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• Blog / MIT Life

  Hello, I’m Anthony.

  

  rural desert roots in search of the rest of my life. I'm eighteen years ... thoroughly embarrass me involves walking in while I'm talking to myself about ... of a button. It certainly left Hot Wheels in the dust. I turned five

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • June 8, 2005
• 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

  Do You Want To Build a Robot? it doesn't have to be a robot (see: electric gokart section)

  

  , I was comfortable with all of these tools, thanks in large part to the ... and learned how to use fast fabrication methods.  And I built a pair of ... top hill (in hindsight, I wish they had made flag pulling worth more

  • by Michael C. '16
  • May 9, 2014
• 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 / IAP

  Different Perspectives IAP from the minds of a few different people

  

  as I can in my training to become an EMT.  Here are some of my friends ... for it! You don't have to put in as much time as I did, and you can even ... first of which is a swim class, so I can finally get the swim requirement

  • by Rachel D. '16
  • January 26, 2014
• 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 / 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 / Athletics

  MIT Quidditch: The Best Thing EVER? Yes.

  

  Today. I. Joined. Quidditch. The awesomeness is still sinking in ... volunteered to dress in gold and play the snitch. The snitch is allowed to run ... for a while. I bike year-round, but today was the first time since fall

  • by Kim D. '09
  • March 7, 2010
• Blog / MIT Life

  Needles That was anticlimactic.

  

  I got my first piercing in eighth grade, at Walmart. I had done horribly in a Mathcounts competition, so my mom and I decided that I should ... my ears. I soon discovered that I couldn’t choose between earrings in

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • January 24, 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
• Blog / Academics & Research

  a ranking of building 68 thesis defense posters graphic design is our passion

  

  I spend several minutes in and around Building 68 elevators most days ... favorite. [annotation note="I had a long back-and-forth conversation in my ... years of work they put in. On the other hand, people on the internet can

  • by Abby H. '20
  • May 15, 2019
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Doors of East Campus a la Humans of New York

  

  This is the first in a series of a couple of posts I wanted to do on ... and I did together was paint our door. When we moved in, the door was ... personality in whatever form you choose to.” - Erik P. ‘21   “I LOVE

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • June 16, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Hosed Hosed- adj. Bogged down with work (From the glossary of the 2007-2008 How to Get…

  

  totally and completed hosed. I can't even believe I'm taking 15 minutes to ... a taste of things to come. Item 1: How hosed am I? According to the ... the degree I will be awarded: A Bachelor's of Science in Engineering as

  • by Laura N. '09
  • December 7, 2008
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  how to put together an ohms concert apparently we have a concert this weekend

  

  fun, and whenever someone in the group likes a song a lot they can just ... for those of you who don’t know, i’m part of the mit ohms, a south ... !)   i. music we mostly sing songs arranged by current members of the

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • November 17, 2021