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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Living with Rain Beyond the umbrella

  

  It rains a lot in Boston. There’s not much more you can say about ... that you can wait inside for 10 minutes, and then it will stop. I had ... ’t work. I have had many umbrellas destroyed by the wind in Cambridge and

  • by Becca H. '12
  • October 6, 2010
• Blog / About Decisions

  In Anticipation of Pi Day 2017 bloggers past and present try to make you feel better right now

  

  find support for new ventures, and where I can combine my interests in ... admissions. I was a staunch planner back in high school, one of those people ... major in social science. If I had studied social science prior to college

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • March 13, 2017
• Blog / MIT Life

  Odds and ends and Canada A study break, plus some other highlights of the week

  

  . Remember this post in which I facetiously asked for a space heater? Turns out ... tossed in at no extra charge. Unfortunately, I will combust if I ever turn ... desk, I spied a whiteboard in the hallway with a suspicious bag of candy

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 12, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  novelty the closest thing to time travel

  

  i am in the tenth week of my summer job and i can remember how the ... shorter than the previous one, unless i pull as hard as i can to stretch it ... presuming how my life will go and for giving me unactionable advice, i think

  • by Vincent H. '23
  • August 5, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

  friendful life recently

  

  me it was really sweet how that person described their experience in elementary school as "filled with friends." i think that's how my life can be ... community in the past few months. mostly, how i wouldn't be where i am now

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • May 30, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  on regression the to your shitty high school self, and not linear, kind

  

  creative concepts. how do i rediscover my relationship with art—one in which ... i'm currently in the midst of my second week of online school. things ... high-school-esque. in my junior and senior years, i took only a few

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • April 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  Adventures in Italy, Part 2 Tales from Rome, Take Two

  

  lesson in Italian: "Voray ordinare" Translation: I would like to order ... Pizza Now here in the US, I've heard this pizza referred to as a "Blonde ... joke that I'm not going to say in my blog for fear of offending my yellow

  • by Bryan
  • April 13, 2006
• Blog / Challenges

  What Did I Learn at MIT? a surprisingly hard question to answer

  

  , and that means something - unfortunately, I can't go back in time and ... surprisingly, I actually had possessed a large amount of this knowledge in high ... evacuated my brain. Every question I missed in Protobowling with Paolo was a

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 28, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  pathways where do i go from here?

  

  in fall 2022. god, I can't wait.   ... since I was last in that room."  "it's been a year since..." in the past ... restored even when we're back in-person. i'm at peace with it—i've had a year

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 23, 2021
• Blog / How to Human

  fake it ’til you make it what is a healthy way to be happy?

  

  week we’ll be happy, and then we can write a blog about how scheduled and ... -motivated work). But in the times when these pressures do exist, and I am not as ... other people while I’m in the room -- that I’m always happy. And I say

  • by Amber V. '24
  • November 7, 2020
• Blog / Admissions

  Trip Report: IOI 2015 in Kazakhstan of khans and computer science

  

  existed. I had never known anyone to compete in any of them, or even ... beyond   While in Almaty I also made some time to visit the local ... accredited postsecondary institutions in America. I spoke to ~30 local Kazakh

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • August 10, 2015
• Blog / Academics & Research

  New York City in which i go to work on some days and eat lots of cheap food…

  

  apartment in Hell's Kitchen a mile from Times Square. I can't say how much ... how much time I've spent finding new places in the city. Everything is ... I started obsessively checking the news sometime in middle school. I

  • by Connie H. '15
  • June 15, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  2020 Resolutions posting so i can be held accountable

  

  home, I have not stepped foot in the gym. For 2020, I want to see how ... 'll most likely take progress pics throughout the year just so I can see how ... /play Just so I can see how this year went. I like keeping track of the media I

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2020
• Blog / How to Human

  falling in love with october swooning over foLiAGe

  

  we fell in love in october that’s why i love fall looking at the ... second fall I’ve spent in a place with real seasons. Or that every other ... *gasp* enjoy the problem solving process.  I love how I have free time to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • October 24, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Mist in the streets of Boston monday wanderings

  

  gathering in Allston. I’m at Life Alive in Cambridge now, writing this, while ... . The runners were going about the pace I’d shoot for in a three-mile race ... MIT communities I’d seen so far, and how I could join one -- I wouldn

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 20, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  being present im in st petersburg!!!

  

  This was originally going to be a post about how now that I’m in ... how happy and in awe I am. Logically, I’ve known that this city is ... this, I failed to account for the fact that I am now in the most

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • October 10, 2020
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  How to make a glass pumpkin In celebration of the 2023 Great Glass Pumpkin Patch

  

  this time. In theory, pretty simple. In theory.[/caption] As you can ... , you’ve probably wondered: How does MIT make so many pumpkins every year ... [annotation note="I may be wrong about this estimate because I’ve never been on

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • September 29, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Haiti: Day 1 This week, I'm in Haiti.

  

  take to disseminate in Haiti at the end of April. I'm working with Anila ... train their workers on site. So today, we're in Haiti. I don't know what I expected - I guess I didn't really think about how bad it would be

  • by Jess K. '10
  • April 25, 2010
• Blog / Admissions

  July 4th in Boston MIT has the best seat for Boston's July 4th celebrations.

  

  much with Photoshop, but you can see the barge is right in front of MIT ... buildings along the river in East Cambridge. I think the Back Bay area of ... Boston has arguably the best 4th of July festivities in the country

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Days in lives that aren’t mine in a parallel universe

  

  . I can't imagine how this semester would look like if I was living ... I wake up at 9 AM, and it's the first time in a while that I've been ... placing it in the drying rack, I head back upstairs and grab my laptop

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • October 22, 2020