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• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  things. A lot of it has to do with the fact that I filled up my account to ... couple things: not picking my clothes up off the floor (no roommate, no mom ... suite cleaned up last night; pretty suite), and not watching my bank

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Return of the Frog Queen Okay, it snowed this morning, end of story.

  

  , as the remainder of this entry should prove. So I stayed up until 5 AM ... pass out into an incomprehensibly deep sleep, waking up only occasionally ... it. So whenever I end up having an interesting dream, I do one of two

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Numbers are names too What, you don't speak entirely in numbers at your school?

  

  questions: What is up with the whole abstract course nomenclature? Im sure ... numbering system because Campus Preview Weekend is coming up soon. I love CPW, and this year I signed up both to host a prefrosh (it could be you

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 17, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No time for your stupid question. A posthumous entry about the Ig Nobel awards.

  

  , I mean, it's actual free money. As a result, most people end up ... . So, to encourage bonding between floors, the housemaster set up an ... nation's economy (by ensuring that people actually get up and go to work

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 15, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  So who is this Laura person, anyway? Hello and welcome to the single coolest blog on the entire admissions website. My name…

  

  . There are just 2 things I would like to clear up. Number one: New Jersey ... ) and I have horror movie marathons where we stay up all night watching ... friends. Now, one last thought before I wrap up this first entry. It's a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 7, 2005
• Blog / Events

  2026 ring premiere! and what led up to it!

  

  months leading up to Premiere, RingComm had been moving in silence ... ."]toothpick holders,[/annotation] blowing up balloons and fluffing up decorative pom ... dress rehearsals and setting up decorations. All that was left for the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • March 28, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Winter Sports at MIT a sneak peek of: swim and dive, squash, and men's basketball

  

  As it gets colder and colder in Boston, things are heating up on the court and in the pool as MIT Winter sports continue to ramp up. Here are ... athletes have at MIT is pretty vast, especially because Greek life is made up

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • February 12, 2024
• Blog / Admissions

  I Miss College Application Season The Good, The Bad, and the Casey Jones

  

  I couldn’t get myself to write.  I miss signing up for college campus ... would show up after work with pizza or cookies or whatever small town fast ... Father Song, and Solid as a Rock, and TGIF. I miss Picking Up the Pieces

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • December 31, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  Walk Across Rhode Island 12 hours, 33 miles, a million aches and pains

  

  his mates realized that states up in the North East aren't all that wide ... they swore to never do it again. This time they rounded up some 40 ... like 2 hours before we all had to wake up before dawn to pile onto the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 14, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  every day it gets a little easier but you gotta do it every day, that’s the hard part

  

  as well give up now, right? during the fall and winter of 2020, i ... sf and got my first close-up glimpse of silicon valley culture. i ... , where should this Lakers team end up by the end of the year? B: Exactly

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • May 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  me, existing one day at a time

  

  up entirely—so I ignored it as much as I could. Which was hard, because ... piazza notifications, but the bio list is always filling up my inbox ... willing to learn. One of the people I talked to, Matias, ended up reaching

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 2, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  bricks up was not fun, but luckily MIT movers existed, so I made sure I took just my lighter luggage pieces up the stairs since I have the ... . Instead, I decided to unpack everything and set up my whole room the day of

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Residential Life

  Life on Campus? remastered 2021

  

  I loved living in Macgregor. Every weekday, I woke up at 6, brushed ... teammates to start warming up. By 6:50, I would be perched in the coxswain ... . Sometimes, we would row long and slow all the way up to Watertown, and even if

  • by Alex M. '21
  • February 8, 2021
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  sundays in the parks with friends a post title based on a musical based on a painting

  

  friends for each trip. I also ended up getting a ton of photos ... then swung back up to the Fenway Victory Garden, where Shuli and I ... Samuel Eliot Morison, so I searched them up—the former was a prominent

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • October 15, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  My First Semester at MIT a thicc recap and a look into our conversation

  

  ups and downs, ranging from failing my first college midterm to becoming ... signed up for the EECS-job-mailing-list as well as the Game Lab mailing ... night and woke up at 7:00. It was really nice. Then I came to college and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 18, 2019
• Blog / How to Human

  “Take care of yourself.” "Can you post something positive please?" - my mom

  

  intake, I follow a good, healthy sleep schedule, I keep up with [annotation ... , staying up until 3 in the morning just to get one more page in, one more ... Women This is a pretty big one for me actually. I grew up really hating

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 19, 2019
• Blog / Residential Life

  [guest post] from the vault: hall exchange notes notes from a hall exchange in 2017

  

  house. instead of studying 6.857 notes like i should be or writing up the ... streamer literally quit when they messed up (#SPOILERALERT) Best Picture and ... whiteboard, pictures hung up on the walls. even with a meal plan, agent jynnie

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • March 20, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Why I Love Taylor Swift I finally explain the reason...or at least try to...

  

  critical time in my life, growing up, separated from my family and in a high ... . Now, a common rhetoric that arises whenever Taylor Swift comes up is ... Grow Up. I can’t listen to Never Grow Up for long without tearing up

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • June 6, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  “Failing” at MIT for the record, this isn't

  

  that makes you tear up a bit during graduation. Or maybe the story has ... finish the very first PSET. Up, up, up the stairs she goes, and it’s go ... through the five questions that make up the exam and realizing they can

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • November 2, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  StartMIT: IAP for Entrepreneurs Like with anything else, it helps to learn from the best

  

  goes when it’s not tied up doing psets. A lot of people participate in ... accepted. To my surprise, I got in, and I signed myself up! Best decision so ... ago in our shoes, was made up of a majority of women. While

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • January 26, 2016