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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / Academics & Research

  Questions? Answers. A valiant attempt at creating an entry that fits as many categories as reasonably possible.

  

  arts at MIT or eating desserts at MIT) : it's difficult to approach ... years. Also, I prefer to avoid it completely by (1) grocery shopping on a ... through a wooden door, which is why I chose to live in one of the non

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 1, 2009
• 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
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  ." Mitra: "Diarrhea is genetic, too." Sam: "What the...?" Mitra: "It runs in ... It was a music-filled, and unfortunately not work ... window and try to guess what's just outside the contextual frame. I wish I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  frosh thingies i couldn’t decide what to write so i’m writing about everything

  

  that I graduated from grade school. Ironically, it’s really starting to ... organizing stuff. I have tried to start using a google calendar, but it’s not ... a lobotomized goldfish, people are really nice about it, which is why

  • by Anika H. '26
  • September 30, 2022
• Blog / How to MIT

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

  

  incredibly lucky, because no one else will tell them this. Here it is: The ... on the back. Still, it got 30+ MPG, its 5spd stick shift was fun to ... a car is nice. But buying a car off of Craiglist is always dicey, and

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

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  campus for a 3-day Campus Preview Weekend.  Suffice it to say that those ... life of its own, and kind of sucks you in. But you’ll also need to be ... from the Student Center to the abode that is Random Hall. Beyond our

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / How to MIT

  How to Choose a Laptop for College your companion for all four years

  

  that it actually looked ugly and felt awkward to use. IS&T lists ... computer, I enjoyed fixing it and continued to mess around with it. I went ... $800 and it was as good as the MIT IS&T recommended computers but

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  It’s like a bag of sand! I go on a quest to legally obtain music and movies.

  

  you to buy things off its own website? Was there some revolutionary ... gifted teachers just said I was "special.") ...there's more to it, of ... Mission was Very Important because it took six months to complete. Also, I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • June 29, 2007
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Follow Your Intuition It will lead you in the direction of Central Square

  

  their children. It is a bit too crowded to do homework there on a ... physics books, but as she dryly noted, it added up to less than a typical ... told me it was time to move on. I don't think she realized we'd move on

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 11, 2007
• Blog / How to Human

  proof of life hmm :thinking-face:

  

  ? Is this all?” It feels uncomfortable to rotate slowly in place, without ... thesis. also the writing is not very snappy oops the soundtrack to this ... has eyes bigger than her stomach and wants to have it all, no matter the

  • by Gloria Z. '26
  • August 16, 2025
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  It is difficult for me to accept that the MIT Blogs are turning 10 ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... inviting everyone to join an AIM chat room called "MIT09." For many of us, it

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  a state of moving ny --> ma, macg adventures

  

  were recently put into mandatory quarantine. It is vital to protect the ... . Smooth and calm. It was roughly 5 hours to get from NYC to Boston, much of ... Providence. It was a bit hectic once I got to Boston because of all my luggage

  • by Waly N. '24
  • April 5, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  A Random [Hall] Sophomore’s Guide to CPW OMG! CPW! OMG! CPW! OMG! :D

  

  , double-canopy umbrella. It was, according to Amazon, the BMW of umbrellas ... . Mmmm chocolate. PooF To GO TO (Points for the Good of the Order) When it ... . Your goal over CPW is to meet everybody. EVERYBODY. You will not reach

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • April 19, 2012