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• Blog / How to Human

  Useful items to bring for dorm room

  

  which to furnish their (or their student's) dorm room. While I am not going to list obvious things, like soap and shampoo, I want to say that not everything needs to be sent from home. Some folks think they need to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 1, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Day 0: from DC to Quito A rough morning, a long nap, and a kindly neighbor

  

  , we opted to buy a bottle of water, which somehow cost $4. A Dunkin ... January 10 On the plane from Panama to Quito What a goofy ... out to dry were still SOAKED, and applied the hairdryer treatment with

  • by Anna H. '14
  • February 4, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to the New, Part 1 Seeking adventure.

  

  “secret spy missions” with my sister (we put our ears to our parents' bedroom door and tried to hear what they were saying). In second grade, I started “The Digging Club”: I led two friends to a patch of grass on the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 28, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  -averse but also terrified of heights, but it turned out to be a fantastic idea ... room to my right swayed with me, and so did the world four stories down at the open window to my left. I was terrified at first, but some time

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / About Decisions

  wait for it for those awaiting decisions

  

  skill. Check out these 21 ways to upgrade instant ramen. Buy holiday ... 's over a week for you to flail, refresh College Confidential repeatedly ... schools around this time, and it can be super stressful to see everybody

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

  8,726,400 SOS: The Conscious Subconscious guest post by a fellow '21

  

  initiated me into the 9 to 5 world, something I thought would be easy. At the beginning of this initiating process there was a lot to get used to and a lot ... enjoyed my time, but it took the beginning weeks to appreciate it. Here I

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 13, 2018
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  sweat* I know you are counting down (consciously or unconsciously) to the hour of the decision release. Many of you will be glued to your computer on Wednesday or do things to distract yourself from your computer. I

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  decided to start something. This one’s about how jaded I am about buying ... waking up at 10:30 AM everyday to nothing but enjoying sunshine, pointless ... forward to the alarm ringing at 6:45 AM. I drive an hour to work – which

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  On Wednesday, 70 degree weather spurred MIT students to sport cute ... , with accumulations of 5 to 8 inches of snow expected. Meanwhile crude oil ... of fresh water is waning. There are several natural reactions to these

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Killer Mike, Lupe Fiasco, and the Dancing Body of the State five gatherings of many people

  

  'm not here to get you to buy a CD. I don't care if you come to my next ... Dance at Duke, gave a profound lecture to a rapt and engaged audience. He ... on to discuss the "politically embodied concepts and dances originating

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • April 27, 2015
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  to students. You buy one (1) card for $10, and you get to go to most ... a few tabs I keep around permanently because I am likely to refer back to them often. Most things, however, are ephemeral, because I can

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hail to the king, baby. The coolest thing that never happened to me... plus, the journey back Boston way.

  

  to Coolidge Corner, buy his book, which I'd been meaning to pick up for ... in "Spider-Man" for about 3 minutes, too. Surely, you had to see ... , "The Man With The Screaming Brain," and what better place to premiere it

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 22, 2005
• Blog / Summer

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

  

  that I get to expense things, so it doesn't feel like I'm buying things ... Manila; MIT is in Cambridge, a forty minute walk to downtown Boston; and ... 5 million people. Both of these are small compared to the Bay; even

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  merch to buy; there's no thumbnails with his open mouth and eyes about to ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... , to become a resident tutor at Harvard, I missed the lemon, so I got

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Personal Projects

  The Oreo Post i tried them all* !

  

  real food I had intended to buy. I found that the peanut butter was too ... tier (not good enough to buy, but I would eat them if offered): vanilla ... In July 2018, in my application to be a blogger, I left a note at the

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 29, 2023
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie ... iced teas. I generally tend to drink whatever I buy really fast, and this ... make sense to say what I have been doing and what exactly has been

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / How to Human

  A Picture is as much as Ten Hundred Words This is in fact a story that does have pictures.

  

  doing up-goer five, I had the idea to take pictures instead of struggling to write stuff. Here are some pictures and how i feel about those ... went to that baby college down the long water road. There's a lot of

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • January 26, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is ... -related anything is the sheer range of supplies you get to use! Although all of the above goodies are complementary with the class, I still need to go out and

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Back in MD Summary of the end of the year, and a look ahead to the summer.

  

  single, and I do not have to use the Saferide or MBTA. Yes, I am home ... , highlighters, and practice exams, buying a breakfast sandwich from La Verde ... I subject my body to can be justified by the increase in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • June 5, 2006
• Blog / Uncategorized

  eat food to live cook food because why not!?

  

  to say… we had to send a lot of photos to figure out what to buy. And ... still on campus, however, we do have two things to help us cope—✨the power ... college students + staying up way too late = everything from cookies to

  • by Allison E. '27
  • November 24, 2023