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• Blog / MIT Life

  SEPTEMBERRR Don't read this entry. Read the one under this one.

  

  to die! CVS cashier dude: (I'm trying to buy Tylenol) Well, I need to see your ID. "Uh...." "You need to be over 18 to buy Tylenol." "So ... does that make me? I grew up in Taiwan but I went to an American school

  • by Chris S. '11
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  silence :-) Plan: Buy a radio transmitter (range ~ 30 ft) and put it on our ceiling. http://www.hobbytron.com/digital-fm-transmitter.html Buy ... living in a double), it does have its perks (I can drink juice from the

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  that new HDTV is! I may not have the money to buy it, but, hey, I do have ... -new adult, FCU is a good place to start. If nothing else, use it to buy a ... -- never buy things for which you can't immediately pay (if you can help it

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Where does one buy MIT textboooks? The Coop definitely sells textbooks ... . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam wanted to buy Brain Age for his Nintendo DS. He won; we bought the game

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  staying warm on a budget is that it's all about layering. Not only does this ... around $30 on sale at J.Crew, or cheaper at H&M.  Buy a few, mix and ... apart after a winter is a waste of money. You don't have to #Buy

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future ... : The T subway map is artistically rendered and does not actually reflect

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  to have Verizon at MIT). Cingular does seem to offer better rates on ... much better place to buy cell phones or get service, just let me know and ... numbers. If you already have a cell phone in your hometown and buy a new one

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  . However, tracking expenses does take mental space and time to sit down and ... , which means less buying and more saving. Being aware had a concrete ... away shows that I don't need the amount I'm buying. And while the traffic

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  software that you can use for a free 30-day trial or buy for about ~$25 ... buying exactly what they say you are buying. In fact, there are even a ... does what it says it does. Almost everybody I've shown it to in person

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  should consider buying if you come. So, without further delay, let's get ... , what does MIT recommend? If you go to MIT's page of Recommended Laptops ... can buy a Macbook Pro, dual-boot it with Windows, and then install Solid

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  rooms. How does one go about lofting a bed? Do they need to buy anything ... and fulfilled. Jessie does three, to my knowledge: student government ... dear, yes. I mean, I don't know about you, but I buy a lot of things

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  transportation exists. The Caltrain exists, so does BART, and a dozen other ... that I get to expense things, so it doesn't feel like I'm buying things with my own money. On the other, it kind of still is buying things with

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  steps down. It does mean that you can cross the road anytime you want to ... at home. There’s a concept called tingi, which is buying and selling goods in really small amounts. People buy oil buy the cupful, or

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  freezing. All it ever does is sleet and snow. All this to say, I have been ... Table and buy as much as I can hold. Then, I cross the street and enter H-Mart, where I buy overpriced snacks and an absurd amount of Bok Choy. I adore

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  does have a dining hall (Baker, Simmons, McCormick, and Next, for those ... and buying all of your other meals gets really expensive really quickly ... in a dorm with a dining hall requires that you buy into the House

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... : "Sending out an SMS! Sending out an SMS!" The camera does some kind of weird ... !" And now every time you hear The Police, you will want to buy a Verizon

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  to let me know. Or I could just smash the other one and buy some more ... rimmed or coupe? Does it have any cutlery marks that can be seen under ... opportunity for me to buy a new, ultra-trendy, well-engineered bowl from the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They ... aren't rational!) So anyway, I ended up buying a pair of shoes, plus the ... : (Actually, I think they're pretty ugly, but as Sam said, "Does Manolo Blahnik

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Cool running Well, it's warm running now, but just wait about two weeks.

  

  can probably use to buy a comfortable chair for my room from the online ... 'd been debating about buying an iPod Shuffle for a while just so I'd have ... end of "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" kicked in, and I was just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 5, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  let it out.  But — where does my climate go? My desert, already on the ... by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023