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Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult
nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every ... . Sounds like a win-win to me. Maple Leaf Cookies (these go super fast) I -
Blog / Extracurriculars
Into the Sunset [by Cadet Paul Estrada, '09] My fascination with color guard, and participation in a colonel's…
has a lot to do with my appreciation for the tradition and dignity of ... to us later on, "Sure is a lot of brass in here isn't there?" When I ... the shoulder of the cadet next to me and said, "There's a general in -
Blog / MIT Life
Finals Week It's the final countdown.
make breakfast for the girls in the house before they went off to finals ... classes. For the last class, I have to write a thesis proposal.. which is ... this morning, I compared myself to a photo of Kermit the Frog drinking -
Blog / Academics & Research
A Look at Unified Engineering and the Aero/Astro Department Back in business.
to my entry #2 about bottle rockets. The pains, and gains, of being a ... are psyched about airplanes." I felt really glad to be a part of Course ... to me, while many students develop a tangible interest in math or -
Blog / How to MIT
Pay it forward I used to have a guilt complex.
QUESTIONS!" Seriously. I’m not making this up. People here love to teach. A ... 't knock. You and your friends make your best guess, and call it a night ... eagerness to help used to make me feel horribly guilty, because I felt that I -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Oh, the Places You’ll Go(ogle) The path to enlightenment is paved with Google searches.
popularity of “how to get into medical school with a low gpa” makes me want to ... -Per-Day bandwagon and pinwheeled into a rut of intense, hardcore* Googling. Or, to ... sloppy, unedited abstract to a half-dozen papers that will never kiss the -
Blog / About Decisions
MIT Regular Action Decisions Now Available Online
where you enroll next fall, please make it a better place. I know you can ... to log in to your MyMIT account. There are no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to receive your decision online before logging -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
‘Twas the Night before Finals Likely the highlight of my literary career. And some words of advice to EA.
there arose such a clatter, I sprang to my Mac to see what was the matter ... after a bit, that commotion died down, And I went back to physics and ... I went to the kitchen to make something hot. Well, it turns out our -
Blog / Admissions
Rain is evil There's only one kind of good snow, and rain isn't it.
may be hard to tell from the picture, but that's a minimum of two inches ... misfortune to be around me the last few weeks. All I do is complain about the ... . Except that it's a little bit warmer. And a lot more humid. Not nearly as -
Blog / MISTI
Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…
train to look for my house. A woman helped me carry my luggage up two ... next to me and was like, "Got a drink?" At that time I knew it was time ... company just to make sure. "Moshi moshi?..." Just from her Japanese -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Copyright, Subpoenas, and You I prefer to keep the "you" part out of the picture.
respond to each notice individually or make a note of the other notices in ... When I first got to MIT I got a little pamphlet entitled "Copyright ... and time of this activity is registered to your computing account (or a -
Blog / Academics & Research
Waxing nostalgic, in a zen kind of way I've heard of zen. This is not zen.
have a point, I swear. I will make it.) No one, least of all me, wants ... expecting you to have the answers to difficult questions, to quit making faces in all your pictures, and to know what a Roth IRA is and how to -
Blog / Academics & Research
Space Robots Here's how I spent my summer.
It's been a while since I introduced you to MIT (my way, of course ... of a blogger's life, having so much to blog but not enough time to ... Computer Science), with a heavy interest in biology. I had intended to get a -
Blog / Announcements
We are suspending our SAT/ACT requirement for the 2021–2022 application cycle as well
/ACT, or who can find a forthcoming opportunity to do so safely are ... already taken the SAT/ACT, and cannot find a forthcoming opportunity to do ... agnostic as to whether a student who has taken the exams should submit their -
Blog / Summer
five things I love about New York welcome to New York, everybody walks in New York
, quieter day-to-day reasons I love living in New York. Mostly, it’s a city ... take over. Crop tops that come to a point over the belly button only seem ... warmers might be making a comeback as August wanes into September. I love -
Blog / MIT History & Culture
Home Sweet College Surviving first semester.
to look back on all that happened and express to you a bigger picture ... inherently means giving up a little of that, and being ready to support ... would go to the gym, come home, shower, cook breakfast, and have a -
Blog / Admissions
MIT ‘10: Daniel Guillen Our football coach gets a surprise in Daniel Guillen '10.
best a student-athlete could ever hope to receive. Guillen, a four ... Wednesday. "I'm going to try to make the best of it." The 5-foot-10, 180-pound ... ) awhile back and brought a film," Smith said. "He appears to be a fan -
Blog / Academics & Research
I My Spanish adventures!
a little, and then took me to Puerta del Sol. I'd been emailing with a woman who lives there about renting a room in her apartment, so I went to ... studying in China right now, but thanks to him I already have a bunch of -
Blog / Admissions
Musings on Colorful Balls (CPW Guest Blog!) from Ramya '14!
]) Before I write about my experience at CPW, I have a disclaimer to make ... to make contact with the balls represents how much I was overwhelmed by ... Cormick!) to delicious brunch (thanks Next House!) to a spiffy hack at the Media