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• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  the things you use in your daily life; don't buy anything extra, except ... very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... volunteer to work on someone's farm, hostel, airbnb, or house, and in exchange

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Uncategorized

  a blog from the universe aka me + my tarot cards + finals season procrastination

  

  buy into the notion that somewhere, in some crevice of my brain, lies ... . So— in keeping with the theme while also in the interest of not ... Ask yourself if the message hits home in any aspect of your life- it

  • by Veronica P. '27
  • December 14, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be ... progress in my life. Progress tracking is a huge part of my life. I really ... ago, maybe in the middle of this past spring semester, I invested in a

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  lot of sense considering I’m in the middle of reading applications for students who are about to start a new chapter in their lives. So, where’s my ... too busy drowning my sorrow and leftover stipend money in milkshakes

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Challenges

  A last-minute barbecue for hundreds of people New House: mobilize.

  

  way more time in my dorm than usual. Sean Collier's memorial service was scheduled for Wednesday, and classes were cancelled in anticipation of ... jumped into action. Early in the morning, dorm presidents (like me

  • by Anna H. '14
  • May 11, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  Movies Watched in the Past Year Through Which I Have Remained 100 ... being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... brainwashed you into buying Coca-Cola. Need I say more? 3.Slumdog Millionaire

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Welcome To Guild Camp [by Susan Shepherd '11] "Boot, Not Summer."

  

  [by Susan Shepherd '11] It was 5:30 a.m. on a Wednesday morning in ... , dinosaurs in feudal Japan, a traveling carnival gone horribly wrong, and the ... decided on a production schedule, and Guild Camp began. In many ways, Guild

  • by ARTalk
  • October 1, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  Real Snow! Real pictures this time.

  

  supposed to supplement the rest of it. We had to run out in the middle of the event to buy more. The rest of the ice cream finally arrived. There was a ... fridges in the snack room, we found that one of them wasn't turned on. The

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 20, 2007
• Blog / Events

  BLOOD MOON FEST IS REAL!! "the blood moon rises and the blood moon falls but the wave of whimsy it…

  

  the dorms[/caption] A few days later, I decided to buy pre-made red ... . The morning of, Anoushka and I got to work in the kitchen, but waiting ... earrings, and suddenly, we were in the Simmons Crafts Lounge, searching for

  • by Ellie F. '28
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  Before You Arrive On Campus: Packing Edition for the pre-frosh we're excited to meet

  

  In 4 weeks, you will leave home for an academic journey of 4 years ... sockets appear in the oddest places. -- a Twin XL sheet set, a towel, and a ... good for splitting bills with friends and buying cannolis at the North

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • August 5, 2015
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  The Imagination Box [by Danbee Kim '09] We can draw on the walls again!

  

  next age, why put them in a sterile box? Aren't we all supposed to ... take a tour of some of MIT's greatest works of student art, found in ... projects, so we get reimbursed for the supplies we buy. It's a great way

  • by ARTalk
  • October 19, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Short Dining Guide to Cambridge Where to find food within walking distance of MIT, other than in my fridge.

  

  slowly over two-hour, three-fork dinners in French restaurants with napkins pre-folded in topologically confusing structures (not that I needed to ... vegetables ($2.00 per 16 oz.) doused in oyster sauce and Sriracha, digging for

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 23, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Nerdy adventures on the West Coast Q: What changes when you transplant a few MIT students 3,000 miles? A: Not much.

  

  conversations. I can't tell you how often I find myself having in-depth and ... . (Free admission! If you're ever looking for something to do in San Fran ... pasty white or what???) Another one of the very first things we did in

  • by Laura N. '09
  • April 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Felicitation Answers... and hopefully minimal snark.

  

  other people in the world are shallow in what I editorially find to be a shocking way, so I'll answer anyway. Look at yourself in the mirror -- there ... research for him for very little in the way of salary. So slave labor works

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining Hall Alchemy The art of turning cereal and chicken tenders into slightly tastier cereal and chicken tenders

  

  stopping you from getting food from several of them at once. When I'm not in ... . In doing so, I'm often surprised by how much the salad bar has to offer ... ] = Curry pizza Mixing foods from the same station can result in surprising

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • May 11, 2025
• Blog / Athletics

  Lax bros and their workflows

  

  you’re involved in outside of lacrosse. Sydney: Hi! My name is Sydney ... . Sydney: I started playing lacrosse when I was in fifth grade and have been playing ever since. I didn’t always know I wanted to play in college, but

  • by Emiko P. '25
  • April 14, 2025
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one video generated from the prompt “Soccer players in purple celebrate as the ... was nothing like the sleek videos OpenAI likes to tout in its demos

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  what happened yesterday? "what's the name of the mushroom shop?"

  

  're released? yeahhh"]Yesterday,[/annotation] I woke up around noon in my dorm room. I don’t remember the last time I’ve let myself sleep in to my heart’s content in this room. I usually set an alarm even on weekends. But yesterday

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • June 20, 2022
• Blog / Events

  What If… I Met Randall Munroe? ... Something would have to blow up

  

  .com, read all 1400+ comics, laugh, cry, fall in love, and then come back ... his lectures, celebrated his anniversaries, and replicated this comic in ...  called “What If? Serious Scientific Answers to Absurd Hypothetical Questions,” in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  Selling Point How to tell the difference between MIT and an infomercial

  

  neighbor, take walks in the shaded walkways behind my house, or build oddly shaped sculptures in the sandbox with my friends. The magic of television lay in its ability to transport me to another world, another story, and

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • March 11, 2014