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• Blog / Admissions

  The root of all evil Money, money, money, money... money!

  

  how I've handled it over the past four years. Four years ago tomorrow ... Center) in building 16 for an interview. I worked at the LLARC 8 hours a ... than the expense of groceries, I managed to live in DC the entire summer

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 29, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  home

  

  something to remember. I can’t tell how I feel about this. The narrative of ... phantom. I’m not sure how to handle it, exactly.  In grade school, I would ... stayed in Arkansas. It’s strange how little I feel that they’ve changed

  • by Shorna A. '25
  • November 4, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  my laptop so that I can actually use it in Europe. Work is challenging ... asked in the last post how I got this job. Actually, I Googled ... . I joined College Confidential. I finally decided that, no matter how

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Tale of Two Majors Trying an Evel Knievel approach with my studies.

  

  I am double majoring in Mechanical Engineering and Biology, with a ... ?!?!? Yours truly. Well, not anymore but that's how I used to be. When I first ... dinner. So fast forward two years, I'm graduating in about 7 months, and I

  • by Bryan
  • November 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Nothing Gold Can Stay some reminders

  

  familiar living room sofa. At this point, I should be familiar with how ... wind carried a coolness with it often. But in the past few weeks, I had ... from the AC in Barker library. I woke up the next day to something

  • by Afeefah K. '21
  • May 28, 2019
• Blog / Athletics

  AIDS Walk San Francisco Shameless solicitation -- join the fun

  

  fundraising goal. I want to do as much as I can to make a difference in the ... This Sunday, I am participating in the 2006 AIDS Walk San Francisco ... entertainment in Sharon Meadow Official SF AIDS Walk website And now for the

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • July 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  MIT Can Talk! Bon appétit!

  

  the speech, and thought how perfect it would be if I threw in a “Bon ... I've talked about how humor, networking, and great ideas are all ... history. I grabbed an excerpt from her autobiography, “My Life in France

  • by Maggie L. '12
  • February 4, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Surviving My deep thoughts on surviving and thriving at MIT, straight from three years ago.

  

  , um, buy the store brand pasta or whatever. 10. I still don't know how to cross streets in the city, but I do know how to get anywhere in ... of in awe of the fact that I'd apparently survived almost a full year

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 11, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  the lack of sound judgment, I urge you to see how long you can live on a ... pioneering the latest advances in party technology, I'm slowly becoming a ... you.) Last Saturday, I woke up in a not-very-exciting fashion, so I

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / How to Food

  Dining at MIT How to not starve

  

  efficient system. I still visit the dining halls frequently - you can buy ... overwhelming number of options that I nearly drowned in at the start of this year ... be fair, the dining halls are all-you-can-eat (and-maybe-even-smuggle-out-in

  • by Joel G. '18
  • October 29, 2014
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Marking time Somewhere between the end of classes and graduation...

  

  room. It's also a good idea to pack light and buy as much as you can once ... , Adam and I have been ODing on ice cream -- we went to Tosci's in Central ... the summer. This is my third summer in a row in Cambridge, and I wouldn

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 30, 2006
• 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.). These are just a few small ideas - I know you can think of others tailored ... things you can do between now and Saturday afternoon: -Buy really cool

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

  Schedules are up!

  

  starts -- they put up the fall 2005 schedule in late May -- so I don ... year, and we can all connect the dots on what that means. (I'm not ... take 21A.100 (Intro to Anthropology) -- I'm concentrating in anthropology

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 18, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Looking ahead to IAP One more week left to go! Feel the burn!

  

  get to learn how to draw! I have a lot of artsy people in my family, my ... website, you can choose from hundreds of credit and non-credit activities ... get hectic. Last year, I started my UROP in the Chen Lab in the Center

  • by Melis A. '08
  • December 12, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Unfolding of Language Your high school English teacher may hate it, but "gonna" really is a word.

  

  auxiliary verb in the first example. We can substitute another auxiliary verb, "will," without much of a change in meaning. "I will buy that book" means ... gonna- "I'm gonna buy that book." But what about another example- "I

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2006
• Blog / About Decisions

  Defying Gravity

  

  ! Wicked was definitely the highlight! As students, my friends and I can buy ... , here are some cool things I did last week! I was in London twice, once ... do so that I could take advantage of my day in London. So I decided to

  • by Linh V. '13
  • March 12, 2012
• Blog / MIT Life

  Holidays with the Huangs a nondenominational celebration of capitalism and duck

  

  around in the most godawful turquoise bathrobe ever sold at Costco. (I ... goodness of Barbeque Lay's (okay, so maybe to mediocre health). And I can't tell you how luxurious it is to wonder what I should be doing right now

  • by Connie H. '15
  • December 26, 2012
• Blog / Events

  Can You Become Back at MIT, with excitement and pictures

  

  'll talk more about this in a future entry, and hopefully I can even profile ... , in the local accent) Okay, anyway. I'm now at MIT! The first thing I ... 't even think about how much TechCash I had on my MIT Card, but it's a good

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • August 26, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Sometimes, I am invisible and other female experiences

  

  -looking female. I can’t buy a $68 cup of awareness. I wish to be conspicuous and ... “dearie” and how can they know I’m a “miss”? … I take an advanced math ... festival in Davis Square with an array of arts and crafts vendors. I’ve been

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • July 18, 2016
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Alcohol in College: Scotland and the US An MIT student from Scotland compares alcohol culture in the US and the UK in…

  

  from buying alcohol in off-licences and set a minimum price at which a ... discount vodka shots in the union bars of Britain, I was 2,000 miles away, building a robot. I was in the middle of “freshman orientation week” at

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • June 22, 2008