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• 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 / 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 / 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 / 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 / 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
• 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

  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 / Academics & Research

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

  

  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 ... interesting things, and is interested in the future. MIT attracts amazing

  • 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 ... to christen it with frozen goods in bulk. :) It's pretty economical to ... considering what you save by buying massive amounts of the stuff you use anyway

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • September 15, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

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

  

  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's founding in 1861. Though both universities share a similar profile in terms

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.

  

  and sign up for ten groups, because, hey, you did ten things in high ... because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 14, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Links Sent to My Group Chat from the past month

  

  calendar of movies I watched in my freshman fall and IAP Cami: Another ... spreadsheet for our sizes for people buying clothes or shoes for Secret Santa Cami: A link to ChatGPT Cami: A Twitter thread in which michelle huang

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 23, 2022
• 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 / 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 / How to Food

  everything i cooked this summer it wasn't gourmet but it (mostly) tasted good

  

  mushrooms, I include them in almost every meal greens: I buy a mixed baby ... fire while trying to [annotation note="it was in the pot with water and ... how to cook eggs before 2020. However, when covid first hit in the

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • August 14, 2022