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  back to high school except now I don't know what I'm doing

  

  literal. I've never been in a classroom where students would get up and walk ... down in school, so I would've loved a little less rigid of a classroom ... for help much faster than I did in high school, but I wonder how much of

  • by Alice L. '24
  • November 5, 2022
• 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 / Art, Literature, Music

  gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT

  

  past summer. In a different world, I would probably wind up being a ... . On this day, I wound up buying lunch from one of the vendors in the ... had seen in stores, but I was hesitating to buy it. They got the plushie

  • by Waly N. '24
  • March 6, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  All Hail the Working People Living down the 40-hour work week.

  

  . Now I’m just thinking how in the world the SAT – which has nearly 200 ... decided to start something. This one’s about how jaded I am about buying ... decision. Everything is A LOT. I just wish there would be more minutes in

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 31, 2010
• 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

  2014 Resolutions January 2nd and still going strong

  

  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 ... ." Instead: "I'm going to figure out my weak points in Physics and work my way

  • by Erick P. '17
  • January 2, 2014
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

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

  

  , I would highly recommend checking it out! Here's her comprehensive ... of Stata would fill with rows of fresh, affordable produce, and I would ... grocery stores listed in the previous MIT groceries guide, and I’ve scouted

  • by Phoebe C. '18
  • May 4, 2016
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

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

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

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

  

  would be to be proactive in finding people I vibe with, and to look ... them grow. but considering how dead I am after dancing in only half the ... in RTA would give me clarity on what I want to do for my last three

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 14, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  An Entrepreneur’s Story How billionaire entrepreneur Pat McGovern '59 got his start.

  

  MIT. I'm always interested in how such successful people get their start ... , "How much?" I said, "$25,000." This was back in 1964. He said: "Oh, no ... insights into patterns in raw data. The idea excited me so much I took my

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 22, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of ... lived in East Campus, I would walk 20 minutes here because their prices ... are full. I have my own big cabinet, and baby... it's like Tetris in

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Personal Travel

  More from Ahia I even manage to do MIT-related stuff when I'm 750 miles away.

  

  I could go back, I would only major in biology. Yeah, it's just ... me and Adam in the stands. Surprisingly, I've gotten to do some MIT ... of that nature: 1. I don't think Timur really has wireless in his

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • December 28, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

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

  

  for the weekend. Well, if I'd known they were coming, I would have ... 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 / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  the restaurant at night"--how exciting! I mean, if you happen to live in ... -Japanese fusion cuisine behind an unassuming concrete facade. Since I was dressed in ... that we would be in Philadelphia for the evening... and possibly the next

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  Adventures in Chinatown Food and friends and pigeons.

  

  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 ... place where I would live were I the type of person who writes novels, or

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • October 9, 2008
• Blog / Admissions

  I waited waaaay too long to get a new computer Finally, a development environment I can work with!

  

  -booting shortly after buying the computer, so that just in case I messed up again I ... . I bought my computer off eBay in 2015, right before going off to ... RAM (those are solid specs, in case you're not a computer person) and I

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • October 8, 2018
• Blog / Life after MIT

  The Last Times waving goodbye to my MIT experience

  

  :25. This one hurt more than I expected. In better times, we would all ... because of the pandemic. I never would have started running, or lived in ... that I would enter some MIT buildings. And it was probably the last time

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • November 22, 2020
• 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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  In Transit: Summer Edition A guide to objects that you could theoretically use to get from point A to…

  

  swiped into the subway and in June, I saved a whopping $4 by buying the ... to complete on transportation in Boston. Here are two methods that I ... Cambridge and Boston, so keep an eye out for it. Also keep in mind that I am

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • August 5, 2014