Wake up! Wake up!" The woman grasped his shoulders, and started shaking him fervently. "Ay, Luciana! Va bene! I'm getting up now..." Yawning

  • by Chris S. '11
  • September 25, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  *witty title here* (Guest Entry) You want awesome? I'll show you awesome!

  

  attic- I'm unprepared. It's not entirely my fault though, I've been up all ... our flight is a blur, mostly because I slept. When I woke up, we were ... friends finally showed up to the hotel.   roughly 3 a.m. Thats my

  • by Snively '11
  • April 21, 2008
• Blog / MISTI

  A Day at the Races Read this entry. It will rock you. I promise!

  

  up the extra day that I had hanging out on my Eurail pass and take a ... I need to dew was to trek up into the mountains of Switzerland and see ... ), having picked them up in high school through a mixture of Christmas

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 26, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts from Science Bowl 🥣 a story about now-nostalgic times

  

  the round began. My heart rattled in my chest. Toss up, physics. A ... together as we discussed the bonus question I had won for us. Toss up, energy. Bonus, energy. Toss up, chemistry. Toss up, biology. Toss up

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 30, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fun things I’ve done lately! life isn't all being hosed

  

  doing, and this is that post! Here's some of what I've been up to :D 1 ... ="82504" image3="82506" /] 3. Spinning poi I took up poi spinning as a hobby over ... apartment. I really liked it and I've been keeping it up with it during the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 8, 2022
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Chalk of the Week chalk art at the welcome center

  

  This summer, I got a side gig to put up chalk art in the Welcome ... . Every week, I've been putting chalk art up on one of the boards, as well ... pain if they saw Tim the Beaver dressed up like a magical Japanese

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • July 27, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  . Tearing up a little as my parents dropped me off, napping the flight away ... 't it be so funny if I got Caragay to pick me up at the border and drive ... what if you picked me up at the border like at niagara falls i could

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / People & Identities

  OUTRAGED. #ican'tbreathe

  

  wake up every morning to reminders that you once had less rights than a ... and cloaked bigotry at every turn, and waking up every morning to hear ... ): “...tell your friends to pull up.” This is not just a black peoples’ issue

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • May 31, 2020
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  My Freshman Journey with Internships or: i get rejected a million times in a row

  

  night before by cleaning up my resume, albeit not very well. The next ... chemical engineering company that had replied to me that wanted a follow up ... understandable. It was also around this time that I just started to give up in my

  • by Cami M. '23
  • May 16, 2020