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• 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 / Academics & Research

  Classes! Classes! Classes! Classes!

  

  yourself up in your room trying to get a 100% in every one of the 16 AP ... harder and more important than they actually are. Believe in yourself, take ... 't too long ago that I was in your spot and- Wait a second. It actually

  • by Karen F. '11
  • November 1, 2007
• 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
• Blog / MISTI

  An American in Copenhagen but my luggage went to Amsterdam

  

  Monday, June 13th. 9:33 pm, in the back of Öz Konya Kebab: brightly ... ; the machine is kind to me, has free seltzer and coffee in the break room all day. There is oatmilk in the fridge, and a basket of granola bars

  • by Amber V. '24
  • June 14, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m Back!

  

  have classes in the morning and afternoons, often with breaks over 2 hours in between. It makes for a nice lunch/blog update time.) Today is ... connected to Star Market, where most MIT students buy their groceries if they

  • by Laura N. '09
  • September 6, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  40 Hours in Cape Cod Take note, I typed this entire post with a broken shift key. Please appreciate the…

  

  with the taste of fresh complaints in my mouth, trying to wrestle down ... of inefficient breathing. Inhale: one exam in quantum mechanics, three ... ensemble due in a week. Exhale: raw spring air blistering against penuriously

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • March 27, 2010
• Blog / How to Food

  Come together (and eat)

  

  one of these dorms, you're required to buy a dining hall meal plan, in ... comments I read in other blogs. But I saw one I just couldn't resist over in ... walk in anytime and find some friends to sit down with, and I feel like I

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 15, 2005