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• Blog / Advice

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

  

  [/annotation] so I was phone-less for a week or so and had to buy a new phone. 6 ... doctor who could communicate in English or at least keep the prescription in your native language. Find a [annotation note="primary care provider

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  A Summer in DC what i've been up to this summer!

  

  Sunday just because each week brought something new. I ended up buying a ... ="working in government!"]new type of work[/annotation]this summer, which has ... haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / Academics & Research

  5th of November, Remembered Bonfire Night celebrations in Cambridge.

  

  class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... minutes and were pretty cool. Can't be compared to fireworks during New ... all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / Travel

  spring break! so much happened, but also so much didn't happen

  

  it in New Orleans, so I told myself I needed to finish the paper by the ... straight. [carousel image1="74248" image2="74250" /] In New Orleans, we ... ="74239" image6="74238" /] We spent most of our time in New Orleans just walking

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • April 16, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  sticker stories adorned on my water bottles

  

  still in the luggage area, submitted item retrieval paperwork to the ... did manage to find the bottle in the corners of old photos! Pardon the ... . I've made it a point to never buy a sticker for my bottles. I just use

  • by Kanokwan T. '26
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  perfumes at the duty free shop, since I'm currently looking to buy a ~new ... This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been enjoying it a lot for a number of reasons: not least because in Europe

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• 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 ... transportation stuff Public transportation in Boston is not as great as it is in

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 6, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  will.i.am: An entry by Prof. Patrick Henry Winston The Black Eyed Peas' frontman hangs out at MIT.

  

  find a new place to buy clothes. Here's the video Prof. Winston was ... at MIT whenever he is in town. This time I took him to see robots in ... computing in the Media Lab, and miscellaneous cool stuff in the Precision

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • March 2, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Stocking Up Completely random but fun.

  

  to a warehouse club in the area. The house manager just delivered a brand new refrigerator to our kitchen, and we figured the time was right to christen it with frozen goods in bulk. :) It's pretty economical to

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  laser-powered happiness 6.UAR showcase, part 1

  

  doing. In November, I pitched my entire "buy-genes-off-the-internet, make ... .[/annotation] In any case, I spent all semester thinking about laser-powered dopamine ... do it in-person this week! so how did we get here, anyways? Last

  • by Alice L. '24
  • December 5, 2022
• 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 / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  the whole escalator. Because if you do any of those things in New York ... the airport. Twenty "short" hours from now (ugh) I will be in my new ... In a few short hours I will hop on a plane back to the US. I have

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  new dessert--bread with sour cream and honey. The Summation In ... into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  ADITL My wednesday.

  

  photo of my food. 8:55 AM - Arrive in lab, unload my stuff at desk. I have a *great* view from my window in lab. Until 9:57 AM: Finite element modelling of a new version of the device I'm working on in lab. 10:05 - 10

  • by Bryan
  • October 12, 2006
• Blog / Blog Projects

  This blog post was written by a winner my entry for #BlogstonCommons

  

  Author's note: I wrote this for a challenge that I participated in ... ;   Did you know that there was a great molasses flood in boston?? Absolutely nuts! It was somewhere in North End where [annotation note

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • November 9, 2024
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  decided to go into Boston and buy new shoes from Marathon Sports. They ... of Sex and the City in which Carrie Bradshaw runs a 5K.) My new ... do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  getting back in the groove 🎵groovy groovy🎵

  

  excitement is just first-week delusion or the start of a new chapter in my MIT ... Once upon a time in a land far, far away A group of schoolchildren ... , but they all agreed in one very unfortunate path. That when the leaves

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • September 3, 2025
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  classes, or a really cool new thing you learned today in class, and so forth ... It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…

  

  dance. He danced to a diddy called "Welcome to Six Flags New England ... tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way

  • by Bryan
  • July 16, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  buying exactly what they say you are buying. In fact, there are even a ... one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009