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  It’s that time of the year again If you want to do a UROP this semester, now is the time to contact…

  

  Guidelines website. If youТƒфre interested in doing a UROP this semester, now ... : Thursday, Thursday September 14, 2006. Keep in mind that there are three ... Fund which supports women UROP students pursing research in the School of

  • by Melis A. '08
  • September 10, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... around $30 on sale at J.Crew, or cheaper at H&M.  Buy a few, mix and ... make the biggest investment.  No, the cute jacket you bought in July won

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... likelihood of you buying local more often?] “Becoming a better cook” [Q: Why do you or don’t you feel a personal obligation to 'buy local

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / Admissions

  Welcome Home Like what we've done with the place?

  

  Admissions website. This isn't an easy task. We are deeply invested in our website. When you have a good thing going, in can be difficult to motivate ... welcoming. I've only been in here a few minutes, but already I know I could

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 11, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a young man fresh in college would drive 17 miles each way from his ... town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Announcements

  PSA: anyone in the world can stream this MIT class about coronavirus for free this fall the new subject will be broadcast to the public beginning tomorrow, sept 1

  

  . From the website (biographical links added by me): In Fall 2020, all MIT ...  and type in the password: mit-covid. Miss a class? You’ll be able to view a ... Course 7 is making this resource available to the public in real-time and

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 31, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  the ocean. In the summer, there are even more reasons to leave the MIT ... activities this summer (and let me know what I missed in the comments below ... can also buy souvenirs, including hot sauce from the world's #1 hot shop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / Events

  Making friends by learning languages Welcome to the Language Conversation Exchange

  

  website in order to make it a lot prettier and easier to use, and now the ... place for that. I took a lot of language classes in high school, but it wasn't really something I expected to continue in earnest in college

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • November 6, 2018
• Blog / Classes

  fall ’19 catalog is out! and a summary of sites we use to plan semesters

  

  blog posts about it. (use our website's search tool! it's not too bad.) courseroad 2.0 was also released recently, and although it's in a bit of a ... 'll probably be a better version than the original in the near future. i know

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • April 25, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Jenny Hu- Adapting to Artifical Gravity Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can…

  

  to Earth. Artificial gravity can be generated in space by rotating ... functioning in artificial gravity before their missions to space. Junior Jenny Hu worked in the MIT Man Vehicle Laboratory to study if people can

  • by Melis A. '08
  • August 7, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Terrible Traffic Don't even THINK about bringing a car to MIT

  

  Once upon a time, in a land far far away (called New Jersey), a young ... Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum ... commute! Some days you can find him walking from his home in Cambridge to

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... computing in the Media Lab, and miscellaneous cool stuff in the Precision ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a ... to christen it with frozen goods in bulk. :) It's pretty economical to ... considering what you save by buying massive amounts of the stuff you use anyway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT's founding in 1861. Though both universities share a similar profile in terms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Tips for applying to UROPs

  

  of the process in obtaining a UROP[/caption] It's a great opportunity ... notice you in the first place can be a daunting task. But it doesn't have ... that requires you to be a junior and proficient in, like, five different

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • January 30, 2023
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Special Edition! Speaking of Valentine's Cards . . .

  

  "random" button a bunch on the XKCD website and wrote the number down ... listening to when I signed that card. 1 of the cards says "IHTFP" in binary. Those are the special edition cards, let me know in the comments if you

  • by Snively '11
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Events

  The Class of 2010 Ring Delivery I think Abba said it best when they sang, "Ring, ring, why don't you give…

  

  Delivery, check out: The 2010 Ring Delivery Website Article in The Tech about ... a steady stream (especially since we no longer have Rock Band in our

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 18, 2008