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• Blog / MIT Life

  Let it snow What I did today instead of sleep for 29 straight hours.

  

  through until 9 AM Monday, when I have to get up to get ready for my first class of the week, and in so doing I would catch up on all of the sleep ... . Unfortunately, I woke up around 1 PM anyway and was about to go back to sleep when

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 4, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Psetting in Connecticut Tales of my trip to a figure skating competition

  

  take a nap. 1.5 hours later, I wake up and start frantically packing. I ... suitcase. Oops. I end up just looking through my notes and thinking through ... for bed.   Thursday 9:45am. My alarm wakes me up, and I snooze

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • November 29, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Eating Studio Ghibli Foods 🌾 At a mini-restaurant pop-up by MINCE <3

  

  Ghibli themed pop-up restaurant, organized by [annotation note="a cooking club that hosts pop-up restaurants around campus, with a unique theme and ... extremely excited when I heard about the upcoming pop-up from Gilford T '26

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • March 11, 2025
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Alumni Barbecue I love living in a place with so much history!

  

  whipped up sign-up sheets for all our hall members to help with cooking ... food!! Kerry N. '14 and I stayed up really late the night before the BBQ ... ended up lasting us over a week!  There were potatoes and salads and green

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • October 6, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You win some, you lose some. day in the life.

  

  11-12. This morning I woke up at 11:10, rolled over and shut off my ... night I stayed up til 6am purely out of habit. For the next hour I read ... wrapped up in my blanket, with JP licks curled up next to me. There was a

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • October 23, 2008
• Blog / Classes

  How many MIT students does it take to figure out how to rotate a cube? (More than I’m proud to admit)

  

  up in my room playing the new Legend of Zelda game instead of exploring ... object around two axes of rotation – left-right and up-down, each in 45 ... no sooner had I picked up my pencil than I heard a notification ping

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • October 29, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT campus lost power! Updates from a blacked-out physics colloquium.

  

  just put up some tensor notation that I've been learning recently in 8 ... I happened to find myself looking at - OH, WAIT! He just brought up ... used, and gradually pick up on vocabulary as you make your way through

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 29, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Hitting Rewind on 2013 a summary of posts I never ended up writing from IAP till now

  

  months ago...which is terrible. Senior fall ended up being a little more ... consulting externship ended up being the perfect way for me to satisfy that curiosity - and it didn't hurt that the MIT alumnus I got matched up with was

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 18, 2013
• Blog / Athletics

  MIT XC, looking sharp In which Maggie unveils the most awesome flowchart ever!

  

  today I’m going to shake things up and show you what I’ve got up front ... -captain and fellow blogger Maggie drew up: You see, after every away meet our cross-country team goes to, our coach has us shower and dress up

  • by Alina G. '11
  • September 20, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Things that Scare Me 1) Mornings.2) Psets.3) Exams.4) All of the above.

  

  . And now I somehow have to get up at 7:30 AM five days a week. (If you ... your chair. He spent four years waking me up at 5 AM for school, which is ... last three weeks, since I'm pretty sure I won't get up in the morning

  • by Keri G. '10
  • February 19, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Scientist Questions of science, science and progress.

  

  . Let me back up. As you may already know, this summer, I'm working with ... , meant waking up at 6:30 in the morning. Let me repeat that. Six-thirty in ... quite reasonable time to wake up - and, really, it wasn't that bad. But

  • by Paul B. '11
  • June 2, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Mystery Hunt LiveBlog Coming to you live from Mystery Hunt (Last Update: Sunday 5:04 PM)

  

  just been absolutely crazy and I'm just waking up from a power nap. I don ... to see if you can come up with any bright ideas: Odd One Out Or maybe ... , I'm playing Ricky Martin's "Shake Your Bon Bon" in order to wake up

  • by Bryan
  • January 18, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  The Abominable Snowman If you can't see the Yeti, make the Yeti.

  

  hitting Boston, I called up my friend Dan '10. "Did you hear about the ... courtyard, and most importantly lots of snow! By the time I woke up the next ... be made into snow fighting artillery. When I met up with Dan in Killian

  • by Melis A. '08
  • January 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Attack! My war diary.

  

  year, because MIT is out there to switch things up and do things people ... hopefully you're up for it. As you may or may not already know, it's kind of ... length of time. You end up bundling up so much that you can't actually

  • by Snively '11
  • January 4, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  MOUT Training Exercise With UNH ROTC [by CDT Vikram Mittal] When UNH asked our battalion to supply people to act as…

  

  from ideal, and the ride was a bit shaky. The cadet next to me vomited up ... mountains of New Hampshire. We landed at the prison, and quickly set up our ... a small shack with another MIT cadet where we set up an ambush. It

  • by ROTC
  • December 17, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Fall Travel Days 2+3: Westchester County Part 2 of my Fall Travelogue.

  

  considered "sleeping in." I got to sleep in yesterday. :-) Woke up around 8AM ... (always take things like the Hutch instead of 95, trust me) and ended up in ... hour traffic), I picked a direction randomly and ended up in Scarsdale

  • by Ben Jones
  • September 21, 2005
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Let the Rush Begin On Greek Life at MIT.

  

  fraternities and 5 sororities. The fraternities make up the Interfraternity Council, and the 5 sororities make up the Panhellenic Association. When I ... or the media often portray them as. I, myself, actually ended up

  • by Bryan
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  a compilation of creative projects creativity? at MY institute?

  

  Among the many classes I took this semester, I ended up taking two ... .[/annotation] In the process, I ended up doing a variety of creative projects ... anything, and I ended up being assigned to two duos—“Maria, mater gratiæ" by

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • December 16, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  sunset/sunrise swiftly flow the days

  

  sleep schedule is still quite hard. On the other hand, being up late has ... this sleeping catastrophe really started. I stayed up that night until 3 ... later. This pattern continued throughout the rest of the week: staying up

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • November 18, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  back 2 school

  

  carried all the boxes i'd packed into storage up five flights of stairs, and soon my room was home again. and it's quiet, classes starting up and catching up with old friends and easing back into the rhythms of mit. i

  • by Allan K. '17
  • September 10, 2017