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  Putting food on the table daily with Daily Table affordable, nutritious, and delicious groceries near MIT

  

  those opportunity buys are clutch. For example: I like salad. I can grow my own tomatoes in a bucket on my stoop, but I can't really grow a lot ... I have worked at MIT since 2009, and lived less than a mile away, in

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • September 24, 2021
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  EC Gothic/Screaming (“I don’t want to work on psets”) Apparently a work order has been fulfilled. But whose?

  

  . You blink and look down at the studfinder in your hands. I give you a ... uneasily in his lonely office. I give you a studfinder. You look at my face ... Apple™ computer. Type in your alias for openEmu, i.e., emu into your

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • November 6, 2016
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Computers and their Programs Anecdotes and advice about owning a laptop at MIT

  

  ’re not using it. One evening I was chilling with some friends in the ... . Sometimes I leave my laptop alone (in its waterproof sleeve) on a table in a ... .com, so you use the right words in your essays and Facebook posts. I like to

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 15, 2012
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  The rise and fall of CPW all the cpw history, plus proof the weather machine is fake

  

  like to live in the week everything was canceled. I can imagine that if I ... turns out that you can just buy historical weather data in bulk. Here ... . The scale's in Celsius, but you can probably convert to Fahrenheit, I

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • May 1, 2021
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Questions of Travel a guest post by Spencer W. '15

  

  around in an oversized fish tank: ‘I can’t wait to get out here.’ When the ... two years, I faced a number of questions. This was due in part to my ... seemed absurd. Me? Sure, I had good grades and I work in a lab

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • October 16, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  101 Things To Do Before You Graduate! 102. Read this blog entry.

  

  compare Melis' to mine you can note the differences - I guess significant ... so I can see what the heck was on it - I was quite surprised actually ... them in college >____< one of my friends that I respect

  • by Chris S. '11
  • June 15, 2011
• Blog / About Decisions

  How to do everything wrong and still get into MIT, part deux The case study of someone else you wouldn't expect to have gotten in

  

  physics... and a 450 in writing. (Note: Adam and I are always warring about ... . (Adam: "Tell them I got 21st [at Junior Olympics] my first year, and ask ... , pictures of rockets on the wall -- and I can't imagine he hadn't dreamed of

  • by Mollie B. '06
  • October 7, 2005
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Mostly Harmless Rifle. As in, the phys ed class. As in, I fired one.

  

  ’s eye, in front of which I unfortunately can’t make out my sights, even ... very good at replica plating. The first time I replica plated, in 7 ... our instincts and working with our breath. In rifle this IAP, I learned

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • February 22, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  Fake it ‘til you make it It worked for me!

  

  little thing known as "reality."  I can't help feeling that in some ways ... enough. Then in 2009 I graduated and was never heard from again. Until now! In celebration of the 10 year anniversary of the blogs, I'm back to

  • by Laura N. '09
  • August 7, 2014
• Blog / About Decisions

  As We Approach Decision Day On getting in and on not getting in

  

  health in the process. The ultimate goal was MIT, I decided sometime in ... are some (free) things on the Internet I enjoy now or enjoyed in high ... . This one's a western, set in 2517 on a spaceship. Hopefully I’ll also be

  • by Lydia K. '14, MEng '16
  • March 8, 2012
• Blog / Admissions

  An Astrological Guide to the College App Process We all know astrology isn't real...or is it?

  Anyone in the admissions office knows that I have an unhealthy ... their sun, moon, and rising signs so that I can give them an "astrological reading." Thus, I've decided to share my secret talent with you all in the

  • by DJ Rock
  • December 20, 2018
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  study spots at MIT not exactly places to cry, but they'll do

  

  working on campus. or rather, I feel guilty whenever I work in my bed since ... someone comfy seats next to a table so I can sit cross-legged I don ... different tables to choose from Cons outlets in weird areas can be loud

  • by Ankita D. '23
  • March 5, 2023
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  How To Make Mediocre Furniture well, maybe i'll let you be the quality judge

  

  mediocre furniture Part I After I built my loft in sophomore fall, I was ... all the additional wood I would need in February. Then it was March, and ... in my closet, in my room in East Campus, while I did zoom school from

  • by Shuli J. '22, MEng '23
  • June 17, 2021
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  Leaving How I ended up taking medical leave as a sophomore

  

  intense than any I can remember in the ~5 years I’ve been a part of it. The ... after a summer where I exercised regularly, sometimes jogging in the sun ... stopped making it to class at all. I also stopped socializing with people in

  • by Chelsea R. '15
  • March 8, 2015
• Blog / Admissions

  MIT And/As Marathon doing things that are hard

  

  , just like I did in high school. That bus will bring me, and a few dozen ... lines to strategize how last-minute I can rush to pee before the last ... third year since I graduated from MIT, in June of 2013. It is also the

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • April 17, 2016
• Blog / About Decisions

  WHY? for people who don't like "no"

  

  . The time has gone by so quickly that I can't even think of a good ... point in keeping that rejected feeling alive. That and I really don't like ... Moses... Anyway, in a similar but distinct way, the word why can be

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 21, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  The 3 Schools I Attend Harvard, High School, MIT

  

  , Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays. On Wednesdays, I may drop in for office ... “participate” in Harvard College now. What’s even more exciting is now I have ... different campus layout. I look forward to lounging in our non-mahogany rooms

  • by Yuliya K. '18
  • October 12, 2015
• Blog / Best of the Blogs

  All the bridges I’ve crossed in Cambridge, ranked my civil engineering hat is off

  

  [/annotation] there just days after my 21st birthday in 2018. I remember the line ... ’m including cambridge here but not the other cities, because i can. i love to be ... in structural engineering. I’ve taken many classes where we’ve pondered

  • by Sabrina M. '21
  • September 10, 2020
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  The Long Road to Happiness Stuff no one likes to talk about...

  

  (also not true) and I just can’t even think back to the feeling of ... ;   Sometime in early November, I found myself in the waiting room at ... , unless you had seen me sitting there fidgeting in the waiting room, I don

  • by Selam G. '18
  • March 22, 2017
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  Distraction News Your internet connection is unstable

  

  around a frying pan. Can they see the mess in the kitchen? I double ... the audio on and off until I can be heard. I will try plugging in my ... hour or so in, I can tell they're getting tired of it. My camera is off

  • by Abby H. '20
  • March 31, 2020