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• Blog / How to MIT

  Laptops! It goes on the top of your lap.

  

  their computers). I would suggest buying a Thinkpad based on a) Price b ... the tablet. Tablets are amazing. I love them. How cool would it be to be ... campus-wide WI-FI. I always had this sparkling image of me, sitting in

  • by Snively '11
  • March 22, 2008
• Blog / Challenges

  it’s ok that it’s not ok sometimes things will happen, and you have to just let yourself be.

  

  how can you possibly go on. I think, in contrast to Kate, my self ... ’t know if he realized how badly this would hit me. Maybe I didn’t realize ... loud with wailing. But in that moment I think it would have been too

  • by Selam G. '18
  • May 4, 2018
• Blog / Personal Projects

  Poemtober! the only thing harder than writing is not writing

  

  would be. how very many lives you must be able to hold in your hands, if ... whale-song, encased in arctic ice I carved a chisel from my bones to free ... I fell behind, sometimes I would combine prompts, and I actually

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • November 17, 2018
• Blog / MISTI

  a night in hannover one of the most chaotic travel experiences of my life

  

  without any more additional delays I would only be home in Berlin three or ... the driver in a vaguely [annotation note="this is how I knew the guy was ... This summer, I'm doing MISTI-Germany and living in Berlin. I've been

  • by Gosha G. '24
  • July 13, 2022
• Blog / Events

  Party in the MIT This is some scary stuff.

  

  Tell the truth, how many current MIT students read the title of this entry and knew exactly what to expect when they clicked it? I know that at ... admissions website. The link has been sent to a couple of dorm lists and is

  • by Snively '11
  • September 25, 2009
• Blog / How to Food

  My life in the bush of ghosts The long-awaited chronicles of my life as a vegetarian.

  

  into a skillet to brown, and throwing in whatever vegtables I happen to ... chicken gyro in line ahead of me. I'd also get cravings only for the ... 's such a good deal! I don't know how they make money. I never ate there

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 19, 2005
• 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 ... again. Had I not gone to Six Flags, I would have gone to see the "24-hour

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 15, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  My Desk and the Things That Live There The things and fish on and around my desk and the stories behind them.

  

  cat figurine from my grandmother, I think bought in Moscow. A frog I ... wound up in Random Hall. I didn’t even recognize her when we re-met during ... (maybe two weeks)). A small melted candle (which I would never ever light

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 25, 2014
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or ... shirts to any location.I would appreciate if you mentioned this in your ... your MIT reply form with an affirmative response, check in here in the

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  An Origin Story Or how I learned to stop worrying and love the Jinchūriki

  

  , and I started thinking about Naruto and how he would have reacted in my ... in other people and screaming about his ninja way and how he would be ... it would be, or what exactly to say, but I guess it’s always good to

  • by kellen manning
  • January 28, 2020
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"

  

  one. Remember when I was a contestant in a blogging scholarship a while back? In the end I got a very commanding 4th place out of 20, and I ... for so many votes, but in the end it all worked out (I hope!). My prize

  • by Snively '11
  • January 12, 2009
• 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 / Personal Projects

  [Guest Post] How to Write a Chess Variant Website in Six Months protochess.com: the chess website that lets you make custom pieces and boards

  

  website. This blogpost is the story of how I wrote that website. Play on it ... , but in the end I'm happy with how it came out. I rewrote the chess ... website. I am incredibly proud of Raymond and have been so excited for this

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 3, 2020
• Blog / Advice

  A Pre-MIT To-Do List (International Students Version)

  

  might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani ... campus, which I am still very, very grateful for.  In addition to that ... 's climate in terms of how hot or windy or humid it is and pack accordingly

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

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

  

  look like tickets would be higher in price by Monday? How much extra would that be? Are there other websites to look at? And then I realized ... is, no, I've never really watched soccer before in my life, but the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Chaine asked, How do you schedule your UROP hours? I've noticed in the ... organized. I would love to have a file cabinet in my dorm. Is that allowed? Will I be able to find one in campus? (possibly for free?) I would hate

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  goal setting and organization how i organize my life!

  

  my macros. Which honestly in retrospect is terrible given how much I ... I often get asked how I organize my life, my time, and whatnot and while I'm not the most organized person in the world, I thought it'd be

  • by Cami M. '23
  • July 4, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  I think I am slowly going insane This is your brain on AI-generated videos

  

  on,” I thought, “is that how liquids should behave in real life? Those ... were bad – hilariously bad in many cases. I vividly remember watching one ... videos were generated for free, so I didn't expect them to be that good in

  • by Andi Q. '25
  • November 6, 2024
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Too Good To Go fighting food waste with good bargains

  

  someone who hasn’t changed their Chipotle order in years, I appreciate how ... bc I got his name verbally) is an ABSOLUTE GEM!! His energy would brighten up my day immensely. I'd buy an ($8.00) sandwich from him just to

  • by Audrey C. '24
  • July 19, 2022
• Blog / How to Food

  How to Survive in a Cook-for-Yourself Community and why meals plans are terrible

  

  wasn’t. Every dinner, I would gorge on stir-fry and Danish pastries and ... meals throughout the day; I got most of my calories in two giant portions ... celebrity drop-ins (and I doubt Tyra Banks or Robert Plant will visit Senior

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • June 10, 2017