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  American culture at its finest: Thanksgiving How my family celebrates the holiday. Plus a crash course in U.S. culture for internationals.

  

  and enjoy. As for the football: the TV in the background is set to the ... doing. They were totally unprepared for New England winters and certainly ... to explain why. Thanksgiving is when Americans gather together with

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 27, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  alone at all. Your first adjustment, then, will be to prepare for the weather. To get us started, let's go over some important terms: Nor ... canceled due to conditions that make a compelling case for not having classes

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  was to be home in December for winter break (back home, “winter” is 70 ... class). Plus, you get to machine your own flashlight out of aluminium ... bucks.  That's not including the cost of getting trained to use that gear

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  FUN Form FAQs U is for Ukelele

  

  get. I won’t have new grades by Feb. 15. What do I do?? Ya still gotta ... 250 word limit for a reason. You CANNOT use the FUN form to submit new ... pattern here?) Submit the form by the deadline, then send us your new grades

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • January 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  REXit FOMO....or JOMO???

  

  from MIT. I’m slowly getting ready to go back to the firehose; I’ll be on ... ’m excited to finally move in. I’m especially excited to be a blogger for the ... , convincing new students to join the crew team, leading FPOPs and orientation

  • by Alex M. '21
  • September 4, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Nike+iPod read entry & vote at the end

  

  Apparently opening up the new Apple store on Fifth Avenue was only enough to keep Steve Jobs busy for a weekend -- today, Apple and Nike ... enough to get me thinking about giving up my Dell and lucky Asics. If I end

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Philosophy Things liberty, property, consent - that kind of stuff

  

  and help to pave the way for the pro-market, small government wave of ... be sure, Nozick was not the first to advocate for such ideas, with ... “protection agencies,” which are businesses that individuals subscribe to for a

  • by Michelle G. '18
  • August 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Designing dead ends A look into the "misc." folder on my desktop

  

  getting used to, four years on the job. For every publication I design that gets sent to press and mailed to thousands of prospective students, there ... responsible for setting up our major publications to print (like the Affording

  • by Jeremy W.
  • September 24, 2020
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Let’s Take a Walk until orientation!

  

  ! Outside now, I wandered over to the site of the new Media Lab extension ... back. Now I'm sitting in my room, typing, getting to read a little bit ... Orientation is about to arrive and all of a sudden MIT will be

  • by Snively '11
  • August 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Calculus in Context 18.01 feels like an art history class

  

  being chose the best possible conditions for the world to exist as we know ... foreign to the seventeenth century. But for Leibniz, the two were intimately interwoven. For him, even the laws of motion and the path taken by a ray of

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • October 14, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  MIT vs. Chuck Norris Ever wonder how many math and science Chuck Norris jokes exist in cyberspace?

  

  . I hate the number 23 so I threw in 2 of my favorites to get us to 25 ... Just this morning I was reading the New York Times on line and noticed an article about a commercial that Chuck Norris filmed for

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • February 5, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Gap Year, Week 1 my plans for a year away from MIT during COVID-19

  

  for internships. I got lucky and managed to quickly get a few offers for ... get for myself and too often I'd find myself going to sleep as the sun ... I've officially been on my gap year for a week! To begin my gap year

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Bubble Bath Disastrophe (and Other Adventures) Spring break: adventures and misadventures, coming home, and MIT on the Colbert Report—twice!

  

  from Boston to New York City and another bus from New York to ... around a few blocks of New York City for twenty minutes and then arrived at ... up to the driver, asking to pay in cash for a seat. The driver reached

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 3, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Exploring Boston Frozen yogurt quests into Boston

  

  For the past few weeks, I've REALLY wanted to go to Red Mango.  I ... was Red Mango, so my friends and I would call going to get frozen yogurt going to get Red Mango.  Sadly, the closest Red Mango to MIT is kind of

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • March 31, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Living in Random Hall or: i really miss loop

  

  's relatively well known that, in addition to MIT's fervent love for STEM and ... desk we were here for the Nekomimi Cat Cafe event, to which they buzzed ... beautiful, but allows for movies to be projected onto the building next to

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 1, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wake to sleep An application to a telescope asked me why I learn and where I'm going. It…

  

  grandparents' flat was torn down to make more room for roads. I've gone to school ... getting rather long. My research experience will have to be represented in ... Where to begin? Well, in order to understand me, what drives me

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • January 27, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Dream Machine Wooden slabs and oil paintings

  

  a blog you’ve ignored for almost 6 months (!!). So welcome to my sad ... leisure. We moved the couch to a new corner, but that left its previous ... membership activation), we cut our losses and just had it shipped by freight to

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 21, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A New England Spring and what that means for incoming prefrosh (from outside of NE)

  

  ways to enjoy a New England spring and it does have its' charms, I ... weather; for me, it was either really cold from head to toe or very warm up ... tootsies with Uggs. 2.   Second way to enjoy a New England spring: Rainboots

  • by Beatriz Valdez
  • March 28, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  culture within culture i moved to east campus

  

  for me to get in. it's clean, nice, and has great communities, but i ... wanted to meet new people; i was deprived of doing so in a pandemic and ... experience," so i was willing to sacrifice some personal agency for the sake of

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • September 15, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Becoming a Mad Scientist a required class for all meches!

  

  ever wanted to see just how hot your PC can get before it starts messing ... entire semester to pursue that question by designing an experiment ... us all as freshmen, new to MIT. We are uncertain of many things – of

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • June 24, 2024