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• Blog / Advice

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

  

  . There is a Target close to campus, where you can buy extension cords and ... [/annotation] so I was phone-less for a week or so and had to buy a new phone. 6 ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • July 17, 2023
• Blog / About Decisions

  A recipe for releasing decisions our LARGEST pi(e) day celebration yet...

  

  will be no interim screens, so you should be sure you are ready to ...    We decided to bake this enormous pie to remind you that MIT ... available, you will need to access decisions.mit.edu and log in using the same

  • by A Delicious Pie
  • March 7, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  Beauty and the Geek Some of the greatest companies in the world recruit at MIT. Apparently, so do some…

  

  is actually a really exciting opportunity. To my knowledge, there has ... Extreme Makeover Who Wants To Be a Hilton? Temptation Island Bachelorettes ... , this. Ruth '07, field reporter for http://sam.mitblogs.com, discovered

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 1, 2005
• Blog / Admissions

  CPW Day 3 A recap, with pictures.

  

  ... Got to MIT early, worked the help desk for a couple of hours. Headed ... ) where I got to meet a bunch of cool MIT alums (some of whom actually read ... LaVerde's to buy supplies for the MTB party (see pic below). $60 of ice

  • by Ben Jones
  • April 9, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  MIT Dorms: MacGregor House Because really, sometimes you just need your own space.

  

  As part x in a y-part series (which is to say that all the bloggers ... do not want to get fat. There's a big lounge called the TFL ... and a nice chunk of money to do with it what they wish. My entry, for

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • April 20, 2006
• Blog / IAP

  The most wonderful time of the year No, not Christmas... IAP!

  

  . It took a lot of time (the web archives go back to the 80's), but I ... , required to take 8 PE points. A PE class, which meets for about a month, is ... 're also required to pass a swim test, which I have heretofore been too lazy

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 11, 2006
• Blog / Events

  HST Forum 2006… for real The real thing.

  

  fact that they sent a photographer to the event since he asked me to move ... -- held its 2006 Forum last Thursday, and my friend Veena '06 invited me to ... AIDS Research Center, a world-renowned biomedical research institute. He

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 28, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Meditation Mondays Achieving inner peace, just in time for my 14.05 pset

  

  This was a fantastic session, short enough to appeal to beginners, but long enough to achieve a little harmony and inner peace. If you're on ... meditation and an experience of guided visualization, a simple, nonsectarian

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • October 16, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  42 Recipes for Surviving Freshman Year (Part 1) Feeding yourself without a meal plan and avoiding the (negative) freshman fifteen.

  

  will eventually get around to buying a tiny electric grill; if you have ... it gets cold every year, to Miami for New Year’s and a Green Christmas ... plum sauce, because I’m allergic to cranberries, and farina cake after a

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • December 3, 2013
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Week 1 Autumn tastes like warm apple pie covered in bacon.

  

  this class. I'm already 3% of the way to completing 8.07! Don't give up now! (Bonus: Thanks to funding from the MIT Class of '22, everyone in 8.07 ... extrapolation, I conclude that 8.07 will give me a new car before October.) -Film

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • September 13, 2009
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Not an actual entry Warning: I am apparently in a run-on sentence/overuse of parenthetical statements mood today.

  

  mountain to watch Adam's ski competition. Our friends Mark '07 and Jay '08 ... blast, though. (I'll put a picture of me and my bro on later to embarrass ... Sunday, at which Adam had too much fun being a pirate. Our friend Mark '07

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 3, 2006
• Blog / Athletics

  How to jump out of an airplane and live We have football, pistol, fencing, and TKD. . . but did you know we also…

  

  a year since I've graduated and I'm happy to report that real life isn ... cash, got strapped to a skydiver, and was pushed out of a plane.  It was ... in a classroom with 4 other guys learning the finer points of how to

  • by Snively '11
  • July 31, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A week in the life

  

  EHS training Yeah, I'm excited to finally have a UROP. This was my ... -ed service fraternity. It's a lot of fun. I have to go to the meetings, even if ... party, including a "virgin sacrifice" (Crystle '07, my frosh-year roommate

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • September 25, 2005
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Boston Fun Tons of Boston fun, with a dash of Cambridge, too.

  

  , so I've been spending a lot of time wandering through Boston ... Common Ice skating at Frog Pond (in a few months) Sam does his best ... Longfellow Bridge Newbury St. The new way to spell Greek food at

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • September 8, 2005
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome

  

  , and down 24 to Berkeley. I had dinner in a lovely Italian restaurant ... Welcome to the new blogs server! I'm currently at my summer ... fan), but I can make random references to geography and pop culture. And

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • June 30, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Productive, yes. Appropriately productive, no. You would think that my activities the weekend before finals might include studying.

  

  -new adult, FCU is a good place to start. If nothing else, use it to buy a ... I sold several old textbooks back to the Coop, sold a few more on Amazon Marketplace, and got stopped next to the Stata Center to take a

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 21, 2006
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Live Kernel Patching System An MIT alum and graduate student just released a system for applying Linux kernel updates…

  

  automatically patching a Linux kernel without reboots. Jeff Arnold '07, MEng '08 ... a patch to the source code, to generate a kernel module which, when ... This is partially a plug for a friend of mine, but it's also a really

  • by Evan B. '10
  • April 23, 2008
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  True Love I think I am in love.

  

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  • by Mitra L. '07
  • March 2, 2006
• Blog / Personal Travel

  Thing-A-Mah-Bobs Never walk up to a duck trying to cross the street

  

  : Why do you or don’t you feel a personal obligation to 'buy local ... island to get their opinions on what it means to them to buy locally. As ... ! But it was just a dream. So I guess I’ll check Caucasian” [Q: To you

  • by Cydnie T. '12
  • July 8, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  3 Lessons Learned While Hiking and what they'll teach me here

  

  been in a position to take the semester off, to have supportive family ... longer aspire to drive a Porsche Carrera or live in a multimillion dollar ... your life, money can’t buy happiness. This will translate to my life at

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • July 26, 2011