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• Blog / MISTI

  “Choose Your Own Adventure” MISTI edition

  

  them. They're only "in season" during the summer. You can buy 4 of ... discussed our most memorable experiences in Beijing so far.  I talked about ... sits on the side with a pile of green things in front of her. She's very

  • by Jenny X. '13
  • July 20, 2011
• Blog / Academics & Research

  A Different Kind of Learning

  

  course of the semester. I am spending the semester in Detroit; Sao Paulo ... different forces that shape cities and the challenges that they face. I can ... I have to relearn how to learn, in a lot of ways. I am grateful that

  • by Becca H. '12
  • August 25, 2011
• Blog / MIT Life

  Lucky Saturday the 14th Luck was a lady three nights in a row in NYC

  

  ] the menu of the most expensive restaurant in New York City -- good thing ... 's Candy Bar (where I contemplated buying a shirt that says "I love nerds" on ... -matched games of Taboo with Laura '06 and Vincent '07 a fortunate run-in with

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • January 17, 2006
• Blog / Admissions

  Class of 2010 Roll Call It's May 1st -- welcome to MIT!

  

  your seatbelt =) Ah, May 1st... I remember senior year of high school ... Cambridge to buy an MIT t-shirt -- the power of the Internet! Yes, over at ... website, we though they might be interested in buying one for themselves (or

  • by Matt McGann '00
  • May 1, 2006
• Blog / Academics & Research

  12 / Let’s try law school What's a computer scientist doing in DC?

  

  important?[/caption] Hello, hello! I finally have WiFi (most of the time), a ... summer. But more on all of that to come, I promise! This past semester, I ... , with a focus on privacy policy. I was actually studying in Switzerland

  • by Kevin S. '19
  • July 17, 2019
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Like a Polaroid Picture My alleged lack of football fandom triggers an epiphany.

  

  program so far. I figure you can go look at pictures of the French Riviera ... of my German bank account to buy the ticket. However, I had ... argentina!" observed yesterday: Emmm... Sam I don't think you are much of a

  • by Sam M. '07
  • June 23, 2006
• Blog / How to Food

  ode to grocery stores the loneliest sweet potato

  

  stressed that I can barely quiet the buzz of all the bees in my head--I go ... shipping and delivery takes a while"]YamiBuy.[/annotation] I watch a lot of ... tiles, dried herbs, lots of plants growing in sunny corners. I like this

  • by Mel N. '24, MEng '25
  • April 15, 2022
• Blog / Academics & Research

  Revolutionary Technologies at TechCrunch DisruptNY breathing office walls and credit-card sized computers

  

  same size can. Technology like this currently exists in the form of ... bus out of NYC to Boston. I made it back in time for the MIT $100K ... missed what was literally the party of the century, but I'm still thankful

  • by Erick P. '17
  • May 19, 2016
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  Your MIT ID PLASTIC! Shiny plastic, at that!

  

  of paper and important looking stuff on it. I gave the guy staffing the ... cooler. Inside I found all sorts of random pamphlets (“Copyright, Subpoenas ... . New World Symphony Wow, I just managed to, by way of an obscure

  • by Snively '11
  • March 26, 2008
• Blog / How to Human

  Gap Year, Part II: Getting Murdered Less How to HelpX, Couchsurf, backpack, and hopefully not die

  

  very far from school. Now I'm in the midst of a lot of school and am ... danger, even though some of the farms I went to were in the middle of ... one of them really liked MIT!). I couldn't have spent three months in

  • by Amber V. '24
  • October 26, 2020
• Blog / Miscellaneous

  Colin Webb’s Commencement Speech "We learned, as graduating MIT engineers, that our job is to build bridges."

  

  A few weeks ago, when I blogged about the commencement of the Class of 2018, I made a note about the address given by Colin Webb, President ... of 2018!   You know, When I reflect on some of my favorite

  • by Chris Peterson SM '13
  • July 17, 2018
• Blog / MIT Life

  Meteor Shower For once, the title is relevant.

  

  being. I can dream in black-and-white or in color, but not in black ... -saturated detail before I had to face the grey ugliness of December in the Midwest ... always prevail in the end. After a night of abortive attempts, I was

  • by Yan Z. '12
  • August 17, 2009
• Blog / Events

  Adonde? Excuse me sir, I seem to have misplaced my pants.

  

  -Pants Subway Ride is a 7 year tradition in New York City. Hundreds of people meet ... taken and most of the interviews took place. I stood in the corner playing ... About two years ago at school I was sitting in the computer lab

  • by Snively '11
  • January 17, 2008
• Blog / Personal Travel

  i ran out of social energy and other great ways to say no

  

  last year, so i know how much work is involved in directing a program of ... took a number of weeks before i got to know everyone in my floor. somehow after a year of not seeing people in-person much i lost all capability for

  • by CJ Q. '23
  • July 18, 2021
• Blog / Life after MIT

  I’m more than twice as old as when I started my blog Rumors of my relevance are greatly exaggerated

  

  In 2004, I applied to MIT.  It was a paper form, the first part, and ... over, trying my best to be legible.  I was 17, and I thought this sort of thing mattered.  It was the first year of the MIT Blogs, after all, and I

  • by Anthony R. '09
  • January 20, 2025
• Blog / How to Boston and Beyond

  by bike, by train, by wind, by rain getting around different cities

  

  environmental benefits of cities being connected by public transit. I can also see ... I’ve been thinking about different modes of transport through cities. In the past three years, I’ve visited over 10 cities and lived in three

  • by Amber V. '24
  • August 15, 2022
• Blog / Admissions

  App Reading In The Western ‘Burbs The little towns west of Cambridge are filled with history and charm, and are surprisingly…

  

  meaningful stuff in 10 minutes. Plus he can do it in the middle of the Diesel ... meantime, I read applications at my house, in the middle of the woods. I used ... the excitement of the city for peace, quiet, and space. Often I miss

  • by Ben Jones
  • November 14, 2004
• Blog / People & Identities

  Home is where the Heart is visiting my grandparents

  

  , a small city in the Liaoning Province of China. My grandparents have ... groceries you can’t find in the US for dirt cheap. Then again, I’m biased ... China for the first time in 6 years this summer. Although 9th grade of

  • by Anika H. '26
  • August 4, 2024
• Blog / MIT History & Culture

  High Class Brass [✔] Order a Brass Rat [✔] Feel swanky [ ] Become Iron Man

  

  . A pack of Brass Rats, in their natural habitat What's that? You can ... name, got his Master's in City Planning, and in a way, he planted the ... got the chance to buy one of these things. As it turns out, the Grad Rat

  • by Emad T. '14
  • February 17, 2012
• Blog / Academics & Research

  You Can Plan a Pretty Picnic ... but you should also research the weather.

  

  . Instead, we spent more time in the capital city of Lusaka, where we: 1) met ... condition (e.g. "In 2000, an estimated 73% of the population lived below the ... aware of how little you know. Conscious incompetence.) As I reflect more

  • by Mitra L. '07
  • February 5, 2007