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• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Internet Nostalgia Internostalgia!

  

  think that website belonged to one of most elite schools in the country ... up a heaping dose of pain in the form of academic expectations. If you ... flash and java. Back in the day we didn't have all the bells and whistles

  • by Chris M. '12
  • October 4, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Africans@MIT: Cassava Connection Part 1 of a series, starring a man, a plan, and a root vegetable.

  

  , check out their website at www.cassvita.com Pelkins also appears in this ... -Eritrean Students’ Association) to my room to discuss recent developments in Ethiopia ... operator’s voice in Spanish, an absurd, confusing moment. These events

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 2, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  You gotta have stuff Places to get different kinds of stuff around campus. And rudimentary directions, too!

  

  downloaded from iTunes and buying furniture for the new apartment to do a public service announcement on where to buy stuff for your future hypothetical dorm room. First, the website for the Massachusetts Bay

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• 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 / Extracurriculars

  MIT CodeIt or: the best decision i've made this semester

  

  , reflected clearly in their design and palette. It was so obvious that she had ... and games was very clear. I was so, so impressed by the work she put in ... that confident in my coding skills back then, but it was something I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • November 25, 2020
• 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

  Q&A catchup I answer questions, now that I'm no longer drugged...

  

  preparing in the summer hols. I am doing AP Calculus BC and AP Physics C ... classes. Keep in mind that this is only current for the Class of '10, so the ... out by digging around the department website or course catalog. Also, as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • January 6, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the ... , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... process leftover animal parts. In 1997 the government did ban feeding beef

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  senior house / pilot 2021 / senior house facts, and a thought

  

  and a number of faculty, staff, and alumni in work to promote personal wellbeing and academic success in your community. As you know, we received ... unsafe behaviors and activities occurred in the house during the turnaround

  • by Joonho K. '20
  • July 11, 2017
• Blog / MISTI

  Out and about in the fog at the edge of the world

  

  the world always, overwhelming with its color. Do you feel in your bones ... just in different hues. I've been traveling for the last month around the ... started an exchange back in Paris. It's a moment of cultural reckoning, 3

  • by Uzay G. '26
  • March 13, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video ... apples at Honey Pot Hill orchards, fallen in love with my roommate’s gummy ... set in the McCormick penthouse, attempted to create edible meals, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  Fifteen Minutes to Clear My Head on my morning walk from Boston to MIT

  

  Monday morning in the Phi Kappa Sigma Fraternity House. I woke up and ... in Cambridge and Boston is across the Charles River. Connecting the two is the Harvard Bridge. Many MIT students live in Boston, whether in a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • December 3, 2014
• Blog / Personal Travel

  seven scenes from Paris a simple story

  

  honey thing. “I would never even consider going vegan if I lived in Paris,” I told Uzay, sitting there next to him in the park, breaking off bits ... silver, in real life) stretched between arcs of steel, hundreds and

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 31, 2025
• Blog / How to MIT

  BLARGL! Where have all the orange lockers gone?

  

  good. I have a propensity to see something expensive, want it, and buy it ... destitution sets in. My first big purchase was a new camera. Amazon had it on ... know (knew?) absolutely nothing about cameras so I put in the effort of

  • by Snively '11
  • February 23, 2010
• 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 / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription in your native language. Find a [annotation note="primary care provider ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to ... good website that I found today MIT-area shopping guide by Spouses and ... dollars in credit card debt, because they were like 'Oh man, look how cool

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  No one: Absolutely no one:

  

  from the corners they’ve been sitting in for years. “Okay let’s donate ... up was opening containers. We started with a clear plastic one. Its lid ... / in Naruto. So sure, maybe it would make sense to have a theory about a

  • by Danny and Allan G. '20
  • September 22, 2019
• 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 / MIT Life

  Alia Whitney-Johnson: Making a Difference in Sri Lanka Alia Whitney-Johnson, a Junior studying Civil and Environmental Engineering, spent three weeks teaching the art…

  

  treasure those moments when the girls would clearly be talking about me in ... teaching the art of jewelry making to eighteen Sri Lankan young mothers in a ... , organization, hope, and autonomy. Emerge would continue to support them in

  • by Melis A. '08
  • November 9, 2006