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  The Crab Cave or: i moved to dc with friends

  

  Property Brothers and Love It or List It). Realized we needed to buy an HDMI ... to leave. My grandparents are pretty old. My dog is old. My mom ... decision. Also, it would force me to grow up and seek out that independence I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • June 20, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  style of a narrated Pokemon card game tournament, the short of it is that ... is at my doorstep. I should walk over it, because that's what most ... ,” according to its equestrian-friendly website. No horses did I see, but statues

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  not only because it is fun to see British terms like "Freshers week." It ... homeland. The reason for the commentary is a proposal to clamp down on binge ... age is 18. You can read about it here, but the basic story is: Proposals

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Summer Lovin’ Tell me more, tell me more!

  

  't flood you with pictures from Mathcamp. Suffice it to say that it was a ... , so it was actually quite difficult. A fun component to the course was ... ), then it's back to square one. In my year, I think one team had to restart

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 8, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Chang Ning District, Shanghai 上海，长宁区

  

  cultures. It took, and continues to take, a lot of time and energy--I may ... this year, one that I wrote about it in the “我没去过北京/I Have Never Been to ... Chinese at MIT. Other than English, Chinese is my most fluent language. It’s

  • by Selam G. '18
  • June 4, 2016
• Blog / IAP

  Where is Andorra? and other FAQs about my IAP Teaching abroad in a quadrilingual country

  

  those to its French counterpart, so there is a lot of cultural overlap ... , it is hard for me to express how impressed and jealous I am. Growing up ... question is usually "...What's Andorra?" It's a question I've gotten pretty

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • March 5, 2019
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Day 1: Going North Leaving the light pollution bubble to go to class?

  

  comfortable there? The answer to that is usually no, especially when your home is a college campus where events and famous people will often come to ... out to New Hampshire to do this? Wouldn’t it have been a lot warmer and

  • by Stanley G.
  • January 31, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s driving me nuts Did I tell you about the time when we hijacked a harbor patrol boat?

  

  apostrophe. So you would say "my boss' shenanigans." This is fascinating to me ... windmill. I really wish I had taken a picture of it so I could convey to you ... at its finest Supposedly it provides 1/3 of all the electrical power to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Virginia Tech’s Commencement

  

  really have is to "get used to it". Perhaps this is why time is a major ... . This is an incredibly insightful talk. I first watched it in 2002, and ... As Virginia Tech held its Commencement recently, the media once again

  • by Laurie Everett
  • May 31, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  the things i hate and what they say about me

  

  instance, it is very easy for me to hate a specific person in my life who ... expertise to write, but for now i’ll just say that i believe it is possible ... ; it’s mostly when i know for a fact that they have the social bandwidth

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 9, 2021
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody ... , it doesn't hurt to prepare essays for other universities just in case ... dining plan during college, knowing how to cook is still an essential life

  • by Rona W. '23
  • December 6, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  101 Things About Tokyo (Pt. 2) I better get this up before I forget.

  

  !" It's not surprising then, that people are buying these small octopi to ... an extended amount of time, it's really difficult not to hear about ... pretty surprising to see how frequently it occurs. 54. To prevent the

  • by Chris S. '11
  • February 5, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Road Trip—sort of.

  

  Watsonville. We went to the Monterey Bay Aquarium, which is rated the #3 ... . Here's our boat, the sqrt(2*kinetic energy/mass) -- or, as some like to call it, Velocity We woke up insanely early to go on a fishing trip. I

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 19, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fall term is already a nightmare Today I went to my second day of classes.

  

  what I'll do about that class if this is how it's going to be. Update! This is how it's going to be. Prof Belcher's schedule does not permit ... picked out of a hat to stay in his class. If I'd known it would come to

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • September 5, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Yet Another Blog Entry My expenses for the semester in pie form, topped with a scoop of IAP.

  

  short, IAP is great. (Addendum: According to Keri, it is my honorable ... Grandma used to make (where Grandma is a spontaneous euphemism for Microsoft ... only went bowling once during the semester. It just happened to be

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 13, 2009
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  to a big city. It only takes 10 minutes to get downtown from East Campus. From there, it’s an ~11-minute walk to Chinatown, State House ... piano and sax for his “college fund”; it is both a sad reminder of college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  REX at Random Hall ice cream, epic meals, water wars and turing tests!

  

  -along It's hard to overstate my satisfaction with how much this event is ... 't buy pomegranate juice without something sweeter to mix it with, like ... (Residence Exploration) Program is a way for each incoming freshman to figure

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • August 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  put in my wallet, but conveniently seems to show up when I need it: “I ... often buy parts ourselves and get reimbursed later), so, it’s nice to have ... always carries that “judging a book by its cover” risk, but it is at least

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Residential Life

  I Miss You, Random Hall my love letter to the dorm i got kicked out of too soon

  

  and devoid of art and light. I hate it. Perhaps hate is too strong a ... themselves right next to me. It was one of my favorite things, where, after a ... to be the quiet floor and instead, transformed it into something loud

  • by Cami M. '23
  • April 9, 2021
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  have to bike to Northeastern three times a week. so far, it's been a pretty doable bike ride, but it's about to get brutally cold... I still ... , it was during the pandemic, so we were buying very few things. there

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021