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• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  numbers. If you already have a cell phone in your hometown and buy a new one ... noises and mufffled conversation. Now, I got a new flip phone with a built-in ... -mail. If you have a cell phone at home and then buy a new one at home

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... new uses and features for the Paris metro (subway) system -- ways to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Intense Procrastination There's a difference between procrastination and INTENSE PROCRASTINATION!

  

  ? Instead I listened to the new Muse album (go buy it now) and found a solo in ... in a nice piece of sheet music. I looked around on YouTube to see if ... with my Macbook's built-in mic (note, don't use for instrument recording

  • by Snively '11
  • September 19, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  One and one and one is three Haha, it tells me to write an excerpt. This whole entry is an excerpt.

  

  your genes." Sitting in Lobby 10 with Ruth '07, contemplating buying an ... in my life over the past few days. As my beloved high school friend ... genetic?" Sam: "No." Mitra: "They learned it in 7.012 today." Sam: "Oh

  • by Sam M. '07
  • December 6, 2005
• Blog / How to MIT

  Learning to Spend Better This not a budgeting post.

  

  Value From What You Have Be careful of the new problems buying anything ... solve" and potential "new problems". If after that I decide to buy, add ... every single in-the-moment buy that I didn't end up making. Knowing You

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  The Coop What's a coop? You'll find out!

  

  're interested in buying a bunch of MIT gear and you don't have access to campus ... word "Book" or "Store" in its name. In fact, it's not even just our ... an enigma wrapped in a riddle. For one, it's housed in multiple

  • by Snively '11
  • January 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  that new HDTV is! I may not have the money to buy it, but, hey, I do have ... (we're going to the Bahamas this summer, and I needed a new bathing suit ... donate our unsellable textbooks to schoolchildren in Africa. (I have to

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

  Lots of questions today! Lots of answers, too.

  

  everyone says that you can buy anything in the convenience store, but how do ... dancing." Adam's line of reasoning is that once you're in a relationship, you have no need to hump somebody on the dance floor, because [fill in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 9, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  What’s for dinner? The joy of cooking

  

  not I like this new development in my life. I’ve always been a big proponent of the dining system (or lack thereof) at MIT. I’ve eaten in a ... kitchen facilities that were available in New House to come up with my own

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  How to CPW! Advice from all the bloggers, with love.

  

  WOW CPW IS HAPPENING IN TWO DAYS!!! APPARENTLY IT IS ALSO SOMETIMES ... . Second, be on the lookout in your email for more specific information later today! And third....the CPW weather machine appears to be in need of some

  • by Selam G. '18
  • April 4, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Ride a swan boat in Boston Common Try some New England clam chowder Walk ... years at MIT, (b) leave in the closet for all four years, then pull it out ... realized that he still had 26 items left. In case you think this would be an

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  / friends and do a karaoke night Impulse buy yourself a new plushie friend ... Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and make some bad decisions Bike down the steepest hill in your town without

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  one weekend in March a play-by-play

  

  to be calmed by a swim in cold water. Mira tells me about her past ... wade in. It’s the coldest water I’ve ever swum in, but it’s not as bad as I imagined for water a few degrees off freezing. We stay in the

  • by Kai V. '25
  • March 22, 2025
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  free items in building 66, from which I managed to procure this shiny new ... : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets ... since I had run out of milk. Still yet, the ink in my pens was decomposing

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• 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 man fresh out of college would drive 90 miles each way to his new job as ... Wilson rest stop around exit 7 to buy soft ice cream cones from Carvel (yum

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  th street) to the eyeglass store where I wanted to buy some new frames ... have fun! With this reality in mind, I went to Princeton University with ... ,000. It is the fourth oldest university, chartered in 1746, compared to MIT

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  iCyd This, my friends, is a GREEN APPLE!

  

  and purchasing a fancy new planner), I invested in a new laptop! Now ... are buzzing... the semester seems to be in full swing. This semester is very new to me even though it's my 7th one here. I have been through a

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • October 4, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing ... Avenue Saturday (avec Sam): a lunch in Chinatown a visit to Trump Tower (where we contemplated buying Donald Trump (flavored?) bottled water) a

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  ; MIT does not accept insomniacs. The park put in two new rides this year ... Yesterday, I went to Six Flags New England with Ling '07, Erica '07 ... , Erica, and Simon were smart enough to buy a family pack of season passes

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  new and refreshed Model S that was released in April/May.  My order was ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... awed by its 0-60 in 3.9 seconds and it being all-electric. 2 years later

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016