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• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  How to Survive a Nor’easter New England hath no flurries like a winter storm

  

  'easter is a big snowstorm and a virtually seasonal aspect of New England life ... conditions here in Cambridge. The good news is there's not much that you can ... issue. A more realistic threat is that of having nothing to do. This

  • by Emad T. '14
  • January 11, 2011
• Blog / Art, Literature, Music

  Quick Guide to Adobe Illustrator The very basics, for people who have never used it

  

  3, green, so each object is outlined in green, and there's a green box ... teach them how to use Illustrator so I've decided to write a blog about it ... thing to do when you open Illustrator is to make a new document. You can

  • by Jamie C. '19
  • February 19, 2019
• Blog / MIT Life

  This is my summer break california, nasa, pedestians, wifi

  

  've searched far and wide. Today marks the two-and-a-half week anniversary of my ... celebrate, I worked until 8 and started writing this blog entry. There's much to tell but if a picture's worth a thousand words, then 18 pictures are

  • by Lulu L. '09
  • June 22, 2007
• Blog / Admissions

  Home is where the heart (of Texas) is Going away to school isn't such a bad thing.

  

  backpack and two duffel bags and a whole lot of boxes and moved almost 2000 ... college. But is that such a bad thing? I mean, college in general is going ... things. Coming back to Texas allows me to think about how my MIT

  • by Bryan
  • December 30, 2006
• Blog / Hacks

  some things my eyes saw recently (this is exactly what it says on the tin)

  

  I have seen much in these past weeks. Here is a small selection ... the dome decoration is here.) It must have taken a lot of work and it ... packed boxes: many, many boxes. I'm moving to a different room next year

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • May 24, 2019
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  home is where the whiteboard is a tradition, continued untraditionally

  

  My dorm, East Campus, is a space made to be shaped by the people ... ... and then we immediately realized how immensely useful it is. Now, we use ... free, or confirm that someone is likely to be around at a certain time

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • December 30, 2020
• Blog / Life after MIT

  Everything is different now That's ok, I have a cat now

  

  The student blogger named Mimi is a much different person than I am ... Mimi is quite literally just me from a few years ago, but there are so ... bad for me to show up as a transgender woman”. I pulled back as much as

  • by Mimi S. '22
  • January 27, 2025
• Blog / How to Human

  how to meet curious people

  

  decided on 18.032. I dislike black-boxes—a system that functions with opaque ... magazine, and is now pursuing a physics PhD, or Steven, who got a creative ... say I’m a nerd for caring so much about learning certain topics outside

  • by Rona W. '23
  • April 19, 2023
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Global Languages Freshman Learning Community engaging frosh done right

  

  cultures. There also is a special focus on global responses to the Covid-19 pandemic, with discussions of how policy implementation is influenced by ... Studies, visited the class to show everyone how to make a German apple cake

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • November 6, 2020
• Blog / How to Food

  A week told through food warning: lots of food pictures

  

  Some of you may wonder: how do people eat food without a meal plan ... and other meals every day, but I didn’t know how much of what I was eating was free, how much I cooked, and how much I bought. I thought making

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • November 18, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  work thoughts on productivity and a post-mortem of my spring semester

  

  had a problem.   In my head, work is an escape. Working is how I ... , because this box is sad and boring, and there’s a whole wide world of ... carry a box up the stairs. Doing things with a purpose is good, and useful

  • by Alice L. '24
  • July 5, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting

  

  the food scale out of the pic, so you have to squint, but this is a box ... a big snacker and always have been -- that's just how my metabolism ... : I don't bake as much bread these days as I did a couple years ago

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • February 24, 2023
• Blog / Events

  Re-halloween Reuse, reduce, recycle, remember not to leave junk outside your door.

  

  already doing this one for Halloween. After much deliberation, I came to a ... . What the heck, thought I, a wave reflector is a wave reflector. Into my ... . Cheapness is a nirvana, and the road to enlightenment is lined with random

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • November 6, 2008
• FAQ / Afford

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  Detailed information about tuition and fees, housing and dining, and books and personal expenses are broken down in detail here. If you have a specific question or concern regarding financial aid, visit Student Financial
• Blog / Challenges

  how to get to Boston the VERY HARD way

  

  is easy these days. Fact 1: my internship switched to being a Canadian ... do when on a finite-length trip. We found (after much difficulty) the ... -crossing passenger bridge with all my possessions on a hand cart. *cliche mid-00s kids

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • September 19, 2020
• Blog / Athletics

  An Atypical Saturday That followed an atypical week.

  

  certainly an unusual place. Case in point: no one really asks how your day is; they ask how your week is. That's because most MIT students take this place one week at a time. For me, each week is like a round in a boxing

  • by Derrick B. '08
  • September 30, 2007
• Blog / Events

  Unknowns in illustrated list form

  

  . (And by join a team I mean spend much less than a day out of the three ... out what kind of a puzzle it even is! After solving a disney music song ... the hunt's headquarters came to us with a chained up box that we needed

  • by Ana V. '15
  • February 10, 2015
• Blog / MIT Life

  Books write our life stories Philosophy, astronomy, religion, neurology - and my plans for the future.

  

  discovery. Exaclty how this came to pass is a long story and I'll skip it here ... ultimately accumulates. I unfolded a cardboard box, switched on my desk lamp ... across the globe. On the far left is Plato’s Gorgias. There is a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • April 30, 2014
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Summertime When the Thrills are Cheap and the living is easy.

  

  'm working on is a bit different. For this experiment, I've built two boxes ... 'd like to major in a life science. Biology is boring in my humblest of ... was a fair benchmark for which course to declare, so Brain and Cog it is

  • by Ahmed H. '12
  • July 28, 2009
• Blog / Challenges

  stepping back on keeping your priorities straight

  

  reminder of how easy it is to pass a day without making the most of it. I ... things in your life seem almost too much to handle, when 24 hours in a day ... picked up a box of pebbles and poured them into the jar. He shook the jar

  • by Connie H. '15
  • November 30, 2012