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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Why did the engineer cross the road? Maybe there was a cape for sale on the other side

  

  of advice:  smile :) I wrote this entry a few weeks ago, but wanted to ... not to take life too seriously. As a senior, I’ve been on the prowl for post-graduation opportunities. This means talking to the career

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • December 14, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’ve got Mail! And a LAPTOP! Why I can breathe again, and the 10 most recent emails in my inbox.

  

  a few times to me. One of these was when I was in high school and ... upperclassmen gallantly agreed to give us piggyback rides. Eventually I decided I ... attempted to propel myself off his back, except that with my knees roughly

  • by Kim D. '09
  • November 17, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Seminar Advising There is nothing funny about this entry...but please read anyway.

  

  Alright, folks. Let's get down to business. Buying cookies and arguing about peanut butter are frivolous, if funny, activities. I'd like to dedicate this post to my experience so far with academic advising at MIT

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  These are a few of my favorite things Silver-white winters that melt into Newbury Street shopping.

  

  going so far as to buy me a poofy pink ski jacket ("There. Now you look ... minutes, and headed out to Boston for some happy sunny day shopping. (Key ... the Boston Public Gardens. There's more to see when there's not snow on

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 22, 2006
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Yay for cheap stuff Inexpensive books make me happy.

  

  says that now she doesn't have to buy it. See? April gives me food, I let ... . Basically, they try to get rid of all of the overstock and damaged books, so ... with them. I decided to take advantage of this, so after sending my

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  always ask my parents to buy me jellybeans during Ramadan. I would stay up ... medication to kick in. This time was feverish; I felt as if my consciousness ... , I think, is universally agreed upon to be an age at which you

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  's like a house google doc, but better :) G - To-Buy List This was a bit ... My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... whatever random topic came to mind, funny quotes taken out of context

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by the gallon. In fact, it's hard to buy it in anything smaller than a ... . :]" Yeah, sooooo, I'd love to, but see, most of the words that my new Spanish

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Mondays and Tuesdays and the Spaces Between A few days in my words and a break in someone else’s.

  

  buy juice (the one flavor I’m not allergic to). We split up somewhere in ... . At some point I take a break to go to Shaw’s with Cory and we buy ... (totally intentional) distance, I want to tell you about four days this past

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 27, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Out of Context Quoteboard SFW for the blogs, unfortunately

  

  shoes." "I'm going to be really annoyed if I have to buy a dominatrix ... that people say on a day to day basis, whether they are drunk or sober ... that is surviving an MIT semester. The concentration of emails sent to

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 25, 2021
• Blog / Challenges

  MIT Medical: A Freshman’s Story Worth sharing.Worth reading.

  

  various annoyances related to buying medications from a very small, very ... nation, and I believe incoming (and prospective) students deserve to know ... compilation of links to some of MIT's many student health resources at the end

  • by Paul B. '11
  • August 14, 2008
• Blog / Events

  Oh the Places You’ll Go! Did you know Dr. Seuss was a SigEp?

  

  outmaneuver any NYC taxi. The Motherland. I woke up last morning to the slow ... gaps in the blinds. I rolled over, and realized - to my delight - that I was back in my "own" bed. I half expected my sister to open the door

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 27, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Boston Rain With apologies to Tay Zonday.

  

  picturesque, and fun to play with (or in), it even can serve as a metaphor for ... running around trying to taste a few. Which makes me sound like a fifth ... room, not to mention three (count 'em) umbrellas. In case you're curious

  • by Paul B. '11
  • January 12, 2008
• Blog / IAP

  Seen and Not Seen I wonder, twice, if I might have made a similar mistake.

  

  Chocolate Science's Chocolate Tour of Boston Ever wondered where to buy the ... How To Love Him" is remarkably similar to that of the second movement of ... same sequence of notes. There is so much I wanted to do for IAP for no

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 24, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  (This was originally going to be one entry with the grad school admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I

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

  what your favorite study spot says about you badly stereotyping places to work on campus

  

  a cursed follow up to this post. note that these are based off general vibes and probably hold no truth to them whatsoever !   Plant ... . you might procrastinate at times, but you definitely know how to get

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
• Blog / Challenges

  whiplash feelings from yesterday

  

  november 29th, 2022 10am: you attend nano lecture but are unable to ... somehow always manage to feel burnt out at this point in the semester, regardless of how many classes or commitments you have 11am: you decide to try

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 30, 2022
• Blog / People & Identities

  in wonderland hello from the number side

  

  . I've been known to say things like "Well, I'm fairly sure that I have ... makes my tendency for already-nebulous statements even more nebulous to ... (thing is true) but why? I go to MIT 100% (or so I've been told) I get these

  • by Alice L. '24
  • October 16, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Chasing Success idk what that means anymore.

  

  really just me trying to work through my t h o u g h t s ... back, head laid down on desk seemed to have a 1430. Each turn down the ... thrown into the ring. Did we study hard enough? Buy the right study guides

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • August 5, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Where is my mind? In Northern California, Munich, a tent in New Hampshire, and an oreo-flavored soft serve machine.

  

  , like there's a quote from The Unbearable Lightness of Being to describe ... 've got six days to choose a grad school. I've got it narrowed down to the ... 't only have to choose a place to spend then next five years of your life

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 9, 2007