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• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  from idleness. My thought process went as follows: I can either not buy food and do my work, or I can buy food and... probably still do my work ... : I needed to either buy groceries or start working on my problem sets

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• FAQ / First-year application

  How can I explain my special circumstances?

  We understand that everyone has a unique story and that we can’t possibly cover every “what if” in an FAQ section. The MIT application allows ... feel may be helpful to us in evaluating your application. Every
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  meals throughout the day; I got most of my calories in two giant portions ... celebrity drop-ins (and I doubt Tyra Banks or Robert Plant will visit Senior ... all-you-can-eat for every meal; how large is a one-meal kit? Is it

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017
• 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 / Challenges

  I am lethally bored in the airport boooooo

  

  I am coming to you live from the coveted Boston Logan International ... move out by noon. Not realizing this until after I booked my flight, though, I realized I had a very unfortunate amount of time between move

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • May 22, 2025
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... -bars Of soap can last me for five semesters But I say, that's the magic of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  What MIT students do on Friday nights Who needs clothing, when you have duct tape?

  

  out what, and how much, to buy. I don't know about you, but I never did ... even thought, hey, everyone will be wearing duct tape. What can I do to ... food in comparison to all the great things about MIT, I'm a cross country

  • by Laura N. '09
  • October 23, 2005
• 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 ... /Bonfire Night over here at the other Cambridge. I actually saw V for Vendetta

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

  Comments-ment Webcast A few comments on the past week.

  

  hours. As an exercise in uncreative writing, I will demonstrate this by blogging in real-time for ten minutes: 10:23 pm: I cough for approximately ... typing it out in words if I calculated it in my head right now. Guess I won

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • June 5, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  How To Write A College Essay and other things too

  

  writing, in shaping how we are capable of thinking - he later built upon in ... best described in How to Write a Great Statement of Purpose, by Vince ... in library science: I am honored to apply for the Master of Library

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 30, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Little things that remind me im not home

  

  strangers. Like how I was in the bus stop the other day, and someone asked me ... it in a week or two. Here, I can get it delivered in two or three days ... isn’t what makes me feel like I’m not in the Philippines anymore

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 15, 2019
• Blog / IAP

  I walked on water* IAP? no...you're AP.

  

  important topics like how to walk in crampons ("walk as if you were a cowboy ... world. Where an MIT education can fall short, however, is in "soft skills ... *in the solid phase This is a recipe for The Best Tasting BLT

  • by Michael C. '16
  • January 17, 2014
• Blog / MIT Life

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

  

  card and can get in. For that reason, I usually don't own these, but I ... tea in the next photo...) Nutella: what more can I say? I love bread ... -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  In Japan, the Elevators Don’t Care - Sort of trying to fit in as an American in Japan - 

  

  unspoken rules in a way that gets buy in from everyone?  How can any of this ... ice cream, like how I've seen others stand in front of food stalls ... walk, how I am or am not in the flow, to how it takes me time to relearn

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • July 22, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  shops in NYC to smell different ones; I can feel myself developing a sense ... the driver in a vaguely [annotation note="this is how I knew the guy was ... This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Life after MIT

  My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much

  

  .  After that I sat in the front seat and had the Tesla rep brief me on how ... I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... fell in love with it.  It was the second Tesla I'd ever seen up close and

  • by Snively '11
  • July 17, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to Make a (Short) Movie in 15 Days give or take

  

  an amazingly framed short film, i discovered as we screened it in class ... "]simple![/annotation] So, here’s a quick step by step guide on how I managed to finish my ... frustrating and I can't do it any more. I quit." Pause. "I'm fine, I'm fine, I

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • December 24, 2019
• Blog / Advice

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

  

  , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / MIT Life

  I wrote a whole post on Halloween and forgot to publish it So here's 2 months of blogging in one post

  

    ITS HALLOWEEN. I'd slept an hour in the past 30 hours but it was ... can have food I made meatloaf and Kristen made a fritata for ... Angus(!!) who lived on 1E and graduated in 2018   To be honest I

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • December 26, 2018
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  …and other things you can do with your four-day weekend context around the marathon

  

  seemed worse than anything I had seen in a long time—I imagine the exodus ... that I cannot quite recall, and in any case, it didn't linger, not in the ... backlog of things to do grew larger. Friday, April 16th, in the Evening I

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • April 25, 2021