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• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Campus Activities What to do while not learning.

  

  't have tons of time to do fun stuff. I was digging around on my external ... never blogged. For some brilliant reason I decided that the gallon challenge would be a fun activity to partake in. Not familiar with the gallon

  • by Snively '11
  • September 3, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Our nation’s greatest injustice I didn't exactly grow up in poverty, but socioeconomic inequalities have featured heavily in my…

  

  mom couldn't explain the rationale for this discrepancy to me in the 7th grade, I declared my ambition to one day run for a position on the ... detail that each student's "home" school district is required to pay for

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 15, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  In Which I Sound Like an Old Man I'm really not that old...according to CVS cashiers, I apparently look 17 =p

  

  myself away to for the next four years. It feels slightly surreal that ... in the teens - yes, out of 100) I won't really forgive you for the ton ... garment bag around to medical school interviews. (I actually got that bag on

  • by Chris S. '11
  • January 21, 2011
• Blog / Athletics

  Happier Than Ever on quitting and long-ish distance biking

  

  annual bike auction where you can get decent bikes for prices comparable or ... that I ride around for a bit before paying for it. A bike thief trying to ... ride my bike for nearly an hour every day to speed up the part of my

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • August 10, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Thoughts On Global Leadership Susan Hockfield + others quoted in Newsweek on the topic.

  

  My mom just sent me the link to an interesting article in the latest ... , education and business to assess the challenges we face and to offer some ... that of Tim Draper, who embraces the idea of countries trying to help

  • by Ben Jones
  • June 7, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  done with the b.s. 4 years of mit by the numbers

  

  went to a rather STEM-heavy school like MIT. I think I took enough ... adjust to in-person MIT, classes for my major, a new dorm, mental health ... -traveled already. We had to awkwardly drag that suitcase around for the next week

  • by Waly N. '24
  • May 31, 2024
• Blog / Personal Travel

  If I Try Really Hard, I Can Resemble Ernest Borgnine First stop on the tour: London.

  

  city of London put it up for sale to make way for a new bridge. Oil and ... ,460,000, and the London Bridge was dismantled block by block and moved to remote ... .V. Wood, Lake Havasu City is now home to nearly 50,000 people. Stranger

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • July 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biological Engineering at MIT My thoughts, feelings, and opinions (and slight ranting) about biology both at MIT and in…

  

  depressing and could discourage you. So decide for yourself if you want to keep ... problems when it comes to research. I have only been working in labs for ... ability for there to be a large amount of interesting startups

  • by Ben O. '19
  • November 20, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Food Truck Song What do food trucks dream of?

  

  -gaaaan, ohh, veegy veegy veegy, vee-ee-eegan. But if they raise prices to eight ... area has recently become home to several food trucks - from quick and tasty quesadillas at Jose's Mexican Restaurant to $4 pad thai at

  • by Jess K. '10
  • March 9, 2010
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  hey hey HAYMARKET slicing and dicing all over the place.

  

  advertising auditions for a show on WGBH, so we decided to follow the posters to ... browsing the entire market for the best looking fruit and prices and also getting snapped at by a vendor for analyzing the fruit too much, we began to

  • by Bryan
  • July 10, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  things i wish i could do thoughts from the bay area

  

  places and making it easy for neighbors to block construction projects ... disoriented and appeared to not be having a good time in general - for instance ... difficult to fault these people for reacting in this way, because tech has

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • June 23, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  Stay Tuned Liveblog, coming your way

  

  . The format for the evening will be each of the representatives to ... financial aid works. A lot of people look at the "sticker price" for the ... need" and will pay for that. The rest is up to you. Your "demonstrated

  • by Snively '11
  • July 14, 2009
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  North to Peru Not too far from Norway, just south of Mexico.

  

  -abandoned car (or maybe it was for sale?) and a series of what appeared to be ... of the two dozen folks who went to Peru for the weekend went hiking on ... Day is a very popular weekend for retreats, brief trips back home, or

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • October 12, 2010
• Blog / People & Identities

  first time in cdmx and first time out of the US, but not the first time having an ethnicity…

  

  important to me for a couple of reasons: I had a premonition that I was ... Midwest. So for four-ish days my girlfriend and I went to visit my cousin ... country's primary language for various reasons, but still have to navigate

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • August 15, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  kitchen nightmares bugs and toasters and explosions, oh my!

  

  every meal for the past eighteen years, it's safe to say that I'm a pretty ... , spurring me to scream for Selena, the official bug person in this apartment ... . "Just freeze it for a few days to kill off the larvae. It'll be fine." We

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 5, 2020
• Blog / How to MIT

  The Cost of Living at MIT alternatively, how to spend money at MIT

  

  adjusting to prices and scrounging for the best deals, I've found a way to ... ="If you live in a dorm with a dining hall, you are required to pay for a ... the option to pay for a meal plan, but are not required."]meal plans

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  Salut! A look at Grenoble

  

  I get to work with liquid helium every day! It's very cool (...see ... lucky folks get to hear them instead!). We get samples from chemists in ... . Sometimes we measure samples that can potentially be used for quantum

  • by MISTI Program
  • July 26, 2012
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A ... Three-day weekends seem like the perfect opportunity to catch-up on work and get ahead for the next week. Umm... right... it never really

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Answering my own questions My perspective on the MIT student mentality about working hard.

  

  mentality with regard to work?" is much more open to different strokes for ... 't work for me. I do consider myself to be a "self-starter" (you almost have ... Project Interphase or to try out for a fall sport, and of course there are

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Dance ‘Til You Drop 53rd planning a 53-year old party i've never even been to

  

  so many alumni came back for dtyd L, but boy do i wish i was there to ... . For DTYD L, literally hundreds of alumni flocked back to MIT to ... 50, but it was still pretty stressful to plan for someone whose only

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • May 3, 2022