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• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past year and I've learned a lot. I lived for the first time with friends in a townhouse in the suburbs of northern Virginia. There were five of us in total

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the ... something often academic in nature. (2) v.i. To be in the process of not doing

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  i saw twenty one pilots at td garden in boston live music is very much alive and here to stay

  

  comfortable enough in Boston to buy tickets for Rex Orange County for February ... buy tickets (tickets released at 10am ET and I was very much in Hawai ... overwhelmed, I am so in love with art and music, I am so in love with life, and

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Money! Money! Money! Life is like monopoly, except you're not a pewter Tophat and it costs WAY more…

  

  Hard to believe July is nearly gone eh? Yup in just a few short ... breakfast? Go for it! Don't want to go to class? You won't get in trouble ... said you love is still a healthy one. Yes in the course of one year at

  • by Chris M. '12
  • July 22, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Day in the Life of an Over-Scheduled Frosh Another hosed blogger? ShOcKiNg

  

  are in college time seems to slip away. It’s been weeks since we’ve had ... , and a few places to buy food."]Stud[/annotation] because it’s too busy to study in the coffee shop. Because I’m walking again I decide to take

  • by Powers '23
  • October 21, 2019
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

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

  

  At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting ... housemate Kevin brought home a Meyer lemon and put it in our sunny living room ... . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  Your credit history is too short and other adult things

  

  A credit card is something I, in theory, knew I needed eventually ... landlords care about. I knew all this, in theory. I've known for a few months ... going to the dentist every few months. Or buying new shoes to replace the

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • April 23, 2023
• Blog / Athletics

  A Run through Boston Having an adventure was easy. Carrying the camera around was the hard part.

  

  dwindling battlefield of questions about giant disembodied vectors in space ... humor too, however, since I got an A anyway. In case you didn't care to read the previous paragraph, in which I describe my 8.022 exam in the

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 4, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  -booting shortly after buying the computer, so that just in case I messed up again I ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Blog Projects

  Ellie on the M.T.A. writing about the T, on the T

  

  in Arkansas was an old-fashioned tram system in Little Rock, and a ... transportation has that going for it too. The first time I visited Boston, in my junior year of high school, I fell in love with the T. It’s not the best

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Noam Chomsky and the humanities at MIT Chomsky gives a talk on Iraq on May 23

  

  good fit for them. But, if they would like to take classes in Major ... an MIT professor and an expert in both linguistics and politics. I first heard about him in high school, and then learned about his

  • by Melis A. '08
  • May 25, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? Although Boston conducted the most famous tea party in ... just barely coherent. There seriously isn't one line of dialogue in the entire thing that doesn't advance the plot in some way. They really just

  • by Sam M. '07
  • May 29, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  Well, this is my last day in Ahia (try saying it with me -- "Uh ... trombone in the high school marching band, and they're marching in the Rose ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Sweet Transvestite "Round of applause for the man in stilettos! I can only run like that when…

  

  hurried over to buy our tickets "There's no crime in giving yourself over ... midnight showing of The Rocky Horror Picture Show at the Loew's in Harvard ... against us so my miniskirt didn't flare up too much in the front, though

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 17, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  always having baked goods to offer. She studies Course 6-3 at MIT, but in ... -to-make recipes with the rest of the world. If you're interested in learning to cook ... started another in the Atrium (between 100 and 200 Technology Square

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s going on inside my head It might not have been so very important.

  

  Here are ten important things that happened in the past week. 1. I ... most healthful food in the world, is actually bad for you, because it ... I have to cover it in a bacon-sugar sauce before eating it. Actually

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 7, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  14 years later what I've been up to in the past one-seventh of a century

  

  -long learning. Buy Bitcoin in 2011.   Anyways, no blog post is complete ... they were participating in a Media Lab study. (Yes, we would dash from ... subject lines like “free leftover iceberg lettuce in E52”; in fact, a single

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • January 22, 2025
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have ... my summer in Spain. It doesn't reeeally say what I want it to, but I ... to Spain for giving me: the warm weather I missed so much in Boston

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  where you can buy it. She never released it in the US ... unapologetically blast some 90's Mariah Carey in my car, but if her jamz don't float ... along to alone in the car at 7 in the morning and other drivers stare at

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Happy V-Day

  

  . At MIT, we celebrate the holiday in various fun ways. Of course ... off to some of the many romantic restaurants and sites in Boston and ... screenings (such as Shakespeare in Love), flower sales, and candygrams. One of

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • February 14, 2005