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  hey kids you should apply there's still time!

  

  Sinus pressure and general malaise have prevented me from typing up ... time to build up enough courage to send important emails. I just feel ... application just because I was scared of screwing up the interview. I didn

  • by Abby H. '20
  • December 4, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  York. It was a bust. My team left halfway through and I gave up trying to ... MIT 2017 was the perfect time to let loose and code up my first blockchain ... . Saturday, September 16th. I woke up early in the morning and waited three

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Grace Hopper a celebration of women in computing

  

  into Lilly C. '17 at the conference, and she was willing to write up her ... in their workplace to stand up and be recognized. I was really surprised by how many women stood up. Although I had been aware of these

  • by Piper '13
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 1: Quito Old Town The hostel, the basilica, and Embarrassing Spanish Attempt #2

  

  structural integrity, and circled up spiral staircases. You know those ladders ... reached. The staircases and ladders took us up to beautiful views. Of course, the feeling of being up there can't be captured on camera, but here

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  Deadlines and Habits Staying sane

  

  , and the possibility of a full-time job; occasionally, it comes up for ... or fellowships, so let me bring you up to speed: Astronomy Graduate ... will hopefully lead up to an assistant faculty position, then (hopefully

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 19, 2013
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  help clean up. There were less than 24 hours before the barbecue, and I ... signing up to volunteer, or e-mailing me offering their support. i ... , following the Shaw's trip. My body is not designed to get up at 5am. To my

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The First Year (In Numbers) This belated post was written in English and with numbers, the Institvte's nth language

  

  classes up in 100 words or less: 5.111 - Principles of Chemical ... , we constantly drafted up ideas for short films in an informal setting ... try something new, but it was hard to keep up with those assignments on

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 13, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  , coming up with some ideas but telling myself there would more time during ... shown, two made-up words are stated. The video cycles through different ... . Each has two big buttons, and when both are pressed, the box lights up

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I have such cool friends! A guest post by a good friend of mine from my undergrad days.

  

  -founder, Chris '09, and one of my other friends, Scot '08). They founded a start-up ... freshman hopped up on idealism and tech-romanticism does: I got a UROP. In ... by spending that summer setting up a computer lab for a primary school

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • March 10, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  So Long, So Long, Front Foot Leads the Back One Go on, and it won't be too soon...my Texas road trip (Part 1).

  

  first time, which was fantastic. I actually met up with Louann, one of my ... is already teaching AP English classes. We had a great time catching up ... into the shower, allowing the hot water to wake me up and wash the

  • by Mikey Yang '05
  • October 17, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day in the Life… [Biochemistry] Life as a biochemist at MIT and Cambridge

  

  up some experiments, let the ones that need to run for awhile incubate ... and tiredness finally catch up with me. Nap, embarrassingly, because the ... . 6pm - about 10pm Finish up things for the day at lab. On good days

  • by Cambridge
  • May 1, 2008
• Blog / Athletics

  Bang! Update [3] Gotcha!

  

  to take a quick break from studying for physics to finish up this post ... packing up, thanking Army, and loading onto the bus. Before we left, however ... ," Bwahahahaha. What I ended up with was a one-pound burger that was absolutely

  • by Snively '11
  • January 25, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  One Extraordinary Week, Plus Ferrets I suit up for surgery.

  

  crazy, fun, and/or ridiculous things I've been up to this past week. To ... players all ganged up on me. I was so close... (By the way, I just lost the ... . =) Played in an Assasssins' Guild game, where I ended up trying to conquer the

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 14, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Our mother shoulda just named you Laika! Come on Alex, you can do it.

  

  my friends made up. It's also apparently a term having to do with ... had to look up Laika on Wikipedia because I wasn't even a fetus in 1957, when Laika the Russian space dog was sent up into space as the first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 25, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Then and Now The two are remarkably similar.

  

  short, you're screwed. Ease and dexterity won't be showing up anytime soon ... MATH CLASS HOW WILL I EVER END UP GRADUATING AND FORGET THE DOUBLE MAJOR ... 're ranting, so you shut up. You sink to Kris' floor and struggle some more

  • by Keri G. '10
  • January 26, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  My Relaxing Weekend Did you ever hear about that whole firehose analogy?

  

  fact that I was up most of Thursday night struggling through my 18 ... was good because I was up bright and early on Saturday. I showed up at ... judges for the presentations. So I basically just showed up, listened to a

  • by Laura N. '09
  • February 27, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Pommes et manus Turkeys into oil, apples into beavers... it's all good.

  

  to step up and become the floor's new Apple Bake Chair (TM). No other ... competition, assuming that we'll end up winning at least as much as our initial ... pie Ultimately, none of these ended up winning anything--they awarded

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 24, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  wednesday, november 15 i wake up from a weird dream. it's five minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... stare up at the ceiling and think about the dream i just had, still a

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Robots, Space, and the Stories In-Between Using Sci-Fi to Procrastinate

  

  catching up on a lot of science fiction shows that I've been saving up during ... /10 Current Status: Finished/Caught Up Concepts/Themes: Interplanetary ... ="117048" /] Pluto Richie Rating: 10/10 Current Status: Finished/Caught Up Concepts

  • by Richard O. '28
  • July 30, 2025
• Blog / Challenges

  a hackathon, a marathon I went to MIT EnergyHack!

  

  [/caption] That night, we holed up in Josephine and Rick’s lab, munching on ... ="83036" /] The next day, bright and early at [annotation note="Josephine showed up ... ="alignnone" width="300"] we holed up in the media lab for the night, which doesn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 28, 2022