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• Blog / Academics & Research

  Diary of an All-nighter 9-5 is so out! Try um, 5 to 9...AM!

  

  rushed to the art supply store to buy materials that I didn't end up using ... sophomore slump for college students i.e. performance drops compared to freshman year due to a lack of motivation…or something. But I don’t think it

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • September 30, 2010
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it ... are you prefrosh? Long time no talk, although some of you got to enjoy ... visit from the MIT police before our party's ultimate demise). I write to

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A word about the humanities It's sort of a long, multi-section word.

  

  fruitless cycle of (1) going to Borders, (2) intending to buy the novel, and ... a way as to cause e.e. cummings to weep in his grave. As an MIT student, I devote at minimum ten hours a week to thinking about the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  My mother called me this weekend to ask if I was washing my sheets ... have remained stupendously unlaundered. A few minutes ago, I began to chronicle this week's adventures and realized that I was about to write a blog

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  College must-haves My advice on what to get for college!

  

  can buy from Bed Bath & Beyond or something) to make it easier to ... , thanks to free nights and weekends, I actually get to keep in close contact ... friends and neighbors if they're looking to sell. 3. Floor lamp and desk

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 2, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  savings from my paper route and went down to the local hardware store to get things to hand-wire a computer. I used doorbell wire, nails, light bulbs ... organization in Philadelphia, and I ended up getting a scholarship to M.I.T. I

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Summer School's out for it

  

  managing so far. I think I'll have to buy quarters soon though, finding ... 't used to be very social, I lived in the middle of nowhere and was very ... to find ways to occupy my time, they found me. Trips to Boston, chillin

  • by Snively '11
  • June 27, 2008
• Blog / How to MIT

  Gallivanting with Gilles or, how I learned to stop worrying and love the MIT Mailing Lists.

  

  often find occasion to derail the discussion of extracurriculars and athletics at MIT in order to share with attendees what I believe to be the ... , How I Came To Own and Love A 'Wagon For The Little Old Lady Who Lived In

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 4, 2010
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Chocolate!!! The MIT student group The Laboratory for Chocolate Science is featured in today's Boston Globe.

  

  have the bank account to only buy good chocolate," Hawkins says. But not ... Laboratory for Chocoloate Science. According to their Wiki, LCS can be ... (LCS) is a student club dedicated to spreading the appreciation of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • April 8, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  I felt the sudden urge to write something tonight. I wasn’t sure what it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to ... students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Events

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

  

  decided to buy my own Hubway pass! MIT subsidizes the price for students, so ... recently graduated and is now working in the Cambridge area. We decided to ... things to see. There's a lot to see in Boston; we only got to two of these

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 17, 2017
• Blog / How to MIT

  “Learning To Learn At MIT” guest post by the plaz

  

  hour. Around dinnertime, I ran back to Baker to buy dinner, and then ran ... to Learn at MIT. It's about - surprise! - learning to learn in the MIT ... details may be specific to Plaz, the overarching message - time management

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 24, 2011
• Blog / Blog Projects

  letter to my 2023 self from: 2024 janet

  

  I write two letters to myself at [annotation note="the keen-eyed will also observe that this is supposed to be a letter from 2024 janet and it is currently 2025. i'd firstly like to say that i ACTUALLY started it

  • by Janet G. '27
  • January 2, 2025
• Blog / Events

  I Survived Week 1 and All I Got Was 10 Lousy T-Shirts a pack rat’s post-orientation reflections on miscellany

  

  something to hold me over until I could buy regular food. That box of granola ... You know, it’s not every day that a person chooses to move to a ... ’s worth of orientation events that you really should go to. Why? To enhance

  • by Abby H. '20
  • September 13, 2016
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  compiled a packing list for students here, to be used with caution. Some ... essentials for you the student to pick up at the store through Pack & Hold ... campus. -- a swimsuit, if you wish to beat the required swim test and

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Tying up some loose ends On getting old and doing things I hadn't yet done in Boston. Also, hot dogs.

  

  So I just submitted my first-ever RSVP to a wedding for people who ... college's sister's uncle's first wife's second marriage, but to people I ... in the face with an arrow. (That's not really relevant to the fact that

  • by Jess K. '10
  • May 20, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... lot of things I was going to blog about. I was going to blog about all ... happened, except this great road trip I took to Elizabethtown College with

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  What did YOU do this weekend? Laura's jam-packed-action-filled adventurous fin de semana.

  

  around the room and up and down the stairs to tell Becky and Sam. Why ... out... Friday night Sam and Becky and I walked into Boston to have a ... most of it for her. We hurried back from dinner in order to make it to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • November 14, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  A Cautionary Tale of Two Students You may be surprised by how many first year students at MIT believe that they…

  

  which the hero goes it alone to kill the bad guys, and avenge those who ... surprisingly is the number of students applying to MIT that cling to that ... to have gotten into Yale law school solely based on his own efforts

  • by Bryan G. Nance
  • November 22, 2006
• Blog / CPW

  the two sides of CPW CPW as told by a prefrosh and an upperclassman

  

  ). This involves bugging people to run events, buying them all the stuff ... forgotten to buy cheese :P which prompted one of not two, but ... 2023 this year. She also happens to be quite a good writer, so we decided

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • April 24, 2019