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• Blog / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  The guy in the row next to mine just asked the lady behind him if he wouldn't mind if maybe he reclined his chair in her space just a little bit ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  . On this day, I wound up buying lunch from one of the vendors in the ... had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie ... Boston feels very expensive. So generally, I buy stuff in NYC when I go

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW at Random Hall! Plus lots of awesome advice from MIT students!

  

  count over that weekend was in the single digits and I still remember a ... upperclassmen being dunked in water. I remember hugging Tim the Beaver and pulling ... -cream events than I really should! But despite how much of MIT I soaked in, I

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • April 10, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

  readmission what'd i miss?

  

  working in industry, I jumped at the chance to take a break from school ... was at school. Those things included: buying groceries, cooking for ... actively cultivating a social life (so much harder when you don't live in a

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  fundraisers in Lobby 10 Making good friends who cook for themselves Creating a group and cooking for yourselves on rotation Free coffee in select ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Answers to some questions

  

  themselves, or, in the case of some couples, buy their food in pairs. Anyone ... Matt does! And I'm starting to get more comments in general - I guess my ... mom asked, "So, my kid is coming to EC in less than two weeks (EEEEEK

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  list of things that refill my will to live things to do when i don't want to do anything

  

  probably the longest hug in my life thinking that if i buy another thing ... hugs thinking about hugs remembering that one time in a summer ... before we graduated. i haven't talked to any of them in forever and i

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • March 9, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Be A Blogger 2015! TAKE THE PLUNGE

  

  It's summer in Cambridge, which means three things: 1) I'm ... basically variations of "where to buy industrial sized vats of SPF 50 ... authentically. We can’t write about what it’s like to be in a Sadoway

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 14, 2015
• Blog / About Decisions

  Things to do while waiting for decisions on Saturday Clicking the "refresh" button repeatedly between now and Saturday afternoon is NOT an option.

  

  come out in a couple of days (I love the word "tenterhooks." It's amazing ... things you can do between now and Saturday afternoon: -Buy really cool ... depths of obscurity. If you find yourself living every waking moment in

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 13, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Biodiesel@MIT: Turning trash into black gold A student group called Biodiesel@MIT has just won the grand prize of $25,000 in the…

  

  sundresses, flip-flops and shorts. Today, we are in the midst of a winter storm ... ,000 in the GE / mtvU Ecocollege Challenge (www ... petro-diesel to create a blended fuel that can be used in MIT’s

  • by Melis A. '08
  • March 16, 2007
• Blog / Summer

  “How was your day?” asked and answered

  

  ’m in high spirits. It's my first post-finals day- my semester officially ... classes this semester, and I’ve seen her put in lots of time and effort into ... to Medical and check in at the desk. I’m preparing to travel to India

  • by Veronica M. '22
  • June 2, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  DEATH AND THE POWERS: The Robots’ Opera [by Ken Haggerty '11] An * exclusive sneak peak * of Prof. Machover's exciting new…

  

  (anything but natural in feel) loom over the drama, while OperaBots attend to the Powers like robots in a Japanese hospital. And then there is the chandelier, in all of its hypar glory, which I had for many years passed by in

  • by ARTalk
  • March 17, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Weathering the weather So much snow!

  

  So it's snowed something like 15 inches in Cambridge in the past 14 ... snowed at all. And now all these southern California kids are in Boston ... Dave '07 go to the store and buy many, many pounds of bacon (both piggy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • February 12, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Decisions, decisions Now that you've been accepted to college, you have to decide where you'll spend the…

  

  (+) years of hard work in the classroom, and months of filling out ... is really like. You’ll get to stay in a college dorm, go to college ... in 4 months as a real, live MIT student. As a high school senior, I

  • by Melis A. '08
  • April 4, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... in my account for free (quick deposit online costs $1.50), but it ... . (This could explain why the girl studying in the cubicle next to me looks

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Doodles: Career Fair Edition A non-tech major takes on the career fair with the help of mechanical pencil illustrations

  

  2, 6, or 18, as Ceri described in her awesome vlog):     ... really, really use a person like you. Knowing People Who Are Real Adults in ... to go into tech - I'm interested in digital marketing and transmedia

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • September 22, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Goodbye Free-Body Diagrams Hello free -

  

  work space in the intro architecture studio to find this: This is simply a dream. One of the most exciting things about partaking in art ... buy fome-cor this weekend. Not complaining…yet. I really hope

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • February 18, 2010
• Blog / Classes

  How to Survive a Tough Semester you {grieve, choke, laugh, choose, pray, ask, live} you learn

  

  , [/annotation] and cleaning my room right after buying groceries on Sunday. In ... on time, so I am simply doing it anyway. In many ways this is exactly ... 've devised (and finally, this semester, stuck with) for succeeding in this

  • by Alex M. '21
  • October 15, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way ... track of my finances In order to save money while at MIT, I pulled

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  browser archaeology a non-comprehensive analysis of the 95 tabs I have open on my phone

  

  thinking about buying a baton in June, kind of just for fun, but haven ... plays in Seattle, which made it interesting to come back to "The Second ... recitals are very cool, and the tab lives on in my browser "Listening Tour

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • September 27, 2023