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• Blog / Personal Travel

  Trip to Princeton U Taking advantage of the three-day weekend by taking a trip to Princeton!

  

  refreshing alternative to corporate Starbucks. A little later, we went rock ... mtvU. He deferred for a year to be in Andrew Lippas' Broadway-bound A Little Princess. Afterwards, we went to a hilarious improv show and hung

  • by Melis A. '08
  • February 20, 2006
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!

  

  nights Time kept a rhythm, while we scraped along Now we start to peer ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... Dial Gold." So due to my mother's frugality, I bought a huge package of

  • by Chris S. '11
  • December 6, 2009
• Blog / MIT Life

  The last few days of summer I think I spent them well.

  

  . During the school year, my calendar looks, to quote my friend: "like a ... , who was willing (and had enough faith in me!) to give me a calculus ... didn't have to do that) and took me out to get a pedicure (my toenails

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 6, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Reading, Thinking and Igniting Innovation Rational optimism about MIT and the future

  

  water (give it a negative charge) and channel it through magnets to propel ... knowledge, MIT students are ready to tackle the more rigorous and challenging ... for more then just more classes. They help me to take a more informed

  • by Gabe B. '13
  • August 5, 2011
• Blog / Challenges

  You’re stressed. So are we; here's how we deal with it.

  

  , we split up, I towards Harvard to buy a Christmas present for the ... interface. I need to tell you a story, prospective students and fellow MIT ... much time; at midnight, a blogger moratorium kicks in. To respect the

  • by Anna H. '14
  • December 17, 2011
• Blog / How to Food

  Recipe for Fun Learning how to cook is as easy as 1..2..3!

  

  A couple of you asked for the recipe for my plantain crusted salmon ... Pepper Lemon Garlic Powder Oregano Olive Oil Instructions: Preheat oven to ... sides of the salmon with salt and pepper. In a blender or food processor

  • by Bryan
  • July 2, 2006
• 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 / 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 / Classes

  [live blogging] astronomy field camp sky stalking in tenerife

  

  together and input to a script which runs them automatically. So, you can let ... , which led to a long series of crying over graduate school applications ... Minesweeper by 10 seconds (to 120 seconds)!! we found a supernova in a nice, big

  • by Fatima A. '25
  • January 14, 2025
• 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 / 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

  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 / 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
• Blog / MIT Life

  Welcome to MIT! blogging guilt eased...

  

  /lounges/libraries/other favorite study spot to ready themselves for the barrage of final projects and ... from Chris P.) for a few minutes to welcome all the new pre-frosh to MIT ... wonderful (but extremely intense) four years of your life. I was talking to a

  • by Becca H. '12
  • May 3, 2011
• Blog / How to Human

  intention via YearCompass

  

  a loaded shotgun ready to go off. I'm learning that there are ways to ... Every year, I try to set aside a chunk of time to reflecting on the ... was a really fun exercise to do because I genuinely forgot that so many

  • by Cami M. '23
  • January 1, 2023
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  SCIENCE ALERT: “smoking gun” evidence for Alan Guth’s theory of inflation! Good thing I already have Alan Guth's signature on all of my class registration forms.

  

  the Virgo galaxy cluster, of which the Milky Way is a member. We, of ... , there's Big Science News: we're a huge leap closer to understanding ... off to find exam booklets for me. Twenty seconds later, I had a fangirl

  • by Anna H. '14
  • March 17, 2014
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  translate to a day in my life where I feel like I'm on top of the world, doing ... energy to. But unlike my previous sidequests, I'll have a lot of time - and hopefully, a lot of joie de vivre - to complete these with. They're things

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Une expérimentation de l’indépendance: partie la troisième attention, s'il vous plaît--j'ai une annonce. et aussi, beaucoup de photos.

  

  quelle langue je veux apprendre suivant. Il y a trop de choix: peut-être je ... Goddard. On a vu toutes les salles blanches, notamment la plus grande salle ... 'infrarouge pour examiner les premières étoiles et galaxies dans l'univers. C'est un

  • by Allan K. '17
  • January 21, 2014