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• Blog / MIT Life

  500 Days of Summer (or 104 days, if you believe that phineas and ferb counted correctly)

  

  ="attachment_35685" align="aligncenter" width="300"] The sun peaking its head up on the ... - it's a scenic drive up in northern New Hampshire and perfect for a day ... and some other friends up to the roof for fireworks, and these pictures

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • September 17, 2018
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  All the Blogs I Didn’t Blog A memorial

  

  Step Up II Also been sort of keeping up with America’s Got Talent ... the same campus. Meeting up with people in the real world requires ... purpose of socializing. In contrast, on campus friends just sort of show up

  • by Taylor V. '19
  • August 14, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  up till 5 AM one night painting it. I am a very untalented artist, so I ... ; “It seemed to me like every Coloradoan had a flag to hang up in their ... years, I finally worked up the nerve my senior year to paint it over with

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  An Ode From A Science Fair Junkie in honor of intel isef 2018

  

  cyberchase was. I grew up with it. I grew up asking questions. I grew up with the living room being a place for my “experiments.” I grew up gluing ... enough background knowledge? Did I completely screw up my judging? Was I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 13, 2018
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  sleeping. It seemed to me everyone stayed up late into the night and morning ... weekend to catch up, and my roommate makes fun of me for never being up ... ’m sleep deprived. It’s awesome to stay up and have those 4 am bonding

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My 7 Favorite Places to P-Set! Eat, Work, Repeat.

  

  classes and UROPs, the homework piles up throughout the week. Also, there is ... the noise of the ground below. There is normally not much going on up ... front of a trolley tour bus that was loading up its passengers at the time

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • November 10, 2017
• Blog / Challenges

  Being Sick at the Institute the firth law of therbodydabics *sniff*

  

  ). I’ve only really caught up in 6.042 (Math for Computer Science), I ... to catch up. I’ve never been this sick while at MIT, but during my ... get a maximum of 6 hours; I’d be waking up in the middle of the night

  • by Selam G. '18
  • September 22, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try-to-one-up ... ) but I have drawn inspiration from the interwebz (looking up recipes and ... street. Afterwards, we met up with another cool person, who's in the

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  – perhaps misguided – attempt to sum it all up in a quantitative manner ... that I closed my eyes to go to sleep and the moment that I woke up. There ... . Life goal for next semester: bump this average up to 8 hours. Empirical

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  So the rest of your decisions are coming in and let's take a second to talk about it

  

  pansies sprouting up from the earth and cherry blossoms sprinkling their ... , you’re working so hard, and you’ll end up learning a lot and feeling ... good by just shutting up and listening rather than discounting his

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • March 27, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Great Expectations i've never read the book, but the title seemed to fit

  

  the orientation 15. The exercising thing just straight up has not ... -orientation program. So back in June, I signed up for the Freshman Arts Program (FAP ... activity. An MIT alum stood up in front of everyone and started telling us

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • September 17, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  do you do?  Like any good engineer, break it up into smaller, more ... loose wheels have tripped up many a top competitor before ... gravity extremely low.  It works, kind of; it's extremely slow up the slope

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• Blog / Events

  An Evening With Pizza, Constipation and Hell-Sucked Villains Written in the style of TWoP’s recappers, to mourn the website’s closing. Weird things may…

  

  thing begins blaring and blaring and oh please shut up! Anyway, I manage ... lose a life for each such word. I’m supposed to meet up with my advisor ... -Shirt and that’s fine. I’m supposed to meet up my advisor, Saif Rayyan, in his

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 24, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Being Home and Answering Questions some changes, some constants, and the end of pass/no record

  

  , and arrive home in California by noontime. I promptly called up some friends from high school to catch up over a solid In-N-Out burger, because ... drive (so you don't end up like me, 18 and unlicensed). See a bunch of

  • by Allan K. '17
  • December 21, 2013
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Bedbugs (fiction) A short story. (It would make me happy if you moused over the bedbugs.) =)

  

  , smoothing the fabric and sucking up skin cells and water and oils from between ... hear about our neighbors, and what their children have been up to. You ... ? Is that legal?” she said into the telephone. Mrs. Concord stood up

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • July 21, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Junior Year: The First Week (Originally titled "Junior Year: The First Day" but I procrastinated too much)

  

  Video. I'm now completely caught up and am awaiting the sixth and final ... - before some things that came up in my life made it too difficult to keep ... crop up pretty much everywhere. In my person

  • by Emad T. '14
  • September 9, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Chinatown. First stop: buy some fish. I walked up to a very nice hairdresser ... , went up to the counter, and spoke with the very nice fishmonger who spoke ... : ? Me: Um...skate? Man: ? Daniel pulled out his iPhone and looked up the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Art is Everywhere! [by Emma Frank '15] Public Art at MIT

  

  , any new building project or renovation allots up to $250,000 to ... ;closer.” You’re welcome. Next up is a piece that I’m quite ... when you’re trying to simultaneously listen to the guide, set up

  • by ARTalk
  • October 17, 2011
• Blog / Events

  Building a Ballpit The trials and tribulations of an impromptu rush project

  

  . The Rush Chairs commence a speech. We are getting better at cleaning up ... there was about a 2-foot square hole in the wall. By getting a leg up from ... feet long. We finished our calculations, stood up, brushed off our knees

  • by Kate R. '14
  • August 30, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Angular Velocity Saved My Life bikes and bullet time

  

  sped back up again. Ironically, I didn't go into full bullet time during ... bike continues to fall to the right, and the rear is lifting up, because ... then sort of weirdly clutched his chest at me while scrunching up his

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 19, 2011