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• Blog / IAP

  IAP: It’s Amazing Pterodactyl I'm not good at acronyms

  

  hoping to ski--there's not really snow anywhere in North America. But some ... beloved green covered in snow, and those from equatorial climates suffer at ... and trips designed to help introduce people to the fun they can have in

  • by Chris M. '12
  • January 14, 2012
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  i don’t know where you’re going but do you got room for one more troubled soul?

  

  've found it hard to stay present. I've been enjoying my time in Madrid ... feelings on what I want the future to look like. Had you asked me in my sophomore year of high school of what the future had in store, I would've told

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Poetry Prescriptions Things I've Made and Consumed. Sophomore Fall, All of It.

  

  Scene: Monday night in a green boarding house. Poetry books, cookie ... lively murmur and a beat in the background. IAP is one week in. I spent ... hours in the architecture studio and a full day of presentations and

  • by Natasha B. '16
  • January 13, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an ... appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants ... . Unfortunately, whenever I wash my dishes in my hall's sink (which measures about 1

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  background in Linux, programming and . . .you know what, just don't buy it. The ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in Killian Court under the sun, blogging about MIT (with not a care in the

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• 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 / Academics & Research

  Let the good times roll here is where my summer adventures take place

  

  ‘Ulu - Revitalizing Breadfruit in Hawaii and North Kohala Eat Locally ... Public Service Center to intern with a non-profit in Hawaii on the Big Island (Hawai’i County)*. I will be here (in Hilo, HI) for 2 months (June

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • June 18, 2011
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ten Things I Hate About Europe Well, not really. More like, Ten Things I Like About MIT. You've got to accentuate…

  

  "prawns" in Australia. However, the incident of a dingo eating someone ... entry was originally titled "Trimalchio in West Egg." About a month ago I ... summer. I was really puzzled by the last line, in which she said she couldn

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 4, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  I who have nothing Darling, 'tis I who loves you.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? In Renaissance Spain, when white skin was cultivated as ... the clay, which would absorb all of the water in their bodies and give ... Europe. Probably forever. I'm just chilling here in my air

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 28, 2007
• 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 / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... 's aunt in Montana (long story; just roll with it). She lives in Hot Springs, which had a population of 544 in the 2010 census. This is about the size

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  C’est la Vie In which I describe my summer in words, without photos (yet).

  

  thus far. Here's a brief recap of what I did/what I have plans for in the ... (because my classes started so late), haha, but I went to sleep earlier in ... short trip with family up to Nagoya, Japan in the middle of June. T'was a

  • by Chris S. '11
  • July 28, 2008
• 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 / MIT Life

  people keep leaving their things in my room and other stories from sophomore fall

  

  midnight, I suggested we walk to Bova's bakery in Boston's North End. Bova ... spending the night frantically studying in a Green building lounge, fueled by ... undoubtedly will write one soon... this semester was a wild ride in all respects

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • December 17, 2021
• Blog / IAP

  IAP in China through MIT’s China Development Initiative A week-long mentorship program in Xiamen, Fujian

  

  something was probably wrong after I had been sitting alone in the x-ray room ... the results. Oh well. Next, I spent a week in California at my first ... and was full of ambitions to write all about my time in China. I guess I

  • by Anna H. '14
  • July 17, 2014
• 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