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• Blog / How to Human

  I Get To Blog Today! Is this meta enough?

  

  ). I'm not sure if this is something I picked up from others or if it ... without office hours or the help of others. You'll end up spending twelve ... . Understand your weaknesses. You really will end up taking a nap if you work in

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  misti musings sugar, spice, and everything nice

  

  9 to 5 gig down to a skill. Wake up, go to work, code, go for lunch ... company I’m interning at put us up at a very posh apartment-style hotel in ... . Did I fall victim to a herd mentality, get caught up in the hype and

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 28, 2019
• Blog / Class Projects

  The Year of the HASS thoughts on single-tasking, cheese slicers, and the tyranny of the mind

  

  answers down on paper because I had given up on actually understanding it ... portfolio. Unsurprisingly, this ends up being a significant amount of work ... Writing: One of the best parts of this class (right up there with the

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • February 23, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Journey back Home from PE Class photodocumenting the trek across campus

  

  ," I'm pretty happy I doubled up. Saves me time not having to cross over ... up McCormick Hall, MIT's only all-female dormitory.   It ... , as it can take a while to light up. Travel to the right down Mass Ave

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • April 26, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Day of IAP 3 Classes and Soup

  

  after bundling up to make the hike from Next House to my classes. 9:30 - normally, I end up getting to campus a half-hour or fifteen minutes early. My ... I’m there in the morning and wake up my brain for my class starting

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Expedition New England Travel That is Good for the Soul.

  

  offer. Of course, with P-Sets and all, it is easy to get caught up in your ... exhilarating to me. I couldn’t wait to get up here and experience weather that ... Portland, Maine! The Trip Before the Trip I woke up, and I grabbed my

  • by Jack-William B. '21
  • October 26, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Four days of fun! I did so much last long weekend and very little of it was productive.

  

  students can't have fun? On Saturday, I met up with a friend of mine who ... , up through a dark, steep spiral stairwell. But the view is well worth ... another day. We ended up walking over to the Prudential Center (aka the Pru

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / Events

  RecomMITted On Ring Delivery and the halfway mark

  

  finally committed the last of my code at 7:15p, and hastily dressed up and ... Downtown Boston. It was indeed a gorgeous view. After picking up my rings — I ended up going with a gold and an Ultrium companion, not an easy

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • May 2, 2017
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Glassblowing at MIT my IAP excitement

  

  demonstrated this extremely quickly—literally it looked as easy as blowing up a ... from not heating up the glass enough though, so I’m not completely ... ON MY FIRST TRY AND THEN I MESSED UP :( My cup was going to be

  • by Fiona M. '20
  • March 10, 2017
• Blog / Admissions

  Second Semester Senior What you should do after submitting your application to colleges

  

  -related activities. Academically speaking, sophomore year is definitely a step up from ... things are wrapping up, and (hopefully) calming down. This is also a time ... deciding) I received a question that pretty much summed up all these

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 22, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  MIT Inside vs. Outside How MIT changed for me after being admited

  

  another place to me. I was getting so caught up in psetting, going to ... . (*spoiler* here comes the happy climb back up :P again if you don’t like ... . I wouldn’t shut up about how much I loved late night psetting with

  • by Ben O. '19
  • October 28, 2015
• Blog / Events

  Brass Rat 2017 revealing our class's Brass Rat at the 2017 Ring Premiere

  

  ; Raivo and I were the first to come up, giving a quick talk on the history ... Comm members went up and revealed the design of our 2017 Brass Rat bezel ... numerals "MMXVII", representing the pillars of our class that hold up MIT

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 8, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Case You Were Wondering… Here's what I do when I don't do anything

  

  a short sprint away. Twenty minutes before 8 AM, I wake up to the ... start catching up on my HASS reading for Neuroscience and Society. 11 ... shameless lover of free things, I signed up immediately. The study actually

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 1, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  What are French House residents doing this summer? Writing code, making models, reading, buying comic books, eating brownies, playing Guitar Hero 3...

  

  property to keep track of how composites containing carbon nanotubes hold up ... to brush up on my French in order to take a French class in the fall. I've pretty much given up on the first one at this point (I am a shameless comic

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 26, 2014
• Blog / Events

  This Isn’t Goodbye This is see you later.

  

  I had to wake up early enough to clean and prepare for their arrival, so I set my alarm for 8am. I woke up at 11. After throwing everything ... -minute trek to campus. I met up with them at the Student Center - my mom, my

  • by Erick P. '17
  • November 19, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Ingredients for a black hole: 1. Hydrogen 2. Soda 3. Bottle Irish pub-lic outreach

  

  cluster in the dome, waiting for their turn to climb up the wooden steps and ... "accretion disk" makes me very happy) and planetary formation. He picked up a ... loves to teach. What do you do with an eight-year-old who gobbles up

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 20, 2013
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  For Newtown

  

  didn't seem as important as calling Ryan, my 10-year-old brother, up on ... MIT's Infinite Cooridor. I met up with a handful of other MIT Symphony ... community located a couple hours away. Afterward, as I packed up my

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • December 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Welcome back into my life, crutches The universe's way of telling me to sit my butt down and study

  

  . As promised, Sam showed up wearing a suit, holding a giant box of ... -not-so-Secret Santa made me a beautiful little light-up paper Christmas tree (and bought ... towels this week, or 2) suck it up and put them in the laundry. I picked

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 10, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Writing an essay using thumb tacks and arousing the suspicions of a snarky Nobel laureate

  

  some point, I felt a presence, and looked up to find Frank Wilczek ... the rest of the center, before heading home to type it all up. Another ... , typed it all up, and submitted a rough 500 words to my professor. The

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 5, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Post-Thanksgiving Post-stuff and Foodstuffs In which I'm reminded I have a life, and am thus eligible to give a…

  

  myself up less over the idea of always doing at least a fair amount of work ... ingredients, I can now vary up what I eat by whipping up the following ... , seizing on an opportunity to get me into the kitchen, asked me to come up

  • by Emad T. '14
  • November 25, 2012