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  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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  of holiday-themed things around campus/Boston to remind us all to have ... . Luckily, MIT did not disappoint when it came to abusing the pretty parts of ... of lobby 7[/caption] Also in an attempt to spice up the awful, drab

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• 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 / Advice

  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 / 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
• Blog / Athletics

  sunscreen physical health and stuff

  

  decided to buy a new samsung phone, and there was a convenient feature to ... at the ripe age of twenty-one i am beginning to feel my body weaken ... am already feeling the need to wear a jacket my right eyelid has

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • October 4, 2022
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... the blog and immediately told me that we had to make it real. Despite ... folding table, a giant BLOOD MOON FEST banner, and access to the Simmons

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures at Trader Joe’s i think i might have joined a cult

  

  'm finally here to enjoy all of the great things it has to offer! For all of ... nearest Trader Joe's to campus is a quick six minute ride on the MIT Shuttle ... quarantine semester. We started a pod tradition of going to Trader Joe's every

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • January 30, 2021
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday on learning to balance growth and recovery

  

  what I'm going to do today. I might swing by HMart, buy some snacks, and ... , as a described in that post, that it's possible to overtrain both body and mind to the point where either/both get injured. That's what

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2017
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  (we just happen to be the biggest and nerdiest) (that’s just my opinion ... things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes ... himself out of spare parts as a fun project:     You have to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Post-Finals, Pre-Graduation almost done...

  

  council for the year's graduating class buys a whole bunch of group tickets to activities like skydiving or a Red Sox game, and the rest of us ... to see this year's full event listing. I only had two final exams this

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 5, 2014
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  All The World’s A Stage On theatre and artsy stuff

  

  my eyes (ears?) were opened to the glory of musical theatre. It’s second nature now to check local theatres, in this case Broadway in Boston ... limited number of as-yet-unclaimed tickets that you can buy for $20-40, let

  • by Ceri R. '16
  • September 22, 2013
• Blog / MISTI

  More entries about buildings and food Same as it ever was. I'm still single, but at least I'm in Belgium.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? According to this article, Malaysia recently made it illegal to name children after "animals, insects, fruit, vegetables or ... , Belgium. Because I was in Brussels, Belgium this weekend. if you happen to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Yes, eat all our shirts! See MIT through the eyes of my prefrosh.

  

  % student discount to good use on. We didn't end up buying anything, but I did ... Yesterday one lucky prefrosh got to be hosted by me through the MIT overnight program. Be sure to sign up early and sign up often, to increase

  • by Sam M. '07
  • October 22, 2005