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  Calculating a Quantitative Snapshot of Fall Semester Skip to the end for a picture of peas

  

  units for a full-time student is 36. I’ve been following the lead of my ... interesting(?) and noteworthy(??) statistics from my fall semester in a ... ; That’s basically a whole February. I spent an entire February of this

  • by Krystal L. '17
  • December 20, 2015
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Under the Dome A full day of free fun at MIT

  

  seem to have a thing already for free events at MIT. I'll cut to the ... creations. There isn”t much left I can get my teenagers to do with me on a ... ? How about a puzzle hunt at the MIT Museum written specially for MIT

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 22, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Burning questions A lot of people had questions!

  

  from the off-campus grocery store (which isn't on the card). I also buy a ... mythical. Darn, there needs to be a Snopes for MIT urban legends. One day I ... admissions stuff, but I got tired of typing and went to eat a piece of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • January 21, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Q&A Passing along some e-mails, and my responses to them.

  

  undergraduate studies. Would engineering provide a broader base from which I can ... participating that i can write down in this 'list' where my passion, for what i ... Sometimes, I receive e-mails from prospective students. I posted a

  • by Anna H. '14
  • September 21, 2013
• Blog / How to Human

  How to Meet More People a guest post from Amy F. '20

  

  What follows is a thought that I've mulled over recently put into ... ado... How do I meet know more people (To new friendships! A special ... strongest friendships. For example, I met my best friend (hey Alex!) four

  • by Alexa J. '20
  • June 18, 2018
• Blog / Challenges

  [Guest Post] Things to do while waiting for decisions by emily '22, alison '23, felix '23

  

  Make a 100 layer crepe cake Buy some semi-temporary tattoo ink and ... backpack for a week Try to get over your fear of how ugly the titans are and ... / friends and do a karaoke night Impulse buy yourself a new plushie friend

  • by kellen manning
  • February 1, 2021
• Blog / Uncategorized

  what not to pack for the dorms pretty much everything, honestly

  

  from Boston. As much as I love a long drive, that’s not for the faint of heart, and it made a lot more sense for me to fly in when I was a freshman ... can’t tough it out. I ended up buying a small little 10” fan, and it was

  • by Taylor L. '29
  • July 9, 2026
• Blog / Uncategorized

  Today A Trader Joe's monologue

  

  what to buy, and where things are located. I inspect a bag of clementines ... smoking a Marlboro Red. I can tell without looking, because I remember ... a particularly long time, so I opted to walk down eight flights of

  • by Ella T. '25, MEng '26
  • April 23, 2022
• Blog / How to Human

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

  

  like a car. Granted, paying for gas is like pulling teeth and I can ... cu. Ft.), I hope and pray that somehow, perhaps for Christmas, a ... how great they are. So, I've compiled a list! For the prefrosh out there

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

  Advice for Seniors From me to you. Why? Because I care

  

  I have been back from my fall travel rounds for almost a week now ... suggestions for me? A: I know that the application process can be really nerve ... between. My trip was a lot of fun! I saw the Pacific Ocean…… ….got lost

  • by Quinton McArthur
  • October 10, 2009
• Blog / Research & Work Abroad

  Greetings from Switzerland

  

  Lausanne, Switzerland, where I've been living for the past 10 days. I'm writing this from a computer in EPFL's Brain Mind Institute, where I work. I ... on the Internet, but I need to have time to acquire a power adaptor for

  • by Jessie L. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / MIT Life

  Love is Blinds A short, fairly irrelevent entry, as told from the perspective of the 7+ people who…

  

  Economy Hardware tomorrow morning. ME: Oh, can I come? I need to buy blinds ... Ave VARIOUS FRAT BOYS: (thinking) I wonder if that kid is a freshman ... Hardware ANGELA: Oh, are you buying 37"? That was the kind I was returning. I

  • by Jess K. '10
  • August 31, 2008
• Blog / MIT Life

  hot chocolate as a panacea navigating through a chaotic first week

  

  —shoutout to Selena and Sarah—mostly so I can spend some time away from my ... before i left for boston, and i cried...a lot. the complex mother ... remove myself from the waitlist for 21L.015, but then I had to figure out

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • September 7, 2020
• Blog / MIT Life

  One thing every woman’s missed in Massachusetts Bay Sam and Shana have gone to look for America, starting in Philadelphia.

  

  needed to do were to buy a map, enlist the help of a local, and marry Amber ... inbound train to city hall, figuring it to be a good place to start. From ... a quarter pound of fudge to hold us over until dinner. While buying

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 15, 2005
• Blog / Events

  Walkin’ Enjoy my expository, mediocre investigative photojournalism!

  

  from idleness. My thought process went as follows: I can either not buy food and do my work, or I can buy food and... probably still do my work ... up buying at the store. Ice cream is a catalyst for productivity

  • by Jackie M. '20
  • September 16, 2017
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  ILGs at MIT They're independent! (Guest post by Sondy '07/G/awesome.)

  

  friggin' cold here right now? Where I come from, we don't have things like ... upkeep, food (I'll get to that later), paying for our two cats, and buying ... from having the kitchen stocked by a student elected to buy groceries to

  • by Keri G. '10
  • March 5, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Lessons from Loomis and Whitney a math month post

  

  irks me about a proof. I can write it down from start to finish. Examine ... the math stuff, you can scroll on through to Part 2 where I talk about ...  size (i.e. how many) points there are in the shadows of $A$, can we get a

  • by Paige B. '24
  • April 23, 2024
• Blog / Events

  Silent Dance Party If we had the chance, we'd ask the world to dance.

  

  living in a double), it does have its perks (I can drink juice from the ... It's been a while! I fully apologize for not writing since getting to ... in the future. On a more positive note, I have a single for the first

  • by Jess K. '10
  • September 17, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  Engineer, Blogger… Rhodes Scholar (!) Melis wins the Rhodes Scholarship!

  

  , she has a perfect academic record at M.I.T. She has done research in ... University in England. "I'm tremendously excited," Anahtar, 21, a ... On Saturday, the Rhodes Trust announced the 32 Americans who have won

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • November 20, 2007
• Blog / Challenges

  new information about my life just dropped [ from the archive ] roses, thorns, and buds

  

  part a thorn. My junior spring is the only semester I can remember where ... Massachusetts.  I needed a car for the summer since my internship was in Western ... is also the first time in my three years as a design student where I

  • by Teresa J. '26
  • February 21, 2026