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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  I didn't even know we had suitcases big enough to pack up my life and ... , there's nothing like waking up in the morning to your mom yelling about ... 's the Kicker, now that my Ante is Up stairs... "Can I Call you?" Please

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Look as good you will not Some summer reading for the nerds out there. Which means all of you.

  

  year (Burton-Conner has a free rental movie collection) to brush up on ... drafts leading up to A New Hope show a vast improement in quality ... doubles up unable to continue. Vader raises his arm and a flask on the table

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Making friends

  

  because we knew a lot of the same alums and kept turning up and the same ... know what it was like. I looked up her AIM screenname and IMed her, and ... her in person when she showed up with her stuff. She ended up living on

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.007: Where even your smallest part matters The 2.007 competition has come to close!

  

  designing the robot (coming up with strategies, concepts, modules), and ... opportunity to work through the entire design process and end up with a nice ... ended up getting 17th overall. But, the winning robots were just so

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 18, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  It’s bigger than you, and you are not me. Consider this entry the hint of the century.

  

  stay up all tonight to start and finish a stupid HASS paper." Evoking ... units." Checkmate. The victor's sub sandwich is up, he grabs it and ... before and made up half the sources. Good thing he doesn't spot-check." At

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 22, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Making it work. In which I just carry on. Where's Andrae when I need him?

  

  SB '36, PhD '37, basically came up with the idea of using spectroscopy ... significant as coming up with the idea of using a spoon to eat soup. Back in ... coming up with organic syntheses that other people had never even thought

  • by Sam M. '07
  • March 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And for my next trick… ...I'll make J.B. confess to copying the answers to Ms. Hauser's test!

  

  all. And we'll see how that goes. So, catching up on everything ever ... 's ok. (Oh, and one more thing: I pulled up the course webpage today, and ... reading, but hopefully I'll be able to keep up. The polisci nerd in me is

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summerteeth Are you afraid of the dark reaction?

  

  mentor, through bloodshot eyes, after he showed up five hours late for work ... up a change of major form for my phoenix-like rebirth as a chemical ... week, the professor would undoubtedly come up to lab to collect his grad

  • by Sam M. '07
  • February 2, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Tuesdays with Menorah, eek! A young boy, a young girl, and life's greatest lesson.

  

  -mails describing their kosher chili cookoffs, invitations to the sukkah they set up ... schedule. Oh, I'm not Jewish. My sophomore year they called me up on my ... at MIT. Anyway, the reason I bring this up is that I got to learn about

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The things that can change your life…

  

  he showed up on campus as a freshman, he was very different. Clean ... probably the reason that I ended up on 5th East, which has changed my life in ... West, then 1st through 5th East. When we got up to 5th East, we started

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • December 9, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You’re 18, But You Aren’t Invincible Impressions of my first month at MIT -- both sobering and exciting.

  

  supposed to be a priority, somewhere up there with getting good grades and ... engaged with the other half. Chalk it up to being the first time in most ... who wakes up at 6pm one day and realizes it's not a weekend, and that

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • October 1, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Pageant and pomp and parade The whippoorwill of freedom zapped me right between the eyes.

  

  to head down to the Hatch Shell and pick up tickets for the concert ... % off coupon in the Collegiate Coupon Book, which you can pick up for free ... story short, the clerk got Ruth's order mixed up with mine and instead of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ST PATRICKS DAY RAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

  

  daylightBut then you wake up for the sunriseYou know you don't gotta pretend, baby, now and then Don't you just wanna wake up, dark as a lake

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • March 17, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  place. Layers and layers have built up. I like how the less ... 'm willing to cover up for the sake of the newer ones. I got a [annotation

  • by Kanokwan T. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  I walk a lonely road and it takes a lot of time

  

  , and as I enter, the all-wood space opens up to a giant staircase that I run up, two steps at a time. The colorful squares covering the walls on ... later and later. I wake up just in time to catch breakfast, which closes

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • October 20, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  lights up offensively bright shades of neon blue and red, and the blaring ... see when you look up is sky. And the place that I am from exists less ... long.  Growing up is strange, though, because at some point things that

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  ★★★★☆ Reviewed in the United States on November 3, 2023

  

  desk[/annotation] beseeching us to pick up our packages: Hi all, The ... delivery please come and pick it up! Also if you're expecting a package and ... ordering these many Amazon packages, I’ve also ended up wasting investing

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 3, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Simmons Cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat cat

  

  make up for that loss! Like our famous ball pit and Gymmons, our ... inbox is blowing up right now with angry messages demanding that I also

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 4, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  things that are golden, part 2 a zine carved out of pink erasers

  

  would make me feel bad if I messed up. At my level of block cutting experience, messing up is pretty much guaranteed. On the other hand, a 24-pack

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 20, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  glassblowing & me a series of memories

  

  the last time in almost two years to pick up the paperweight I'd made ... text. The timeline has been moved up: now we have only three days to leave. I have three more days to live in my room. I pack my paperweight up

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 18, 2022