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  suggestions for MIT merch but they're bad

  

  How is it already December? It feels like it was just a few days ago that I arrived on campus, and now there’s holiday decorations everywhere. And I have finals coming up, too? That’s wild. Anyway, it’s that time

  • by Jenny B. '25, MEng '26
  • December 10, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  5 years out What some MIT alumni are doing five years after graduation.

  

  was this weekend. As I was writing it, I realized how interesting my ... : Technology Review. Actually, what you buy on newsstands is a slimmed-down version of what alumni receive. I, along with 100,000+ other MIT grads

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • August 31, 2005
• Blog / IAP

  incoming how i’ve been spending my iap yes get ready for like 8 of these in a row

  

  promises in the beginning of the year that I have not kept. I said I would ... hellhole that is Massachusetts. In this time, I've been trying to keep ... to make sure I get at least a 60% in the class. This is truly PNR in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 16, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  every book I read in 2022 all nine-plus of them

  

  everything I read in 2022. The Secret History, Donna Tartt (5/5) The Secret History is, of course, a famous book, particularly in certain circles. I ... in.   The City We Became, N. K. Jemisin (3/5) I’ll start off by

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • January 8, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  hello from seattle This blog post hopefully not brought to you with an NDA.

  

  -off. And because I wish my desktop computer’s LCD screens would have a ... , when I was enrolled in this year’s Silly Robot Extravaganza 4000, I ... to visit my aunt; my aunt and uncle live in Seattle and I’d never been

  • by Cam T. '13
  • August 6, 2010
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Sounds of Summer What've you been listening to lately?

  

  you but it's like, I AIN'T EVEN MAD because you're in such a good mood ... that you Elaine-dance to. When I was in 7th grade, I listened to Celine ... where you can buy it. She never released it in the US

  • by Elizabeth Choe '13
  • August 30, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  from the off-campus grocery store (which isn't on the card). I also buy a ... , which I will editorially comment is not a weird question. I live in a ... around the room in your underwear. Not that I, um, know anybody who's ever

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Since U Been Gone While I was out, the world changed. (UPDATED)

  

  Saturday, when I was leaving on the T at 5:30 AM, I made sure to buy two $1 ... , where it sat in solitude for three weeks. I then, right before departing ... wanting to face the usual crowd coming off the train in South Station, I

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 1, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Almost Only Counts in Horseshoes I almost did it. Rather I almost didn't do it. And all for a class…

  

  thought you already took that class? Bryan: I did. I didn't realize how ... didn't finish the problem. I would have stayed up longer trying to finish ... So like Mitra pointed out in her blog this week, this week MIT

  • by Bryan
  • September 24, 2005
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Three of a perfect pair Biking! Clothing! Exploding! A day in the life.

  

  would do if she were there. In theory I should hate Dim Sum because 60 ... habit again while I was away in Philadelphia, this time on Matt's more ... forced her to do that because I thought it would be a cool blog picture

  • by Sam M. '07
  • July 5, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  Happy Valley and the Sandusky Scandal Penn State, Joe Paterno, State College: the stories you've heard and the town—my hometown—behind them.

  

  friend, accused of raping children and in all honesty I would probably tell ... would not have the library that I study in. We would not have the new ... Two weeks ago, while visiting my family in State College, I got to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • August 5, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  In Stereo

  

  fairly regularly. In my years at MIT, I've seen sneaks of such films as 8 ... movie derail me from that. I was thinking about how no colleges ever ... that military recruiters would sometimes stop by. So when I visit the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • October 8, 2004
• Blog / MIT Life

  I get a temporary cat and it comes with occupational hazards

  

  them to do it. PUF only sits if I’ve got a treat in my hand, and then ... I don’t consider it enough of a sit. 4. snuggling in weird positions ... . stealing in that PUF used to scream at me if I didn’t leave an arm outside

  • by Alice L. '24
  • September 7, 2022
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  to the skeletons in my closet an open letter to you

  

  jokingly believes that you do check in on me, seeing just how much i ... coming into mit being so afraid i would lose over friends over how i ... know how to lose friends with grace. in a way, i am thankful for you

  • by Cami M. '23
  • December 27, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  chugging along a week in my life

  

  minutes before my alarm goes off. i haven't woken up naturally in a while ... probably the neatest notes i have in any class this semester. i grab lunch ... building 46. i ask her to measure my pupillary distance so i can buy glasses

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • November 22, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I’m in Lusaka, baby, so why don’t you blog me? I told Sam to blog this entry since I'm in Zambia (that explains the title).

  

  butter), and go to the market to buy fabric for skirts/sarongs. I have not ... I am writing this from an internet cafe just outside Lusaka, Zambia ... just under a day, and we are staying in a guesthouse near the capital for

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 10, 2007
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  AARRRGHHHHH!!!!🏴‍☠️ (Pirate Post) A Review of 21M.299 - Pirate Songs and Whaling Chanteys

  

  I mentioned it in a previous blog, but this semester I took a class ... something like that. I think I’m going to concentrate in Music Technology if I ... Shanties. I read all 400 pages of this book in 2 hours in the McCormick hall

  • by Kayode D. '27
  • June 2, 2024
• Blog / MIT Life

  Common Misconceptions and Un-Expectations a list of things i've noticed

  

  with z e r o cooking experience and I mainly would just buy ingredients ... . In MIT speak, I'm a CMS/6-3 and this past semester I took 3.091, 21M.011, 18.01, and 8.01L. In non-MIT speak, I'm a double major in

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 5, 2020
• Blog / Classes

  busy semesters and how to manage them it's organizational structures all the way down

  

  not yet totally fallen apart.[/annotation] Before I describe how I ... . The theme is "How Can I Keep from Singing," which is extremely apt for ... write [annotation note="in fact, i wrote around 60 poems in 60 days during

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • March 10, 2021
• Blog / Admissions

  How to not love CPW but love MIT (for the most part at least)

  

  /social sciences person in high school (thought that I would go on to study some ... it more together than me). Worry #2: I became less sure I would fit in ... engineering department, but it’s just not something I would like to major in, so

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • April 30, 2018