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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Vertigo My brain hurts.

  

  Arlington Gateway hotel in Virginia - and feeling overwhelming vertigo. I had ... of New House + McCormick. I grew up in Singapore and London, which have ... having a total blast. I tried to estimate how many towns like it there were

  • by Anna H. '14
  • October 28, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  ‘Twas a good semester ‘twas :’( the end of Pass/No Record

  

  God, the snow. There hasn’t been any snow in North Carolina since I ... outside, staring in unbroken awe at the air. I don’t know how long it took ... how certain I was that I would dive head-on into the waiting classes and

  • by Vincent A. '17
  • December 29, 2013
• 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 this month. How sweet is that? Anything Into Oil By Brad Lemley ... Korean-American woman who weights 105 lbs. She recently finished 3rd in the

  • by Sam M. '07
  • April 5, 2006
• 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 ... 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

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

  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 ... don't know how any of these kids could buy into such C-tier storytelling

  • by Aiden H. '28
  • December 16, 2024
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!

  

  relevant to my life/things I would actually buy or not!) So I thought today ... the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... am always doing that which I cannot do in order that I may learn how to

  • by Selam G. '18
  • December 11, 2017
• Blog / Athletics

  Marathon Monday A Boston institution.

  

  celebratory atmosphere. I made my way from North Station to Kenmore Square ... this segment of Commonwealth. And I’m reminded again how nice Kenmore and ... Yesterday was the third Monday in April, meaning it’s Patriots’ Day

  • by Elijah T. '11
  • April 19, 2011
• Blog / Internships & Externships

  i quit an internship on the second day cut your losses early

  

  until, at the end, one of the founders asked me how much compensation I ... my reservations—I thought it was bad form for them to ask me how much I ... sit in an empty Zoom room for thirty minutes; during this time, I sent

  • by Rona W. '23
  • November 6, 2022
• Blog / Summer

  MNL → BOS → SFO we live in a so(ci)e(ty)

  

  I love cities, and I've lived in cities all my life. I grew up in ... Francisco. Well, I lived in Manila, as much as I've lived in Boston and San ... right now I'm in Mountain View, an hour long drive from SF. The scales of

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • June 1, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  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 / How to Boston and Beyond

  An unexpected discovery, from a few centuries ago It takes more than four years to get to know a place

  

  This is my fourth year in Cambridge. But earlier this week I learned how little I still know about where I live. Last weekend, I went on a grocery run. It was wine and cheese night in my suite, so I was preparing an

  • by Anelise N. '19
  • September 20, 2018
• 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 / How to Human

  Things to do before you graduate

  

  that I've actually done, including getting published in the Tech. In ... , that's a nice reasonable list. In case you're wondering, I've done 24 of ... Every new freshman class gets, in their Orientation folders, a little

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • August 29, 2005
• 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