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Blog / MIT History & Culture
Ode to a Package of Dial Soap Substantial entries will come soon!
to see how much I've grown In brainpower and stamina for sleepless ... shopping there And when I was about to buy soap, I Reached for the three ... -bars Of soap can last me for five semesters But I say, that's the magic of -
Blog / Academics & Research
Activities, humanities, question-ities Will you have time to be in an extracurricular at MIT? Yes, you will.
probably can't do ten. I personally do one activity plus a UROP, partially because I live in the boondocks and it annoys me to go back to campus after ... any cheer expereince in high school, but I was wondering if it is a pre -
Blog / MIT Life
All the food in my cabinet Like an unboxing, but an uncabineting
card and can get in. For that reason, I usually don't own these, but I ... tea in the next photo...) Nutella: what more can I say? I love bread ... -affordable grocery store in Central Square! They're relatively small so I buy most of -
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 ... , congratulations! You have a lot to be proud about. From experience, I can say that ... might be able to help you around campus. I got in touch with the Pakistani -
FAQ / Academics and research
Where can I find info on the School of Engineering?
on in every department, lab, and classroom. There's way too much to write about in one paragraph, so check out their site and explore what our -
Blog / MISTI
10:31 I wrote this entry on my iPhone about two minutes after boarding the 11:10 train…
:31." "Ahh, yes, I'm so sorry.." "When is the next one?" "11:10. You can buy ... 57 bucks on a bus 40 minutes after the one I had bought a ticket for in ... at the wrong exit and panicked, and did what I would in the States if I -
Blog / Life after MIT
My Least Responsible Purchase I'm an impulse buyer but THIS was a bit much
I saw my first Tesla in July, 2009. I knew what Teslas were but it ... fell in love with it. It was the second Tesla I'd ever seen up close and in real life. "I love your car," I told her, "I'm very jealous." "You -
Blog / MIT Life
Two Cool Projects
In this second-to-last entry, I want to encourage all of you to check ... and the unique pieces placed in Art Galleries, where people will be able ... individually. Sinchi Warmi can choose to ask its members to contribute a portion -
Blog / Classes
Eating Too Much Cake Just kidding, this post is about physics
eight. You say, “Mom, can I buy that entire cake and eat it?” Of course ... Sixteen months ago, in April, I made a promise to myself: if you ... ="Pizza, you idiot, you were in Naples"]pizza[/annotation] . I was ready once -
Blog / Academics & Research
Livescribe’s Pulse Pen AKA, the "Magic Pen"
enjoying the laziest IAP I can muster. I sleep until at least noon every day ... 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 -
Blog / MIT Life
shifting seasons something reflective
i should buy a plastic wastebin to wash my bulky wool sweaters in. (i ... where it lives in my mind and peering at what lies within. some of this unboxing was literal -- i visited my family's place in vancouver over winter -
Blog / MIT Life
Far and Away I was going to get philosophical, but then I thought about Hugh Jackman.
me at all, unlike Spiderman 2, where the value of an eigenvector can be ... inappropriate, because I saw it in Harrisburg and not at MIT. Also, my 8 ... mutant army to Alcatraz. 5. I am in love with Ian McKellen, and my favorite -
Blog / Miscellaneous
What’s in My Bag? My everyday carry!
on hand when I’m in a rush, and where everything that doesn’t fit into ... the only things I write with. I buy them in bulk. It all started in high ... They say you can tell a lot about a person by what’s in their bag. Or -
FAQ / Academics and research
Where can I find info on Aero/Astro?
AeroAstro the oldest and most respected university aerospace program in the United States, and it's easy to see why. They have an Interactive Robotics lab, a Human Systems lab, a Space Propulsion lab—and the -
Blog / MIT Life
A Case of the Saturdays This is the true story of 5 mechanical engineers and 1 neuroscientist selected to spend…
tickets any MIT student can buy through MITAC. And thus, on a Saturday I actually planned on sleeping in, I was out of the house by 7:30 and on my way ... Hurricane Harbor, the water park where we swam amidst 12 year olds in a wave -
Blog / How to Boston and Beyond
How to survive your first winter: a college student’s guide written by a transplant from sunny Los Angeles
midlayers! (1) Baselayers When I'm in the city, I usually just wear cotton t ... ItForLife, but I think that particularly with coats and boots, buying quality items ... ^ how not to do it. "Help! I'm from [Los Angeles -
Blog / How to Human
you can run but you can't hide
down these rabbit holes where I return to the past, entryways found in ... where the past can touch me. And so I pick myself back up again and I ... can't stop the dread that pools in your stomach. And inevitably, I fall -
Blog / Art, Literature, Music
gesturing around MIT drawing sights and sites around MIT
. 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 ... conveniently 1 minute away from my dorm room. In fact, I can see it from my -
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 ... listening in health class. Your advisor? Rightttt! I think most people really
