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• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... server in case BRB'd friend cared enough to keep reloading the page in ... kidding. Honestly, some days here are like working all summer to buy a new

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Purgatory My 2023 IAP

  

  purgatory in which you are your own god. You have choices. You can make IAP as ... . Yet, most people do neither. They stay in purgatory and do some ... those who make up campus are no longer physically present. One night in

  • by Ella T. '25
  • January 20, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  Essay-M A representative collection of an MIT student's best writing samples.

  

  applying to MIT this year. In this vein, I thought I'd post some of my old ... adequately. They filed all of them in one big blue folder, with no indication ... rediscovered all of them in my closet. So, here goes. I wrote this first one in

  • by Sam M. '07
  • November 27, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of ... are full. I have my own big cabinet, and baby... it's like Tetris in ... semester, it will be much emptier as I eat through all my food supplies in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure hope my floor uses the opportunity to buy a $1000 wide-screen television ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Events

  We Eat At Food Trucks A few may even start their own

  

  most of their food preparation in a “commissary” (sort of like a shared ... trucks to install GPS in them so they can be tracked constantly. 3. How ... $65,000 and $200,000. 4. Mei Mei Food Truck buys a 250 lb pig every 2

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • March 6, 2013
• Blog / Extracurriculars

  Refreshment We need your help!

  

  , including bake sales and Stuff My Cups; now, we're involved in something even ... 's basically an initiative to encourage people to make a positive difference in ... buy library books for elementary school children, among other things. It

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • May 6, 2010
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Start of Something New Please forgive the High School Musical reference.

  

  deposited my belongings in McCormick Hall, and proceeded to video ... apples at Honey Pot Hill orchards, fallen in love with my roommate’s gummy ... set in the McCormick penthouse, attempted to create edible meals, and

  • by Hamsika C. '13
  • October 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the ... booth now that people buy from machines? Who is taking the metro, what ... for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  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 ... you in August), we got to Six Flags and began an engineer's tour of a

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

  $100 Laptop Unveiled Inspiring!

  

  , 1 Megapixel." The plan is to initially roll out the computers in a ... nations. Each country would agree to buy at least 1,000,000 machines. Later ... skeptics. People peppered Negroponte with questions in both English and

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 16, 2005
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Seasons of Spam Next up: a Nostalgic entry about my frosh year. After Finals. Maybe.

  

  -hours How do you measure, MIT time? In psets, in physics In midnights, in cans of Red Bull. In tooling, in frats, in lectures, in hacks. In ten ... frosh year? How about spam? How about spam? How about spam? Measure in

  • by Chris S. '11
  • May 16, 2008
• 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
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that ... required to buy x meals per week at the school dining halls. One of my ... even going to a fast food restaurant. The food in the residential halls

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• 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. '25
  • February 24, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Brass Rat 2016 tunnels, arc reactors, and skycranes

  

  in all of us. It’s the event where the Brass Rat for each class is ... /tooling/hacking, to the class-specific inside jokes, it’s cloaked in tradition. Plus ... campus.  The RingComm chair is at least the 3rd in a row from the same

  • by Michael C. '16
  • February 8, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  Aisumasen, Yoko San Aisumasen (Apologetics).

  

  Hello out there in TV Land. I'm Sam Maurer. You might remember me ... ), was no longer in working condition. By the way, did you know a 60 mile ... 'm just not in any condition to compose a proper blog entry today. And

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 8, 2005
• Blog / How to Human

  Don’t Forget These I forgot to bring them when I first came to MIT.

  

  You need a surge protector. In fact, you probably need two, so buy three ... suit. And my toothbrush. Ugh. Well today I spend the second night in my ... sure to bring to MIT or to buy as soon as you get here. I conducted a

  • by Erick P. '17
  • August 19, 2014
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Colors! Burton-Conner:12523 kbps1649 kbps140 ms

  

  're reading it correctly, A through S. 19 parts! In addition to the other parts ... beginning this monster, I've decided to share happiness with the world, in the ... . They've also been installing new Ethernet jacks in all of the rooms -- at

  • by Snively '11
  • September 15, 2008
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  swiped into the subway and in June, I saved a whopping $4 by buying the ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... when they are looking for some information or advice on transportation in

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014