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  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  glimpse of artists in action on one of my first days wandering around the ... . Only a day at one of the coolest institutions in the world, with your ... buy you a burrito.’ Ok. Hmmm. So maybe Chris has it right after all

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Retreat! Retreat! 24 wonderful hours of sister-time in the MIT mansion!

  

  spent the past 24 hours at the Endicott House , an MIT owned mansion in a ... sisters in such a beautiful setting, surrounded by antiques and eating meals ... .” Everyone on campus should buy some flowers for their friends while supporting

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 1, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m a believer Bikes! They're totally worth it.

  

  say that I'm "tenacious", but what I really mean is that I am set in my ... 's dad insisted on buying me a cute blue bike with a pink stripe yesterday ... 've bought a shower curtain for every suite I've lived in. The A21 suite has a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 15, 2005
• 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 dining hall three times in the past two years, instead favoring to use the

  • by Becca H. '12
  • September 21, 2010
• Blog / Life after MIT

  A ditch on the side of the New Jersey Turnpike

  

  I was just downstairs in the records office, where the mail continues to come in heavily. I decided I'd help with the buckets and buckets of ... think Being John Malkovich was already in my mind. Two days ago, my old

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • January 7, 2005
• 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 / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  goods in really small amounts. People buy oil buy the cupful, or ... -use seasoning packs, or shampoo sachets, or sugar, or detergent. Buying in bulk is ... to buy goods in bulk takes a different mindset, especially when

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• 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 / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  use of a dishwasher is the last frontier in an immigrant household, an ... appliance in most countries outside of the US and apparently many immigrants ... . Unfortunately, whenever I wash my dishes in my hall's sink (which measures about 1

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  opportunity to spend a day or two in foul, fetid, fuming, foggy, filthy ... needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles

  

  midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... around $30 on sale at J.Crew, or cheaper at H&M.  Buy a few, mix and ... make the biggest investment.  No, the cute jacket you bought in July won

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 12, 2015
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... likelihood of you buying local more often?] “Becoming a better cook” [Q: Why do you or don’t you feel a personal obligation to 'buy local

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• 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

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

  

  class last week (in Chinese, of course). I didn't see any masks over here ... all night long. You can buy fireworks at the local grocery store! Some

  • by Cambridge
  • November 5, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I Love Lucy! REALLY don't even think about bringing a car to MIT - sans elephants.

  

  time, in a land far far away (from all you non-local blog readers), a young man fresh in college would drive 17 miles each way from his ... town around exit 16 to buy soft ice cream and mountain dew from the

  • by Cam T. '13
  • October 13, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  taking three classes this term, and the grade in all of them is based ... in the actual grades I get this term. (I wish I could be all badass and ... to not care at all for one time in my life? In reality, I may very well

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Internships & Externships

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

  

  haven't blogged in a long time, and I have quite a few posts from the end of the school year that I still need to revisit. As Kano mentioned in ... 's quite surfaced yet :') That being said, I'm working in Washington, DC

  • by Jessica Z. '27
  • July 30, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Summer in Boston what happens outside MIT

  

  the ocean. In the summer, there are even more reasons to leave the MIT ... activities this summer (and let me know what I missed in the comments below ... can also buy souvenirs, including hot sauce from the world's #1 hot shop

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 3, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  shifting seasons something reflective

  

  i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • January 15, 2025