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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  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 / Athletics

  Marathon Sports The store has the word "marathon" in it, so it has to be good, right?…

  

  do sit-ups in the mornings. About a month ago, I got the crazy idea to ... "Running Store" category for the past 5 years. I'm not sure how much ... running shorts to make trying out the new shoes easier. I thought I would

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 13, 2005
• 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 / MISTI

  10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…

  

  at the wrong exit and panicked, and did what I would in the States if I ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in ... thought it would be funny if I rode a bus called "Ladies Dream." I missed

  • by Jess K. '10
  • June 29, 2009
• 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  I won the game! Not (quite) another picture entry... with Tastykakes!

  

  in Harrisburg, PA and I thought I'd spend it posting old photos on this ... ." Although I was discouraged after my poor performance in the regular field of play, I was lucky enough to get a tractor in the bonus barn, netting me

  • by Sam M. '07
  • January 6, 2006
• Blog / How to Human

  Dishwashers, parents, space: what do these things have in common?

  

  . Unfortunately, whenever I wash my dishes in my hall's sink (which measures about 1 ... ready to clean months of caked-on food. I abhor washing dishes in our tiny ... how great they are. So, I've compiled a list! For the prefrosh out there

  • by Melis A. '08
  • October 9, 2005
• Blog / Challenges

  how can i keep from singing? a midpoint check-in

  

  life would be sustainable in Boston without an auxiliary income. I try to ... . Tenors are always in short supply, so I sign up. It’s a pretty good gig; I ... that I’ve been able to sing with a large ensemble in person, and it is

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • July 22, 2021
• Blog / MIT Life

  The Finals Blog but not the final blog unless something terrible happens to me in the next 48…

  

  is how I learned that Matt McGann has a giant log in his room for ... Today I sprinted down Massachusetts Avenue in a noontime spritz of ... delivered to me a message from a high school friend, querying how much I liked

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • December 19, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  I Remember…

  

  wouldn't you know it, I still keep in touch with a few of them. And I would ... , classes, and research. Instead of buying new gadgets, I would save up my ... in my own MIT application. I remember the day I brought it to the post

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / How to Food

  Gluten-free at MIT Oh hey, that rhymes!

  

  cause anaphylaxis, but I'm wondering how food-allergies are accommodated ... in a dorm with a dining hall requires that you buy into the House ... hall: "I live in Baker now and I have to pay for preferred dining, so I

  • by Keri G. '10
  • April 2, 2008
• Blog / Life after MIT

  packing for the road looking back on nights that last forever

  

  table saw my handful of plastic Ben Franklins and invited me to buy in. I ... basement. I went to get water and two people were switching shirts in front ... . But before my would-be opponent and I could find a suitable table

  • by Amber V. '24
  • April 27, 2024
• 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 / 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 / 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