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• 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 / 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
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... on the street. I stand in front of a store eating a vending machine ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  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 / 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 / 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 / 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