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• Blog / MIT Life

  Tales From Turning Twenty They range from "a little peculiar" to "utterly bizarre."

  

  before changing back into casual gear. ^ That was up there. 9. Saturday Nov 3: I ended up in an ambulance, then at Cambridge Hospital, then ... got up, because I didn’t want my last action as a 19-year-old to be a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • November 7, 2012
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Sleep is (not) for the weak Myth: All engineers are insomniacs

  

  up falling asleep during the middle of the day, you don’t absorb ... , and they also need weekends, if not only to catch up on sleep. No matter ... up until 4am Saturday morning on the internet talking to my friends and

  • by Stanley G.
  • October 24, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Frosh No More Goodbye GIRs and Intro Classes, hello course 6!

  

  'd take a moment to tell you guys what I'm up to for the semester. This semester is going to be class heavy because I'm doubling up on HASS classes to make up for a humanities free freshman spring semester. Finishing 6

  • by Natnael G. '15
  • October 6, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Dinner With Goobers Yeah food! Yeah people!

  

  Growing up, the thing that my parents were the most strict about wasn ... people four times our age), we round up the gang (I really need a cowbell ... yeah we are rebels!* Frame one: We joined up with some former 3AB

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • February 27, 2012
• Blog / MISTI

  MIT-India student interns at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research

  

  I finished up my initial stay in Mumbai towards late December, and ... picked up while staying at the institute. I explored Mumbai when ... , Telugu, UP culture, etc. I met many many interesting people. This includes

  • by MISTI Program
  • February 9, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Lazy Day Today is one of them

  

  . Bleary-eyed, I wake up a good half hour before my alarm and maintain enough consciousness to turn it off, knowing that I won't need it after getting up so ... sunburn, whatever happens to apply to you.)   Catch up with

  • by Emad T. '14
  • June 12, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Dell-icious. MIT students and the Dell Social Innovation Competition

  

  up with and entered in the Dell Social Innovation Competition. Earlier ... thing for the idea that she and her team came up with. Since (a) both ... entry, for your reading pleasure :) ~*~ First up: DevLinks (You can

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  Odds and Ends It's what's left

  

  few weeks I've felt pretty beat up. My brain feels like goo. I'm hungry either constantly or frighteningly never. I've been up in long enough streaks to feel my immune system start throwing it's hands up and shut down

  • by Chris M. '12
  • November 3, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Stayin’ Classy Workworkworkworkworkwork *deep breath* workworkworkwork.

  

  us are gasping for a break. There's a definite pick-up in the amount of ... -consuming, makes sense to me. I come up with little stories in my head about ammonia ... class focuses on developing the basic skills of a researcher: coming up

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Work and Energy Can't do the former if you don't have the latter.

  

  up late, and climbing on roofs, I met the start of school with a ... new meaning. So this week, I decided to shape up a little. By this, I ... noble intention in mind, I woke up bright and early on Sunday morning

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 7, 2009
• Blog / Hacks

  MIT is “Hacked” Ultimatum

  

  That school up the river, you know, the one with the brick buildings ... 's main entrance. As I walked up the steps I noticed a white sign tied up ... 's something hung up over the doors. It's a sign, it looks like it says

  • by Snively '11
  • April 1, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Admissions Valentine's Day Cards! Welcome to your moments of fame, 13's.

  

  even ended up at that little brick school down the road despite posing ... . Kudos, Narce. Next up is Nathan '13 of Ponte Vedra, FL, who is actually ... had to look it up on a map. I also tend to know nothing about geography

  • by Shannon M. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  flooded with eager beavers that want to eat free food, stay up late, and ... liveblog I intended it to be, but I'll throw up the first location on my ... just about 1.8 Mb and is totally worth it if you have dial-up, go for it

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Hacks

  Vespertilio No spoilers here.

  

  Harrison '11 all showed up and we picked up our pre-ordered Fandango tickets ... bar you can put your feet up on. We grabbed our five seats and settled ... the building was lit. I looked at the top half of the building, lit up

  • by Snively '11
  • July 18, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  ICIC A journey to deliciousness

  

  Harvard and MIT meet up on Thursdays for a nice bike ride to a new ice cream ... going half a mile an hour to get up it. I've never biked up a hill like ... summer! Not long after and much to my surprise, we actually did end up at

  • by Karen F. '11
  • May 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Bad Ideas ...and the universities that encourage them.

  

  Bad Idea associated with the Green Building was running up the stairs as ... really only showed up to take pictures, but I made the mistake of going on ... run by herself, so I thought, "well, what the heck." I ventured up. I

  • by Karen F. '11
  • January 30, 2008
• Blog / Events

  The Igs Where Science meets Silly. Hello Silly!

  

  Nobel!" More power to you, but here's what you're up against: In the category of ... 're capable of something worthy of an Ig Nobel? The reason I bring this up is ... hand by Mason '10 and was all set. I was teamed up with an associate time

  • by Snively '11
  • January 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Sunsets Academics at the other Cambridge.

  

  practicals where we have to 1) participate and 2) write up a lab report. Each lab usually takes around 4 hours and a couple of hours to write up ... so you end up staying up really late to struggle through the problems

  • by Cambridge
  • November 13, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The ‘Magic Paint Brush’ This is so much cooler than MS Paint.

  

  materials by "picking up" and drawing with them. I/O Brush looks like a ... can pick up color, texture, and movement of a brushed surface. On the canvas, artists can draw with the special "ink" they just picked up from

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 20, 2007
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Professors Are Human Too (Really!) My name is Eric Grimson, and I am a professor at MIT.

  

  classes and in research groups you may end up working with. We are a very ... concept, they are struggling to keep up with the workload, they didn't do as ... are chewing up time and mental energy. Too often, students assume that

  • by Chancellor Eric Grimson
  • January 23, 2007