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  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... In today's The Sunday Times, one of the United Kingdom's most ... , Scotland, authors an article commenting on alcohol culture in the US and her

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  four semesters in music and food just some lists and reminisces

  

  ; when I had time alone, I listened to some of my favorite chilling-in ... two classes and a UROP in the Stata Center and became obsessed with their lentil dal. Over March Break, I met my parents in LA, hit up so many

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • April 28, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  love is stored in the yarn help i can't stop crocheting

  

  shelf in all its strawberry glory. [caption id="attachment_85727" align ... working in a wet lab after two attempts at computational UROPs that I ... percentage of people in the lab that don't drive, including my supervisors, and

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 14, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  , "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... So, here it is, the inaugural post in my new book review blog idea. The whole idea was in fact inspired by one of my random "pick a book off

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Don’t forget to check in with yourself On living with intention

  

  feels like just yesterday (I graduated in 2013). Last year, I had the ... thing? Someone let me know in the comments 😉); my favorite Hayden Library ... ’ll delight in for the rest of my life, probably in part because many of my

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • January 23, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Last Five Days aka How I Spent My Summer

  

  How many days I have left in my parents’ home is approximately as ... torn. In the college home, I get adventures with friends, bright city lights, and academic pursuits. In my parents' home, I have my sister, the

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • September 11, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  , remember in the summer when you used to get nice, well-cropped color pictures in immaculately-high resolution? That's all over now. There's an ... , please don't read any further. Just enjoy my witty repartee in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / People & Identities

  requiem for the desert as temperatures rise higher

  

  by one. I don’t buy from those stores, even in Boston.  I run by the ... ’s my job to step in whenever someone complains of the heat and say, “You ... gets in Arizona in summer. I expected the wet towel in my room to dry

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 30, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is ... set on pursuing a degree in course 16 (aero/astro engineering). After a couple courses in the department, I determined that this was not the career

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  ’re in season you can buy crates of clementines at Shaw’s. After ... passed and I didn’t die and I wasn’t scared anymore. Sleeping in a loft has ... an open window I get a cool breeze at night and the light of the sun in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Food

  Internet is Gonna Get Me In lieu of studying, I finally get around to answering your questions.

  

  there's a Saferide in case you overload yourself and end up buying four ... asymptomatic again and the cycle repeats). So I'm in the reading room. It's a beautiful study room in the fifth floor of the student center that was

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 29, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Events, Food, and Awesomeness: CPW A story about how CPW is more awesome than lobsters

  

  saying Orange County, California. I was born in Kalamazoo, Michigan, but I ... reliable information. I have one memory of me crying in the kitchen while my ... family then relocated to Carmel, Indiana, a city just north of Indianapolis

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  The media portrays spring break in college is super-fun, adventure ... wanted to show us the southwest, Sophia wanted to buy a cowboy hat, and ... it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / Classes

  to do lists and have done lists so busy that all I can do is just stare at the wall

  

  particularly difficult during the month of December. Anything I can't buy in ... exaggerating."]10 hours.[/annotation] Buy some new everyday shoes. The black ... applesauce.[/annotation] To be done by whenever really, but I haven't posted in

  • by Abby H. '20
  • November 3, 2019
• Blog / MISTI

  Lost and Found I've been here for almost two weeks, and been lost at least half of that…

  

  There are no directions in Japan. The buildings are numbered, but in ... Donalds). Also, I'm pretty sure they don't allow you to set off smoke signals in ... walked. Twenty minutes to the left of the station in the eighty

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 12, 2009
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  sit in an empty Zoom room for thirty minutes; during this time, I sent several emails, bumping the founders ("Hey! I'm in the Zoom." "Hey! Let me ... the pay: in high school, I did plenty of miserable jobs. But now I

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Friends, Part 1 a cross-registration love story

  

  fraternities in Back Bay to Haymarket, an outdoor produce market in the North End ... academic opportunities for students in each school and because if it weren ... home. In the Spring of 2019, a Harvard student named Denisse C. '22

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • July 28, 2020
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  , whatever result you have, will take it in stride and move forward. Throughout all of my years in school, especially during the seven years studying ... , here are some cool things I did last week! I was in London twice, once

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  #Winning the battle for awesome (fictitious) alumni

  

  experienced in my always interesting (if occasionally miserable) time trudging ... background: MIT apparently leads the pack of Ivy+ institutions in Facebook page ... they're whining about is that in 2006, the writer of Doonesbury put up a

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 27, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Face Book And Study I have been doing all this and more. But mostly not this.

  

  rfong style, I celebrated by buying a 14oz teapot. Just kidding. In even ... Okay, hold up. I have a really good excuse for not blogging in ages ... those people who does course 6 in no order whatsoever. Taking course 6 in

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • May 30, 2011