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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Things You Won’t Have to Buy (or spend *that* much on) This one's especially for the incoming freshmen.

  

  to get a little more bang for your MIT buck, based on things that I learned back when I was first on my way to MIT, as well as things that I ... as they are in certain directories, for free. If you need to host

  • by Emad T. '14
  • August 18, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  Life of a Black Person A followup to the amazing Black Lives Matter Post

  

  that I had to fear for my life, which was already beautifully covered by ... had to ask for the school to not put me in the lowest classes. Their ... think it would be better for him to start at the bottom and work his way

  • by Ben O. '19
  • July 11, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  The DHL Fiasco I really want to thank those of you (you know who you are) who turned…

  

  bumping threads on the third-party sites in an effort to minimize the damage ... Hi folks. Hope everyone had a good weekend. Mine was good until the DHL fiasco, but thanks to many of you, that was a lot better than it

  • by Ben Jones
  • March 14, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  How To Fumble Your Way Through MIT and Still Turn Out Pretty Okay Step 1: Fumble. Step 2: Turn out pretty okay.

  

  introduction for the uninitiated: My name is Keri, I used to write here, and as a ... funny.’ Thanks for that, Jennifer. At least I didn’t have to switch ... students and faculty, but when I clicked on your website's link to its

  • by Keri G. '10
  • August 8, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  a week of summer ft. cafes, lab, and assorted thoughts

  

  her everything, down to which hours she wrote versus worked on her ... proves that it is possible. And she does have time to go out for ice cream ... tree roots. It’s easy to fall. I skipped writing on this day. I usually

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 8, 2021
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  time was clearly marked next to the notice. For mine, it only said that ... system comes on for the pilot to make an announcement. Apparently, Berlin ... , everything is close, which allows for easy travel to different cities and

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Freedom isn’t free. ...but a biology minor is, sometimes.

  

  that uncommon." "No, parents are going to read this and be all, 'Oh good ... due Friday Fill out a form. Get a free bio minor. But do it by Friday. :) Max In my freshman year, Course 10: Chemical Engineering decided to add

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 2, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  how to be a microcelebrity or micro-microcelebrity, or micro-micro-microcelebrity, or...

  

  literally illegal for me to be on the summer payroll due to restrictions ... please feel free to get other opinions on blogging (although you will be ... in my cave for the winter. see y’all later … and proceeded to fall into

  • by Janet G. '27
  • July 18, 2025
• Blog / MIT Life

  Home on the range Dorm choice timeline and advice.

  

  for people who have decided to switch dorms. Final dorm assignments go ... 'd really encourage everybody not to fixate on one particular dorm. If you ... don't want to not get lotteried into dorm X and set yourself up for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 15, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Living Meaningfully and all the things that has entailed

  

  every day for the free lunch, biked to the wholesale coop for groceries ... ??? Should I be posting words when I have to actually be writing words for my ... California. For the first few months, I was flying back and forth to the East

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 26, 2025
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Write an Original Song (ex?)-emo kid gone rogue

  

  post. I just had a laptop, phone, and the microphone on some earbuds to ... great. It’s nice and cool outside, so you go to sit on the front porch ... YEARS to land on a writing process that clicked with me. Honestly, I

  • by Powers '23
  • June 14, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  How to Foil a UFO Abduction 1. Control your thoughts.

  

  for 3 hours on a Saturday and pay someone to let you take a test." I ... -and-answer, and I know you guys have been holding back on me, so I just wanted to ... is very common for people to stop and help you out when they have a

  • by Jess K. '10
  • October 26, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Academic Love Poetry The amount of poetry I write is inversely proportional to the amount of sleep I…

  

  the invaders gestured for her to come out to the aisle. They crowded ... House kitchen, to work on my 18.03 (Differential Equations) problem set. 4 ... . Get up, turn it off, pull out laptop, and work on reports for the Public

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 15, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Who we are All the stuff I've been trying to write since last July. It isn't much, but…

  

  lot of living groups have free breakfast on exam mornings, then ... impending doom -- you know, it's bad luck to say good luck on opening night and all that. I heard a lot of conversations on my way to the final

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 23, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  On Flying ranting and venting

  

  day (on a free ticket though – redeemed through my miles). I had to go ... boarding pass for the IAD to SFO leg (I had a layover at Washington Dulles on ... . For me, getting on the airplane early just means having to sit on the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • August 18, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer On-Campus #2 yayay

  

  for multiple robots to get to a destination. The goal this summer is to ... student, you get the chance to have free summer housing if you're hired as a desk worker. Hence why I'm living at Burton-Conner for free. Desk work

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • June 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Why We Blacked Out The Blogs and joined the SOPA strike

  

  the heart of everything MIT stands for, and what we try to do here on ... bad consequences for the entire Internet as we have come to know and ... lawsuits as long as they respond to requests for takedown by copyright

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 18, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Thanksgiving on First East – Team Bemis makes hand turkeys!! (For justice and the greater common good.)

  

  use to trace with) on construction paper. 4.) Cut along the lines. 5 ... couple of weeks ago putting their creative minds to use designing and implementing capable lovable hand turkeys. For those unfamiliar with the concept

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • November 24, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  equipped for the work I wanted to do on it, become a daily annoyance almost ... compiler, and designed a poster for my first conference on that laptop. I ... advice on the Internet and ended up bricking it, and then had to go to MIT

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  And now for the feature presentation… ...IN STEREO.Don't ask. It's an LSC thing. I don't really get it myself.

  

  feature length entry for your enjoyment. I (finally) got around to editing ... off. The drive fits, but it doesn't take much for it to slide around just enough for my computer to get angry with me for removing hardware

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 28, 2006