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  holidays in boston a photodump for you to procrastinate with

  

  holiday season, and I'm coming in hot, live from my bed watching Frozen ... myself ice skating and get violently angry at how bad I am. [carousel ... off. There's no way Santa can afford to take time to go to Boston in

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / How to Human

  Some Useful Things Things that greatly enhanced my chance of survival quality of life at MIT, and lots…

  

  .) Clocky is especially nice combined with my loft. I can’t leave it in my bed ... ’re in season you can buy crates of clementines at Shaw’s. After ... . Different dorms give different levels of control over furniture. If you can, I

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • September 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Updated MIT Groceries Guide (guest post) A requiem for Stata.

  

  grocery stores listed in the previous MIT groceries guide, and I’ve scouted ... selection. I haven’t been to these markets, but you can check them out if you ... conventional produce in addition to organic produce. You can also use the bulk

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Admissions

  Living in the Past The one where people drive up just to visit me.

  

  :15 AM and then catch this train so I can be at home in sunny Harrisburg ... that moment, but in two hours I was able to finish up my research and ... weekend in Foxboro. Well, I guess they're a little more dedicated to the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 13, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  9 things I wish I had known before freshman year lessons from an almost-sophomore (see: law of conservation of freshmen)

  

  Let's face it: none of us are getting younger. In fact, I'm getting ... in a few centuries I might even be dead.  Dead. I was reminded of this ... on the block." In fact, I'll be a full-fledged crusty sophomore as soon

  • by Michael C. '16
  • August 15, 2013
• Blog / MIT Life

  Train in vain Pulling my first official all-nighter of the fall term.

  

  . I drifted in and out of uneasy dreams on the way home, but I think ... ... even though I should have learned it perfectly in 8.022. We also sang ... I CAN MAKE THE 6:15 TRAIN." I wasn't completely sure I could make the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Get The Scoop The dish on ice cream around MIT.

  

  blog entry, you can probably tell I support diversity in ice cream ... , I never really do the Ben and Jerry's thing. I can buy that at the ... Without fail, if I could only eat one food for the rest of my life

  • by Bryan
  • January 27, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Rethinking the Paris Metro I'm taking an awesome grad class that includes spring break in Paris. (Yeah, they're paying.)

  

  for newly automated tasks, how can they be put to use in new and ... metropolitan transit authority of Paris. It's a graduate design workshop in the School of Architecture and Planning's Mobile Experience lab, and I might

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • February 25, 2007
• Blog / MISTI

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

  

  :31." "Ahh, yes, I'm so sorry.." "When is the next one?" "11:10. You can buy ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in ... at the wrong exit and panicked, and did what I would in the States if I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  learning and growing in more ways than I can even recognize today. I suspect ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post ... -- when my acceptance packet arrived in the mail. I remember driving

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  real things on tangibility, mistakes, and community

  

  wanting to return to physical media, things i can hold in my hand and feel ... together: i was in the lab learning how to use a platereader, run fluorescent ... accessing my favorite pieces of art in digital space. i flirted with

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • February 5, 2025
• Blog / How to Food

  More on food

  

  because I was in lab until 7 tonight -- yes, on a Friday night -- and that ... . (What more do college students want?) I'm a big fan of Alpine Bagel in the ... cases) have it delivered to our doors. One can also buy groceries on Tech

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 5, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Planned Procrastination Productive Punting

  

  baggy t-shirt to p-set in. I sort my pile of clean laundry. I sort my pile ... buy socks. I should eat breakfast. I put away the clean dishes from the dishwasher. I can’t find my dishes. I run around Random Hall sequestering

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • October 4, 2011
• Blog / Words of Encouragement

  field notes on all the fruit tending to plants, self, others

  

  . Then, I bought a banana plant. Did you know you can just buy banana ... channel I know.  If you like, you can post your favorite video below in the ... At some point in the pandemic I began to collect tropical fruiting

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • December 18, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  here’s everything i thought about in 25 minutes an uncurated and somewhat meta discussion on anything and everything

  

  when i’m unable to write exactly how it feels in my head so [annotation ... applying to be a blogger ! in my application i talked about how i honestly ... i’ve been in a perpetual state of writer's block recently (i.e. the

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • July 16, 2023
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Adios, Madrid My attempt at an eloquent goodbye to Spain.

  

  . I had no idea how unique certain aspects of my everyday life in the US ... verano! [red wine and lemon soda] Well, you can make it in the US, I guess ... Adelaide and hoping I got back before Shaw's closes so I can go buy some

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 16, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  to MIT I'll already have a week done and be in a routine. Since I can ... This New Year, I want to try a resolution that would mandate how I ... fail, I will revive them from where I left off INSTANTLY in some way. No

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