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• Blog / MIT Life

  Summer Lovin’ Had me a blast. Or, the last post I'll write from home!

  

  've never had an In-N-Out burger you can't even begin to understand what I ... few days ago, and I don't even know how I feel about that. I'm going to college! In less than three days! Wait, I need socks? This list, as well as

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 20, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Fame Discover Magazine tries to cash in on this whole "turkey into oil" craze that I…

  

  , the company I'm working for in my UROP got into Discover Magazine again ... -done article. Plus, if you buy the actual magazine, you can see pictures of ... Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  13/101 Things To Do Before You Graduate 2 of my favorite days at MIT, to date.

  

  Chinatown. First stop: buy some fish. I walked up to a very nice hairdresser ... you happen to know where we can buy some fish? Lady: ? Me: Um...buy some ... was cute and creative - but I'd measure the success by how fun it was

  • by Anna H. '14
  • June 22, 2012
• Blog / Challenges

  living away from home lessons learned

  

  sometimes or know how to fold their clothes in a more efficient way. I ... , though, I know how hard it can be to clean up and take care of yourself ... I've had my fair share of time with roommates and friends in the past

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 10, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Home safe Bad guys don't hang out in the Infinite.

  

  if I was in mortal peril or not. I still don't really know how to tell ... at MIT in physics and math and I was wondering how you managed to take ... I am back in Boston, sitting on my comfy couch after a lovely weekend

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 22, 2006
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  A Guide to Farmer’s Markets We found lychee in a hopeless place.

  

  during the school year with Spanish House, in a big cooking rotation. I cook every other week. I enjoy competing in the unofficial game of try ... course, the grocery store. In the summertime, I especially love fresh

  • by Selam G. '18
  • July 10, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Low Balance A epic story of Chinese food, heartbreak, and loss. All because I have no TechCash.

  

  "low warning" sign. I have $1.70 in my TechCash account, and the reason ... account (not that I'm out buying couture, just caffeine drinks and Thai food ... , and a few places off-campus. You can also sometimes use it to buy things

  • by Jess K. '10
  • December 18, 2007
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  walk as fast as I can, my feet barely grazing every second stair. The ... . I like their windows, and how their tenets leave them open. I like the ... covered in chalk drawings. Then, I feel an overwhelming feeling of nausea. I

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  First term freshman year A horror story, I guess... but one with a happy ending

  

  in point: At 1 AM one night in November freshman year, I was studying ... problem sets were hard... and I'd never learned to manage my time wisely in ... place. I skipped class a lot more frequently than I did in my upperclass

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • August 12, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Turkey vs. Spam sells out The most valuable blog entry of all time.

  

  DID YOU KNOW? This weekend is a tax holiday in Massachusetts. I sure ... advertising school in the United States. Because of that, I'm thinking of ... their aptitude for math and science. That's how committed I am to

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 10, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  in between Algebra and Calculus. I can’t tell you how I came up with ... desires. In middle school, I was quiet, and I would just observe how people ... catch changes in the populations behavior. And I wanted to see how easy a

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Harvard Social Enterprise Conference with a virtual reality demo that showed me the communities of Nairobi

  

  inside of Spangler Hall. A study hall. I don't know how people could study in a place like this. I'd be too distracted gawking around at the ...  campaign my friends and I did a few months ago and Jordyn was extremely impressed at how

  • by Erick P. '17
  • March 11, 2016
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  dancing at MIT (and beyond) continuity vs. fulfillment and the perils of stagnation

  

  them grow. but considering how dead I am after dancing in only half the ... . many of the people I respected on Mocha graduated in the two years that had passed since I was on the team in person, and the new members we

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  Pre-MIT prep How to prepare yourself for life at MIT -- hint: watch Chappelle's Show. Everyone else…

  

  -Athena computer -- Sadly, I must admit that I never learned how to print from my PC ... ?) before you can graduate. I am not advising you to finish your PE classes by ... puddles when I just stomp right through them." In other important news, get

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • April 18, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  See me, feel me, milq me, heal me Picture entry! Don't read if you're on dialup! DON'T DO IT! Sorry, but it's for…

  

  '07 and I went out to dinner at the Porter Exchange in Cambridge with a ... 't go on sale until tomorrow. How disappointing. Then we got lost in the woods, I found a bloody knapsack with some of Gabe's teeth in it, and I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • September 22, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the ... service in high school marching band). I mean, it just never stops, does it ... ball and I don't really understand how offsides works yet, but I figured

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Culture Clash Spain doesn't do sarcasm, and my soul is slowly dying. But then I took some…

  

  curse word I can think of becomes a filler word in Spanish. I'm not even ... . 2. I love that you can go to the grocery store and buy olive oil by ... if I can find something useful AND repeatable. =) Okay, first of all

  • by Laura N. '09
  • July 9, 2008
• Blog / Academics & Research

  2.670 Wrapup I'm done!

  

  figured I should let you know how things went. Let's talk about some of the ... is in the video, I guess, so I present to you what a spastic spider bot ... Point in a couple of days (this one) and I plan on trying to clean my room

  • by Snively '11
  • January 29, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  tired and busy and tired and busy and tired and busy and

  

  how to be human again, but in the meantime, I will try my best.   ... slots for when I can do fun things, like that nice slot from 2pm to 5pm on ... commitments to figure out if there's anything I can do to better spend my time

  • by Cami M. '23
  • February 15, 2022
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  more difficult. In the summer between sophomore and junior year at MIT I did my first tandem skydive while I was back home in Oregon.  I didn ... while. Fast forward to, oh, about 2 months ago.  As I sat in my apartment

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012