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  The Concert / The View

  

  One of the interesting things that I do as a commonplace concert goer that non-concert goers may never understand is waiting. I wait in line, a ... concert. Concerts typically sell general admissions tickets, alternately

  • by Cami M. '23
  • October 23, 2022
• Blog / MIT Life

  Senioritis We'd fight for a cure if we weren't so lazy.

  

  . Where does one buy MIT textboooks? The Coop definitely sells textbooks ... that this email address will be seen by all your friends, professors, and ... . I wanted to buy towels and bedsheets for our new apartment. Adam

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • May 2, 2006
• Blog / Events

  Free Lunch Who says there is no such thing?

  

  agricultural sustainability across the global system. Just the other day through ... MITFAC website. 1) Can you offer a seasonal menu featuring locally grown ... ’? 2) Can you cater a meal using all or mostly certified organic

  • by Kris Guay
  • March 23, 2012
• Blog / How to Human

  Boston Calling Everything I know about having a phone at MIT.

  

  much better place to buy cell phones or get service, just let me know and ... might want to look into getting a new area code or a different carrier ... people have similar trouble with T-Mobile, which is unsurprising since even

  • by Sam M. '07
  • August 3, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The Mathematics of People Guest post on Economics

  

  reach out to him and the UEA at [email protected] or me at azukibean ... . And so with this mathematician's brain, I discovered Economics, or “the ... this idea or why I thought it would work, but it did and I got hooked on

  • by Caroline M. '18
  • April 28, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Global Poverty: ‘This Is Our Crisis’ People lead busy lives, and fighting poverty is hardly an extracurricular activity to which most…

  

  convinced that MIT students have the ingenuity to address global poverty. Thus did the Global Poverty Initiative (GPI) come into being. I first ... people who want to set up businesses or avail themselves of other economic

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • October 31, 2007
• Blog / MIT Life

  I’m in Round 2! Can You Help Me Make the Top 10? Change.org is running a competition that'll propel 10 ideas to the fore of the next…

  

  . In Round 1, people came up with 7,783 ideas. Only 87 (about 1%) made it to Round 2, and the idea to "Establish a 'Global Challenges Wikipedia ... The proposed wiki would describe the following for every pressing global

  • by The Humanitarian Blog
  • January 2, 2009
• Blog / Academics & Research

  it’s always day 1 a meticulous account of my last first day

  

  , mechanical engineering, or political science that I will not be able satisfy ... , since I am at least honest enough to acknowledge that it will not receive ... these, please go to whereis.mit.edu, or read this helpful CJ blog post

  • by Alan Z. '23, MEng '24
  • February 7, 2023
• Blog / IAP

  Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy, and How to Sell Staplers the makings of a great IAP

  

  , branded, impersonal, magical, historic or tragic. I'd call Friday something ... analyzing the success of Rebecca Black, the Old Spice Guy and selling staplers ... to possessing one or more of these qualities: being a simple story

  • by Connie H. '15
  • January 21, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  HackMIT 2017 fourth time seen, first time competing

  

  's challenge was to use their new Marvel API in your project. 1000 ... the ConsenSys talk, learning how to integrate a software called MetaMask ... do or quit moment. I had quit my first hackathon and I wasn't going to

  • by Erick P. '17
  • September 25, 2017
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Reporting from… Doha! 🐫🐫 ft: the first time I ever rode on a camel

  

  This winter, before arriving at my [annotation note="Global Teaching ... bookings in Doha. Here's a recount of my adventure! Hopefully, this will be the start to a fruitful series of Fiona Travel Blogs. Day 0 - 1/2 I

  • by Fiona L. '27
  • January 18, 2025
• Blog / Events

  This School’s Big Game: a fun way to think too hard (how MIT Mystery Hunt works, now in Up-Goer Five)

  

  3V0IvqW We love to build very strange things for type 1 or 2 fun at ... I love to play with big weird words, so writing in Up-Goer Five makes ... -paper, like "cross words", or [annotation note="anagramming"]moving the letters

  • by Rachel F. '12
  • January 25, 2024
• Blog / Blog Projects

  For the next two weeks we will all use fewer words here

  

  different. From 1/15 to 1/31, the people who write here may write only using ... with this picture that he made to teach about  goer five using only these words. Over the next two weeks you will see many words — but also fewer

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • January 15, 2024
• Blog / Classes

  tea shirt the tea and stories behind the merch in my closet

  

  1.5 years physically at MIT and my one splendid Zoom U semester, I ... , work with admissions, or do some stuff in student government… which ... ’s interesting how much having a good/bad teacher can make or break one’s opinion

  • by Waly N. '24
  • June 19, 2022
• Blog / Challenges

  Set Your Alarm for CPW 2019 i'm entirely serious

  

  CPW 2019 is happening this week, starting on Thursday! There are hundreds of student-run events to welcome the class of 2023 and help them figure out if MIT is the right place for them. This amazing blog post by Yuliya

  • by Kathleen E. '23
  • April 10, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Memory down résumé lane Serif or sans-serif?

  

  current MIT address or home address. Some put both, but I initally only put ... high school, and you may or may not have a résumé already. So what should ... résumé, and fluffed it up a bit. Also, pro tip, as a freshman, since you

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • September 20, 2016
• Blog / Personal Projects

  A Recycled-Material Selfie Stick Engineering and problem solving in developing nations (the most important problems only, of course....)

  

  sell just broken, beat-up electronics that people buy for parts. You can ... attends LG Technical School (as in, LG the Korean mobile phone company) in ... things apart and putting them back together--or trying to, and sometimes

  • by Selam G. '18
  • November 1, 2016
• Blog / MIT Life

  Valentine’s Day Special Featuring calculus, people who hate me, and a picture puzzle

  

  Today, I will dispel two common misconceptions about MIT: 1. MIT ... will presumably buy MIT pens that they could have snagged for free in the ... momentous failure of Blog Picture Puzzle #1, I will (1) never speak of cake

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • February 14, 2009
• Blog / Admissions

  Info for the Class of 2013 The "Next Big Mailing" is on its way out, and with it lots of goodies…

  

  as the "A60" for historical reasons we can no longer remember, the NBM ... (Athena/Kerberos) account, including your email address. [sample Account ... email address: Once chosen, you cannot change your Kerberos account name

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 8, 2009
• Blog / How to Human

  The Quest Continues and into the open world i go

  

  , 2021 at 5 pm EST, if I actually post this on time - I will no longer be ... on paper, I will be. As far as I’m concerned though, I’ll only really ... if the 2021s will actually get a graduation ceremony though. It

  • by Nisha D. '21
  • January 29, 2021